NOMPAC ADVOCACY EFFORTS A SUCCESS ON ELECTION DAY 2006 |
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| The Academy of Medicine of Cleveland & Northern Ohio and our PAC – NOMPAC is thrilled to have served an integral role in this year’s elections, with victories across the region and the state staunchly supported by AMCNO. Through our own advocacy efforts including the Vote & Vaccinate program and an Election Guide produced for our members, AMCNO remains an active voice for the physicians and patients of Northern Ohio.
Justice Terrence O’Donnell and Judge Robert Cupp will serve on the Ohio Supreme Court, a court the Academy is certain will interpret, not make the laws governing our state. The AMCNO and our PAC has long supported these candidates, and their commitment to uphold tort reform in the interest of physicians and their patients across Ohio. SB88 Sponsor Sen. Kevin Coughlin retained his state senate seat and the AMCNO looks forward to a continued relationship with him as we move into the next General Assembly and advocate an agenda on behalf of the Northern Ohio physicians we represent. All but two of the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judges featured in the AMCNO Election Guide have also taken seats locally. We look forward to developing positive relationships with them in the years to come. Donning their white coats despite the drizzle, doctors of the AMCNO were on hand at several polling places across the region talking with voters and spreading the message through NOMPAC literature of support for candidates. And most exciting for the AMCNO is the passage of the SmokeFreeOhio Initiative, which we have endorsed and supported since its inception in 2005—a tremendous win in light of the proven dangers of secondhand smoke on worker’s across the state. In the governor’s race, voters elected Ohio’s first Democratic governor since 1990. Congressman Ted Strickland and his running mate, Lee Fisher, beat the Republican Ken Blackwell/Tom Raga ticket by a margin of 60% - 37%. U.S. Representative Sherrod Brown (D) unseated incumbent Senator Mike DeWine by a margin of 56%-44%. The Ohio Senate saw on a small change in numbers, with the Democrats picking up one seat and leaving the Republicans with a 21-12 majority. The Ohio House of Representatives saw Democrats picking up seven seats to reduce the Republican majority to 53-46. Overall, the Democrats took eight seats currently held by Republicans and the Republicans picked up one Democratic held seat giving the Democrats a seven-seat gain. In addition, the only non-judicial Republican candidate to win a statewide election was Auditor Mary Taylor. Nationally, voters put the Democrats in control of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. |
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