She supports Medicare for All and pushes back against price increases for prescription drugs and healthcare.Įarlier this year, the city of Lakewood entered into an agreement with Casto to redevelop the former site of Lakewood Hospital. She champions affordable housing and renter protections. Nina has been fighting for the values we do our best to promote here in Lakewood for many years and has taken on the toughest battles in the Ohio Senate. Cuyahoga County’s West Side, which has been broken into separate districts for years, may be reunited once fairness and the law prevail.īut meanwhile, voting is underway in a primary in which Nina Turner is running to represent Lakewood and Cleveland, and she has my fullest support. People are still fighting to get the fair districts that voters demanded, and which voters deserve. The Republican leaders in Ohio who have drawn one illegal, gerrymandered map after another have created an unreasonable situation for everyone. If that sounds like doing things backward-candidate deadline first, maps later-I couldn’t agree more.
I filed to run for Congress, myself, because when the filing deadline for candidates arrived, districts were still up in the air. I encourage you to join in supporting a champion for Lakewood and our progressive values.
I’m voting for Nina Turner for Congress, in the May 3 primary. As we move forward, I propose that the city consider changing its school requirements to a mandated time for health and physical education for all students. Put this on the long list of things that COVID-19 took away from us as a society.Īs a healthcare provider and citizen of Lakewood, I am very proud that our city is embarking on a Community Needs Health Assessment. Yet, school is the primary location for children to learn about health, participate in physical activities, and lay the groundwork for lifelong healthy living. Everyone speaks of the academic perspective however, the pandemic has created an “extended summer break” from health and physical education with potentially disastrous consequences.Ĭurrently, Ohio does not mandate a specific amount of time for health/physical education for elementary and middle school students, only high school students. The long-term impact of prolonged school closures on students and distance learning from the pandemic remains unknown. However, it is an unspoken area of health impacted by COVID-19 that affects our community. In addition, overweight and obese children are likely to stay obese into adulthood and develop chronic illnesses like high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart failure. In Ohio, 17.2% of youth ages 10 to 17 have obesity, giving Ohio a ranking of 17 among the 50 states. I hope we can grow Country First in Ohio as a place where we put our heads together as one big community and position Ohio as the BEST state in which to live no matter who you are.Īs a practicing registered nurse in critical care and BSN student, I know the impact that childhood obesity has on society, both currently and in the future.Īccording to the CDC, by 2020, 14.7 million children and adolescents were obese or overweight. I see Ohio bringing back manufacturing and other industry jobs to a state with laws that help us live the American dream in a way WE define together. Focusing on common ground, I can turn to my team and devise a plan of action to support Kaptur and weed out toxic candidates. I’m a conservative Ohioan who believes sending Majewski to the US House of Representatives would be dangerous.Īn organization like Country First allows me to express my beliefs and fears to a wide range of people with whom I know my views are valued, even if they're not the same.
Majewski (R), a Trump-endorsed QAnon election denier who proudly boasts about his involvement in the January 6th insurrection. Our district, US OH-9, is consistently gerrymandered and a seat that Marcy Kaptur (D) has held since 1983. Through a grassroots organization called Country First, I believe Ohio can serve as a role model to show Americans in other states that there's hope for healing. This letter aims to acknowledge the divide bogging down our democracy and offer a way to open a dialogue between liberal and conservative Ohioans.
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