The Receipts
Every position, itemized. Tap a line to read it.
I audited the waste for four years. Here is what I'm running on, written the way I write an audit: the item, what it costs you, and the plan. No jargon. No gloss.
Her economic core
Prices & the rigged dealKitchen-table economics +$214/mo[+]
Your grocery bill went up. The companies that set the prices had a record year. Those two facts are related, and nobody in Washington will say so out loud.
I'll bring the same thing to the Senate that I brought to the Auditor's office: name who's getting rich, put the numbers on the table, and go line by line until the squeeze stops. If a margin doubled while your cart shrank, that's not the weather. That's a choice somebody made.
Health care as kitchen-table economicsInsulin, hospital bills, Rx $310/mo[+]
Nobody in this state should have to choose between their insulin and their electric bill. I watched patients make that choice in the ER. I'm done watching.
In the Ohio House I wrote the law that forced hospitals to post their prices. I took on the drug companies over what a vial costs. In the Senate I'll cap what families pay out of pocket and make every hospital show the receipt before they send you the bill.
Manufacturing & tradeMahoning Valley, the mills, the trades built here[+]
My dad lost his job when the mills shut down. I know exactly what a closed plant does to a town, because I grew up in one.
Ohio built the middle class once and we can do it again. That means trade deals written for the people who run the machines, not the people who move the money. It means building here, hiring union, and treating a skilled trade like the ticket to the middle class it has always been. My husband Dave is an IBEW electrician. I'm not guessing at this.
Taking on concentrated powerNo-bid contracts, big players audited[+]
As State Auditor I exposed no-bid contracts and caught companies that overcharged taxpayers. Powerful people do not hand you the receipts. You have to go get them.
When a handful of companies corner a market, they set your price and you have no say. I'll use the Senate the way I used the Auditor's office: follow the money, break up the cozy deals, and make the powerful show their work.
The contrast
She catches them. He votes with them.
I audited the waste. I've got the receipts. The incumbent's got the voting record. Here it is, itemized the same way, with what each vote costs a family like yours.
Voted to let drug makers set insulin pricesFictional vote · HR 00-A +$1,020/yr[+]
Blocked a cap on out-of-pocket insulin costs. For a family with one diabetic member, the demo math works out to about $1,020 a year straight out of your pocket and into theirs.
Voted against posting hospital pricesFictional vote · SB 00-B +$640/yr[+]
Sided with hospital lobbyists to keep the price list hidden. When you can't see the bill coming, you overpay. Demo estimate: about $640 a year for an average household.
Voted for the trade deal that moved the plantFictional vote · HR 00-C 1 plant[+]
Backed a trade package written for the people who move the money, not the people who run the machines. One more shuttered line in a town that already knows how that story ends.
Voted to protect a no-bid contractorFictional vote · SB 00-D +$3.4M[+]
Shielded a well-connected contractor from a competitive-bid rule. Demo figure: about $3.4 million in taxpayer money that never had to compete for your business.
"The incumbent" is a fictional stand-in for this demo. These votes and dollar figures are invented to illustrate the format and refer to no real person or real legislation.