U.S. Senator from Ohio

Eric Fingerhut

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George Voinovich

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Eric Fingerhut

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George Voinovich

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Eric Fingerhut

1. August 2004 · action

   Walked roughly 310 miles across Ohio from Cincinnati to Cleveland over the late summer of 2004, meeting voters directly as a low-budget alternative to paid media, finishing on the shores of Lake Erie around September 6, 2004; chosen instead of the fundraising push urged by Ohio Democratic Party chairman Denny White.

   Sources: cleveland19.com · clevescene.com

2. 2004 · statement

   Claimed during the 2004 campaign that it is actually cheaper for students to go elsewhere and pay out-of-state tuition than to stay in Ohio; Cleveland Scene, an alternative weekly, independently disputed the claim, while noting Ohio's underfunding of higher education was a real and serious problem in its own right. This is a journalistic fact-check from an alt-weekly, not one of the site's four named fact-checking organizations, so it is recorded here rather than as a checked claim.

   Cleveland Scene: false, per a comparison of Ohio State's in-state tuition (about $5,664/year) to out-of-state tuition at the University of Kentucky (about $11,944) and West Virginia University (about $12,060) · the source

   Source: clevescene.com

3. 1993 · vote

   Vote-based scoring of his single U.S. House term placed him as a relatively centrist Democrat by the standards of his own caucus at the time.

   Voteview/DW-NOMINATE, vote-based ideological scoring: more liberal than 53% of the 103rd House; more conservative than 79% of Democrats · the source

   Source: voteview.com

4. 1993 · action

   In the U.S. House (1993-1995), had a strong attendance record, missing only 27 of 1,122 roll call votes (2.4%) during his single term. Sponsored/cosponsored legislation including the Sunshine for Lobbyists Act of 1993 (H.R. 2834).

   Source: govtrack.us

George Voinovich

1. 1999 · vote

   In his first Senate term, built a reputation as a fiscal "debt hawk," pushing to shrink the 2003 Bush tax cut package on deficit grounds and voting against 2000 marriage-penalty tax relief as the lone Senate Republican to do so; worked across the aisle with Michigan's Carl Levin on Great Lakes protection; sponsored Appalachian Regional Commission reauthorizations benefiting southeastern Ohio.

   Sources: cbsnews.com · forbes.com

2. 1997 · action

   Despite increased school funding during his governorship, the Ohio Supreme Court's DeRolph v. State rulings, beginning 1997, found the state's school-funding system unconstitutional. His own push to raise the state sales tax to address the funding gap was defeated at referendum when Democrats opposed it, leaving the underlying constitutional funding problem unresolved when he left office.

   The Ohio Supreme Court, in DeRolph v. State: the state's school-funding system was unconstitutional · the source

   Sources: oepiohio.org · ideastream.org

3. 1991 · action

   As governor, inherited and closed a roughly $1.5 billion state budget deficit; unemployment fell to what was then a 25-year low with over 500,000 net new jobs; cut Medicaid cost growth by more than two-thirds and roughly halved welfare rolls under welfare reform; dramatically expanded state funding for Head Start; appointed Kenneth Blackwell as state treasurer, Ohio's first Black statewide elected/appointed official; signed the state's first charter-school law and backed a Cleveland school-voucher program that survived a U.S. Supreme Court challenge; base cost per pupil in the K-12 school-funding formula rose from $2,530 in FY1990 to $3,663 in FY1998 as the DeRolph v. State school-funding litigation proceeded.

   Sources: nga.org · en.wikipedia.org

4. 1980 · action

   As mayor of Cleveland, led the city out of its 1978 municipal debt default, negotiating a repayment plan and a $36.2 million bank loan that returned Cleveland to sound footing by 1980; oversaw a downtown building boom (BP Building, Society Center/Key Tower); the city won the All-America City Award three times in five years (1982, 1984, 1986); backed North Coast Harbor, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Great Lakes Science Center.

   Sources: case.edu · teachingcleveland.org

Eric Fingerhut

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Where the money went, as filed

From	To	Dollars	Share of total	Note
Raised	Spent	1,166,538	12.0%
Raised	Cash on hand	4,815	0.0%
Raised	Not in the filed totals (derived)	1	0.0%	Derived: raised exceeds spent plus cash on hand in this filing; the difference is not itemized in the totals filed.

Totals as filed

FEC, as of December 31, 2004: raised $1,171,354, spent $1,166,538, cash on hand $4,815.

Sources: fec.gov · opensecrets.org

Top donors, as filed

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Outside spending

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In-state share

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George Voinovich

The numbers behind this figure, as a table

Where the money went, as filed

From	To	Dollars	Share of total	Note
Raised	Spent	6,773,307.75	69.9%
Other funds (derived)	Spent	2,183,072.25	22.5%
Raised	Cash on hand	552,888.25	5.7%
Other funds (derived)	Cash on hand	178,198.75	1.8%

Totals as filed

FEC, as of December 31, 2004: raised $7,326,196, spent $8,956,380, cash on hand $731,087.

Sources: api.open.fec.gov · fec.gov

Top donors, as filed

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Outside spending

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In-state share

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