Auditor of State of Ohio
November 4, 2014 · general election · 3 candidates with a page
The candidates
Listed alphabetically by surname. Ohio rotates the order candidates appear in by precinct, so no order on this page is the order on a ballot.
- Worked as a tow truck driver (per campaign)
- Joined the Army after high school (per campaign)
- Served as Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Libertarian Party of Ohio starting in 2012 (per campaign)
4 of 11 sections researched · 2 sources
- Health care attorney at Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur LLP; chairs the firm's Health Care Practice Group.
- B.A., 1998, and J.D., 2001, The Ohio State University.
9 of 11 sections researched · 9 sources
- Worked as a journalist for the Columbus Citizen-Journal before entering government.
- Held staff positions in the administration of Columbus Mayor Dana "Buck" Rinehart and Ohio Governor George Voinovich.
- B.A. in journalism, Ohio State University; J.D., Capital University Law School.
10 of 11 sections researched · 32 sources
Bob Bridges
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John Patrick Carney
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| interests | not researched |
| polling | none found |
| elections | researched |
| endorsements | researched |
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Dave Yost
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| profile | researched |
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| polling | researched |
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| endorsements | none found |
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The race in pictures
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A note on our coverage
Read before the columns: where one candidate has more entries than another, this says which of the two reasons it is.
We have checked 1 claim by John Patrick Carney, 0 by Bob Bridges and 0 by Dave Yost. The gap is in our research, not in them.
Donors: 2 for Dave Yost, 0 for Bob Bridges and 0 for John Patrick Carney. The gap is in our research, not in them.
Endorsements received: John Patrick Carney has 1 entry, Bob Bridges has 0 entries and Dave Yost has 0 entries. The difference reflects the length of each public record and the depth of our research; it is not a judgment.
Where they stand: Dave Yost has 7 entries, John Patrick Carney has 2 entries and Bob Bridges has 0 entries. The difference reflects the length of each public record and the depth of our research; it is not a judgment.
Dave Yost's record in office has 11 entries, John Patrick Carney's has 1 and Bob Bridges's has 0. The difference reflects the length of each public record and the depth of our research; it is not a judgment.
Sources: Dave Yost has 32 entries, John Patrick Carney has 5 entries and Bob Bridges has 2 entries. The difference reflects the length of each public record and the depth of our research; it is not a judgment.
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- Bob Bridges: Where they stand · What they have said, checked · Record in office · Money
- John Patrick Carney: Where they stand · What they have said, checked · Record in office · Money
- Dave Yost: Where they stand · What they have said, checked · Record in office · Money
Where they stand
Their own words, by issue, with the date, the venue and the link. A paraphrase is marked as one.
Abortion
Bob Bridges
Not yet researched
John Patrick Carney
None found in the records checked
Dave Yost
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Defended and had helped implement Ohio's six-week heartbeat abortion ban and pledged to keep defending Ohio's abortion restrictions in court.
Sources: statenews.org · wosu.org
Drug sentencing
Bob Bridges
Not yet researched
John Patrick Carney
None found in the records checked
Dave Yost
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Opposed State Issue 1, the 2018 ballot measure that would have reclassified low-level drug possession as a misdemeanor and prioritized treatment over incarceration.
Source: ballotpedia.org
Education oversight
Bob Bridges
Not yet researched
John Patrick Carney
None found in the records checked
Dave Yost
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Ran on his office's multi-year investigation into Ohio school districts manipulating student-attendance data to inflate state report-card ratings, including a special audit of Columbus City Schools finding "a top-down culture of data manipulation and employee intimidation."
Source: Press Conference: Special Audit Results of Columbus City School District
Government accountability
Bob Bridges
Not yet researched
John Patrick Carney
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Centered his campaign on transparency and accountability in state government: expanding public access to auditor information online, requiring the office to publish an audit's description, purpose and scope when the work begins, and creating a "Rapid Response Audit" division modeled on a similar Missouri program to quickly investigate credible fraud allegations.
Source: State Representative John Patrick Carney Launches Bid to Challenge Auditor Dave Yost in 2014
Dave Yost
None found in the records checked
Government corruption
Bob Bridges
Not yet researched
John Patrick Carney
None found in the records checked
Dave Yost
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Made enforcement against official misconduct central, pointing to his civil racketeering-style lawsuit against FirstEnergy and Larry Householder over the House Bill 6 nuclear and coal bailout, which his office said would save Ohio ratepayers close to $2 billion over the life of the law.
Source: fox19.com
Government fraud
Bob Bridges
Not yet researched
John Patrick Carney
None found in the records checked
Dave Yost
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Launched the "Ohio Stops Fraud" smartphone app, letting the public report suspected fraud in public offices directly from an iPhone, ahead of the 2014 campaign.
Source: Press Conference: Special Audit Results of Columbus City School District
Government waste and fraud
Bob Bridges
Not yet researched
John Patrick Carney
None found in the records checked
Dave Yost
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Positioned himself as an experienced, non-partisan financial watchdog, citing his record as Delaware County Auditor and Prosecutor, and campaigned on rooting out government waste, fraud and mismanagement of taxpayer money.
Source: Dave Yost
JobsOhio oversight
Bob Bridges
Not yet researched
John Patrick Carney
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Argued Auditor Yost had not been aggressive enough overseeing JobsOhio, the state's privatized economic-development nonprofit, and said the auditor had a constitutional duty to audit it fully before a change in state law limited that authority.
Source: State Representative John Patrick Carney Launches Bid to Challenge Auditor Dave Yost in 2014
Dave Yost
None found in the records checked
Public corruption
Bob Bridges
Not yet researched
John Patrick Carney
None found in the records checked
Dave Yost
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Pointed to his auditor's-office record referring the ECOT online charter school for criminal investigation as evidence he would aggressively pursue public corruption and fraud as Attorney General.
Source: ballotpedia.org
What they have said, checked
Newest first. Each check is shown in the checker's own rating word, with their name, the date and the link.
Bob Bridges
Not yet researched
John Patrick Carney
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Cincinnati CityBeat editorial board rated this rated false/misleading -- the $7,000 figure was Yost's own request to the state Controlling Board covering two days of "coffee breaks," not a per-cup price, and the conference served $3 bottles of soda with the tab covered by registration fees, October 29, 2014 · the check
Dave Yost
None found in the records checked
Record in office
Dated actions. Any evaluation of an action is printed with the name of whoever made it and the link.
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Person | Date | Kind | Entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carney (D) | 2009-01-05 | office | Ohio House of Representatives, 22nd District |
| Carney (D) | 2014 | vote | 2014 (vote): Opposed 2011's Senate Bill 5, the law restricting public-employee collective bargaining that Ohio voters later repealed by a 61%-39% referen |
| Yost (R) | 1999 | office | Delaware County Auditor |
| Yost (R) | 2003 | office | Delaware County Prosecutor |
| Yost (R) | 2011 | office | Auditor of State of Ohio |
| Yost (R) | 2019-01 | office | Attorney General of Ohio |
| Yost (R) | 2011-01 | office | Auditor of State of Ohio |
| Yost (R) | 2003 | action | 2003 (action): As Delaware County Prosecutor, won the county's first-ever capital murder case and successfully prosecuted what was described as the largest |
| Yost (R) | 2010-09-03 | statement | 2010-09-03 (statement): His 2010 campaign released a video saying that after Hamilton County's proposed tax increase was voted down, opponent David Pepper "laid off" |
| Yost (R) | 2013-03 | action | 2013-03 (action): Subpoenaed JobsOhio's financial records to audit the roughly $100-228 million a year in liquor profits funding the privatized development ag |
| Yost (R) | 2014-01-28 | action | 2014-01-28 (action): His office's special audit of Columbus City Schools, released January 28, 2014, found a "top-down culture of data manipulation and employee " |
| Yost (R) | 2014-09 | statement | 2014-09 (statement): A Carney campaign TV ad claimed his office spent taxpayer money at a "$7 per cup" rate for roughly 1,000 cups of coffee served at a 2012 fra |
| Yost (R) | 2018 | action | 2018 (action): Accepted at least $29,000 in campaign contributions from ECOT founder Bill Lager and ECOT-affiliated officials while his office had regulato |
| Yost (R) | 2018-05 | action | 2018-05 (action): As Ohio Auditor of State, his office's audit of the online charter school ECOT found it had submitted data inflating student attendance -- o |
| Yost (R) | 2020-08 | action | 2020-08 (action): Negotiated an $808 million settlement with the three largest opioid distributors, Cardinal Health, McKesson and AmerisourceBergen, structure |
| Yost (R) | 2021-02-19 | action | 2021-02-19 (action): As attorney general, obtained Ohio's $24.7 million share of a $573 million national settlement with consulting firm McKinsey & Co. over its |
| Yost (R) | 2022-07-12 | statement | 2022-07-12 (statement): Before a suspect was arrested, repeatedly and publicly cast doubt on the case of a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim who had to travel to Indiana |
| Yost (R) | 2023-02-03 | ruling | 2023-02-03 (ruling): Text messages introduced at the February 2023 federal racketeering trial of Larry Householder and lobbyist Matt Borges indicated Yost privat |
Bob Bridges
Not yet researched
John Patrick Carney
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2014 · vote
Opposed 2011's Senate Bill 5, the law restricting public-employee collective bargaining that Ohio voters later repealed by a 61%-39% referendum.
Ohio Association of Professional Fire Fighters President Mark Sanders, endorsing Carney's 2014 auditor run:
John Patrick Carney stood with firefighters and against SB5
· the source
Dave Yost
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February 3, 2023 · ruling
Text messages introduced at the February 2023 federal racketeering trial of Larry Householder and lobbyist Matt Borges indicated Yost privately viewed the House Bill 6 bailout as a bad bill but did not publicly oppose it because of financial and political support he had received from FirstEnergy and Borges; Yost had accepted $24,208 from FirstEnergy and Borges and donated that amount to charity in October 2020 after federal HB6 arrests were made.
Source: ohiocapitaljournal.com
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July 12, 2022 · statement
Before a suspect was arrested, repeatedly and publicly cast doubt on the case of a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim who had to travel to Indiana for an abortion because of Ohio's six-week ban; a Columbus man was charged with the rape within about a day of those comments.
Dave Yost, quoted by FOX19:
not a whisper
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February 19, 2021 · action
As attorney general, obtained Ohio's $24.7 million share of a $573 million national settlement with consulting firm McKinsey & Co. over its role in fueling the opioid epidemic.
Source: irontontribune.com
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August 2020 · action
Negotiated an $808 million settlement with the three largest opioid distributors, Cardinal Health, McKesson and AmerisourceBergen, structured so the companies also paid the state's attorney fees on top of the settlement.
Source: wkyc.com
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May 2018 · action
As Ohio Auditor of State, his office's audit of the online charter school ECOT found it had submitted data inflating student attendance -- one student was logged with nearly 8,900 instructional hours, more than exist in a year -- and referred the findings to the U.S. Attorney's office and the Franklin County prosecutor for possible criminal charges.
Source: wksu.org
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2018 · action
Accepted at least $29,000 in campaign contributions from ECOT founder Bill Lager and ECOT-affiliated officials while his office had regulatory and audit responsibility over the school; after his office's May 2018 audit, he donated the ECOT-linked contributions to three Ohio charities.
A Democratic state representative, per the research archive's account of 2017 reporting:
Called for Yost to recuse himself from further ECOT-related audit work
· the sourceSource: wosu.org
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September 2014 · statement
A Carney campaign TV ad claimed his office spent taxpayer money at a "$7 per cup" rate for roughly 1,000 cups of coffee served at a 2012 fraud-and-waste conference; multiple outlets found the $7,000 figure was Yost's request to the state Controlling Board covering two days of "coffee breaks," not a per-cup price, and that the conference served $3 bottles of soda with the tab covered by registration fees.
Cincinnati CityBeat editorial board, October 29, 2014:
rated false/misleading
· the source -
January 28, 2014 · action
His office's special audit of Columbus City Schools, released January 28, 2014, found a "top-down culture of data manipulation and employee intimidation," including changing failing grades and improperly withdrawing and re-enrolling low-performing students; findings were referred to city, county and federal prosecutors.
Source: Press Conference: Special Audit Results of Columbus City School District
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March 2013 · action
Subpoenaed JobsOhio's financial records to audit the roughly $100-228 million a year in liquor profits funding the privatized development agency; Kasich and the GOP-controlled General Assembly subsequently passed legislation exempting JobsOhio from future state-auditor review.
Source: National Report Criticizes JobsOhio, Other Privatized Agencies
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September 3, 2010 · statement
His 2010 campaign released a video saying that after Hamilton County's proposed tax increase was voted down, opponent David Pepper "laid off cops, and closed jails and let criminals run free in the streets," implying Pepper alone was responsible and omitting that the tax was meant to fund public safety.
PolitiFact, September 3, 2010:
Barely True
· the source -
2003 · action
As Delaware County Prosecutor, won the county's first-ever capital murder case and successfully prosecuted what was described as the largest drug-trafficking ring to have operated in the county.
Source: Dave Yost
Money
Totals and donors exactly as filed with the FEC or the Ohio Secretary of State, each figure with its filing link.
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Status |
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| None found in the records checked |
Bob Bridges
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Status |
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| None found in the records checked |
Totals as filed
Not yet researched
Top donors, as filed
Not yet researched
Outside spending
Not yet researched
In-state share
Not yet researched
John Patrick Carney
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| From | To | Dollars | Share of total | Note |
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Totals as filed
OhioSOS, as of 2015: raised $1,122,595.
Source: Ohio down ballot state executive elections, 2014
Top donors, as filed
None found in the records checked
Outside spending
None found in the records checked
In-state share
Not yet researched
Dave Yost
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| From | To | Dollars | Share of total | Note |
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Totals as filed
OhioSOS, as of 2015: raised $2,340,446.
Source: Ohio down ballot state executive elections, 2014
Top donors, as filed
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Bruce Soll · $5,000 · campaign committee · In state
Limited Brands general counsel
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U.S. Rep. Pat Tiberi's campaign · $5,000 · campaign committee · In state
Congressional campaign committee
Outside spending
None found in the records checked
In-state share
Not yet researched
The result
Dave Yost · certified 2014-12
| Candidate | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Dave Yost | 1,711,927 | 57.0% |
| John Patrick Carney | 1,149,305 | 38.2% |
| Bob Bridges | 143,363 | 4.8% |
Source: 2014 Ohio State Auditor election
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Quick answers
When was the 2014 Auditor of State of Ohio election?
The election for Auditor of State of Ohio was held on November 4, 2014.
Who ran for Auditor of State of Ohio in 2014?
On the ballot for Auditor of State of Ohio, in surname order: Bob Bridges (Libertarian), John Patrick Carney (Democratic), Dave Yost (Republican).
Who won the 2014 Auditor of State of Ohio election?
Dave Yost won the election for Auditor of State of Ohio. Results as certified: Bob Bridges 4.8%, John Patrick Carney 38.2%, Dave Yost 57.0%.
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