Treasurer of Ohio
November 4, 2014 · general election · 2 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.
- Member of Lyndhurst, Ohio city council, elected 2003, serving on its finance committee.
- B.A., Ohio State University, 2000; J.D., Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
- Served eight years in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve as an intelligence specialist, including a deployment to Haditha, Iraq; reached the rank of sergeant.
10 of 11 sections researched · 15 sources
- Attorney; worked as a public defender and later owned the law firm Webb & Pillich, LLC.
- Elected Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney in November 2024, taking office in January 2025; previously co-chaired the Hamilton County Democratic Party.
- B.A., University of Oklahoma; MBA, University of North Dakota; J.D., University of Cincinnati College of Law.
9 of 11 sections researched · 8 sources
Josh Mandel
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Connie Pillich
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
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| profile | researched |
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| claims | none found |
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| interests | not researched |
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The race in pictures
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Field date | Candidate | Share | Poll |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2014 | Josh Mandel | 53 | Columbus Dispatch, likely voters |
| Nov 2014 | Connie Pillich | 47 | Columbus Dispatch, likely voters |
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.
Josh Mandel's record in office has 5 entries and Connie Pillich's has 1. The difference reflects the length of each public record and the depth of our research; it is not a judgment.
Jump to a candidate
- Josh Mandel: Where they stand · What they have said, checked · Record in office · Money
- Connie Pillich: 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.
Fiscal management
Josh Mandel
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Framed the race around his first-term record as fiscal steward of the state's investments and unclaimed-funds programs, an office responsible for managing more than $160 billion in financial assets and an investment portfolio exceeding $15 billion.
Connie Pillich
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Emphasized a traditional "safety, liquidity, and yield" approach to managing the state's investment portfolio, and pledged to serve a complete four-year term if elected, drawing a contrast with Mandel, who had run for U.S. Senate in 2012 while still serving as treasurer.
Source: Connie Pillich
Fiscal oversight
Josh Mandel
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Positioned himself as a fiscal watchdog for state investment funds, criticizing Treasurer Kevin Boyce's spending and management of the office, and cast himself as an outsider reformer against an incumbent installed by appointment rather than election.
Source: Josh Mandel
Connie Pillich
None found in the records checked
Government ethics
Josh Mandel
None found in the records checked
Connie Pillich
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Proposed creating an independent inspector general position within the Treasurer's office, insulated from political pressure, to police the office's own conduct after a series of past corruption scandals.
Source: Connie Pillich
Government transparency
Josh Mandel
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Committed to, and after re-election delivered, OhioCheckbook.com, a government-spending transparency website launched in December 2014 that put state spending information online for the first time in Ohio's history, deliberately timed after the election so it would not look politically motivated.
Source: Josh Mandel
Connie Pillich
None found in the records checked
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.
Josh Mandel
None found in the records checked
Connie Pillich
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mandel (R) | 2011-01-10 | office | Treasurer of Ohio |
| Mandel (R) | 2007 | office | Ohio House of Representatives, 17th District |
| Mandel (R) | 2007 | bill | 2007 (bill): Authored H.B. 151 as his first piece of legislation in the Ohio House, an initiative to require Ohio's public pension funds to divest from c |
| Mandel (R) | 2010-10-14 | statement | 2010-10-14 (statement): His campaign aired a TV ad alleging Treasurer Kevin Boyce gave a bank lobbyist's wife a "sensitive job" in the treasurer's office that was "" |
| Mandel (R) | 2012 | action | 2012 (action): The STAR Ohio local-government investment fund maintained Standard & Poor's AAAm rating (the highest money-market-fund rating S&P issues) th |
| Mandel (R) | 2013-08 | action | 2013-08 (action): Associated Press reporting found Mandel had not attended over a year's worth of meetings of the state Board of Deposit, the body that select |
| Mandel (R) | 2014-06-30 | action | 2014-06-30 (action): Benjamin Suarez, a North Canton businessman, was convicted by a federal jury of witness tampering in connection with a scheme reimbursing hi |
| Pillich (D) | 2009 | office | Ohio House of Representatives, 28th District |
| Pillich (D) | 2014 | bill | 2014 (bill): As a state representative, authored a legislative proposal enabling the civilian spouse of a military servicemember to collect unemployment |
Josh Mandel
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June 30, 2014 · action
Benjamin Suarez, a North Canton businessman, was convicted by a federal jury of witness tampering in connection with a scheme reimbursing his employees and their spouses for contributions to Mandel's 2012 Senate campaign; his company's CFO pleaded guilty to the underlying straw-donor scheme. Mandel was not personally charged.
Sources: Ben Suarez sentenced to 15 months in prison · Josh Mandel Fundraising Scheme Results in Conviction
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August 2013 · action
Associated Press reporting found Mandel had not attended over a year's worth of meetings of the state Board of Deposit, the body that selects Ohio's depository banks, which he personally chairs as Treasurer, while appointing former campaign staffers to high-ranking Treasury jobs.
Source: Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel's Car Use Might Be Violation of FEC Laws
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2012 · action
The STAR Ohio local-government investment fund maintained Standard & Poor's AAAm rating (the highest money-market-fund rating S&P issues) throughout his first term; the rating had actually been in place continuously since 1995.
PolitiFact, October 27, 2011:
Half True
· the sourceSource: Josh Mandel
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October 14, 2010 · statement
His campaign aired a TV ad alleging Treasurer Kevin Boyce gave a bank lobbyist's wife a "sensitive job" in the treasurer's office that was "known only" at a mosque, implying Boyce, a Christian, had mosque ties; the Ohio Elections Commission found probable cause the ad deceptively depicted Boyce.
PolitiFact, October 14, 2010:
False
· the sourceSource: GOP challenger Josh Mandel says Treasurer Kevin Boyce made a state job known only at a mosque
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2007 · bill
Authored H.B. 151 as his first piece of legislation in the Ohio House, an initiative to require Ohio's public pension funds to divest from companies doing business with Iran.
Source: Josh Mandel
Connie Pillich
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2014 · bill
As a state representative, authored a legislative proposal enabling the civilian spouse of a military servicemember to collect unemployment compensation after quitting a job due to a military transfer; the provision was incorporated into the state budget bill.
Source: Rep. Pillich's Unemployment Compensation for Military Spouses Makes Budget Bill
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 |
Josh Mandel
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| From | To | Dollars | Share of total | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raised | Cash on hand | 2,900,000 | 49.4% | |
| Raised | Not in the filed totals (derived) | 2,966,317 | 50.6% | Derived: raised exceeds spent plus cash on hand in this filing; the difference is not itemized in the totals filed. |
Totals as filed
OhioSOS, as of April 3, 2015: raised $5,866,317, cash on hand $2,900,000.
Sources: Ohio down ballot state executive elections, 2014 · Mandel has 2-to-1 advantage in campaign funds over Pillich in Ohio treasurer's race
Top donors, as filed
None found in the records checked
Outside spending
None found in the records checked
In-state share
Not yet researched
Connie Pillich
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| From | To | Dollars | Share of total | Note |
|---|
Totals as filed
OhioSOS, as of October 2014: raised $3,000,000.
Source: Connie Pillich Has Good News: $284K Raised, Now North of $3M
Top donors, as filed
None found in the records checked
Outside spending
None found in the records checked
In-state share
Not yet researched
The result
Josh Mandel · certified 2014-12
| Candidate | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Josh Mandel | 1,724,060 | 56.6% |
| Connie Pillich | 1,323,325 | 43.4% |
Source: Josh Mandel
Sources
Data from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0: Josh Mandel · 2010 Ohio State Treasurer election · 2012 United States Senate election in Ohio · Connie Pillich
- Josh Mandel · Ballotpedia · accessed 2026-09-19
- Josh Mandel · Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-19
- Connie Pillich · Ballotpedia · accessed 2026-09-19
- Factual omissions from Josh Mandel · Akron Beacon Journal · accessed 2026-09-19
- Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel's Car Use Might Be Violation of FEC Laws · HuffPost · 2013-08-28 · accessed 2026-09-19
- Josh Mandel Fundraising Scheme Results in Conviction · Ohio Democratic County Chairs Association · accessed 2026-09-19
- Ben Suarez sentenced to 15 months in prison · Canton Repository · 2014-11-14 · accessed 2026-09-19
- Mandel has 2-to-1 advantage in campaign funds over Pillich in Ohio treasurer's race · Cleveland.com · 2014-06 · accessed 2026-09-19
- Ohio down ballot state executive elections, 2014 · Ballotpedia · accessed 2026-09-19
- 2010 Ohio State Treasurer election · Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-21
- 2012 United States Senate election in Ohio · Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-19
- Race for Ohio treasurer may be one to watch on Election Day · Dayton Daily News · accessed 2026-09-21
- Ohio Treasurer Kevin Boyce takes credit for creating and saving tens of thousands of jobs · PolitiFact · 2010-09-07 · accessed 2026-09-21
- GOP challenger Josh Mandel says Treasurer Kevin Boyce made a state job known only at a mosque · PolitiFact · 2010-10-14 · accessed 2026-09-21
- Connie Pillich · Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-19
- Connie Pillich Has Good News: $284K Raised, Now North of $3M · Plunderbund · 2014-10-04 · accessed 2026-09-19
- Rep. Pillich's Unemployment Compensation for Military Spouses Makes Budget Bill · Ohio House of Representatives Democratic Caucus · accessed 2026-09-19
- https://www.wvxu.org/politics/2024-11-06/connie-pillich-democrat-hamilton-county-prosecutor
Quick answers
When was the 2014 Treasurer of Ohio election?
The election for Treasurer of Ohio was held on November 4, 2014.
Who ran for Treasurer of Ohio in 2014?
On the ballot for Treasurer of Ohio, in surname order: Josh Mandel (Republican), Connie Pillich (Democratic).
Who won the 2014 Treasurer of Ohio election?
Josh Mandel won the election for Treasurer of Ohio. Results as certified: Josh Mandel 56.6%, Connie Pillich 43.4%.
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