Person
Josh Mandel
- Public service
- Member of Lyndhurst, Ohio city council, elected 2003, serving on its finance committee.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
- Education
- B.A., Ohio State University, 2000; J.D., Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
- Military service
- 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.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
- Home
- Pepper Pike, Ohio.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
- $5.9MRaised, as filed · April 3, 2015
- $2.9MCash on hand · April 3, 2015
- 53%Latest poll · Columbus Dispatch, November 2014
- 3Positions in their words · 3 issues
- 5Claims checked
- 2Offices held · Former Treasurer of Ohio, 2011–2019
10 of 11 sections researched
Not yet researched: Financial interests.
What has been checked
- Profile 8 entries links.wikipedia fetched cleanly and covered his education, two Marine Corps Reserve deployments (2004 and 2007 onward, the second to Haditha, Iraq), his 2003 Lyndhurst City Council seat (not in the offices array, which starts at his 2007 Ohio House seat), and his current Pepper Pike residence.
- On the ballot 0 entries The 2014 race is complete; no pending candidacy is published for it.
- Where they stand 3 entries
- What they have said, checked 5 entries No fact-checker rating dated to the 2014 Ohio Treasurer race was found in the records checked; PolitiFact's list of Mandel ratings jumps from February 2013 to April 2022.
- Record in office 5 entries
- Money 2 entries
- Financial interests Not yet researched
- Polling and approval 2 entries
- Elections 3 entries
- Endorsements 1 entry
- Sources 9 entries
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
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The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Chamber | District | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Statewide | All of Ohio | Treasurer of Ohio |
On the ballot
None found in the records checked
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Status |
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| None found in the records checked |
Where they stand
Fiscal management
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.
Fiscal oversight
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
Government transparency
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
What they have said, checked
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We need a Senator who shows up to work. Sherrod Brown missed over 350 official votes
PolitiFact rated this Mostly False, October 10, 2012 · the check
Our check against the record: Does not match the record.
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voted six times to raise his own pay
PolitiFact rated this False, October 29, 2012 · the check
Our check against the record: The record does not settle it.
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will likely go down as the biggest tax increase in history
PolitiFact rated this Pants on Fire, July 20, 2012 · the check
Our check against the record: The record does not settle it.
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sent billions of our tax dollars to foreign countries
PolitiFact rated this Pants on Fire, August 13, 2012 · the check
Our check against the record: The record does not settle it.
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PolitiFact rated this False, October 14, 2010 · the check
Our check against the record: The record does not settle it.
Said about Josh Mandel
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would have voted 'no' on the auto rescue
PolitiFact rated this False, May 18, 2012 · the check
Record in office
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 |
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action June 30, 2014
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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action August 2013
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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action 2012
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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statement October 14, 2010
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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bill 2007
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
Recorded votes
Josh Mandel cast 619 Yea or Nay votes on the roll calls we hold, across 2 terms from 2007 to 2010, all in the Ohio General Assembly, from the Ohio Legislature. Each term opens to every roll call, with the question, the result, how Josh Mandel voted and how the majority of their party voted.
| Term | Chamber | Yea | Nay | Did not vote | With party |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 128th General Assembly, 2009–2010 | Ohio House, district 17 | 232 | 113 | not recorded | 89% of 116 |
| 127th General Assembly, 2007–2008 | Ohio House, district 17 | 260 | 14 | not recorded | 100% of 28 |
"With party" counts only roll calls on which most Republicans and most Democrats voted opposite ways. The Ohio Legislature records who voted Yea and who voted Nay and no one else, so an absence cannot be told from an abstention and neither is counted; only floor votes are listed.
Source: Legislation and votes
Money
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. |
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Status |
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| None found in the records checked |
Totals as filed
| Race | Filer | Raised | Spent | Cash on hand | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treasurer of Ohio | OhioSOS | $5,866,317 | $2,900,000 | April 3, 2015 | |
| Treasurer of State of Ohio | OhioSOS | $4,900,000 | November 2010 |
Sources: Ohio down ballot state executive elections, 2014 · Mandel has 2-to-1 advantage in campaign funds over Pillich in Ohio treasurer's race
Source: Race for Ohio treasurer may be one to watch on Election Day
Outside spending
Financial interests
Not yet researched
Polling and approval
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Field date | Candidate | Share | Poll |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2014 | Josh Mandel | 53 | Columbus Dispatch, likely voters |
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Columbus Dispatch · November 2014 · Treasurer of Ohio
Mandel 53 · Pillich 47
likely voters
Source: Josh Mandel
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Columbus Dispatch Poll · September 3, 2010 · Treasurer of State of Ohio
Boyce 36 · Mandel 40
likely voters
Source: Ohio Treasurer Kevin Boyce takes credit for creating and saving tens of thousands of jobs
Elections
| Race | Party | Result | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treasurer of Ohio (2014) | Republican | Won | 1,724,060 | 56.6% |
| U.S. Senator from Ohio (2012) | Republican | Lost | 2,435,744 | 44.7% |
| Treasurer of State of Ohio (2010) | Republican | Won | 2,050,142 | 54.5% |
Offices held
Treasurer of Ohio · 2011-01-10 to 2019-01 · elected
Source: Josh Mandel
Ohio House of Representatives, 17th District · 2007 to 2011 · elected
Source: Josh Mandel
Endorsements
Endorsements received
organizationOhio Right to Life
2014
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
Every URL on this page, once each.
- Josh Mandel · Ballotpedia · accessed 2026-09-19
- Josh Mandel · Wikipedia · 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
- Josh Mandel dings Sherrod Brown for missing 350 votes · PolitiFact · 2012-10-10 · accessed 2026-09-19
- Roll Call Votes of the 110th, 111th and 112th Congresses, the Senate's own per-vote XML · United States Senate · accessed 2026-09-20
- Josh Mandel ad claims Sherrod Brown "voted six times to raise his own pay" · PolitiFact · 2012-10-29 · accessed 2026-09-25
- Roll call votes · U.S. Senate · accessed 2026-10-15
- Roll call votes · Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives · accessed 2026-10-15
- Josh Mandel says Obamacare will ultimately be the 'biggest tax increase in history' · PolitiFact · 2012-07-20 · accessed 2026-09-25
- Office of Tax Analysis: revenue effects of major tax bills · U.S. Department of the Treasury · accessed 2026-10-15
- Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel says U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown has sent billions of our tax dollars to foreign countries · PolitiFact · 2012-08-13 · accessed 2026-09-25
- Audit search · Ohio Auditor of State · accessed 2026-10-15
- Sherrod Brown campaign says Josh Mandel opposes auto rescue · PolitiFact · 2012-05-18 · accessed 2026-09-19
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