Person
Nina Turner
- Work
- Assistant professor of history at Cuyahoga Community College.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
- Work
- National co-chair of Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
- Education
- A.A., Cuyahoga Community College; B.A. and M.A. in history, Cleveland State University.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
- Civic
- President of Our Revolution, a progressive political organization, 2017-2019.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
- Home
- Cleveland, Ohio.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
- Not yet researchedRaised, as filed
- $70KCash on hand · October 2014
- no poll on fileLatest poll
- 1Positions in their words · 1 issue
- none on fileClaims checked
- 2Offices held · Former Ohio Senate, 25th District, 2008–2014
7 of 11 sections researched
Not yet researched: What they have said, checked, Financial interests, Polling and approval, Endorsements.
What has been checked
- Profile 9 entries Checked Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Turner), already on file as her primary link, which had a detailed career section. Her Cleveland City Council and Ohio Senate offices are already in the offices array and are not restated. Other roles found but left out to stay within the line limit: legislative aide, Cleveland mayoral staffer, school-district lobbyist, CNN contributor, and media co-host roles (2021-present).
- On the ballot 0 entries The 2014 race is complete; no pending candidacy is published for it.
- Where they stand 1 entry
- What they have said, checked None found in the records checked No fact-checker rating of a statement made during the 2014 Secretary of State campaign itself was found in the records checked; four earlier PolitiFact rulings on Turner all predate the campaign.
- Record in office 3 entries
- Money 1 entry The research archive found no single confirmed full-cycle total for either candidate; the closest sourced checkpoint figures are published instead.
- Financial interests Not yet researched
- Polling and approval None found in the records checked No independent horse-race poll of the Turner-Husted race was found in the records checked.
- Elections 1 entry
- Endorsements Not yet researched
- Sources 8 entries
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The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Chamber | District | Note |
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| Statewide | All of Ohio | Secretary of State 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
Voting access
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Opposed Husted's move to set uniform statewide early-voting hours, arguing it cut hours that populous, heavily Black urban counties like Cuyahoga had previously offered on their own, and criticized the broader rollback of Ohio's early-voting window under Husted.
Source: Nina Turner
What they have said, checked
None found in the records checked
Record in office
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Person | Date | Kind | Entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turner (D) | 2008-09 | office | Ohio Senate, 25th District |
| Turner (D) | 2006 | office | Cleveland City Council, Ward 1 |
| Turner (D) | 2012 | bill | 2012 (bill): Lead Senate sponsor of "the Cleveland Plan," legislation restructuring Cleveland's public schools that expanded mayoral control, let charter |
| Turner (D) | 2012-03 | bill | 2012-03 (bill): Introduced Senate Bill 307, a measure that would have required men seeking erectile-dysfunction prescriptions to first see a sex therapist, |
| Turner (D) | 2014-01 | bill | 2014-01 (bill): Led a bill, with Democratic Sen. Charleta Tavares, to bar convicted rapists from obtaining parental or custody rights over children conceive |
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bill January 2014
Led a bill, with Democratic Sen. Charleta Tavares, to bar convicted rapists from obtaining parental or custody rights over children conceived by rape, prompted by the Ariel Castro case; the measure won bipartisan support including from the anti-abortion group Ohio Right to Life and took effect March 23, 2015.
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bill March 2012
Introduced Senate Bill 307, a measure that would have required men seeking erectile-dysfunction prescriptions to first see a sex therapist, undergo a cardiac stress test, and obtain a notarized affidavit from a sexual partner attesting to their impotence, presented as a response to Ohio Republicans' "heartbeat bill" restricting abortion access.
Source: Nina Turner
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bill 2012
Lead Senate sponsor of "the Cleveland Plan," legislation restructuring Cleveland's public schools that expanded mayoral control, let charter schools draw funding from local school-levy revenue, and ended seniority-based teacher layoffs.
Cleveland Teachers Union president David Quolke, per The Intercept, September 30, 2019:
a horrible relationship
· the sourceSource: Nina Turner Helped Expand Cleveland's Charter Schools
Recorded votes
Nina Turner cast 1,144 Yea or Nay votes on the roll calls we hold, across 4 terms from 2007 to 2014, all in the Ohio General Assembly, from the Ohio Legislature. Each term opens to every roll call, with the question, the result, how Nina Turner voted and how the majority of their party voted.
| Term | Chamber | Yea | Nay | Did not vote | With party |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 130th General Assembly, 2013–2014 | Ohio Senate, district 25 | 298 | 117 | not recorded | 98% of 111 |
| 129th General Assembly, 2011–2012 | Ohio Senate, district 25 | 322 | 147 | not recorded | 95% of 145 |
| 128th General Assembly, 2009–2010 | Ohio Senate, district 25 | 146 | 52 | not recorded | 100% of 53 |
| 127th General Assembly, 2007–2008 | Ohio Senate | 54 | 8 | not recorded | 75% of 8 |
"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 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secretary of State of Ohio | OhioSOS | $70,000 | October 2014 |
Sources: Husted's posters going up in polling places, but does it matter? · In Ohio, Nina Turner Lost to Big Money
Outside spending
Financial interests
Not yet researched
Polling and approval
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Status |
|---|
| None found in the records checked |
Elections
| Race | Party | Result | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secretary of State of Ohio (2014) | Democratic | Lost | 1,074,475 | 35.5% |
Offices held
Ohio Senate, 25th District · 2008-09 to 2014-12 · appointed
Source: Nina Turner
Cleveland City Council, Ward 1 · 2006 to 2008 · elected
Source: Nina Turner
Endorsements
Not yet researched
Sources
Data from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0: Nina Turner · 2014 Ohio Secretary of State election
Every URL on this page, once each.
- Nina Turner (Ohio) · Ballotpedia · accessed 2026-09-19
- Nina Turner · Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-19
- Ohio Secretary of State election, 2014 · Ballotpedia · accessed 2026-09-19
- 2014 Ohio Secretary of State election · Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-19
- Husted's posters going up in polling places, but does it matter? · WVXU / Cincinnati Public Radio · 2014-10-26 · accessed 2026-09-19
- In Ohio, Nina Turner Lost to Big Money · Demos · accessed 2026-09-19
- Nina Turner Helped Expand Cleveland's Charter Schools · The Intercept · 2019-09-30 · accessed 2026-09-19
- Ohio Senator Trying To Change Rape Custody Law · WOUB Public Media · 2014-01-15 · accessed 2026-09-19
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