Legislative and STRS Info

 128^th Ohio General Assembly 2009

Selected House Leadership

To email any legislators, please just click on their name.  Your email new message will automatically appear.  You can write your own personal message to that representative or senator.

district08@ohr.state.oh.us  Armund Budish (D) Speaker of the House

district41@ohr.state.oh.us  Brian Williams (D) Chair, Education Committee

district09@ohr.state.oh.us  Barbara Boyd (D) Chair, Health Committee

district44@ohr.state.oh.us  Vernon Sykes (D) Chair, Finance Committeee

district26@ohr.state.oh.us  Tracy Heard (D) Assistant Majority Floor Leader

 
     Contacting the sponsor or sponsors of bills of interest, in addition to your representative listed below, is often a good choice.  Names are usually in articles about the bills. To learn e-mail addresses, go to web site links.

  Franklin County House Representatives

    The person who represents you in the General Assembly is the one most likely to respond to your concerns and can sometimes be influential in convincing colleagues to change their position on bills.  Others who may respond are members of the committee hearing a particular bill and those in leadership roles.

     If you don't know your representative go to www.legislature.state.oh.us  Enter your zip code+four or call the board of elections at 614-462-3100.  Franklin County House Representatives are

district19@ohr.state.oh.us  Marian Harris (D) Education Committee, Healthcare Access & Affordability Committee

district20@ohr.state.oh.us  Nancy Garland (D) Education Committee

district21@ohr.state.oh.us  Kevin Bacon (R)

district22@ohr.state.oh.us  John Patrick Carney (D)

district23@ohr.state.oh.us  Cheryl Grossman (R)

district24@ohr.state.oh.us  Ted Celeste (D)

district25@ohr.state.oh.us  Daniel Stewart (D)

district26@ohr.state.oh.us  Tracy Heard (D) Assistant Majority Floor Leader

district27@ohr.state.oh.us  W. Carlton Weddington (D) Education Committee

    To leave a phone message for a representative, call 1-800-282-0253, Monday-Friday, 8:30 am -- 5:00 pm.

 Selected Senate Leadership

sd19@mailr.sen.state.oh.us          Bill Harris (R) Senate President

kcoughli@mailr.sen.state.oh.us     Kevin Coughlin (R) Chair, Health, Human Services & Aging Committee

sd04@mailr.sen.state.oh.us          Gary Cates (R) Chair, Education Committee  

sd32@maild.csen.state.oh.us        Capri Carfaro (D) Minority Leader

sd29@mailr.sen.state.oh.us           Kurt Schuring (R) Chair, Ohio Retirement Study Commission,

                                                                               Health, Human Services & Aging Committee

sd93@mailr.sen.state.oh.us          Jennifer Garrison (R) Majority Floor Leader

sd15@maild.sen.state.oh.us           Ray Miller (D) Minority Whip

 Franklin County State Senators

If you do not know the name of your state senator,  go to  www.legislature.state.oh.us use your zip code+four.  This link leads to bios, leadership roles, and committee assignments of all senators and representatives.

     Current Franklin County senators are

dgoodman@mailr.sen.state.oh.us   District 03, David Goodman (R) 

sd16@mailr.sen.state.oh.us            District 16. Jim Hughes

rmiller@maild.sen.state.oh.us         District 15, Ray Miller (D) Minority Whip 

 Ohio Government Links

www.ohio.gov                    Official web site with links

www.house.state.oh.us      Ohio House of Representatives  1-800-282-0253 or 466-8842

www.senate.state.oh.us     Ohio Senate  1-800-282-0253 or 466-8842

www.tedstrickland.com      Governor Ted Strickland  614-466-3555

www.sconet.state.oh.us     Supreme Court, general information  614-387-9000

                                        Thomas J. Moyer, Chief Justice

www.orsc.org                     Ohio Retirement Study Council  614-288-1346

                                         Aristotle L. Hutras, ORSC Director

ethics@ethics.gov              Ohio Ethics Commission

 Selected State Government 800 Numbers

800-282-0515   Attorney General Consumer Protection

800-686-1556   Child Support Hotline

800-582-CVSS Crime Victim Assistance

800-282-0880   Home Energy Assistance Program

800-282-0253   Legislative Information

800-324-8680   Medicaid Consumer Hotline

877-7-PATROL State Highway Patrol (Highway Help)

800-282-1780    Tax Questions

800-BUCKEYE   Travel and Tourism

800-251-OBES   Unemployment Hotline

800-282-9448     Utility Consumer Complaints

800-OHIO-BWC Workers' Compensation

Organizations

EMAIL CONTACTS

FCRTA  (Franklin County Retired Teachers) 

            Return to Executive Officers for names and contact information.

 

ORTA  (Ohio Retired Teachers Association)

ORTA@orta.org        Main web site  614-431-7002   Edna Hanson, President

ahanning@orta.org  Ann Hanning, Executive Director & Legislation

ortastaff@orta.org     Judy Durst, Administrative Assistant

 

CEA (Columbus Education Association)

www.ceaohio.org         Main web site 614-253-4731

                                      Rhonda Johnson, President

jvalentine59@aol.com   Judy Valentine, President, CEA-Retired  614-235-4572 

mrasecond@msn.com  Marilyn Allen, Capital District Representative to OEA-R 614-299-4841

Columbus City Schools

Dr. Jean Harris, Superintendent

OEA (Ohio Education Association)

www.ohea.org    Main web site 614-228-4526

                            Gary Allen, President 

 OFT (Ohio Federation of Teachers)

www.oft-aft.org     Main web site   614-258-3240

                              Sue Taylor, President

STRS (State Teachers Retirement System)  1-888-227-7877

www.strs.oh.org           Main web site  614-227-4090

                                       Michael J. Neff, Executive Director

BierdemT@strs.oh.org  Terri Bierdeman, Director, Governmental Relations

(Current STRS Board Members and Photos)

 How to reach STRS board members:

Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding

www.ohiocoalition.org    Main web site  614-228-6540

                                         Bill Phillis, Executive Director

 

BASA  Buckeye Association of School Administrators

www.basa-ohio.org        Main web site  614-846-4080

ash@basa-ohio.org         Tom Ash, Director of Governmental Relations

CORE (Concerned Ohio Retired Educators)

www.concernedohio.org.core.html

MEDIA

The Columbus Dispatch

letter@dispatch.com (200 words or less; include name, address, phone)
 

Federal Government

www.USA.gov  Official gateway to all government information

 

comments@whitehouse.gov  President Obama

                                           The White House

                                            1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

                                            Washington DC 20500

 

Vice_president@whitehouse.gov  Vice President Biden

 

www.house.gov/writerep  Enter state and zip code plus four. Access text entry form.

 

www.senate.gov  General information

 

www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators-cfm.cfm

 

www.tiberi.house.gov/  Patrick Tiberi (R-12th District) official web site.   Local phone: 614-523-2555

                                  3000 Corporate Exchange Drive Suite 310

                                  Columbus OH 43231

Because of security delays, "snail mail" is discouraged. Contact Rep.Tiberi locally or by e-mail thru his web site.

 

www.house.gov/kilroy/ Mary Jo Kilroy (D-15th District) Local phone: 614-294-2196

                                  1299 Olentangy River Road, Suite 200

                                  Columbus OH 43212

 Local contact suggested or use the web site for e-mail link.

www.brown.senate.gov/contact.cfm  Sherrod Brown (D)  614-469-2083

                                                           200 North High Street, Room 614

                                                           Columbus OH 43215

 www.voinovich.senate.gov    George Voinovich (R) 614-469-6779

                                               37 West Broad Street. Suite 310

                                                Columbus OH 43215

Washington mailing address for Senators is U.S Senate, Washington DC 20510.  Telephone is 202-224-3121

Updated  09/07/2009

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updated 09/07/2009