Matriots Ohio, Rose Lounsbury

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Supports safe working conditions, living wages, affordable healthcare, and dignified retirements for workers.

Prioritizes safe working conditions, living wages, affordable healthcare, and dignified retirements for workers.

Supports creating a Grandparent Tax Credit to encourage multigenerational households, providing support for children and elderly and alleviating care responsibilities for parents.

Supports creating a Grandparent Tax Credit to encourage multigenerational households, which provide support for children and the elderly and alleviate care responsibilities for parents.

Supports a "true living wage," paid parental leave, universal preschool, and affordable childcare.

Supports paid maternal and parental leave, universal preschool, and affordable childcare. 

Believes a green economy will create jobs and increase income for working families in economically disadvantaged areas.

- Prioritizes safe working conditions, living wages, affordable healthcare, and dignified retirements for workers.
- Supports creating a Grandparent Tax Credit to encourage multigenerational households, which provide support for children and the elderly and alleviate care responsibilities for parents.
- Supports paid maternal and parental leave, universal preschool, and affordable childcare. 
- Supports strong unions.
- Believes a green economy will create jobs and increase income for working families in economically disadvantaged areas.

Economy

Supports data-driven solutions to gun violence, including mandatory waiting periods, universal background checks, bans on high-capacity magazines, and voluntary buy-backs.

- Supports data-driven solutions to gun violence, including mandatory waiting periods, universal background checks, bans on high-capacity magazines, and voluntary buy-backs.

Public Safety

Supports access to gender-affirming healthcare for minors.

Supports efforts to reduce Ohio’s Medicaid estate recovery policy.

Believes healthcare policy extends beyond reproductive rights to include closing the gender pay gap, affordable childcare, funding research for women's health, and addressing systemic barriers women face in the workplace.

Supports healthcare policy that extends beyond reproductive rights, like closing the gender pay gap, making childcare affordable, funding research for women's health, and addressing systemic barriers women face in the workplace.

Believes Ohio voters support women's rights and reproductive freedom, citing the "overwhelming YES for reproductive freedom in November" as evidence.

Supports addressing healthcare inequality as part of a broader commitment to racial justice.

Prioritizes addressing healthcare inequality as part of a broader commitment to racial justice.

Supports legislation that mandates safe staffing levels and plans to create a task force of doctors and nurses to address staffing shortages.

Prioritizes legislation that mandates safe staffing levels in hospitals and plans to create a task force of doctors and nurses to address staffing shortages.

- Supports access to gender-affirming healthcare for minors.
- Supports efforts to reduce Ohio’s Medicaid estate recovery policy.
- Supports healthcare policy that extends beyond reproductive rights, like closing the gender pay gap, making childcare affordable, funding research for women's health, and addressing systemic barriers women face in the workplace.
- Supports access to abortion
- Prioritizes addressing healthcare inequality as part of a broader commitment to racial justice.
- Prioritizes legislation that mandates safe staffing levels in hospitals and plans to create a task force of doctors and nurses to address staffing shortages.

Healthcare

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Opposes school voucher systems that fund private education at public expense.

Believes Ohio’s public school challenges, like underfunding and teacher shortages, are "self-inflicted" and solvable with more legislative action.

Believes Ohio’s public school challenges, like underfunding and teacher shortages, are solvable with more legislative action.

Prioritizes giving teachers respect and adequate pay.

- Opposes school voucher systems that fund private education at public expense.
- Believes Ohio’s public school challenges, like underfunding and teacher shortages, are solvable with more legislative action.
- Prioritizes giving teachers respect and adequate pay.

Education

Supports incentives for switching to renewable energy and attracting eco-minded businesses.

Believes immediate and decisive legislative action is needed to slow down the effects of climate change.

Wants immediate and decisive legislative action to slow down the effects of climate change.

- Supports incentives for switching to renewable energy and attracting eco-minded businesses.
- Wants immediate and decisive legislative action to slow down the effects of climate change.

Energy & the Environment

Supports ending gerrymandering, and "unnecessary and undemocratic" voter purges.

Supports ending gerrymandering and voter roll purges.

Advocates for implementing same-day and automatic voter registration.

Opposes special elections that waste taxpayer dollars.

- Supports ending gerrymandering and voter roll purges.
- Advocates for implementing same-day and automatic voter registration.
- Opposes special elections that waste taxpayer dollars.

Voting & Elections

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As a City Council member, helped reduce taxes and bureaucratic red tape.

As a state representative, helped reduce taxes and bureaucratic red tape for small businesses. 

- Supports lowering farmers' costs.
- As a state representative, helped reduce taxes and bureaucratic red tape for small businesses. 

Supports protecting "streets and crime victims, while holding criminals accountable."

Advocates for "equipping our police and first responders with training and supports to help our communities stay safe and tackle violent crime."

- Supports protecting "streets and crime victims, while holding criminals accountable."
- Advocates for "equipping our police and first responders with training and supports to help our communities stay safe and tackle violent crime."

Supports expanding telehealth, speech, and hearing services for children, seniors, and Ohioans in underserved areas.

As state representative, worked on the Triple P Positive Parenting Program, an initiative providing "resources to combat infant mortality, human trafficking, and promote childhood safety."

- Supports additional addiction resources.
- Supports expanding telehealth, speech, and hearing services for children, seniors, and Ohioans in underserved areas.
- As state representative, worked on the Triple P Positive Parenting Program, an initiative providing "resources to combat infant mortality, human trafficking, and promote childhood safety."

Advocates for 'family-friendly policies and education reforms' for veterans/military families.

Advocates for affordable childcare and high quality early learning.

Plans to support veterans and military families with education reforms to help their children stay on track as they move in and out of the state.

Supports increasing state funding for education.

- Advocates for 'family-friendly policies and education reforms' for veterans/military families.
- Advocates for affordable childcare and high quality early learning.
- Plans to support veterans and military families with education reforms to help their children stay on track as they move in and out of the state.
- Supports increasing state funding for education.

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- Your State Representative participates in the legislative process at the state level. They are one of 99 members of the Ohio House of Representatives. The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly (the state's lawmaking body).
- Your State Representative drafts laws, approves budgets, has oversight of the state executive branch, and debates and votes on proposed laws.
- In addition to drafting and voting on bills, your State Representative can serve on committees. This is important because many bills can be stalled in committee, preventing them making it to a vote.
- Your State Representative is responsible for representing your interests. They also are responsible for helping you navigate the state's services and bringing back resources to your district.
- State Representatives are elected to a 2-year term. There is a limit of 4 successive terms. 