Ohio second congressional district election, 2005/Minor candidates
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This page contains biographical information on some of the minor candidates in the special election held in the Second District of Ohio in 2005. (See the main article Ohio second congressional district election, 2005.)
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[edit] Steve Austin
Steve Austin (born February 24, 1948) is a retired teacher who was a candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress to replace Rob Portman in the Second District of Ohio in the special primary held June 14, 2005.
Austin was born in Peebles, Ohio. He received his B.S. from Ohio University in 1973 and his M.S. from Miami University in 1980. Both degrees were in education. Austin taught in the Adams County-Ohio Valley Local School District, Adams County, Ohio from 1973 to his retirement in 2003, teaching government, American history, and civics. He is a first time candidate for office.
He has two children, Amber (born circa 1975) and Jared (born circa 1982). Austin is a member of the National Rifle Association. He lives in Meigs Township, near Peebles.
He collects western memorabilia, including that associated with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.
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[edit] Douglas E. Mink
Douglas E. Mink, (born circa 1976) is a teacher who was a candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress to replace Rob Portman in the Second District of Ohio in the special primary held June 14, 2005. He finished last, winning only 100 votes in the unofficial count.
Mink in his campaign emphasized his prior political work, but his campaign literature [1] had little on the issues. Mink told The Cincinnati Enquirer that the Iraq War was justified: "Anytime a cruel dictator can no longer threaten the United States or harm his own people, we have done a good thing."
Mink was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, but moved in the third grade to a farm. He returned to Cincinnati in the eighth grade. Mink earned a B.A. from Xavier University (Cincinnati) and a M.A. from George Washington University. He has interned in the offices of Representatives Rob Portman and Barbara Cubin (R-Wyoming) and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas).
He is a member of the Ohio Farm Bureau, the Hamilton County Farm Bureau, the Reading Historic Society, the Ohio Education Association, the Butler Education Association, the National Council for the Social Studies, the Association for Career and Technical Education, and the Ohio Association for Career and Technical Education.
A resident of Sharonville, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the 28th District seat in the Ohio House of Representatives in 2002.
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[edit] Jeff Morgan
Jeffrey E. Morgan (born 1965) is a mailman, carpenter, and youth minister who was a candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress to replace Rob Portman in the Second District of Ohio in the special primary held June 14, 2005.
Morgan, a first time candidate for office, is a resident of Meigs Township, near Peebles in Adams County, Ohio. He has a B.S. in natural science from Ohio's Shawnee State University.
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[edit] David R. Smith
David R. Smith (born circa 1970) is a financial analyst with the Procter and Gamble Company. Smith, a resident of Deerfield Township in Warren County, Ohio, is from "the West" (as he says on his website) and has a B.S. in mechanical engineering and a master's degree in engineering management, both from Northwestern University. He is an Eagle Scout and active in the Boy Scouts of America. He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Smith ran for Congress in Utah in 2002 but never appeared on the ballot because he fell from contention on the third ballot at the state convention, and he made a second run for Congress in Tennessee in 2004 [2]. Smith announced his third campaign, for Ohio, on April 9, 2005 [3], declaring he was "both a fiscally and morally conservative Republican with a platform aimed at improving our financial and economic condition." Smith campaigned on a conservative platform. On his website, he wrote:
He was a candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress to replace Rob Portman in the Second District of Ohio in the special primary held June 14, 2005. Regarding his most recent campaign, he announced his candidacy for the Ohio GOP primary on May 2, 2006, to challenge incumbent Mike DeWine and engineer William G. Pierce for the United States Senate. Former Air Force Lt. Col. John Mitchel, who received nearly 200,000 GOP votes in 2004 against Senator [George Voinovich] and dropped out of the GOP primary on March 13, 2006. Democrat Paul Hackett announced on February 14, 2006, that he would not remain in the Democratic primary. The Democratic nominee in the November 2006 general election may be Congressman Sherrod Brown, whose only announced opponent is Merrill Keiser, Jr., a truck driver. [4] Smith and his wife Jenelle have three sons: Joshua, Tate, and Porter.
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[edit] Arthur Stanley Katz
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Arthur Stanley Katz (born circa 1923) is a lawyer who was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress to replace Rob Portman in the Second District of Ohio (map) in the special primary to be held June 14, 2005. In the November 8, 2005, election he was an unsuccessful candidate for Deerfield Township trustee.
A resident of Deerfield Township in Warren County, Katz previously ran for a judicial office in Los Angeles County, California. He graduated from Brooklyn College and the New York University law school. Katz was admitted to the California bar on October 1, 1952, and is licensed to practice law in that state. (He has not, however, registered in Ohio.) He is a veteran of World War II and an amateur archaeologist. He ran as a write-in candidate for Congress because he missed the requirement of fifty signatures on his nominating petitions by three names.
Katz told CityBeat "I have no illusions I'll be elected," he says. "I'd like to be, I'd love to be. I think I'd make a contribution." Of his rivals, he said:
- The other five, all of them are what I call 'Republican lite,' " Katz says. "They're trying to campaign, and they're falling into the trap. They take the issues that the Republicans have and try to put a different spin on it. I don't buy their issues. I don't accept it. I make my own. Get my point?[5]
