Incumbent Sara Carruthers retains Ohio State House seat over 19-year-old Democratic candidate Sam Lawrence

HAMILTON, Ohio — Republican incumbent Sara Carruthers has retained her seat within the newly redrawn Ohio forty seventh Home District.

Carruthers was operating towards 19-year-old Democrat Sam Lawrence. This will likely be her third time period as state consultant.

The forty seventh district consists of the cities of Hamilton and Oxford and the townships of Hanover, Fairfield, Reily and Oxford.

Carruthers gained with 65% of the vote, whereas Lawrence acquired 35%.

Carruthers has served on the committees devoted to habits well being and restoration, home finance and households, getting old and human providers.

In a concession assertion on social media, Lawrence stated whereas he did not get the outcomes he needed, he was nonetheless pleased with the marketing campaign he ran.

“To each single one in all you who adopted alongside, volunteered, and donated, and to my workers — Thanks so very a lot,” Lawrence wrote.

Throughout his marketing campaign, Lawrence had criticized Carruthers for donations she had acquired after she launched a invoice.

Carruthers launched a invoice in November 2021 that might acceptable $300 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding to Ohio nursing services. Quickly after her proposal, she acquired $52,000 in marketing campaign donations from these related to nursing properties.

Her opponents — together with Lawrence — stated the donations had been an indication of corruption in Ohio. Carruthers disagreed and stated the matter was investigated as she turned over cellphone messages, emails and calendar data, which she stated confirmed zero connection to the donors.

Lawrence — who’s a political science pupil at Miami College — stated his primary precedence as consultant would have been to deal with corruption, particularly the fallout from the Home Invoice 6 scandal, which concerned a $61 million bribery scheme that was the most important public corruption case in Ohio historical past.

Lawrence believes that the Home Invoice 6 scandal was solely a fraction of the corruption in Ohio politics in Columbus.

“I made a decision to run as a result of I see a whole lot of these points which are occurring, and never simply within the federal realm, however within the Statehouse,” Lawrence stated. “I paid shut consideration to politics very early on (in his life), and I spotted that a whole lot of these selections actually do have an effect on our lives; I feel that is one thing individuals my age actually do not perceive so much.”

Lawrence additionally needed to deal with environmental coverage, which is one thing he believes virtually 100% of younger individuals agree on.

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