Matriots Ohio, Rose Lounsbury

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Rose earned a bachelor's degree in secondary education, English, and education from Western Michigan University and a master's degree in teaching and English from Miami University. She serves on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee for the League of Women Voters. She lives in Dayton and is a mother of triplets.

Rose is a current small business owner and a former public school teacher.

Rose Lounsbury's campaign for state representative is her first run for public office.

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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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Supports creating a future-focused economy by prioritizing green jobs, union jobs, and fair wages.

Believes in supporting local economies and workers' rights.

Believes in the importance of pensions for ensuring quality living and medical care for the elderly.

Believes economic and environmental goals "mutually support each other."

- 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.
- Opposes special elections that waste taxpayer dollars.
- Believes a green economy will create jobs and increase income for working families in economically disadvantaged areas.

Believes there is no single policy that will end gun violence and supports a range of evidence-based policies to address the issue while respecting 2nd Amendment rights.

Believes Ohioans want gun safety laws that allow responsible gun ownership. Opposes current laws allowing untrained individuals to carry firearms and arm teachers.

Supports measures to enhance public safety in response to community violence, such as the 2019 Oregon District mass shooting.

Supports gun control and has received a gun sense candidate distinction from Moms Demand Action.

Believes in respecting the 2nd Amendment while protecting innocent lives, and supports adopting "common sense" gun safety measures.

Believes gun violence is a significant issue that cannot be addressed with "thoughts, prayers, and empty calls for better mental health care."

Believes the Ohio GOP supermajority has "relentlessly attacked reproductive rights" since the fall of Roe v. Wade.

Supports reversing HB 68, which bans gender-affirming care for minors.

Supports closing the racial gap in maternal health.

Believes respecting medical professionals' expertise is crucial to addressing staffing shortages and burnout in healthcare.

Plans to "champion and defend efforts to promote the freedom and autonomy of women."

Supports mental health care for parents and postpartum mental health care.

Believes that a failing state medical system leads to preventable diseases, high maternal and infant mortality, and other poor health outcomes.

Promises to "fight to keep good doctors and nurses in Ohio."

Supports teachers being "respected and adequately paid..."

Believes a high-quality public education should be accessible to all and that tax dollars should support schools serving all students.

Believes Ohio's school funding model is "unconstitutional" and creates "inherently unequal schools" by relying on property taxes.

Supports the Ohio Federation of Teachers.

Believes investing in public education is crucial for the future.

Wants to create a state that attracts and retains top graduates from the best colleges and trade schools in the nation.

Believes in "creating a top-ranked public education system."

Believes traditional habits are insufficient to combat fossil fuel-driven climate change.

Supports eco-friendly habits such as recycling and conserving water.

Believes in protecting voting and healthcare rights from being undermined by opponents.

Believes in "protecting democracy in Ohio."

Believes democracy is threatened by legislators who undermine voter representation, citing the $18 million special election in Ohio as an example of this.

Promises to "fight for the rights of all Ohioans to be heard."

Supports policies that ensure women and working families have a voice in Ohio's democratic process.

Believes the current Ohio Statehouse exemplifies "anti-democratic abuses of power" through extreme partisan gerrymandering and strict voter ID laws designed to disenfranchise young voters and voters of color.

- Supports ending gerrymandering and voter roll purges.
- Advocates for implementing same-day and automatic voter registration.

Rose lives in Dayton and is a mother of triplets. She earned a bachelor's degree in secondary education, English, and education from Western Michigan University and a master's degree in teaching and English from Miami University. She serves on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee for the League of Women Voters.

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

- 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.
- Opposes special elections that waste taxpayer dollars.
- Believes a green economy will create jobs and increase income for working families in economically disadvantaged areas.

Advocates implementing same-day and automatic voter registration.

- Supports ending gerrymandering and voter roll purges.
- Advocates implementing same-day and automatic voter registration.

Rose Lounsbury lives in Dayton, Ohio, and is a mother of triplets. 

Rose Lounsbury is a current small business owner and a former public school teacher.

As of September 5, 2024, Rose Lounsbury’s website did not contain information on this issue.

- Supports 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.
- Opposes special elections that waste taxpayer dollars.
- Believes a green economy will create jobs and increase income for working families in economically disadvantaged areas.

Supports 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 reproductive rights.
- Supports addressing healthcare inequality as part of a broader commitment to racial justice.
- Supports legislation that mandates safe staffing levels in hospitals and plans to create a task force of doctors and nurses to address staffing shortages.

- 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.

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

- Supports ending gerrymandering and voter roll purges.

- Supports safe working conditions, living wages, affordable healthcare, and dignified retirements for workers.
- Supports paid maternal and parental leave, universal preschool, and affordable childcare.
- Supports strong unions.
- Opposes special elections that waste taxpayer dollars.
- Believes a green economy will create jobs and increase income for working families in economically disadvantaged areas.

Rose Lounsbury lives in Dayton, Ohio, and is a mom of teenage triplets. She grew up in a rural community and is the granddaughter of a coal miner from Southeast Ohio.

Rose Lounsbury is a former public school teacher and a current small business owner.

As of September 4, 2024, Rose Lounsbury’s website did not contain information on this issue.

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