Ballotpedia: Heidi Workman

Heidi is from Salem, Ohio. She earned bachelor's degrees from Bowling Green State University and Kent State University. She lives with her husband and 4 children.

Heidi works as a self-employed business professional with a background in corporate marketing, healthcare, small business, and grassroots activism.

Heidi Workman's campaign for state representative is her 1st run for public office.

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Supports authorizing a property tax freeze for certain owner-occupied homes.

Supports Senate Bill (SB) 287, which authorizes a property tax freeze for certain owner-occupied homes.

Supports enhancing property tax exemptions for disabled veterans by increasing the exemption amount from $50,000 to its full taxable value and authorizing a homestead exemption of $5,000 or $10,000 for veterans with at least a 50%, but less-than-total disability rating.

Supports House Bill (HB) 254, which enhances property tax exemptions for disabled veterans.

Supports increasing the homestead exemption for elderly, disabled, and surviving spouses from $25,000 to $40,000.

Supports House Bill (HB) 60, which increases the homestead exemption for elderly, disabled, and surviving spouses from $25,000 to $40,000.

Supports "tax cuts and reduced regulations."

Supports decreasing the percentage of real property value subject to taxation and indexing it to decrease with inflation.

Supports House Bill (HB) 1, which decreases the percentage of real property value subject to taxation and indexing it to decrease with inflation.

Supports "economic stabilization through energy development."

- Supports Senate Bill (SB) 287, which authorizes a property tax freeze for certain owner-occupied homes.
- Supports House Bill (HB) 254, which enhances property tax exemptions for disabled veterans.
- Supports House Bill (HB) 60, which increases the homestead exemption for elderly, disabled, and surviving spouses from $25,000 to $40,000.
- Supports reducing state regulations.
- Supports House Bill (HB) 1, which decreases the percentage of real property value subject to taxation and indexing it to decrease with inflation.
- Supports "economic stabilization through energy development."

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Supports legislation that would prevent gender reassignment surgery for minors.

- Opposes abortion access.
- Supports legislation that would prevent gender reassignment surgery for minors.

Healthcare

Supports giving parents a greater say in their children's education.

- Supports giving parents a greater say in their children's education.

Education

Believes in "economic stabilization through energy development."

- Believes in "economic stabilization through energy development."

Energy & the Environment

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Opposes Ohio Issue 1, a ballot measure that would create a 15 member Ohio citizen redistricting commission.

- Opposes Ohio Issue 1, a ballot measure that would create a 15 member Ohio citizen redistricting commission.

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Heidi Workman

Nathaniel earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Hiram College and a master’s degree in communication studies from Kent State University. 

Nathaniel works for State and Federal Communications. He previously worked as an AmeriCorps VISTA staffer for the Greater Cleveland Foodbank and for the Kent State Survey Research Lab.

Ballotpedia, Nathaniel Adams

Nathaniel Adams's campaign for state representative is his 1st run for public office. 

Believes funding should come from ending "billion-dollar corporate giveaways" and ensuring the wealthy pay their "fair share," not from tax increases on "working people."

Opposes cuts to funding of public agencies that maintain and repair infrastructure.

Believes infrastructure is crucial for safety, impacting water quality, electricity reliability, and road conditions.

- Believes funding should come from ending "billion-dollar corporate giveaways" and ensuring the wealthy pay their "fair share," not from tax increases on "working people."
- Opposes cuts to funding of public agencies that maintain and repair infrastructure.
- Believes infrastructure is crucial for safety, impacting water quality, electricity reliability, and road conditions.

Supports limiting the sale of military-grade weapons and banning high-capacity magazines for civilians.

Supports limiting the sale of assault weapons and banning high-capacity magazines for civilians.

- Supports limiting the sale of assault weapons and banning high-capacity magazines for civilians.

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Believes politicians should not legislate medical decisions between a patient and doctor.

Supports affordable healthcare for all Ohioans.

Opposes the "bathroom bill" that would require schools and universities to make students use only the bathrooms or locker rooms that match their gender assigned at birth."

- Believes politicians should not legislate medical decisions between a patient and doctor.
- Supports affordable healthcare for all Ohioans.
- Opposes the "bathroom bill" that would require schools and universities to make students use only the bathrooms or locker rooms that match their gender assigned at birth."
- Supports access to abortion care.

Opposes policies that undermine public education, such as ending teachers' unions, reallocating funds from public to private schools, and "racist" overhauls of the curriculum.

Opposes policies that jeopardize teachers' unions.

Believes in increasing funding for PreK-12 and higher education, supporting educators' innovation, and reducing the financial burden of education for students and families.

Believes in increasing funding for PreK-12 and higher education.

Supports educators using their training and expertise to innovate within the education system.

Supports developing educator's training and expertise to innovate within the education system.

Opposes the use of tax dollars for private school vouchers, saying "Those are tax dollars that should be used to be funding the public schools, and the communities that at pay those tax dollars."

- Opposes policies that jeopardize teachers' unions.
- Believes in increasing funding for PreK-12 and higher education.
- Supports developing educator's training and expertise to innovate within the education system.
- Opposes the use of tax dollars for private school vouchers, saying "Those are tax dollars that should be used to be funding the public schools, and the communities that at pay those tax dollars."

Believes climate change is real and caused by fossil fuels.

Opposes financial support for the fossil fuel industry.

Plans to advocate for a new green energy industry in Ohio and Portage County to create future jobs.

- Believes climate change is real and caused by fossil fuels.
- Opposes financial support for the fossil fuel industry.
- Plans to advocate for a new green energy industry in Ohio and Portage County to create future jobs.

Believes the right to vote is "the foundation of our democracy" and opposes measures that suppress voting rights.

Opposes measures that make it more difficult to vote.

Opposes efforts to limit early or mail-in voting.

Believes politicians have "been able to pick the people who vote from them through outrageously gerrymandered maps."

- Opposes measures that make it more difficult to vote.
- Opposes efforts to limit early or mail-in voting.
- Opposes gerrymandering. 

Nathaniel Adams

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