Ballotpedia, Nathaniel Adams

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.

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

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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.

Economy

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.

Public Safety

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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.

Healthcare

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."

Education

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.

Energy & the Environment

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. 

Voting & Elections

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Nathaniel Adams

Nathaniel Adams' campaign for State Representative for State House District 72 is his 1st run for public office. 

Believes that "our towns thrive when main street prospers."

Opposes tax dollars going to "big donors and corporations" and supports using tax money for the communities whose "hard work earned those dollars."

Believes tax dollars should be invested in repairing local infrastructure.

Believes tax dollars should be invested in local infrastructure.

- 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 tax dollars should be invested in local infrastructure.
- Believes infrastructure is crucial for safety, impacting water quality, electricity reliability, and road conditions.

Believes in conducting community surveys on policing and police reform.

Supports gun control, advocating for limits on military-grade weapons and high-capacity magazines to protect innocent lives.

Believes Ohioans of his generation should not have to leave the state for healthcare, indicating a desire to improve local healthcare access and quality.

Promises to "fight to protect the Ohio Constitutional right to choose health care decisions."

Plans to protect the Ohio Constitutional right to choose health care decisions.

Believes legislators prioritize "chaos, ideology, and sound bites" over public health.

Promises to never support any bill that undermines the public education system.

As an AmeriCorps VISTA staffer for the Greater Cleveland Foodbank, helped develop a project to deliver healthy meals and cooking utensils weekly to families experiencing food insecurity.

As a Boy Scout, he participated in community service projects such as park clean-up and construction, and organizing cultural events for senior citizens in Kent.

Believes Ohio's infrastructure is failing due to years of inadequate funding, saying "our roads are crumbling, our bridges are old and in disrepair and we have multiple abandoned buildings in need of repair/replacement so new business can grow."

Believes infrastructure is essential for community growth and small business success, saying "poorly maintained infrastructure raises overhead costs for business and undercuts their success."

Believes tax dollars should be invested in repairing infrastructure rather than "handing over money to big donors" and wasting funds on political endeavors.

Believes cuts to funding public agencies harm infrastructure maintenance and job creation, saying, "Infrastructure is Employment."

Believes gerrymandering allows politicians to "pick the people who vote for them" and opposes efforts to limit early or mail voting.

Believes Ohio voters clearly expressed their preferences in November 2023, and opposes members of the Ohio General Assembly who "continue to try to undermine the people's choice."

Believes in the importance of voting and has experience working on get-out-the-vote campaigns.

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

Nathaniel Adams' campaign for State Representative for State House District 72 is his first run for public office. 

Nathaniel currently 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.

Nathaniel Adams has been a resident of Portage County for 17 years. He graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School in 2013 and received his bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Hiram College in 2017 and his master’s degree in Communication Studies from Kent State University in 2020.

Nathaniel Adams currently works for State and Federal Communications, a firm in Akron. He previously served as an AmeriCorps VISTA staffer for the Greater Cleveland Foodbank.

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

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