Donna Beheydt
Donna Beheydt (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Ohio House of Representatives to represent District 69. She lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Beheydt completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Donna Beheydt was born in Willard, Ohio. She served in the U.S. Air Force from 1986 to 1990. Beheydt earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Akron in 1986. Her career experience includes working as an intelligence research analyst with the U.S. Air Force and as the owner of Minuteman Press Franchise.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Ohio House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Ohio House of Representatives District 69
Sharon Ray defeated Donna Beheydt in the general election for Ohio House of Representatives District 69 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Sharon Ray (R) | 64.8 | 46,103 |
 | Donna Beheydt (D)  | 35.2 | 25,074 | |
| Total votes: 71,177 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 69
Donna Beheydt advanced from the Democratic primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 69 on April 28, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Donna Beheydt | 100.0 | 7,001 |
| Total votes: 7,001 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 69
Sharon Ray advanced from the Republican primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 69 on April 28, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Sharon Ray | 100.0 | 7,679 |
| Total votes: 7,679 | |||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Donna Beheydt completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Beheydt's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am a Air Force Veteran, a former small business owner, a wife and mother of 3 grown children.
I joined the Air Force after high school as an Intelligence Research Analysts and served for 4 years at 9th Tactical Air Command in Sumpter, South Carolina. I conducted threat assessment research and analysis on air-to-air and surface to-air missile systems and briefed commanders and air crews on these threats.
After the Air Force and after earning my degree in Paralegal Studies from the University of Akron, I had multiple careers. Most recently, I was a small business owner. In 2009 my husband and I bought a Minuteman Press franchise and opened our store in Stow, Ohio. This was by far the most difficult of my careers, but it was also the most rewarding. I have the experience of starting a business and I know the difficult decisions that business owners make, trying to meet payroll while still needing to provide for a family. I know fully the importance of local businesses to our economy and I always encourage people to shop locally. We sold our business in 2019 to another Minuteman Press owner.
My husband Brian and I live in Wadsworth, in the home where we raised our three children, Jessica, Benjamin, and Connor. While the kids attended Wadsworth schools, I was very active in the local elementary PTA, Speech & Debate, and Band Boosters. My children's education was the most important thing I could give them. I currently volunteer at Project Learn bookstore in Wadsworth.
- We need strong schools to build the next generation of business leaders, entrepreneurs, workers and innovators who drive and build our economy.
- Protecting healthcare is about more than just staying healthy. It means Ohioans can hold a good job, get a new job or retire with security - no matter what happens.
- We need to take care of our Seniors who live on fixed incomes but continue to feel the increasing costs of everyday life, like prescription drug prices and property tax increases.
Education: We need to strengthen our public education funding system by eliminating or severely restricting the Ed-Choice and Ed-Choice Plus Programs. These programs takes public tax dollars and funds private schools with zero accountability to tax payers. https://www.donnabforohiohouse.com/ohio_education
Engage and listen to constituents.
Include everyone in the conversation.
Represent all people in the district.
This is how I will run my campaign and how I will represent the 69th District.
During my training and time in the Air Force, I learned teamwork and leadership skills. I learned how to work with people who didn't think like me and who looked at problems differently than myself. By working together we agreed on the best solution for our mission.
As a small business owner, I learned to listen to my customers. Listening, understanding the needs, and solving my customers printing and graphics problems is how I built a successful business in the middle of the worst recessions of our generation.
I believe these are the qualities - leadership, teamwork, and problem solving - that will make me the best candidate to represent Ohio House District 69.
I served in the U.S. Air Force from 1986 to 1990. I witnessed a lot of history during this period. The Challenger Space Shuttle exploded, the U.S. bombed Tripoli, Iraq, an Iranian airliner was shot down over the Persian Gulf, Iraq gassed and killed thousand of Kurds, The Persian Gulf War ended, and the Cold War came to an end as Berlin Wall fell. A lot happened in a short period of time and I remind myself how lucky I was not to experience war.
My first "paid" job, I was 14. I stayed nights and evening with an older lady who needed someone to make small dinners for her and to be there if she needed something in the middle of the night. Golden Nickle (isn't that a great name!) lived down the street from me and soon I began mowing her yard and doing light housework too. I was paid $100/month. Being a budding entrepreneur, I soon had another house to clean and several yards to mow. I was able to buy myself a new lawn mower. I did this until I was 16 when I started work at the local pharmacy part-time after school and on Saturdays. I stocked shelves, cashiered, cleaned, and on occasion counted out pills. I held this job until I graduated high school and left home to serve in the U.S. Air Force.
Harry Potter
This is my favorite book series because it reminds me no matter what comes my way Love Always triumphs over Hate.
You Can't Always Get What You Want - Rolling Stones
I believe the most challenging issue is gerrymandering. Our legislators should be chosen by their constituents not the other way around. When there's a balance of power at the Statehouse better laws are introduced and passed to benefit the majority of the people, not special interest groups and large corporations.
Education is the next largest challenge we have to face in the next decade. We have to fix the funding system - it's not fair to our children, our property owners, and not to our economy. Our children aren't prepared for Ohio's future economy when schools are falling down around them, old outdated school books and materials are being used, and large areas have no internet service. Funnelling money out of our public schools into private schools isn't the fix we were promised 20 years ago. Our national ranking for educational achievement was 5th in 2010 - today we are ranked 22nd.
Yes, we should build relationships and coalitions within our party and outside our party to effectively and efficiently govern. We have more common ground than not on most important issues, but our knee jerk reactions to events or policies back us into our political corners. We should be proactive in how we approach problems not reactionary - it's not effective or efficient.
Primary and Secondary Education
Higher Education
Armed Services and Veterans Affairs
Economic and Workforce Development
Energy and Natural Resources
Health
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ ’’Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 2, 2020’’
