Nicholas Barnes
Nicholas Barnes (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Ohio House of Representatives to represent District 87. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Barnes completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Barnes' professional experience includes working as a food truck owner and operator. He earned a bachelor's degree from Ohio State University in 1994.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Ohio House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Ohio House of Representatives District 87
Incumbent Riordan McClain defeated Nicholas Barnes in the general election for Ohio House of Representatives District 87 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Riordan McClain (R) | 76.2 | 41,440 |
 | Nicholas Barnes (D)  | 23.8 | 12,977 | |
| Total votes: 54,417 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 87
Nicholas Barnes advanced from the Democratic primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 87 on April 28, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Nicholas Barnes | 100.0 | 3,867 |
| Total votes: 3,867 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 87
Incumbent Riordan McClain advanced from the Republican primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 87 on April 28, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Riordan McClain | 100.0 | 12,685 |
| Total votes: 12,685 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Nicholas Barnes completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Barnes' 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 sixth-generation Wyandot Countian. I grew up in Upper Sandusky, graduated from The Ohio State University, and married my high school sweetheart Kim during our five years in New Orleans. We now live back home on the family road with our two sons, Will, who just started college at Denison, and Louis, who will be starting his Junior year of high school.
- The two-party system has coarsened our political dialogue and corrupted our governance. The working class must resist moneyed interests' attempts to induce infighting while they pick our pockets, and instead form a coalition of the working class across all demographics and ideologies, and work towards our common interests.
- Dark money and unlimited campaign cash is a recipe for corruption and bribery, as we are seeing in the Ohio legislature with the Republican leadership's $60 million bribery scandal. It's time to get special interest and dark money out of politics and return government to the people.
- Private, special interests have been using scam charter schools to siphon money out of Ohio's public education system for years. This too is partly a result of criminal corruption and unlimited lobbyist and donor involvement. We need to renew full, equitable, and constitutional funding to public schools, enact strict accounting and efficiency standards, and return Ohio's schools to among the best in the nation again. The Covid-19 has laid bare our shortcomings. We can, and must, do better. Our teachers, administrators, staffs, and students deserve our undivided, and unqualified, support.
Living wages, health care, family farming, the environment (especially cleaning up Lake Erie shores and waters), reforming campaign finance, lobbying, and getting special interest money out of politics.
Honesty, integrity, transparency, accountability.
Honesty, candidness, and the desire to be a true citizen advocate, not a career politician.
The Iran hostage crisis. I was eight years old.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. It conveys the whole of humanity - humor, tragedy, and absurdity - by way of a sublime irony unmatched by any other author I have read with the possible exception of Mark Twain.
Absolutely not.
Living wages and health care for the working class, the environment (especially reducing toxic waste from fracking, moving toward sustainable energy, reducing harmful agricultural herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers, and cleaning up Lake Erie), and adequately funding public schools in accordance with Ohio's constitution.
Absolutely. The greater common interests of Ohio's citizens is often subjugated by partisan division. It is imperative that what's best for the people be the prime directive of legislators, and that requires solution-oriented cooperation.
I believe districts should consist of contiguous counties based on geography as opposed to demographics, to be approved by a non-partisan commission. Legislative makeup must be more consistent with the overall population of our state and not gerrymandered to favor the party in power.
One thing I heard repeatedly while gathering signatures and talking to district residents over the past couple years is, "Neither party has done anything for the working class." It made me want to break the partisan divide and put the people first.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 8, 2020
