Ohio Representatives that Voted For HB 545
(for Ohio Senators' votes click here)

Unethical voting gone rampant! Please read article on left side of this page.  Those names in red especially need to be removed from serving in any legislative capacity. Those in green need to be watched to see if their future voting is in line with the platform they presented to their constituents, also without being influenced by party politics, and without seeking pllitical or personal favor .

Bacon - R
Batchelder - R
Beatty - D
Blessing - R
Bolon - D
Book - D
Boyd - D
Brady - D
Brown - D
Budish - R
Carmichael - R
Celeste - D
DeBose - D
DeGeeter - D
DeWine - R
Dodd - D
Dolan - R
Driehaus
Dyer - D
Evans - R
Fende - D
Flowers - R
Foley - D
Gardner - R
Garrisson - D
Gerberry - D
Goyal - D
Hagan R. - D
Harwood - D
Heard - D
Hottinger - R
Hughes - R
Hustead - R
Jones - R
Koziura - D
Letson - D
Luckie - D
Lundy - D
Mallory - D
McGregor J. - R
Newcomb - D
Oelslager - R
Okey - D
Otterman J. - D
Patton - R
Peterson - R
Raussen - R
Redfern - D
Sayre - D
Schindell - R
Schlichter - R
Schneider - R
Sears - R
Skindell - D
Slesnick - D
Stebelton - R
Stewart D. - D
Stewart J. - R
Sykes - D
Szollosi - D
Ujvagi - D
Wagner - R
Webster - R
Widener - R
Widowfield - R
Williams B. - D
Williams S. - D
Wolpert - R
Yates  - D


Click here to learn how the Ohio Senators voted on this is issue.




Ohio Representatives that Voted Against HB 545
(for Ohio Senators' votes click here)

These Representative in blue need to be commended and supported because they voted without being influenced by party politics and without seeking political or personal favor.

Adams - R
Aslanides - R
Brinkman - R
Chandler - D
Coley - D
Combs - R
Core - R
Daniels - R
Domenick
Fessler - R
Gibbs - R
Goodwin - R
Hagan J. - R
Hite - R
Huffman - R
McGregor R - R
Mecklenborg - R
Miller - R
Reinhard - R
Setzer - R
Strahorn - D
Uecker - R
Wachtmann - R
White - R
Yuko - D
Zehringer - R

Bad Legislation due
to self-serving politics.

These House members (in the middle column of this page) voted for HB 545.  The Republicans on this list acted egregiously by voting contrary to Republican principles of Free Choice, Free Enterprise, and Individual Responsibility.  But Democrats, who are for social assistance and a more benevolent government, were at first discouraged from voting yes until their leader, Joyce Beatty , was found to have a conflict of interest in that her husband was a paid lobbyist for the payday loan industry.  Once she was exposed, she quickly turned on a dime and supported the legislation and encouraged all of her sheep to follow.  We are sure that there were certainly some Republicans and Democrats who would have voted on the merits of the bill without influence by partisan politics or seeking political gain. But we are sure that the vote ended up being passed because of party politics and self-serving legislators.

Chris Widener , a Republican, and Chairman of the Financial Institutions especially showed his true colors when he sponsored HB 545 and stated that Payday Lending in Ohio was "an experiment."  We're sure that the owners and employees of the payday industry were impressed with this statement.  Instead of correcting areas of payday lending that should have been addressed, he decided to write lengthy and wasteful legislation to put the industry out of business and do damage to our economy.  What his motives were, we do not know. But we do know that he, as a Republican, acted completely contrary to what his constituents expected of him.  He threw freedom of choice, free enterprise, and individual responsibility out the window.