Mark Dansack This is Me

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1. 1. Ohio2006 Blog

   ohio2006elections.blogspot.com - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/1/2006   Last Visited: 11/11/2006

   46th House District: The Toledo Blade yesterday endorsed incumbent Mark Wagoner (R-Ottawa Hills) over challenger Mark Dansack (D-Monclova Township).
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   The editors write that Wagoner "already has mastered the steep learning curve legislators face due to the restraints of term limits" (huh?) and call Dansack "a little rough around the edges with his somewhat tentative pledge to be a 'citizen-legislator,'" although the latter's "earnestness" is "sincere" and they "see a future for him in the political arena."
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   Meanwhile, Dansack has been proving this week that his pledge is not "tentative" by issuing in daily installments his detailed argument for why he should be elected in place of the incumbent. Today's press release is a recap of Dansack's life experiences, from teen-aged volunteer athletic coach and volunteering for the American Heart Association and American Leukemia Society through paying his way through college and pursuing a masters degree in public administration while working in manufacturing at General Mills. Dansack lost his job of 18 years when that plant was shut down and he now works with workers compensation claimants as a legal aide at a law firm. These experiences buttress his positions on the issues. For example, the plant closing informs his support for state job retraining programs: "We have the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) at the Federal level to assist these workers in seeking education and training for a new career, but we don't have compatible programs at the state level to complement WIA. One of my goals is to establish programs to help retrain these displaced workers, who have in most cases done nothing wrong, but become too productive, making their positions obsolete."The Toledo area faces more job losses in the future with the pending closures of the Maumee Stamping Plant and a ConAgra facility. His new employment fuels his outrage over the scandals, mismanagement, and disastrous benefit cuts that plague the workers compensation system: "What was begun as an insurance system to protect the rights of injured workers has become a mass of bureaucratic red tape that often finds injured workers waiting weeks and even months to get basic treatment and testing they need to get better. The system is broken, and my opponent voted for Senate Bill 7, which is basically a bandaid on a surgical wound. I have called for a complete overhaul of the system, as it is simply not working for Ohioans and results in the waste of billions of taxpayer dollars."Finally, as a parent, Dansack is anxious to support Rep.
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   Dansack concludes that the choice is simple: "elect a representative whose real life experiences will assist him in formulating policies that work for middle class Ohioans" or "re-elect a first term legislator who surely is sufficiently ambitious, but whose ambition has overwhelmed his integrity as he conducts his campaign for re-election."

2. 2. Ohio Business Votes

   www.ohiobusinessvotes.com/elec - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/1/2006   Last Visited: 11/7/2007

   Mark Dansack (D-Maumee), a legal aide at a workers' compensation plaintiff's law firm, Wagoner comfortably won a second term. He defeated Dansack 61%-39%.
   
   District 47: Rep.

3. 3. Ohio Business Votes

   www.ohiobusinessvotes.org/elec - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/1/2006   Last Visited: 11/6/2007

   Mark Dansack (D-Maumee), a legal aide at a workers' compensation plaintiff's law firm, Wagoner comfortably won a second term. He defeated Dansack 61%-39%.
   
   District 47: Rep.