Tiberi pulls away in 12th District race

PAUL COMSTOCK

For The Sun­bury News

With most of the precincts report­ing, incum­bent Pat Tiberi was far out­dis­tanc­ing his oppo­nent Tues­day night in the race for Ohio’s 12th U.S. Con­gres­sional District.

Tiberi was tak­ing 70 per­cent of the votes in Delaware County, 65 per­cent Lick­ing County and 57 per­cent in Franklin County. The dis­trict also includes Mor­row and parts of Mar­ion, Musk­ingum and Rich­land counties.

“I appre­ci­ate the over­whelm­ing sup­port I received from vot­ers today and I look for­ward to serv­ing the new 12th dis­trict with the same enthu­si­asm that I always have,” said Tiberi, a Repub­li­can who lives in Genoa Town­ship. The 12th Dis­trict was cre­ated this year in a redistricting.

As of late Tues­day, it looked like Wash­ing­ton in 2013 will be unchanged from 2012, Tiberi said, with a Repub­li­can major­ity in the House, a Demo­c­ra­tic major­ity in the Sen­ate and Barack Obama in the White House.

This will present chal­lenges, Tiberi said, par­tic­u­larly regard­ing the loom­ing “fis­cal cliff,” when tax cuts and spend­ing cuts are expected to coincide.

The cur­rent polit­i­cal land­scape is “quite frus­trat­ing, I’m not sure what’s going to hap­pen. One thing we haven’t had is pres­i­den­tial lead­er­ship. … The vot­ers will be frus­trated with grid­lock. Some­thing has to be done.”

Dur­ing the cam­paign, he said, “It’s been a plea­sure over these last months to spend time in the new 12th con­gres­sional dis­trict. Whether talk­ing to fac­tory work­ers in Mans­field, farm­ers in Mount Gilead or small busi­ness own­ers in Zanesville, I’ve heard many of the same con­cerns repeated. Peo­ple in cen­tral Ohio want Wash­ing­ton to get seri­ous about job cre­ation and deficit reduc­tion,” he said. “I’m grate­ful for the oppor­tu­nity to return to Wash­ing­ton and get back to work on the crit­i­cal issues we face as a nation. I will con­tinue to fight to reform our tax code, reduce bur­den­some reg­u­la­tions, cut spend­ing and decrease our deficits; all of which will put us on the road to a stronger economy.”

Tiberi defeated Demo­c­rat Jim Reese, a New Albany lawyer.

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