Mary Jo Kilroy
Mary Jo Kilroy | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 15th district | |
In office January 3, 2009 – January 3, 2011 | |
Preceded by | Deborah Pryce |
Succeeded by | Steve Stivers |
Member of the Franklin County Board of Commissioners | |
In office January 3, 2001 – January 3, 2009 President: 2005–2007 | |
Preceded by | Dorothy Teater |
Succeeded by | John O'Grady |
Personal details | |
Born | Euclid, Ohio, U.S. | April 30, 1949
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | Robert Handelman |
Education | Cleveland State University (BA) Ohio State University (JD) |
Mary Jo Kilroy (born April 30, 1949) is an American attorney and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 15th congressional district from 2009 until 2011. She is a member of the Democratic Party from Ohio. She was defeated in her November 2, 2010 re-election bid. In 2012, she ran in the newly redrawn, Columbus-based 3rd congressional district but lost in the primary.[1]
She is an attorney and a former two-term County Commissioner of Franklin County, Ohio, which includes the capital city of Columbus and some of its surrounding suburban and rural areas. Previously, she served two four-year terms on the Columbus School Board after working in private practice.
In both the
Early life, education, and legal career
Born in
Prior to practicing law as a
Local politics
In 1991, she ran for an eighteen-person contest for four Columbus School Board seats on a platform that included proposing to lengthen the scholastic day from six and a half hours to eight.[7] Kilroy was one of four candidates to receive the endorsement of the Franklin County Democratic Party.[5] On November 5, 1991, she placed behind incumbent Columbus School Board President, Sharlene Morgan, natural resources expert Robert Teater, past board member Bill Moss, which made her the fourth among the eighteen candidates and the final elected member.[8]
By her second year on the seven-member board, she was a unanimous selection to be second in command as Columbus School Board Vice President.
Still on the school board, she resumed her vice presidency on January 5, 1998.[14] She ascended to the Columbus School Board President position for her eighth year of service to the board on January 4, 1999.[15][16] During this eighth year, she decided not to run for re-election to a third term in order to spend more time with her family.[17]
On January 6, 2000, she won one of the Franklin County Democratic Party's two nominations for one of two seats to the three-member Board of County Commissioners.
Governing magazine named Franklin County as being among the five best-managed counties in the country during Kilroy's tenure. Also, Kilroy was named the Public Official of the Year by the Central Ohio Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers as a result of her role in creating the Columbus/Franklin County Affordable Housing Trust.[3] Her term as commissioner was not without controversy, however. Kilroy came under fire during the awarding of contracts for the construction of Huntington Park because the lowest bid for the concrete was rejected in favor of a higher bid by a union shop.[28] Eventually, the issue went to court and the commissioners decided to award the contract to the low bidder. She lost the 2006 race for U.S. Representative from Ohio's 15th congressional district to Deborah Pryce, 50.2%–49.7%.[29]
U.S. House of Representatives
Elections
- 2006
Franklin County, which has elected Kilroy twice, makes up 87% of the 15th Congressional district.
Kilroy made an issue of Pryce's knowledge of the Foley scandal and the need for Hastert to resign.
Two debates were held for this race during the 2006 election cycle. The first took place September 18,[46] and the second was on October 12.[47][48] In the first debate Kilroy and incumbent U.S. Representative, Pryce discussed the war in Iraq, the War on Terror, taxes, social security, the federal deficit and President Bush. In the final week before the election, Pryce attempted to demand another debate.[49]
The second debate was marked by a more heated exchange on behalf of both participants. Kilroy referred to Pryce as a "right-wing apologist" and said that "Deborah Pryce continues to distort my record."[48] Meanwhile, Pryce described her opponent as a "far left fringe Democrat" and said that Kilroy "spews lies and misinformation."[48] The debate was attended by 400 people at the Ohio State University Fawcett Center and reporters from as far away as Ireland.
After regular ballots were counted, Pryce led Kilroy by over 3,500 votes with about 19,000 provisional ballots outstanding.[50][51][52] The Franklin county absentee and provisional ballots were not counted until approximately two weeks after the election.[53][54] On Monday November 27, nearly three weeks after Election Day, Pryce was declared the winner by a 1,054 vote margin that mandated a recount.[55] After two recounts and all of the votes were counted, Congresswoman Deborah Pryce (R) prevailed over Democratic challenger Mary Jo Kilroy. The Franklin County Board of Elections announced the results Monday morning December 11, 2006. Pryce (R) gained 25 votes and Kilroy (D) gained 18 votes in the recount of votes in Franklin, Union, and Madison Counties in Ohio. Pryce won with 50.20% of the vote by a 110,739–109,677 margin.[29][56] Kilroy felt her campaign was slowed by the early candidacy of fellow Franklin County Commissioner Paula Brooks, who eventually withdrew. Immediately after losing in 2006, she announced she would recontest the seat in 2008.[57]
- 2008
Candidate | Votes | Percentage |
---|---|---|
Kilroy | 139,582 | 45.94 |
Stivers | 137,271 | 45.18 |
Noble | 14,061 | 4.63 |
Eckhart | 12,915 | 4.25 |
Write-in | 6 | 0 |
In August 2007, incumbent Pryce announced her retirement at the end of her elected term.[59][60] The Democrats felt that the seat continued to be vulnerable.[61] Kilroy announced her intention to again seek the 15th District seat in 2008. She ran against Republican Steve Stivers, a state senator from the 16th District, Libertarian Mark M. Noble, and Independent candidate Don Elijah Eckhart.[62] The race was considered to be one of the most important U.S. House of Representatives races to watch in the country.[62][63] The last Democrat to hold the 15th district was Robert T. Secrest in the mid-1960s, but with Republican voters moving out of the district into the northern suburbs of Columbus, Ohio since the 1990s, the district became more evenly matched.[62]
In April 2008, the Sierra Club again endorsed Kilroy's candidacy due to her history of environmental advocacy and Stivers' contributions from energy and tobacco companies.[64] During the campaign, Kilroy linked Stivers to big business, bank lobbyists, predatory lending and the financial crisis. Stivers countered by linking Kilroy to liberal media and influence peddling.[62]
Stivers led Kilroy by a 129,852–129,703 margin with 100% of the Election Day precincts counted, but before the provisional ballots were counted.[65][66] On November 25, 2008, Madison and Union counties concluded their absentee, military, and provisional ballot counting and Stivers claimed a net gain resulting in a 594-vote lead. On December 5, 2008, Stivers' supporters won a ruling in the Ohio Supreme Court that the 1,000 provisional ballots that lacked signatures or had names and signatures in the wrong places be thrown out. On December 7, 2008, Franklin County Election Canvassers completed their final ballot count, which included absentee, military, and provisional ballots received within ten days of Election Day, giving Kilroy a victory margin of 2,311 votes over Stivers. This margin exceeds the automatic recount margin of 0.5%. Stivers conceded the race to Kilroy later on Sunday.[67][68][69] The late ballots that weighed on the election were of three types: military and overseas absentee ballots postmarked by the time the polls closed Tuesday November 4 and received by November 14; domestic absentee ballots postmarked by Monday November 3 that are received by November 14; absentee ballots with errors that voters correct by November 14.[70]
Kilroy became the first Democrat to represent the district in 42 years (since Secrest).[62] She is only the second Democrat to represent a significant portion of Columbus since 1967. The last Democrat to represent the city, Bob Shamansky, represented the neighboring 12th District from 1981 to 1983.
- 2010
In June 2009, Stivers announced his candidacy for a rematch in 2010. According to an
Tenure
Congresswoman Kilroy introduced legislation including a bill to start a three-year pilot program to lend $20 million per year to small businesses (HR5322) and introduced an amendment to assign liability to credit reporting agencies which passed.[78][79] She voted with the Democratic majority for the federal stimulus package,[80] the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009,[81] the cap and trade carbon emissions legislation,[82] and the federal health insurance reform legislation.[83]
Kilroy helped shape the Congressional Bill on
Committee assignments
- Committee on Financial Services[86]
- Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government-Sponsored Enterprises
- Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity
- Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
- Committee on Homeland Security[87]
- Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology
- Subcommittee on Management, Investigations, and Oversight
Caucus membership
2012 congressional election
Kilroy ran in the newly redrawn, Columbus-based Ohio's 3rd congressional district in 2012. Despite being endorsed by House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, she lost the Democratic primary to former state representative Joyce Beatty, who defeated Kilroy, Tyson, and Celeste 38%-35%-15%-12%.[88] Kilroy lost a 2014 election for Franklin County Court of Appeals.[89]
Personal life
Mary Jo Kilroy currently resides in the
See also
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External links
- Mary Jo Kilroy for Franklin County Court of Appeals Archived 2020-09-20 at the Wayback Machine official campaign site
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
- Profile at Vote Smart
- Profile at SourceWatch
- Mary Jo Kilroy at U.S. News & World Report