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ELECTION '94

Franklin County offices

Numbered answers are in response to the candidate survey questions below. Many judicial candidates declined to answer these, saying that ethics did not allow them to. Personal profiles, following the survey answers, are condensed from material supplied by the candidates. Candidates marked ★ are endorsed by the Chronicle.

County Auditor

Patrick J. O'Reilly

1. Yes

2. Yes, and I oppose discrimination in any form.

3. Yes

4. Generally, I support school-based programs to prepare and assist our youth in dealing with societal problems and challenges. My support would be dependant upon the specific programs proposed.

5. Yes, because it again is simply another form of discrimination.

O'Reilly is a certified public accountant, currently a sole-practitioner serving clients in the non-profit, governmental and real estate industries. He is the Vice-Chairman and Treasurer of the Accountancy Board of Ohio. Mr. O'Reilly formerly was a partner in the international CPA firm of Deloitte & Touche. His audit experience covers 28 years and he has served for many years on the advisory committee to Auditor of State Thomas Ferguson.

Joe Testa did not return a survey or profile.

Court of Common Pleas

John P. Bessey said in a letter to the Chronicle, "I have an established reputation for patience and fairness. A person's sexual orientation has never played a part in my assessment of their character or my administration of the law." [Endorsed by Stonewall PAC.]

Rita Eppler is a graduate of Ohio State University and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University. She has defended habeas corpus actions brought by state prisoners challenging the legality of their convictions, and is active in numerous community and religious organizations. Her husband David is a mathematics professor at OSU. They have a two year old daughter. [Endorsed by Stonewall PAC.]

David L. Johnson was elected to the Court of Common Pleas in 1988, and is seeking re-election. He has been endorsed by the Fraternal Order of Police, and the Columbus Bar Association has termed him "highly recommended."

Johnson has been married 40 years. He and his wife, Sharon, have four children and five grandchildren.

★ Ronald L. Solove has been a Franklin County judge since January, 1987. His juris-

diction includes both domestic relations and juvenile matters. He was the first judge in Franklin County to provide a protection order for domestic violence between a same-sex couple. He has also held that sexual orientation cannot be the determining factor in a child custody dispute, and has approved the placement of a gay teenager with a gay couple as an appropriate foster family. Judge Solove received his law degree from Ohio State University, where he served

Solove

as editor-in-chief of the Ohio State Law Journal. ["Highly recommended" by Stonewall PAC.]

David E. Cain has resolved thousands of cases in his seven years as Franklin County judge. He has been an attorney for 20 years, practicing in the law firms of Zonak, Poulos & Cain, and Schwenker & Cloud. A former Columbus city council member, he is also a former comments editor of the Capital University Law Review. He is "highly recommended" by the Judicial Screening Committee of the Columbus Bar Association. John S. Marshall

1. Yes

2. Yes

3. Judicial candidates are prohibited from taking positions on political issues. 4. See above

5. See above

Marshall wrote in an answer to a Stonewall PAC questionaire that he actively sought the support of the lesbian, gay and bisexual community. He also answered that, "Anyone who makes a statement in court which was homophobic, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, racist, sexist or otherwise offensive, would be first talked to privately and directed never to do so again, and why. If punitive measures were necessary, thereafter, they would be imposed." [Endorsed by Stonewall PAC.] Court of Common Pleas, Domestic Relations

Kay Lias has served as Administrative Judge of the court for two years and has been responsible for many innovative programs in those two years.

Lias has resided in Franklin County for over twenty years and is active in the community. She has been a lecturer on domestic relations issues for many community and legal organizations and serves on committees for the State, Supreme Court, Judicial College and Franklin County. [Endorsed by Stonewall PAC.]

Carole Squire's seventeen-year legal career has been devoted to problems of families in crisis. She has extensive professional and practical experience with abuse, neglect, dependency, delinquency and domestic relations matters. She is endorsed by the AFLCIO, Concerned Black Citizens, and the Franklin County Democratic Party, among others.

Susan Brown is a lawyer with Edward F. Whipps & Associates of Columbus and currently serves as the Commissioner of the Ohio Court of Claims. She was born in Zanesville, Ohio in 1952 and is married with one child.

In a letter to the Chronicle, Brown said, "My experience as a flight attendant, where well over one-half of my male co-workers were members of the gay community, gave me great insight into the problems and concerns of the gay and lesbian communities." George W. Twyford

1. Yes I have many friends and some relatives who are lesbian and gay.

2. Yes and I have always worked to eliminate any such discrimination.

3. Yes I support it.

4. I favor programs and counseling in the schools to assist all youth-regardless of their sexual orientation-with positive development and self-esteem.

5. Yes

Twyford has been a judge in Domestic Relations Court for 18 years. He also has been a private practitioner in Domestic Relations for six years, and in Domestic Relations Court for nine years. [Endorsed by Stonewall PAC.]

Survey questions

These are the questions sent to candidates by the Chronicle.

1. Do you personally know any lesbians or gay men?

2. Do you believe that gays and lesbians face discrimination, including, but not limited to, employment, housing, violence and legal issues?

3. Are you supportive of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), now before Congress, that will protect lesbians and gays from workplace discrimination? 4. Do you favor school-based programs and support for lesbians and gay youth? 5. Are you willing to fight "Project Spotlight," aradical right project to target, and keep from elected office, gay-friendly officals?