Representative Kristin Boggs - District 18

COLUMBUS— State Representative Kristin Boggs (D-Columbus) Monday announced the state Controlling Board approval of a $25 million direct loan to assist in financing the $42.25 million Columbus Crew soccer stadium concrete project. The funding will also create 28 new full-time jobs and retain 155 existing full-time jobs at the project site.

COLUMBUS— In the dark of night while most Ohioans were sleeping, the Republican Supermajority on three separate occasions utilized the rarely used House Rule 101 to move the previous question, cutting off debate for controversial bills on Stand Your Ground a.k.a Kill at Will, abortion and curbing the power of the public health director. House Democrats had been prepared to offer multiple amendments to the controversial bills and deliver floor speeches that lifted up the voices and concerns of their constituents, but they never got the chance. Also silenced was the radical faction of GOP lawmakers who had floor amendments ready to be offered. 

Months after Republican leadership elected to ignore bipartisan calls for an immediate HB 6 repeal in favor of the creation of a Select Committee to analyze it, House Republicans appear to be resorting back to the deceitful tactics that marked HB 6’s passage in the first place. With as few as two days left in the Lame Duck legislative period, multiple rumors and reports are swirling about a last-ditch Republican effort to push through an agreement that would allow the scandal-tainted energy bailout legislation to take effect as originally passed after a year has elapsed.

Assistant Minority Leader Rep. Kristin Boggs (D-Columbus) today issued a statement as Republicans rejected several Democratic efforts to bring important measures to the House floor, including a Statehouse facemask mandate to protect the health and safety of the public, staff, and elected officials, as well as a proposal to declare racism a public health crisis. Both measures were presented as floor amendments but ruled out of order on the grounds that they were not germane to a SCR 8, a resolution urging Congress to end daylight savings for health and public safety reasons.