Representative Tristan Rader - District 13

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Tristan Rader (D-Lakewood) today announced that six Cleveland Metropolitan School District schools have been awarded a combined $180,600 through the TeachArtsOhio (TAO) program, which connects students with professional teaching artists for immersive arts education experiences.  

COLUMBUS – State Reps. Eric Synenberg (D-Beachwood) and Tristan Rader (D-Lakewood) this week sent a letter to Governor Mike DeWine urging him to rescind his order to deploy Ohio National Guard troops to Washington, D.C.

COLUMBUS – A bipartisan group of Ohio House members today is calling on the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) to move quickly under the state’s new utility reliability law—working together to hold FirstEnergy accountable for years of chronic outages and to deliver long-overdue improvements using the new enforcement tools in House Bill (HB) 15, which takes effect this week.

The lawmakers sent a letter to PUCO urging immediate use of HB 15’s expanded oversight powers to address chronic service failures across Ohio, with a focus on Western Cuyahoga County communities that have endured repeated outages for years.

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Tristan Rader (D-Lakewood) Wednesday stood in solidarity with Democratic members of the Texas State Senate and dozens of lawmakers from other states in Boston, MA denouncing the undemocratic attempt by Texas Republicans to unfairly redraw the state's congressional maps to favor Republicans candidates ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Rep. Rader is in Boston attending the annual National Conference of State Legislatures.