League of Women Voters of Ohio Education Fund
Hamilton County, OH November 2, 2004 Election
	Terry Weber Answers Questions Candidate for State Representative; District 31

The questions were prepared by the League of Women Voters of Ohio and asked of all candidates for this office.

Read the answers from all candidates.

Questions & Answers

1. What are your qualifications for office?

I have been involved in public administration for the past thirt years at with both state and county government and have learned the way to get things done by cutting through red tape and going around the red tape and over the hierarchy. I have also been involved in the legal profession for 22 years for twenty-two years supervising the Public Defenders Office in the Juvenile Division getting a first hand view of crime.

2. How would you implement your top priority?

We need to attach crime in the home. Go to the lowest level where the children begin to learn it is ok to steal. This is not an issue you begin to address at the ages of eight or nine but at four and five. We also need to hold parents much more accountable for their childrens actions. The excuse that they are only a child is understandable but let's teach them a better and more acceptable way from the beginning.

3. What do you see as the two most pressing issues you would address if elected? What plans do you have relative to those issues?

I believe the two most pressing issues would be jobs and neighborhood safety and I believe they go hand in hand. Both jobs and people are fleeing unsafe neighborhoods. It is possible even practicable to revitalive previously rundown neighorhoods. Allow peopele to become owners of their own property and share in the neighborhoods. As they revive I believe business will also to some extent revive. This can be done without the hugh tax incentives and giveaways sometimes seen.

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