2012 Campaign Summary

Petition Signature Count: (To Date) Required valid signatures will be up from the 1,675 needed in 2006. The Hamilton County Board of election web pages indicate a total of ........ votes were cast in OH1 in 2006, a Gubernatorial Election Year. The valid signatures required in 2008 are equal to 1% of the total votes cast in OH 1 in 2006, or ......  The petition deadline date will probably move from May 2008 to an earlier March 2008 date because 2008 is a presidential election year. The petition deadline is at 4pm the day before the Presidential primary election date. The primary was in march in 2004, the last presidential election year.

We may have just over one year, 365 days, to complete the petition. that is 5 valid signatures per day if we start today, 02-04-07, say 10 total signatures per day starting this month.

A later May 2008 petition deadline date would only change the daily number of signatures needed by 1-2 valid signatures per day.

Questions: dist1oh@cs2pr.us

2012 Money Raising Goals: During the 2000 campaign, a few voters gave $25 to $27 and they were my top contributors. My 2012 campaign will be run on the same basis. The goal is to raise $5,000 in $5 to $50 contributions from District One voters by March 2012. The campaign will raise an additional $50,000 to be used mostly for print and radio broadcast ads. For example, an ad in City Beat will cost up to $2665 for thirty weekly ads leading up to election day. City Beat will have at least one ad per month beginning in January 2012. Research on other ad costs in print media, radio, TV, and billboards have been completed. At this point placement of TV ads seems unlikely. A lot of the campaign will be based on 120,000 flyers, and asking for the vote of voters face to face on Election Day. Direct democracy campaign participants, at the polls on Election Day, and knocking on doors, will be be a large part of the campaign.

2008 Election: In 2000, some one-time print ads were bought in City Beat, The Cincinnati Herald, and a west side weekly owned by a Democrat. The total estimated ad circulation was 85,000, which might have been seen by some voters. Not a lot of exposure, but I know, from being at three precincts on election day, of several votes which came from the ad. My decision to be on the ballot in 2002, I was not, to be a write-in in 2004, to be on the ballot in 2006, and to be on the ballot in 2008, comes in great part from the very positive response of voters at the polls in 2000. 80% of the people I talked to voted for me. My votes were from all segments of our population. Voters want to have non-partisan independent candidates they can believe in to represent them. I have the integrity they seek. All of my campaign money comes from citizens who can legally vote for me in the election. There may be a few $2,000 individual contributions from persons who are not eligible to vote in District One in the 2012 election. Any such individual contributor will be publicly named and shown as individual endorsements for the 2012 THRO campaign.

Can you contribute 2 or 3 hours on Election Day to hand a flyer to each voter who comes to vote on Election Day. We can win with just 4 out of 10 votes.

I Pledge to be Self Term-Limited to Two Terms in Office: Four Years

RICH STEVENSON, dist1oh@cs2pr.us