{"id":107595,"date":"2018-09-26T09:10:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T14:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=107595"},"modified":"2018-09-27T08:32:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T13:32:50","slug":"fran-dewine-stumps-for-husband-in-van-wert-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/09\/26\/fran-dewine-stumps-for-husband-in-van-wert-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran DeWine stumps for husband in VW"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n

Fran DeWine saved the best for, well, next to last, as she completed her campaign tour of Ohio\u2019s 88 counties on Tuesday with a stop in Van Wert and Allen counties.<\/p>\n

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Fran DeWine (left), wife of Ohio Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Mike DeWine, chats with Van Wert County Recorder Kim Hughes during a visit at the Courthouse on Tuesday.<\/strong> Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mrs. DeWine, wife of Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike DeWine, toured the Van Wert County Courthouse in her 87th county visit (neighboring Allen County was her final stop), and met with local Republicans, including County Commissioner and Republican Central Committee Chairman Thad Lichtensteiger, County Prosecutor Eva Yarger, Recorder Kim Hughes, Clerk of Courts Cindy Mollenkopf, Common Pleas Judge Martin Burchfield and recently appointed County Treasurer Nathan Vandenbroek.<\/p>\n

Mrs. DeWine, who sported a campaign button that said \u201cI Like Mike DeWine\u201d with the \u201clike\u201d crossed out and \u201clove\u201d added in its place, noted that, in addition to spreading her husband\u2019s campaign message, she does different things in each county she visits.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes I go to a courthouse, like this; sometimes I go to homeless shelters or public libraries in inner cities,\u201d she noted. \u201cI\u2019ve been to most of Ohio\u2019s children\u2019s hospitals.\u201d<\/p>\n

While at the hospitals, DeWine noted that she saw what was being done for babies whose mothers were addicted to drugs while they were pregnant, noting that her husband has focused on the drug epidemic in his current position as Ohio\u2019s attorney general.<\/p>\n

\u201cActually, the easiest and cheapest thing we can do, and something we\u2019re not doing now, is educational prevention,\u201d Mrs. DeWine said of an initiative her husband has stated he\u2019d like to see in Ohio\u2019s schools.<\/p>\n

The program, as DeWine has promoted it, would work to help all children made better decisions about drugs and other issues, and would be a K-12 program, unlike the DARE program, which is only usually taught to students in just one or two grades.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaces where this has been done, programs where this has been done have been very successful,\u201d Mrs. DeWine noted.<\/p>\n

Fran DeWine is definitely the person to talk about her husband, since the two first met in first grade and were high school sweethearts. The couple has eight children, although one died in an automobile accident in 1993.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor most of my life, almost all of my life, he\u2019s been my best friend and my partner,\u201d she told those who gathered at the Courthouse.<\/p>\n

In talking about Mike DeWine\u2019s drug initiatives, Mrs. DeWine noted that her husband worked hard to cut the delay in drug testing by his office\u2019s Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation labs from 123 days down to about 21 days on average.<\/p>\n

He also worked with statewide law enforcement agencies to cut down the backlog of untested rape kits.<\/p>\n

Mrs. DeWine also talked about her husband\u2019s opposition to State Issue 1, which would downgrade drug possession charges from felony offense to misdemeanors.<\/p>\n

She said the issue, if passed, could severely affect Ohio\u2019s drug courts, since it takes away the \u201cstick\u201d of prison time judges now use with drug users to get them to go to treatment programs. Mrs. DeWine said she feels passing the issue would also bring more drug dealers into the state, since drug possession is still a felony offense in neighboring states such as Indiana and Kentucky.<\/p>\n

Mrs. DeWine also talked about workforce development and her husband\u2019s plan to provide more resources to the state\u2019s vocational schools, noting that there are plenty of jobs available in the state, but that employers are having trouble getting employees who can pass a drug test and who have the needed skillset.<\/p>\n

Also Tuesday, Mrs. DeWine was also distributing the traditional campaign cookbooks she developed during her husband\u2019s earliest political campaigns. This version, which she compiled with Tina Husted, wife of her husband\u2019s running mate, John Husted, is her 14th edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor Fran DeWine saved the best for, well, next to last, as she completed her campaign tour of Ohio\u2019s 88 counties on Tuesday with a stop in Van Wert and Allen counties. Mrs. DeWine, wife of Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike DeWine, toured the Van Wert County Courthouse in her 87th county visit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 17:20:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}