{"id":97961,"date":"2018-01-25T08:26:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T13:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=97961"},"modified":"2018-01-25T08:26:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T13:26:13","slug":"riedel-files-for-re-election-to-house-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/01\/25\/riedel-files-for-re-election-to-house-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Riedel files for re-election to House seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; State Representative Craig S. Riedel (R-Defiance) has announced that he will be seeking re-election to the 82nd Ohio House District in 2018. The 82nd District consists of Defiance, Paulding, and Van Wert counties, as well as the northwest portion of Auglaize County.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_95511\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95511\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95511\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CraigRiedel2-e1510957621518.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"221\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-95511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Craig Riedel<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rep. Riedel recently filed his paperwork with the Defiance County Board of Elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a blessing to represent all of the great people of Ohio\u2019s 82nd House District. During my first term, I voted on every bill in every floor session for all of 2017,\u201d Riedel said. \u201cI take immense pride in traveling around the district to different events in order to understand how to best advocate issues of importance for my constituents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s abundantly clear when you talk with Craig Riedel just how much he cares about his district,&#8221; said Speaker of the Ohio House Clifford A. Rosenberger. &#8220;He&#8217;s stepped up in his first term and tackled issues head on, with a deep passion and respect for the job. I look forward to helping him secure a second term in the Ohio House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Riedel currently serves on four committees: Higher Education and Workforce Development, Ways and Means, Finance, and Armed Services, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining the Ohio House, Representative Riedel worked for Nucor Steel for 27 years, the last 13 years as division sales manager. He and his wife, Danette, have been married for 29 years and have two adult children, Steve and Renee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information COLUMBUS &#8212; State Representative Craig S. Riedel (R-Defiance) has announced that he will be seeking re-election to the 82nd Ohio House District in 2018. The 82nd District consists of Defiance, Paulding, and Van Wert counties, as well as the northwest portion of Auglaize County. Rep. Riedel recently filed his paperwork with the Defiance [&hellip;]<\/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-97961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 13:02:49","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\/97961","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=97961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}