Reason # 3 to vote Dansack for District 46 State Rep.

Press Release, November 3 , 2006

For immediate release
Mark Dansack Stands for Change in Ohio, Mark Wagoner protects the status quo.

Beginning October 31, Mark Dansack will be recapping over the next several days the reasons why residents of District 46 will be better served by electing a voice for positive change in Ohio rather than his opponent, who embraces the present "pay to play" dynamics now running rampant in Columbus.

Reason #3, Life experiences

Mark Dansack has long been involved in the Northwest Ohio community. From his early years on, Dansack has been working in his community for positive change. As a teenager, he served as a volunteer athletic coach in his community giving back to his hometown. As a young adult, Dansack became involved in campaigns of Democratic candidates who stood for positive change and also volunteered for the American Heart Association and American Leukemia Society.


Dansack paid his way through college, earning a degree in Engineering and worked for 18 years in manufacturing in Toledo with General Mills, Inc. While at General Mills, while working 50-60 hour weeks, he pursued his Master's degree in Public Administration at the University of Toledo, earning the prestigious McNamara Award in 1996. He completed an internship at the Urban Affairs Center, participating in a landmark study on insurance redlining in the Toledo area with the Fair Housing Center.

In 2001, Dansack learned that General Mills, Inc would cease operations in 2002 as the corporation had become too productive across the country, making necessary the closure of the Toledo Plant.

Dansack comments on the meeting where he and nearly 500 co-workers learned they would lose their jobs, " I looked around at these proud, productive workers who had met every goal the company had set for the previous 24 months, and could see the fear in their eyes that life as they knew it was about to change. Unfortunately, we're seeing more of the same in the Northwest Ohio region, with the Maumee Stamping Plant and ConAgra announcing future closures of their facilities".

"We have the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) at the Federal level to assist these workers in seeking education and training for a new career, but we don't have compatible programs at the state level to complement WIA. One of my goals is to establish programs to help retrain these displaced workers, who have in most cases done nothing wrong, but become too productive, making their positions obsolete".

Dansack moved on after General Mills left town, and has worked an a legal aid with Gallon, Takacs, Boissoneault & Schaffer for the past three years. In working with workers compensation clients of limited means , Dansack is reminded every day of the failures of the broken system the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation has become.

"What was begun as an insurance system to protect the rights of injured workers has become a mass of bureaucratic red tape that often finds injured workers waiting weeks and even months to get basic treatment and testing they need to get better. The system is broken, and my opponent voted for Senate Bill 7, which is basically a bandaid on a surgical wound. I have called for a complete overhaul of the system, as it is simply not working for Ohioans and results in the waste of billions of taxpayer dollars".

Dansack is also concerned about school funding, as he is well aware of the Ohio Supreme Court decision that the way we fund our schools in Ohio is unconstitutional. "Ted Strickland is on record for wanting to address this dilemma and I will support our next Governor to tackle this situation that the current administration and legislature hasn't had the courage to confront. My opponent supports the status quo for education funding".

Dansack and his wife, Heather, are the parents of two young daughters and they are concerned about the cost of higher education in Ohio. "We're pricing our children out of a college education in Ohio, and we need to make education a priority that it hasn't been in Ohio in the past 16 years".

"I bring a wealth of experiences to the table that cannot be taught in a classroom. I have empathy for citizens who are going through similar situations as I have and can better understand the plight of displaced workers at Ford, ConAgra and elsewhere, because I've lived it. Hopefully, this insight will enable me to work toward solutions that work for these hard-working men and women as they re-establish themselves in the workforce".

Mark Dansack will be a voice for positive change in Ohio as he understands the plight and challenges of middle class citizens in District 46. By comparison, Dansack's opponent is a lawyer and a first-term state representative who can't even tell the truth in his campaign advertisements.

Residents of District 46, the choice is simple. Elect a representative whose real life experiences will assist him in formulating policies that work for middle class Ohioans, who want nothing more than the opportunity to pursue the American Dream for themselves and their children. Or re-elect a first term legislator who surely is sufficiently ambitious, but whose ambition has overwhelmed his integrity as he conducts his campaign for re-election.