Rep. Pat Tiberi (R) Elected 2000, 2d term
Born:	Oct. 21, 1962, Columbus
Home:	Columbus
Education:	OH St. U., B.A. 1985
Religion:	Catholic
Marital Status:	married (Denice)
Elected  Office:	OH House of Reps., 1992-2000, Maj. Ldr., 1999-2000.
Professional Career:	Staff asst., U.S. Rep. John Kasich, 1984-92; Realtor, ReMax Achievers, 1995-2000.
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Columbus is on the verge of becoming a major metropolis. With city limits stretching toward farmland at each point of the compass, the central city of Columbus had 711,000 people in 2000, far more than Cleveland (478,000) or Cincinnati (331,000). The metropolitan area, though less populous than Cleveland and a bit smaller than Cincinnati, is growing much more rapidly; Columbus's Franklin County passed the 1 million mark in the 1990s. Columbus is centrally located, not only in the center of Ohio, but a one-day truck drive from more than one-half of the nation's population. With its growing jobs base, Columbus was the only one of the 15 largest cities in Ohio to gain population in the 1990s. It has the advantages of being a state capital, the home of Ohio State University, and a major white-collar employment town: It is the home of The Limited's Leslie Wexner, of Nationwide Insurance and AEP. Columbus likes to brag that its airfreight operations at Port Columbus, the airport, make it the largest in the country dedicated to cargo. This economic base and civic infrastructure have attracted the kind of upscale, enterprising people who have produced much of America's growth in recent years. The politics of Columbus have traditionally been Republican. It had few of the eastern European immigrants and CIO unions that made Cleveland so Democratic. But in 1999 Columbus elected a Democratic mayor, Michael Coleman, and in 2000 Franklin County was carried, though just barely, by Al Gore. The counties that ring Franklin County, however, are heavily Republican.

The 12th Congressional District is one of two districts dominated by Columbus. It includes most of the east side of the city, the affluent suburb of Bexley, home of the Governor's Mansion, and the northeastern suburbs in Franklin County. It also includes Delaware County directly north of Columbus, Ohio's fastest-growing county in the 1990s, and most of Licking County east of Columbus, including the small industrial town of Newark and the lovely college town of Granville.

The congressman from the 12th District is Pat Tiberi, a Republican elected in 2000. The son of Italian immigrants, he grew up in Columbus and graduated from Ohio State. He worked as a real estate agent and was for eight years an assistant to Congressman John Kasich, who helped Tiberi win in 1992, at age 30, a seat in the state House. He became majority leader and supported business-friendly legislation and changes in tort law. In 1999 Kasich announced his retirement, after a brief run for the presidency and six years as chairman of the Budget Committee.

Tiberi won support to replace his mentor from most of the Republican establishment plus the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He faced a noisy but not very effective primary challenge from state Senator Gene Watts, who sought to rally the conservative base. Tiberi won 73%-21%. The resounding victory gave him a big boost heading into the general election against Maryellen O'Shaughnessy, a Columbus city council member. She told her personal story as the single mother of a 10-year-old son and set out differences with Tiberi on prescription drug benefits, campaign finance, taxes and Social Security. Tiberi played up his Columbus roots and his membership in the Ohio State marching band and attacked O'Shaughnessy for the negative Democratic party ads that labeled him as the defender of insurance companies on prescription drugs. He called for drug coverage as part of a broader overhaul of Medicare, a theme long voiced by Kasich. This was one of the most-watched House races in the nation; with campaign help from Kasich, who retained his local popularity, Tiberi won 53%-44%, running 2% ahead of George W. Bush. O'Shaughnessy won Franklin County 51%-46%. But Tiberi won 66%-31% in outlying Delaware and Licking Counties.

In the House, Tiberi's record has been solidly conservative on economic and cultural issues but more centrist on foreign and defense policy. He won House approval of an amendment to increase flexibility for local school districts in exchange for better student performance. He joined activist Republicans pushing to increase George W. Bush's tax cut above his original $1.6 trillion. He later called for scrapping the income tax code and creating a national commission to craft a new tax system by 2006. He called for lifting the embargo of Cuba. Like Kasich, he criticized the way the Appropriations Committee does business, and sought unsuccessfully to change House Republican rules to make it easier for the speaker to remove appropriators who signed a discharge petition.

In 2002 O'Shaughnessy decided to run for county commissioner, and Tiberi won reelection 64%-36%.

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113 CHOB 20515, 202-225-5355; Fax: 202-226-4523; Web site: www.house.gov/tiberi

State Offices
Columbus, 614-523-2555.

Committees

• Education & the Workforce (16th of 27 R): 21st Century Competitiveness; Employer-Employee Relations.
• Financial Services (28th of 37 R): Capital Markets, Insurance & Government Sponsored Enterprises; Financial Institutions & Consumer Credit; Housing & Community Opportunity.

Group Ratings (More Info)
	ADA	ACLU	AFS	LCV	CON	ITIC	NTU	COC	ACU	NTLC	CHC
2002	0	13	0	25	87	100	62	100	96	89	100
2001	0	--	0	0	--	--	68	100	92	--	--

National Journal Ratings (More Info)
	2001 LIB	--	2001 CONS		2002 LIB	--	2002 CONS
Economic	0%	--	94%		0%	--	91%
Social	0%	--	81%		0%	--	75%
Foreign	41%	--	58%		46%	--	53%
For National Journal's complete 2002 Vote Ratings, as well as previous ratings dating back to 1995, please click here.

Key Votes Of The 107th Congress (More Info)
1. Approve Bush Tax Cuts Y 2. Limit Patients' Bill of Rights Y 3. Campaign Finance Reform N 4. Ban ANWR Development N 5. Faith-Based Charities Y 6. Bar Gays in the Boy Scouts Y		7. Ban Partial-Birth Abortion Y  8. Arm Commercial Pilots Y  9. Trade Promotion Authority Y 10. Bar Funds for Intl. Court Y 11. Authorize Force in Iraq Y 12. Deny Home. Sec. Dept. Union Y

Election Results (More Info)
	Candidate	Total Votes	Percent	Expenditures
2002 general	Pat Tiberi (R)	116,982	64%	$777,343
	Edward Brown (D)	64,707	36%	$41,214
2002 primary	Pat Tiberi (R)	unopposed
2000 general	Pat Tiberi (R)	139,242	53%	$2,349,872
	Maryellen O'Shaughnessy (D)	115,432	44%	$1,340,688
	Other	8,712	3%

2000 presidential
	Bush (R)	129,840	51%
	Gore (D)	115,083	46%
	Other	7,340	3%
For 1992 and 1996 presidential results in the Twelfth District, please see the Almanac 2000 online. Please note that these older returns reflect district lines as they existed prior to 2002 redistricting.

• Cook Partisan Voting Index: R + 3
• District Size: 1,031 square miles
• Population in 2000: 630,730; 88.1% urban; 11.9% rural
• Median Household Income: $47,289; 10.0% are below the poverty line
• Occupation: 18.0% blue collar; 68.4% white collar; 13.6% gray collar; 12.5% military veterans
• Race/Ethnic Origin: 72.1% White, 21.7% Black, 2.1% Asian, 0.2% Amer. Indian, 0.0% Hawaiian, 1.9% Two+ races, 0.2% Other, 1.7% Hispanic origin
• Ancestry: 16.8% German, 9.3% Irish, 7.5% English
• Click here for statewide demographic data.