Linda Reidelbach [SEP] position held
Linda Reidelbach
Linda Reidelbach (born April 1, 1949) is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, who served six years.
Reidelbach was a talk show host for Christian radio when she started her political career in 1992. She entered the race for Ohio's 15th congressional district as an independent against the Republican Deborah Pryce and the Democrat Richard Cordray, gaining 18 percent of the vote. In 1997, she ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Columbus City Council. In 2000, she won the seat
78–22%) margin, following the withdrawal of another candidate, Dave Sommer. Cordray's platform included federal spending cuts, term limits for Congress and a line-item veto for the president. When Deborah Pryce, then a Franklin County municipal judge, announced that she would vote to support abortion rights, Linda S. Reidelbach entered the race as an independent. Thus the general election was a three-way affair, with Pryce taking a plurality of 110,390 votes (44.1%), Cordray 94,907 (37.9%) and Reidelbach