{"id":965,"date":"2024-10-15T16:01:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T16:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/statelocalgov\/?post_type=chapter&p=965"},"modified":"2024-10-21T00:00:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T00:00:40","slug":"9-5-case-study-clevelands-own-governor-and-later-u-s-senator-george-voinovich","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/statelocalgov\/chapter\/9-5-case-study-clevelands-own-governor-and-later-u-s-senator-george-voinovich\/","title":{"rendered":"9.5 Case Study: Cleveland\u2019s Own Governor (and Later U.S. Senator) George Voinovich"},"content":{"raw":"
\r\n\r\n\"A\r\n\r\nGeorge Voinovich (Republican) was Governor from 1991 to 1998.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\n\r\nFirst as mayor of Cleveland, he was credited with restoring financial health to Cleveland after the city went into default under his mayoral predecessor. A plainspoken man with a disarming grin and support from the city\u2019s business establishment, he helped ignite the downtown building boom of the 1980s that would give Cleveland the moniker \u201cComeback City.\u201d\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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\r\n\r\nWatch this interview from the Teaching Cleveland project in 2014:\u00a0<\/em>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\n\r\nYouTube URL: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ihpqx3pLVgI<\/a>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\n\r\nDuration: 10:20\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

As governor, he balanced another difficult set of books by making choices that pleased neither his critics on the left - for cuts in child day care and flat spending on school busing for desegregation - and on the right, for advocating tax increases.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\n\r\nHe was an overwhelmingly popular governor, with job approval ratings between 60 percent and 70 percent. He managed to maintain an aura of control during a deadly prison riot at Lucasville in 1993 by not grandstanding for the cameras, and won reelection in 1994 with a stunning 72 percent of the vote.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\n\r\nWhen he moved into the governor\u2019s mansion, the state was facing massive debt; by the time he left, it had nearly $1 billion in its \u201crainy day\u201d fund and the Ohio Turnpike was undergoing a major expansion. His mantra was \"Work harder and smarter and do more with less,\" and he held budget growth to its lowest in three decades.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\n\r\nFollowing his two terms in Columbus, he was elected to the U.S. Senate where he served from 1999 to 2011.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\n\r\nVoinovich was born to parents of Serbian and Slovenian heritage in Cleveland\u2019s Collinwood neighborhood, a working-class enclave with deep ethnic roots. A devout Catholic who attended Mass several times a week, Voinovich said he used prayer to help guide him in difficult or painful decisions. His goal, he had said, was \u201cto witness and to make people feel good.\u201d\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\n\r\nAfter retiring from the U.S. Senate, George Voinovich joined CSU as a senior fellow in the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs. In this role, he served as a key advisor for CSU\u2019s efforts to engage and support the broader Cleveland community, and he played an active part in developing major new community service initiatives at the university.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\n\r\nWhile at CSU, he authored the book Empowering the Public-Private Partnership: The Future of America\u2019s Local Government<\/a><\/em>, which draws on his success in revitalizing parts of Cleveland in the 1980s.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\n\r\nMuch of the text in the above bio is quoted directly from Senator Voinovich\u2019s obituary. See below for more details:<\/em>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\n\r\nCleveland Plain Dealer. 2016. \u201cGeorge Voinovich, Former Cleveland Mayor, Ohio Governor and U.S. Senator, Dies.\u201d Jun. 16. https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/metro\/2016\/06\/george_voinovich.html<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\n\r\nAdditional Reference<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
\r\n\r\nCleveland State University. 2016. CSU Mourns the Passing of George Voinovich. https:\/\/www.csuohio.edu\/news\/csu-mourns-passing-george-voinovich<\/a>\r\n\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"
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George Voinovich (Republican) was Governor from 1991 to 1998.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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First as mayor of Cleveland, he was credited with restoring financial health to Cleveland after the city went into default under his mayoral predecessor. A plainspoken man with a disarming grin and support from the city\u2019s business establishment, he helped ignite the downtown building boom of the 1980s that would give Cleveland the moniker \u201cComeback City.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Watch this interview from the Teaching Cleveland project in 2014:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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YouTube URL: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ihpqx3pLVgI<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Duration: 10:20<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

As governor, he balanced another difficult set of books by making choices that pleased neither his critics on the left – for cuts in child day care and flat spending on school busing for desegregation – and on the right, for advocating tax increases.<\/p>\n

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He was an overwhelmingly popular governor, with job approval ratings between 60 percent and 70 percent. He managed to maintain an aura of control during a deadly prison riot at Lucasville in 1993 by not grandstanding for the cameras, and won reelection in 1994 with a stunning 72 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When he moved into the governor\u2019s mansion, the state was facing massive debt; by the time he left, it had nearly $1 billion in its \u201crainy day\u201d fund and the Ohio Turnpike was undergoing a major expansion. His mantra was “Work harder and smarter and do more with less,” and he held budget growth to its lowest in three decades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Following his two terms in Columbus, he was elected to the U.S. Senate where he served from 1999 to 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Voinovich was born to parents of Serbian and Slovenian heritage in Cleveland\u2019s Collinwood neighborhood, a working-class enclave with deep ethnic roots. A devout Catholic who attended Mass several times a week, Voinovich said he used prayer to help guide him in difficult or painful decisions. His goal, he had said, was \u201cto witness and to make people feel good.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After retiring from the U.S. Senate, George Voinovich joined CSU as a senior fellow in the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs. In this role, he served as a key advisor for CSU\u2019s efforts to engage and support the broader Cleveland community, and he played an active part in developing major new community service initiatives at the university.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While at CSU, he authored the book Empowering the Public-Private Partnership: The Future of America\u2019s Local Government<\/a><\/em>, which draws on his success in revitalizing parts of Cleveland in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Much of the text in the above bio is quoted directly from Senator Voinovich\u2019s obituary. See below for more details:<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cleveland Plain Dealer. 2016. \u201cGeorge Voinovich, Former Cleveland Mayor, Ohio Governor and U.S. Senator, Dies.\u201d Jun. 16. https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/metro\/2016\/06\/george_voinovich.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Additional Reference<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cleveland State University. 2016. CSU Mourns the Passing of George Voinovich. https:\/\/www.csuohio.edu\/news\/csu-mourns-passing-george-voinovich<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-965","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":50,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/statelocalgov\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/statelocalgov\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/statelocalgov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/statelocalgov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/statelocalgov\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/statelocalgov\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/965\/revisions\/1478"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/statelocalgov\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/50"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/statelocalgov\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/965\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/statelocalgov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/statelocalgov\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/statelocalgov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/statelocalgov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}