“If somebody comes to their door, that’s somebody in their community and somebody that has the gumption and the will and the commitment to say ‘this has been going on for a while, you should pay attention to this and here is the case I’m making to you personally,’” Cordray said urging the volunteers to keep knocking on doors and making phone calls.
Cordray is facing current Ohio Attorney General and Republican candidate Mike DeWine. Polls show the two are neck-neck heading into Tuesday’s election.
MORE: DeWine has spent the last week traveling Ohio on a final bus tour.
Also at the event Amanda Finfrock, a candidate for Ohio’s 79th District house seat; Seth Evans, Clark County Commission candidate; and Ann Gorman, a candidate for Ohio’s 74th District house seat.
Democratic candidates, including U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, are scheduled to attend a rally at City Plaza in Springfield at 3 p.m. Monday.
Cordray spoke with the Springfield News-Sun during his visit and said as governor he will work for the people of Clark County.
“…protect your healthcare, bring down costs, put money back in your pocket and restore more reliable coverage to more Ohioans,” Cordray said.
Cordray also said that what Ohio is doing in the fight against the opioid epidemic isn’t working. Clark County has suffered more than most counties.
“What we need to do is move away from the failed status quo,” Corday said. “We need to drive fentanyl out of this state and use things like the Organized Crime Commission as I did as attorney general to bust these drugs rings and take fentanyl out of this state.
READ: Mike DeWine, Richard Cordray race to be most expensive in nation
“We also need to have more community treatment,” he said. “We can’t keep putting people in prison for drug possession. We need to have them in the community in treatment so they can rebuild their lives.”
DeWine has said during the gubernatorial race that he has been tough on opioids as attorney general.
“I have a 12-point action plan that includes K-12 prevention education in every school, more drug courts, more resources for law enforcement, and incentives to get the business community involved to help people in recovery get back to work and on with their lives,” DeWine said previously. “Additionally, I am very proud of what we have already done in the Attorney General’s office. We have shut down pill mills, putting crooked doctors in jail and taking away licenses from over 100 doctors and pharmacists.”
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