Andrew O. Brenner is a member of the Ohio House of Representatives

Ohio House of Representatives

The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio; the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate....

 representing the Second District since 2011.

Life and career

A graduate of Ohio State University

Ohio State University

The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...

, Brenner was elected as Delaware County

Delaware County, Ohio

Delaware County is a fast-growing suburban county in the state of Ohio, United States, within the Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area. According to the United States Census Bureau's 2004 population estimates, Delaware County's population of 142,503 made it the fastest growing county in...

 Recorder in 2004.

Recorders Office

In October 2010, while Brenner was working as County Recorder, Richard Bird claimed that ACS software company was given an unfair advantage in a bidding process. The commissioners voted to reject the bid after they received protest from Cott Systems and Document Technology systems Ltd.. Cott Systems and DTS had both claimed that comments made by Brenner, about their financial status, were slanderous. Brenner asserts that everything was done above board. Assistant prosecutor, Aric Hochstettler, said that rejecting all of the bids rendered any threats of litigation moot.
The commissioners then voted to sign a short-term contract with ACS in the interim.

After winning election to the House, Brenner resigned from the Recorder's Office, and was succeeded by Melissa Jordan.

Ohio House of Representatives

In the Republican Primary, Brenner faced five opponents collecting 24.4% of the vote. In the general election, Brenner faced Richard Bird, he won by 26,000 votes.

Brenner was sworn in for his first term on January 3, 2011. He currently serves on the committees of Education; Financial Institutions, Housing and Urban Development; Local Government; and Rules and Reference.

Policies, positions and initiatives

Brenner sponsored a bill that created a three-year pilot program involving screening and special instruction for students with dyslexia in cooperation with a local library. The measure was sponsored with Ted Celeste

Ted Celeste

Theodore S. "Ted" Celeste is an American politician and a member of the Democratic party in Ohio. Celeste, the brother of former Ohio governor and U.S. ambassador Richard F. Celeste, ran for the U.S. Senate in 2000 and lost to the Republican incumbent, U.S. Sen. R. Michael DeWine...

. It aims to evaluate the effectiveness of early reading assistance programs for children with dyslexia

Dyslexia

Dyslexia is a very broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person's fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read, and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, or rapid...

 and to evaluate whether those programs can reduce future special education costs. The bill would officially recognize dyslexia as a learning disability under state law.

Links

• The Ohio House of Representatives: Representative Andrew Brenner (R-Powell) official site
• Brenner for Ohio campaign site