Candidate for the State Representative of the 83rd District, Sheila Coressel, (D-Ada), wants to send an important message to voters, relaying her experience from just several years ago during her election to Ada Village Council.
“I was elected in 2019 by only four voters. Truly, your vote counts,” she said during a recent Logan County meet and greet at Pirate’s Cove in Russells Point.
The Logan County Democrats hosted Coressel for the event. She is running in the November election against Ty Mathews (R-Findlay). The 83rd District includes Hancock County, Hardin County and portions of Logan County.
A current Ada Village Council member who works as the director of pharmacy student affairs at Ohio Northern University, Coressel said she sees a little bit of herself “in every one of my constituents.” She related that she and her four siblings grew up in a hard-working family in rural Defiance County.
“My dad knew that he couldn’t raise a family on just farming, so he drove a school bus, worked at the Campbell’s plant, and was a retired automaker,” the Ada resident said, noting that her mother also retired as a municipal court clerk.
“We were always in church on Sunday and my parents instilled in us the value of giving back.”
Coressel said she enjoys giving back through public service, and she also is a member of the Ada Liberty Township Ambulance Board.
At the state level, Coressel said she has three major priorities – investing public funds in public education; affordable health care; and supporting local businesses.
The Tinora High School and University of Akron graduate noted that the public schools are the backbone of our community and are a cause close to her heart.
At the meet and greet, she also shared some of her personal experience behind her priority of healthcare being more accessible and affordable.
Coressel said she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2017, but she was actually first misdiagnosed as having a stroke because her insurance company didn’t want to cover all of the necessary MRIs that would have uncovered MS. Instead, she spent months on the wrong medications and the misdiagnosis also delayed the treatment of her actual condition.
She is now part of a long-term study for an MS medication, which has been a big help for her, and she wants to make these types of studies more accessible to patients in need.
Prioritizing local business is essential in making sure that Ohio funds stay in Ohio, she noted.
“As your representative, I will advocate for the local businesses in our district at the state level, endeavor to enact beneficial legislation, and bring state funds back to the people of the 83rd. Ultimately, our local businesses are the backbone of the American Dream.”
For more information on the candidate, visit sheila4ohio.com.