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Steven "Steve" Austria
is a
Republican
member of the
Ohio Senate
, representing the 10th District since 2001. Previously he was a member of the
Ohio House of Representatives
from 1998 until 2000.
In 2004, Austria easily won re-election to the Senate by defeating his Democratic challenger Charlie Hart, a
Springfield, Ohio
-area
farmer
.
In 2008, Austria was the Republican nominee for the
US House of Representatives
from
Ohio's 7th congressional district
to replace retiring Congressman
Dave Hobson
. He defeated Democratic challenger
Sharen Neuhardt
in the general election, 58.7% to 41.3%
[1]
.
Personal life
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Steven Austria was born in Cincinnati and grew up in
Xenia, Ohio
, the eldest of nine children. His father is the late Dr. Clement G. Austria from Tiaong, Quezon, Philippines who moved to Ohio to attend Medical School.
[2]
He has lived in
Beavercreek
for more than 20 years with his wife Eileen, and their three sons Brian, Kevin and Eric.
Controversies
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On September 2 2008, Ohio political bloggers discovered that a Labor Day column published in the Xenia Gazette
[3]
under Austria's name was in whole or part plagiarized from a Department of Labor website on the history of Labor Day. Austria's campaign denied any wrongdoing, claiming that a citation was omitted.
[4]
Bloggers writing at Ohio Daily Blog later identified significant portions of the column not taken from the Department of Labor site that were apparently copied from Wikipedia.
[5]
Later analysis by a Wright State University professor found that about one quarter of the column was lifted directly from the
Department of Labor’s Web page on the history of Labor Day
and that additional parts of the column were taken from a Wikipedia entry on
Labor Day
.
[6]
One university professor carefully analyzed the piece line by line and concluded that it was almost entirely copied from two different sites. Even an automatically generated report from turnitin.com showed a whopping 59% plagiarism which would result in a flunking grade for students, no doubt disciplinary actions and/or even being expelled from some educational institutions.
[
citation needed
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See also
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References
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External links
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Category:American Roman Catholics
Category:Living people
Category:Members of the Ohio House of Representatives
Category:Ohio State Senators
Category:Ohio Republicans
Category:Ohio politicians
Category:People from Cincinnati
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Filipino American politicians