Motivation to Run for Office

As a husband and father raising young children in Northeast Ohio, Jesse feels a renewed responsibility to help build a strong, thriving future for families across the region. His decision to run for the Ohio General Assembly reflects his belief that effective, principled leadership can strengthen communities, expand opportunity, and keep Ohio a place where future generations will choose to stay and prosper.

Policy Positions

Economic Freedom

 He emphasizes that legislators must be “surgical and efficient” in eliminating wasteful spending, drawing on his business background to advocate for treating taxpayer dollars with the same discipline and care as private-sector resources.   Styles backs further reductions to Ohio’s flatincome tax rate paid for by improving government efficiency and passing savings on to taxpayers. He supports worker freedom and opposes forced unionization, believing individuals should never be required to join or fund a union that does not serve their interests. Additionally, he calls for meaningful regulatory reform, including stronger legislative oversight over rulemaking by unelected bureaucrats, especially for regulations with major economic impacts.

Education Opportunity

Education choice is a central component of Styles’ vision for student success. He believes families should be able to direct their taxpayer-funded education dollars to the environment that best fits their children. He supports the EdChoice framework and advocates for expanding public options that prepare students for diverse futures across multiple pathways. Styles believes Ohio should significantly reduce licensure fees, arguing that such fees should never serve as a revenue source for government but instead reflect only the cost of processing requirements. His approach prioritizes flexibility, innovation, and accountability, ensuring that students gain access to high‑quality education in whichever setting their parents choose.

Government Modernization

Styles is a strong proponent of modernizing Ohio’s governmental structure to reduce inefficiencies and address rising property tax burdens. He emphasizes that Ohio’s nearly 4,000 political subdivisions create unnecessary duplication, cost, and complexity—and he supports consolidation wherever quality of service can be maintained or improved. From 911 dispatch centers to fire departments to school districts, he argues that many localities should evaluate shared service models with neighboring jurisdictions to reduce redundant spending. He also supports major property tax reform and believes lawmakers must play an active role in protecting residents from unchecked local tax increases. For Styles, modernization is not simply about cutting—but about improving accountability, efficiency, and service delivery. Across all levels of government, he advocates reducing bureaucratic power, increasing oversight, and ensuring that decisions reflect the priorities of taxpayers rather than entrenched institutional interests.

Energy Abundance

Jesse Styles is a strong supporter of free‑market energy reforms that prioritize affordability, reliability, and consumer choice. He backs an abundance approach to energy policy making and believes Ohio should build on its framework to keep utility costs low and limit government distortion in energy markets. He opposes re‑imposing energy mandates or hidden charges that would increase costs for ratepayers. Styles also supports streamlining energy infrastructure permitting—such as for pipelines, power plants, and transmission lines. His “all of the above” approach embraces the expansion of diverse energy sources to strengthen independence, stabilize prices, and maintain long‑term reliability for Ohio consumers.

Healthcare Reform

Styles supports ensuring Medicaid serves the truly vulnerable and operates as efficiently and effectively as possible. He emphasizes the need for greater efficiency in service delivery and recognizes the importance of market‑based solutions in driving innovation across healthcare systems.

He supports efforts to curb fraud, waste, and abuse within Medicaid and other public health programs, aligning with principles of accountability and responsible stewardship of taxpayer resources. His approach to healthcare reform prioritizes balancing compassion with sustainability, ensuring that Ohio’s safety net remains strong without encouraging long‑term dependency or inefficiency.