Todd Portune

Todd Portune (born 1958) is an American lawyer and politician who serves as a Hamilton County Commissioner.

Portune is regarded as left of center on social issues, and a fiscal conservative.

Todd B. Portune was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on August 14, 1958. He graduated from Colerain High School in 1976, and graduated from Oberlin College with a political science degree in 1980. In 1983 he graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Law and became an attorney in Cincinnati.

Portune was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Cincinnati City Council in 1993. He won elections to two-year terms in 1993, 1995, 1997 and 1999.

In 2000 Portune was elected as a Hamilton County Commissioner. The city of Cincinnati has voted solidly for Democratic candidates in the early 21st Century; the suburbs have supported the Republicans. Portune was the first Democratic commissioner elected from the suburbs in 36 years. Portune's opponent Bob Bedinghaus won 43% of the 363,948 votes cast in 2000, while Portune won 48%.

In 2004 Portune was re-elected, with 57% to his opponent's 42%. His winning in a conservative county was attributed to his moderate policies, and to effective campaigning. The Cincinnati Enquirer and The Cincinnati Post newspapers endorsed him.

He won reelection in 2008, 2012 and 2016.

In December, 2013 Portune announced that he was considering becoming be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor in the 2014 elections.

Portune visited several locations in Ohio during December, 2013 and January, 2014, visiting voters and gauging the support he could expect if he formalized his candidacy.

In mid-January, Portune indicated that a decision was imminent.

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