High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thomas A. Raga (born 1965) is an American politician of the Republican Party who previously represented the Sixty-seventh District (Warren County) in the Ohio House of Representatives. In February 2006, he was named by J. Kenneth Blackwell as his running mate in the May 2, 2006, primary for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. Blackwell and Raga won the Republican nomination, but lost the November 7, 2006, general election to Ted Strickland and Lee Fisher in a landslide, 60-36%.