Posted on 12/28/2011 2:14:05 PM PST by Libloather
Kucinich to challenge fellow Ohio Dem
By Cameron Joseph - 12/28/11 11:24 AM ET
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) will run against fellow Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur next year.
He will file the paperwork on Wednesday afternoon, he announced.
Redistricting erased two House seats in Ohio, pushing the two incumbents into a single district. The new district contains areas of Kucinich's Cleveland base and Kaptur's Toledo base.
After publicly shopping for a district in Washington state and mulling a challenge to Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), Kucinich decided enough of his base was intact to mount a primary challenge against Kaptur, who is the longest-serving female in the House. The new district contains more of Kaptur's territory.
She steered clear of attacking Kucinich in an interview with The Hill last week and is reportedly spending four to five hours on the phone with voters per day.
“My ability to reach consensus and to work with a broad range of interests toward achieving very specific goals for our region and for the country,” Kaptur said of what would differentiate her from Kucinich.
Earlier this month Joe Cimperman, a Cleveland city councilman who challenged Kucinich in 2008, told The Hill both lawmakers are war horses with loyal supporters in the redrawn district.
“These guys don’t slouch. They’re working on Sundays. They’re constantly out there,” he said.
The winner of the heavily Democratic district may face Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (R), better known as Joe the Plumber, in the general election. Read a full breakdown of the race here.
win - win - win...maybe a pubbie will win
That's a very heavy democrat base in a heavy union oriented city. Kaptur has made herself the go-to person for locals and support for her in Toledo will be overwhelming. Feedback I've received from democrat locals has been anything but nice toward Joe the Plumber. Many locals still savor the visit from pre-election visit by Obama and they are blind to the economic and job fiasco left behind him.
Marcy Kaptur was dominant in securing federal funding for solar companies in the Toledo area that, to date, are still (but questionably for how long, see link below) employing locals.
First Solar's shocking strategy shift
Snip: The big item was First Solar’s plan to gradually exit subsidized solar markets completely. After describing the huge increase in supply, largely out of China, and the slowing of demand growth from the reduction or elimination of solar subsidies, CEO Michael Ahearn told analysts and investors that First Solar was "shifting our revenue base from subsidized to sustainable markets, starting in 2012. It won't happen overnight and we'll have to transition out of the subsidies we currently depend on, but our goal is to shift progressively over the 2012 to 2014 timeframe so that by Q4 2014, we derive virtually all of our new revenues from sustainable markets."
What a gerrymander., They're on opposite ends of the state.
At least they didn't try drawing Cleveland and Cincinnati into the same district.
What a gerrymander. They're on opposite ends of the state.
At least they didn't try drawing Cleveland and Cincinnati into the same district.
Just run along the river front.. The maps are correct despite being kos.
http://images.dailykos.com/i/user/303419/OH_map.html
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