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.