Yesterday it was Cleveland City Councilor Joe Cimperman. Now it’s North Olmsted Mayor Thomas O’Grady, who will kick off his primary campaign against Dennis Kucinich on Thursday. O’Grady becomes Kucinich’s fourth challenger in the Democratic primary. A crowded primary means that Kucinich will have an easier time pulling in a plurality of votes (which is all he needs).
Interestingly, the Plain Dealer reports that Kucinich filled out a questionnaire for the local Democratic Party that indicates that he will run for another term, but some uncertainty still lingers here. We may not know for sure until January 4th, the state’s filing deadline.
Get a moderate democrat in there to represent the vast, vast majority of moderate democrats in OHIO instead of such a left wingnut who has just gone over the cliff…
Kucinich is an embarressement to the democratic party and apparently is more interested in representing himself than the democrats in his district.
By quarantining as many Democratic leaning voters as possible into as few Districts as possible, the result has been “congresscritters for life” with Districts that they couldn’t lose if they tried (and believe, one might think that they have at times.)
There have been votes from members of the Ohio delegation against stem cell research, for the “Patriot Act” and campaigning for a flag burning amendment. The influence that could and should have come from seniority has been squandered. Go figure.
In 2010, we’re gonna lose one US house seat for sure, two probably.
In the past, ODP has wimped out and allowed the GOP to [insert scatological reference here] our state.
In 2012 we should do one of two things:
1. Stick it to them as deeply as possible. No more rolling over. If the citizens of our state want political gerrymandering, let’s do it to the max.
OR
2. REALLY devise fair and competitive Districts and create a reformed process to guarantee them for the future.
What we should NOT do is another WIMPY compromise where ODP says “OK, Ohio is losing two seats, so we lose one and you lose one.” That’s “compromise” that serves no one.
In 2006, more Ohioans voted for Democratic US House candidates than GOPers and yet they controlled 11 out of 18 seats. That’s nuts.
I say “Fish or cut bait.”
There’s no way all these people would jump into the race unless they thought he was quitting. These are reasonably plugged in, well known folks. They wouldn’t do this just for the hell of losing.