Democrat Shontel Brown has won the race to succeed Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge in Ohio's 11th Congressional District.The Associated Press called the race for her at 7:53 p.m.
Ohio’s only majority minority congressional district may lose that status in remapping
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The congressional district that was formerly represented by Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Louis Stokes is likely to no longer be majority minority after it s remapped.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - After a 1960s Supreme Court decision established the principle of “one person, one vote,” civil rights attorney Louis Stokes asked the nation’s highest court to declare that Cleveland’s congressional districts unfairly divided its African American community to dilute Black political power.
When justices ruled in Stokes’ favor, Ohio’s legislature created the state’s only majority minority congressional district, and Stokes went on to represent it for 15 terms.
Dark money group at the center of Ohio House Bill 6 scandal to plead guilty: Capitol Letter
Updated Feb 08, 2021;
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The heart of it all: Generation Now, the dark money group that was the vehicle for what federal authorities say was the largest bribery scheme in Ohio history, has agreed to plead guilty to a federal racketeering charge. Andrew Tobias and Jeremy Pelzer have the story on the major development in the House Bill 6 scandal. Under the plea agreement, Generation Now admitted it was at the center of the scheme to funnel $61 million in bribes from FirstEnergy Corp. and its affiliates to ex-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder, in the form of largely anonymous political contributions.