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Toledo Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur, right, is unlikely to continue representing Cleveland when congressional district lines are redrawn. The whole city will likely end up in the district represented by Warrensville Heights Democratic Rep. Marcia Fudge, left, before she became President Joe Biden s Housing and Urban Development Secretary. (Thomas Ondrey/The Plain Dealer) ORG XMIT: CLE1701211411393178 ORG XMIT: CLE1701220347440077 ORG XMIT: CLE1702280310249230 The Plain DealerThe Plain Dealer
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ten years ago, a small group of Ohio Republicans huddled in a Columbus hotel room they called the “bunker” with census data and a mapmaking program to redraw Ohio’s congressional maps to their party’s maximum advantage.
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CORNERSTONE ADDS 2: Katelyn Bunning has departed Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell’s office, where she rose through the ranks for more than a decade to become his legislative director, and joined Cornerstone Government Affairs as a lobbyist. Bunning, who McConnell called an “all-star” and a “key adviser” on whom relied on “extensively” during a farewell floor speech earlier this month, will lobby for a variety of clients across several policy areas, she told PI.
But this would not be the first time an “open” Senate seat from Ohio created turmoil within the state’s two leading political parties. Portman’s decision will be the fifth time since 1970 that an incumbent U.S. senator from Ohio chose not to seek re-election. Here’s what happened during those previous elections.
1970: Glenn vs. Metzenbaum: The beginning of a legendary feud
U.S. Senator Stephen Young was 81 years old in 1970, and his decision not to seek re-election was hardly a surprise. While Young was an unabashed liberal, he had earned the ire of the Kennedy family for his outspokenness and love of controversy, and U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy encouraged astronaut John Glenn to challenge Young in the 1964 Democratic primary.