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Ohio's only majority minority congressional district may lose that status in remapping


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. ....

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Only one Summit County candidate competing for Fudge's seat


Only one Summit County candidate competing for Fudge s seat
Sean McDonnell and Doug Livingston, Akron Beacon Journal
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US. Rep Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio and Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., go to Zanzibar Soul Fusion restaurant during campaign visit on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020 in Cleveland. [Mike Cardew/Beacon Journal]
Marcia Fudge is leaving the U.S. House. And several candidates are clamoring for her seat in a comfortably liberal district stretching from Cleveland to Akron. 
But of all the candidates who have declared their candidacy, only one is from Summit County. 
Her gerrymandered district one of two majority-minority Ohio districts protected under the Voting Rights Act of 1965  slides along Interstate 77 capturing much of Cleveland, its eastern suburbs, a western portion of Akron and about 30 cities, towns and villages along the way. ....

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Dark money group at the center of Ohio House Bill 6 scandal to plead guilty: Capitol Letter


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. ....

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