(Editors Note: The results of Tuesday's Cuyahoga County Democratic primary for county prosecutor are addressed in a separate article below this one that is also dated March 7, 2012). CLEVELAND, Ohio-Tuesday's Cuyahoga County Democratic primary brought mostly predictable results political pundits said, as U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Cleveland lost to Toledo Democrat Marcy Kaptur in the new 9th Congressional District, 11th Congressional District Rep. Marcia L. Fudge won reelection to a third...Read Full Story
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In January 2010 Democrat Marcy Kaptur points out in a congressional hearing on AIG, grilling Tim Geithner which visibly made him very uncomfortable.
Geithner the Secretary of the US Treasury is not an elected official, he is an appointee with no requirements to answer to the public as Kaptur points out. She goes at him with both fists and rightly she uncovers what the public is not aware of, during the bailouts negotiations with the Wall Street brokered by...Read Full Story
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times: After Ohio Primary, Kucinich Loses Seat in Congress — In a primary faceoff between two veteran Democratic incumbents, voters in Ohio delivered a victory to Representative Marcy Kaptur, a progressive from Toledo, over Representative Dennis J. Kucinich, leaving him without a seat in Congress for the first time in 16 years. After Ohio Primary, Kucinich Loses Seat in Congress (Sabrina Tavernise/New York Times) Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:20:01 GMT Subscribe to RSS...Read Full Story
Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher is running against Democratic Congressman Marcy Kaptur in Ohio's 9th district. Both candidates join The Last Word to weigh in on their platforms. Add this to your queueAdded: Fri Mar 09 05:46:14 UTC 2012Air date: Fri Mar 09 00:00:00 UTC 2012Duration: 11:59Read Full Story
Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher is running against Democratic Congressman Marcy Kaptur in Ohio's 9th district. Both candidates join The Last Word to weigh in on their platforms. Add this to your queueAdded: Fri Mar 09 05:46:14 UTC 2012Air date: Fri Mar 09 00:00:00 UTC 2012Duration: 11:59Read Full Story
To illustrate her district’s industrial prowess, Kaptur recently told an interviewer how she enjoys stopping beside railroad tracks in Toledo and watching the flatbeds full of steel coils, bar steel and other metals roll by, bound for auto plants in Ohio.
Now Wurzelbacher is the GOP candidate for a congressional seat currently occupied by Toledo Democrat Marcy Kaptur, and Kaptur’s campaign has flushed out the old reports about Wurzelbacher’s lack of plumbing credentials. For months ...
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Dennis Kucinich has recently announced that he will be leaving the U.S. Congress after seven terms. He had lost the Democratic primary in an Ohio House district which was, because of Republican redistricting, largely composed of voters from a neighboring district held by another liberal Democrat, Marcy Kaptur, who won. Kucinich still got 71% support from those...
After he lost the primary to hold on to his re-districted Ohio Congressional seat to fellow Democrat Marcy Kaptur, there was some speculation that Dennis Kucinich would move to Washington State and run for office there. As it turns out, we’ve seen the Last Hurrah of Dennis Kucinich: Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) will not seek [...]
FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2011 file photo, U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich and U.S. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur sit side-by-side as Vice President Joe Biden visits a small manufacturing business in Solon, Ohio. Ohio’s new congressional map is ...
U.S. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur represents Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives. Kaptur is a member of the Democratic Party. Representative Kaptur serves on the Appropriations Committee and can be reached by phone at 225-4146.