{"id":13272,"date":"2012-03-05T14:54:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T19:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13272"},"modified":"2012-03-05T14:55:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T19:55:52","slug":"top-dems-back-kaptur-over-kucinich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13272\/top-dems-back-kaptur-over-kucinich\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Dems Back Kaptur Over Kucinich to Face Joe the Plumber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow voters in Ohio\u2019s new 9th congressional district will decide whether America will get another two years of the Dennis Kucinich experience.\u00a0 Pitted against fellow Democratic incumbent Marcy Kaptur, Kucinich has raised nearly twice as much money ($406k) as Kaptur ($204k) since the start of the year, but is trailing with one important constituency \u2013 other Democratic members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/atr.rollcall.com\/ohio-two-members-send-late-money-to-kaptur\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roll Call<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Earlier this week, Rep. David Price\u2019s (D-N.C.) re-election committee and [Senate Majority Whip Dick] Durbin\u2019s Prairie political action committee each donated $1,000 to Kaptur. The Congresswoman also received a $1,000 check from Rep. Rosa DeLauro\u2019s (D-Conn.) campaign at the start of this year, according to online fundraising records. Both Price and DeLauro serve with Kaptur on the Appropriations Committee. Durbin, also an appropriator, was first elected to the House in 1982, the same year as Kaptur.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier in the redistricting process Kucinich flirted with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/24\/us\/politics\/24kucinich.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">running in a newly created seat in Washington State<\/a>, though much like his ill-fated presidential campaigns, the groundswell of support Kucinich needed to move states never materialized.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully for politicos, the winner of the member vs. member tussle tomorrow won\u2019t fade into obscurity since the likely Republican nominee will be <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/dem-primaries\/214005-kaptur-kucinich-let-loose-in-cycles-first-redistricting-showdown\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Wurzelbacher<\/a>, aka, \u201cJoe the Plumber\u201d from the 2008 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Only in Ohio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow voters in Ohio\u2019s new 9th congressional district will decide whether America will get another two years of the Dennis Kucinich experience.\u00a0 Pitted against fellow Democratic incumbent Marcy Kaptur, Kucinich has raised nearly twice as much money ($406k) as Kaptur ($204k) since the start of the year, but is trailing with one important constituency \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,1193,791,3398,1793],"class_list":["post-13272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-campaign","tag-dennis-kucinich","tag-marcy-kaptur","tag-ohio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13272"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13279,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13272\/revisions\/13279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}