CBS News: Following the retirement of announcement by longtime Republican Rep. Ralph Regula (Ohio) on Friday, speculation has now intensified over whether his fellow Ohioan, Rep. David Hobson (R) will also step down at the end of the 110th Congress.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer says Hobson "is also weighing departure," and reporters have been pressing Hobson during the last several days for a definitive statement on his political plans, and they have not been able to get that so far, according to House insiders on both sides of the aisle.
Hobson, who is his ninth term, turns 71 this week (Oct. 17), and the departure from the Ohio delegation of Regula and Rep. Deborah Pryce (R), as well as the recent death of Rep. Paul Gillmor (R-Ohio), has him thinking hard about what he wants to do.....
Ohio's 7th district is called "reliably Republican" by the same article. However, the people of Ohio are still recovering from the Republican scandals of Taft, Tom Noe, Bob Ney, and the rest of the GOP evildoers. People are very distrustful of the Republican tag. I think it presumptuous to call any district "reliably Republican" in this climate.
>>>> Coach Jim Tressel has a new website called..... coachtressel.com and it is very popular. Besides the expected areas of the site (tradition, schedules, facilities, and gallery, etc.), there is a page called "Buckeye Troops" that must be seen!