Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Debate in Ohio's 15th District

Last night there was a televised debate for candidates for Ohio's 15th Congressional District. The three candidates were Democrat- Mary Jo Kilroy, Independent- Don Elijah Eckhart, and Republican- Steve Stivers, a former bank lobbyist. Everything was rather calm. There was one little tidbit, Dispatch:

....Although the race in one of the country's more competitive congressional districts frequently has been heated, there was only one real dust-up during the first formal debate among the candidates. It came when Stivers, asked about constituent service, said he worked with the family of a girl who was shaken as a baby to develop a law requiring education on the health consequences of shaking infants.

Kilroy said Stivers improperly was claiming credit for an idea that actually had percolated through a panel of Franklin County leaders and volunteers -- a panel that Kilroy led. She said the panel handed off the concept to Stivers, nearly in finished form, to get it passed....

Shame on Stivers for trying to take credit for someone else's work. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.

The three candidates were asked to pick one word to describe herself/himself (Dispatch):

...Kilroy: priorities. She said her priorities -- ending the Iraq war, expanding access to health care, tax credits for college tuition -- are most in line with the district's....

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