Special Election megathread (5/21: CA-20)

[Nyvin]

Now that Fudge has resigned, has the election been scheduled yet?

https://twitter.com/PersistOhio/status/1370040286777380865

Primary scheduled for August 3, General for November 2: www.wkyc.com/amp/article/news/politics/elections/election-ohio-11th-congressional-district-november-2-2021/95-1d0a664f-2a11-41a9-8e7e-e16c8497b41b

What on earth? Keeping a seat open for nearly a year - depriving residents of both representation and key constituent services - presumably just to keep the Dems' majority one seat narrower? Is there any other reasonable explanation here? This is something I'd expect from a DeSantis or a Noem, but not DeWine. There should really be some laws in place here about how soon a special election has to be scheduled following a vacancy.

Sadly, the only law in Ohio is that a special has to be held eventually. We're lucky he didn't elect to leave the seat empty until Late 2022 like Rick Snyder did with the Conyers seat in the 115th Congress.

Wow - I’m disgusted. All the institutional barriers that black and brown people face in this country, and DeWine - a supposedly “reasonable” Republican because he subscribes to some common sense beliefs like masks help prevent the spread of disease and Biden won the election - sees fit to deprive hundreds of thousands of black voters of congressional representation as part of a cynical partisan game. This party is truly beyond repair and anyone who continues to support it should feel ashamed.

It seems that in Ohio, specials can only be held in May, August, or November, and May 4th is too early for the primary.

(D) "Special election" means any election other than those elections defined in other divisions of this section. A special election may be held only on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May, August, or November, or on the day authorized by a particular municipal or county charter for the holding of a primary election, except that in any year in which a presidential primary election is held, no special election shall be held in May, except as authorized by a municipal or county charter, but may be held on the third Tuesday after the first Monday in March.

http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/3501

[Nyvin]

Wasn't Stivers the one who demanded the incredibly awkward splitting of Franklin county in 2011?

[Nyvin]

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1405193935526506499

El Oh El

Oh goodness Hillary, come on now.

[Nyvin]

She seems to have backed off of Medicare For All and made it a state issue

https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2021/07/nina-turner-in-the-democratic-primary-for-the-11th-congressional-district.html

As she recently suggested to cleveland.com reporter Seth R. Richardson, while she supports Medicare for All, that idea might best grow outward from the states rather than being imposed from Washington.

And the paper also praised her for standing up to a union (isn't she supposed to be pro-union?)

The same Nina Turner who stood up to the Cleveland Teachers Union and delivered state legislative votes across the aisle for Mayor Frank Jackson when he was fighting for his all-important Cleveland Plan for reforming the Cleveland public schools

Being against Teachers Unions can be seen as a good thing in some progressive circles in regards to education reforms.

[Nyvin]

Literally everything at the moment is early vote (all mail in Cuyahoga; about 50/50 in Summit, with Turner winning in-person there versus Brown winning mail), and it shouldn't be surprising to anybody that Brown would do very well with older voters - who use mail ballots disproportionately. I wouldn't read too much into this yet (though these numbers aren't great for Turner).

Also the vast majority of the vote was made in person on election day.

[Nyvin]

Is Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick a squad member or does she just have very similar policy positions?

[Nyvin]

What's his point here?   He was listed first on the ballot which is actually an advantage.   What's his problem with the ballot?

https://twitter.com/VoteMariner/status/1479954065631203328

[Nyvin]

The only reason this election happened is because Higgins got bored and left.