Kucinich's last GOP challenger to manage new challenger's campaign

[Algorem]

http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2008/07/kucinichs_last_gop_challenger.html

Posted by Sabrina Eaton July 01, 2008 10:56AM

Mike Dovilla, a former aide to Sen. George Voinovich who lost a 2006 congressional challenge to Rep. Dennis Kucinich, has signed on as campaign manager for the Republican who's taking on Kucinich this year -- former state Rep. Jim Trakas of Independence.

After winning 34 percent of the vote against Kucinich in 2006, Dovilla served a yearlong tour of duty in Iraq

as a

naval intelligence officer.



In a press release from the campaign, Dovilla called Trakas "the strongest candidate to challenge Dennis Kucinich in the last decade" and declared he's "confident Dennis' days in Washington are numbered."

Trakas said Dovilla ran a "tough grassroots campaign, but struggled in a year when Republicans were hit hard."...




Recent vets entering new battlefield of politics

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/02/veterans.congress/index.html

By Kathleen Kingsbury
CNN
Friday, September 10, 2004 Posted: 12:14 PM EDT (1614 GMT)


...says Republican Ed Herman,

a former

Army interrogator




in Afghanistan. He faces former presidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich in Ohio's 2nd district...

[AllHereTruth]

1. It will be very interesting to see how this unfolds.

I can hardly see the people of Ohio voting out the only man with the balls to stand up against Bush.

Name one other congressman who deserves our support more than Kucinich.