State House Seat: District 32
With Mallory winning the election their seems to be some shuffling of politicians.
People are already chomping at the bit to take the seats that are getting shuffled around. Everyone's favorite blogger Nate Livingston is even contemplating a run for the state house that may be vacated.
Catherine Barrett, who is my state rep has expressed interest in running for Mallory's. I would say out of the people who have shown interest in the seat she would probably not have a chance. Those people include high profile Cincinnati politicians like Alicia Reece and Tyrone Yates. I think Alicia would probably have the best chance since she still has her name out in Cincinnati.
Either way, the district 32 seat is going to be up. Whether it be next fall or sooner, Barrett is termed out. This is a seat that Greens need to contest. I'm not too familiar with the geographic make-up of the district, but I know it consists of OTR and Clifton, and I believe it goes into Northside and College Hill and other neighborhoods of Cincinnati. These are areas that should be receptive to the Green Party message. Greens would do themselves an injustice by not contesting this seat.
This would be an interesting opportunity for local Greens to go head-to-head with the HCDP. I doubt we'd be able to compete with any likely Democrat on the basis of political experience, so we'd have to compensate by finding a candidate with high local name recognition and preferably a positive reputation. Can you think of anyone who might fit these criteria??
Posted by Josh Krekeler | 2:25 PM
Those are some tough criteria Josh K.
Did you have anyone in mind?
Posted by Andrew Warner | 2:28 PM
I thought about it for a minute and I really like your point about Greens getting a chance to go head to head with the Hamilton County Democratic Party.
Republicans don't usually challenge this district so it could be interesting to see what kind of damage we can do. I'm hoping with the influx of conservative Democrats in our area, people will jump on our bandwagon.
Posted by Andrew Warner | 2:34 PM
Either piss or get off the pot! Don't talk about what local Greens need to do Andrew, if you think your Party has a good message and a chance to win, and local Greens will do better for the people in the district than the Dems have, why don't you get off your butt and run?!?
Posted by Nate Livingston | 11:31 AM
Maybe...
Let's say I did run for that seat... I could still never run for every seat Greens should be running for.
I don't think that this is an issue of "pissing or getting off the pot" for me as an individual, but more for the party.
But you are definitely right, we do need to start pissing.
Posted by Andrew Warner | 11:50 AM
Guys, there's a window - knock yourselves out. -ha!
Posted by Yossarian | 7:24 PM