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Ohio: Steve Stivers

May 18, 2009 - 11:11 am
NEWS FEED: Columbus Dispatch

Joe Hallett: Life inside the Beltway isn't as glamorous as it might seem

By Joe Hallett

Employees sit in chopped up little rooms, desk-to-desk, nose-to-armpit, hearing each other's coffee sips and phone conversations. Visitors file out, visitors file in, waiting on their feet because there aren't enough chairs. The offices are broom closets with no room for brooms.

Freshmen members of Congress rarely merit more. Four floors apart, Kilroy and Austria aren't complaining. She's 60 and he's 50, and they spent careers climbing their way to Capitol Hill.

Kilroy, still learning the maze of tunnels connecting House and Senate office buildings with the Capitol, is happy to be across from a stairwell; one flight down the steps and she's out the door, preferring to walk outside, especially now.

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Wed, 12/10/2008 - 12:52

Looking at Stivers, Kilroy’s futures in 2010

By Justin Miller, PolitickerOH.com Reporter

It hasn’t been a week since the race for the 15th Congressional District ended, but a competitive rematch could be in the making.
U.S. Representative-elect Mary Jo Kilroy (D-Columbus) defeated Steve Stivers (R-Columbus) by 2,311 votes, as tabulated last Sunday. This narrow victory for Kilroy comes after a narrow loss of about 1,000 votes to U.S. Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-Columbus) in 2006. These twin close elections may indicate a tight 2010 race, especially if Stivers runs again.

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Mon, 12/08/2008 - 16:19

DCCC buried defeated Republicans with $6M

By Justin Miller, PolitickerOH.com Reporter

Democrats carried three U.S. House seats in Ohio this year by riding an avalanche of cash from their congressional committee. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spent three times as much on the races than its Republican counterpart, according to Federal Election Commission reports.

The DCCC spent $6.02 million on the 1st, 15th, and 16th Congressional District races from July 1 to Election Day. Meanwhile, the National Republican Campaign Committee spent about $2 million across the 1st and 15th districts only.

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Mon, 12/08/2008 - 09:51

Kilroy manager: Victory was her own

By Justin Miller, PolitickerOH.com Reporter

New U.S. Representative-elect Mary Jo Kilroy's (D-Columbus) campaign manager told PolitickerOH.com that Kilroy's victory was largely her own and came at the cost of the strongest Republican recruit in the country.

When asked if Kilroy owes her success to Barack Obama's candidacy given her narrow loss to U.S. Rep. Deborah Pryce in 2006 when there was no presidential contest, campaign manager Randy Borntrager put the credit firmly on Kilroy's shoulders.

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Sun, 12/07/2008 - 20:46

Kilroy sets priorities at victory press conference

By Justin Miller, PolitickerOH.com Reporter

COLUMBUS -- U.S. Representative-elect Mary Jo Kilroy set about listing her priorities when she arrives in Congress during a press conference held outside of the Franklin County Board of Elections office Sunday night.

Kilroy won election to the U.S. House late Sunday after the elections board finished its unofficial count of votes including provisional ballots. Thirty-three days after Election Day and two years after her first failed run for the 15th Congressional District seat, Kilroy beat Republican Steve Stivers by 2,311 votes.

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Sun, 12/07/2008 - 19:05

Stivers concedes after Kilroy wins

By Justin Miller, PolitickerOH.com Reporter

Mary Jo Kilroy has defeated Steve Stivers according to an unofficial count of ballots by the Franklin County Board of Elections late Sunday. Stivers has conceeded the race, according to his campaign. 

Kilroy (D-Columbus) beat Stivers (R-Columbus) by 2,311 votes, said board of elections spokesperson Ben Piscitelli. Kilroy's margin of victory is .76 percent -- or larger than the 0.5 percent that would allow Stivers to seek a taxpayer funded recount.

Kilroy won 45.91 percent and Stivers 45.15 percent.  

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Fri, 12/05/2008 - 14:10

Stivers supporters win Supreme Court case

By Justin Miller, PolitickerOH.com Reporter

Supporters of 15th Congressional District candidate Steve Stivers have won their fight to not count about 1,000 provisional ballots in a lawsuit against Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner.

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled 4 to 2 that Brunner (D) "abused her discretion by providing different counties with differing instructions on whether these ballots should be counted," the court wrote in its decision. 

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Fri, 12/05/2008 - 13:16

Final look at U.S. House spending in 3 big races

By Justin Miller, PolitickerOH.com Reporter

Democrats' two U.S. House pick ups on Election Day and the unresolved 15th Congressional District race reported their final fundraising totals.

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Fri, 12/05/2008 - 09:17

Another day, another delay in OH-15 race

By Justin Miller, PolitickerOH.com Reporter

Exactly one month after Election Day, the race for the 15th Congressional District race hit another snag.

Thursday afternoon the Ohio Supreme Court was evacuated due to a gas leak from a nearby construction site while the court was in the process of hearing a case from supporters of Steve Stivers (R-Columbus) against Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner (D) concerning provisional ballots that aren't fully filled out.

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Tue, 11/25/2008 - 15:53

Stivers camp touts Madison County results, Kilroy camp says it’s happy too

By David DeWitt, PolitickerOH.com Reporter

The campaign of state Sen. Steve Stivers (R-Columbus) sent a release Tuesday touting the official results from the Madison County Board of Elections in the race for Ohio's 15th Congressional District.

Stivers and his opponent, Franklin Co. Commissioner Mary Jo Kilroy (D-Columbus), are awaiting the official vote tallies in their race to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-Columbus).

The Stivers camp said that the Madison County totals resulted in a net gain of 115 additional votes for Stivers in the race.

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