As a result of wicked Republican redistricting of Ohio, two Democrats -- Dennis Kucinich and Marcy Kaptur -- find themselves drawn into the same district and pitted against each other in 2012, and the primary is coming up right away, on March 6.
Kaptur is not a terrible candidate (she and Barbara Boxer are tied for third-longest serving women in the House), but Kucinich is a remarkable one. Kucinich has relentlessly and vigorously supported progressive causes in a way that almost no one else has. I don't want him to get lost in this despicable Republican scheme.
One important position separates the two. While Kucinich has been frank is his preference for contraception and sex education in schools over abortion (who doesn't agree?), since 2003 he's identified himself as "pro-choice." On the other hand, in 2011, Kaptur voted in favor of the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act," and only reversed her position on privately-paid abortions at overseas military hospitals in 2005 after voting against them in 1995, 1997, 1998, and 1999. Kaptur also voted against funding for stem cell research in 2007, the only member of the Progressive Caucus to do so.
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