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Last Updated on Thursday, 21 May 2009 10:51 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 21 May 2009 10:51
From the Newark Advocate:
Control of the state’s Apportionment Board will be vital to maintaining the Republican Party’s livelihood in Ohio beyond 2010, state Sen. Jon Husted told a group of Licking County Republicans on Wednesday.
Husted, R-Kettering, will run for Secretary of State in 2010 and urged his listeners to consider the gravity of the position in the five-member Apportionment Board, which meets after every federal census and is responsible for drawing the state’s congressional districts.
“If we don’t keep the Apportionment Board, all those things we care about in the next 10 years will go away,” Husted told members of the Licking County Republican Women’s Club and others Wednesday