In 1992, Bob Fitrakis ran against John Kasich for the 12th Congressional district and Kasich refused to debate him. Fitrakis later ran as the Green Party’s Lt. Governor candidate in Ohio in 2014.
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.
