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Mayor backs Beatty for Congress
The official deadline to run for Franklin County's hotly contested congressional seat is today. But Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman wasted no time and endorsed former state Rep. Joyce Beatty yesterday in what is expected to be a four-person Democratic primary. City Councilwoman Priscilla R. Tyson, former one-term U.S. Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy and state Rep. Ted Celeste are the others expected to run. Whoever wins in March will be favored to win the newly drawn Democratic-leaning 3rd District - wholly contained in Franklin County - in November. The new district will have among the largest proportions of black voters in 16 Ohio districts. Like Coleman, Beatty and Tyson are African-Americans. ... More
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