District 9: bump Kaptur for Redfern?

  An interesting dynamic is going on in District 9, which is being realigned and will pit Kucinich against Kaptur, who is favored by the realignment.
  However it's being rumored in the state that Chris Redfern is positioning himself to replace Kaptur, presumably assuming that Kaptur will be on her way out sometime soon. Kaptur denies that, licking her lips announcing that it'll be a cold day in hell unlikely that she'll quit soon, considering that she's close to becoming chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. From a blog at the Sandusky Register:

Redfern told me that other press accounts of the final redistricting tell most of the story — the districts were altered to strengthen the influence of black voters and pick up the votes of black Democrats in the Ohio General Assembly so that Republicans could get their districts approved. 

If Redfern wants to serve in Congress someday, he's probably helped his cause by filing for the Ohio House. The Catawba Island resident is the only Democrat running for the 89th district that makes up all of Erie and much of Ottawa County, facing little-known Republican Don Janik of Huron. State Rep. Dennis Murray, D-Sandusky, chose not to seek re-election.

  This might be fun.