Kasich to headline Lucas County Republican Lincoln Day dinner

7/6/2009

John Kasich, a Republican candidate for governor and a former nine-term U.S. congressman from Ohio, will headline the Lucas County Republican Party's Lincoln Day Dinner July 30.

Tickets for the social hour at 6 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m. at Gladieux Meadows, 4480 Heatherdowns Blvd., are $45 for a single, $75 for a couple, and $300 for a table.

Attendance at the Chairman's Reception with Mr. Kasich and other guests, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., is $250 per person.

Also seeking the party's endorsement is State Sen. Kevin Coughlin (R., Cuyahoga Falls), who has urged party leaders to let voters decide who the candidate should be.

The annual local Lincoln Day Dinner is a prime fund-raiser for the Lucas County Republican Party with proceeds going to help fund party operations and candidates in the upcoming munipical elections.

Mr. Kasich, 57, was a member of Congress from the Columbus suburb of Westerville from 1983 to 2001.

Top party leaders and county chairmen voted unanimously June 26 to recommend that the state GOP endorse Mr. Kasich when it meets in September, according to John McClelland, spokesman for the Ohio Republican Party.

Mr. McClelland said the party's bylaws do not allow endorsements so there would first have to be a vote to suspend the rules.