DISCUSSION: A CLASSIC CASE - CANDIDATES TRYING TO BE SOMETHING THEY ARE NOT?

An upside down question mark? Yes, indeed. Because the candidates for the 16th Congressional District are trying to confuse the voters by denying their history.

J. Kirk Schuring is business through and through.

John Boccieri is a union man, through and through.

But now, according to area media reports, both are out courting the other side's base support.

Try they may, but a "leopard does not change its spots" except the leopard in the accompanying cartoon figure.

J. Kirk Schuring is owned lock, stock and barrel by business types. Just look at his history with the W.R. Timken family.

John Boccieri is owned lock, stock and barrel by union organizations. Boccieri would not have a political existence unless the unions had made him their cause celebre in his run against right-to-work Ron Hood in a race for the Ohio House years ago.

It's Stark County politics "really weird" when candidates try to being something they're not. Everybody knows, but guess who? The candidate!

Does any one other than a Rip Van Winkle-esque person in Stark County think Kirk Schuring is pro-union?

Does any one other than a Rip Van Winkle-esque person in Stark County think John Boccieri is about to become the darling of chamber of commerces?