Kirtley wins Democratic nomination in 6th District
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According to unofficial totals from the Ohio Secretary State’s office, Kirtley received 12,264 votes, or 31.5% of the total
Elizabeth Guida Kirtley was “incredibly surprised” when she won the Democratic Party nomination to run for Congress in the 6th District May 5.
“There were six other candidates. To have won that campaign, it was a sense of surprise, shock, awe, honor, pride all at the same time,” said the Tuscarawas County native.
According to unofficial totals from the Ohio Secretary State’s office, Kirtley received 12,264 votes, or 31.5% of the total.
On election night, she was at a campaign watch party for one of her opponents in the race, Malcolm Ritchie, in Sugarcreek. She expected him to win. She planned on congratulating him and asking him for a job. Instead, she was the winner.
Kirtley, who lives in New Philadelphia with her husband, Rodger, will face incumbent U.S. Rep. Michael Rulli, R-Salem, in the November general …