Report: Rep. Bolon got little from Dem caucus

YOUNGSTOWN — Only a few weeks before her defeat, state Rep. Linda Bolon, one of the most powerful Democrats in the Ohio House, was giving money to her party’s caucus and getting very little back.

Her post-general election campaign finance report for the time between Oct. 14 and Dec. 3, filed today, shows Bolon of Columbiana, D-1st, gave a $10,000 contribution Oct. 22 to the Ohio House Democratic Caucus.

That was on top of the $100,000 she gave the caucus June 10.

The contributions to the caucus are designed to help Democratic House members and candidates in tight races.

But in return for all her contributions after the May primary, all Bolon received from the caucus was $1,612 worth of telephone calls by caucus staffers and volunteers to voters on her behalf.

It turned out that Bolon, assistant minority whip, the No. 4 position in House leadership, lost the Nov. 2 election to Republican Craig Newbold of Columbiana by about 5 percentage points.

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