McDonald Mayor Holmes will run next year for Ohio House 63rd District

August 5, 2015 at 12:00a.m.

McDONALD

McDonald Mayor Glenn Holmes will run next year in the Ohio House 63rd District’s Democratic primary.

Holmes said in a statement late Tuesday that his experience as mayor, president of Trumbull County Community Foundation and as a member of the Ohio Public Works Commission Small Governments Committee gives him “the experience needed to represent our community in the Statehouse.”

Hubbard Councilman Ben Kyle, D-1st, announced in June that he would run in the 63rd House race next year.

The 63rd District takes in a majority of Trumbull County, including Niles, Girard, Hubbard, Liberty and McDonald. It’s a strongly Democratic district.

State Rep. Sean O’Brien, a Democrat from Bazetta, is the incumbent, finishing his third two-year term in the Ohio House.

O’Brien announced two weeks ago that he wouldn’t seek a fourth term in the House and instead run for the Ohio Senate 32nd District seat in 2016.

Incumbent state Sen. Capri Cafaro of Hubbard, D-32nd, cannot run for re-election next year because of the state’s term-limits law.

Also seeking to fill Cafaro’s seat is ex-state Rep. Tom Letson of Warren, who represented the 64th District for eight years until the end of 2014.

Letson couldn’t run for re-election last year also because of term limits.