L. Craig Foltin is a Republican

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who served as

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Lorain, Ohio Lorain () is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. It is located in Northeast Ohio on Lake Erie, at the mouth of the Black River (Ohio), Black River about west of Cleveland. It is the List of cities in Ohio, ninth-most populous city in O ...

from 2000 to 2007. At the age of 32, Foltin upset incumbent Joseph Koziura 51.5% to 48.5% in 1999 to win the mayoral seat in the City of Lorain, where Democrats outnumber Republicans five to one. He again won against Koziura in 2003 and won by a 55%–45% margin. Foltin was endorsed several times by ''

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'' and '' The Morning Journal''. Foltin has been featured in '' Cleveland Magazine'', '' Inside Business'', '' Crain's Cleveland Business'' and was a frequent guest of several Cleveland market morning and afternoon drive radio shows. He appeared on the major TV news broadcasts and was featured on several documentary shows on

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Education

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, June 1996, Major in Accounting, Minor in Information Systems,

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, June 1991, Area of Concentration: Finance, Cleveland State University *Bachelor of Science in

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, June 1989,

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* Lorain High School, Lorain, Ohio, June 1985

2006 congressional campaign

Craig Foltin ran for the against trial lawyer

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. Although the 13th was one of the most Democratic districts in Ohio, the Republicans had high hopes for Foltin since he was the Republican mayor of a heavily Democratic city. However, Foltin could not overcome the strong anti-Republican mood in the district or the presence of the district's incumbent congressman,

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, atop the ballot as the Democratic candidate for Senate. He was defeated, gaining only 39 percent of the vote.''Near East Report, Vol. 49-50''. 2005. 177. In May 2007, Foltin announced his resignation as mayor of Lorain effective August 1, 2007 to take the Executive Vice-President of Finance position at

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Photo of Mayor Craig Foltin atop the Lorain Lighthouse about 2000
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2006 congressional campaign

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