JD Vance's half brother to challenge Cincinnati's Democratic mayor

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Source: ABC News

Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval faces two challengers Tuesday in the city's nonpartisan primary, including Vice President JD Vance's half brother.

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Cory Bowman, Vance's half brother, is an evangelical pastor and coffee shop owner. Neither he nor fellow Republican challenger Brian Frank, a procurement professional, have held public office before but said they didn't want to see the incumbent Democrat's reelection bid go unchallenged in the heavily Democratic city.

Were Bowman to pull an upset, he would be the latest family member of a president or vice president to serve in office. That includes the brother of Mike Pence, President Donald Trump’s first vice president, who was elected to Congress during Trump's previous administration.

Bowman, 36, has said that he wants to improve his city, not get involved in national politics. He says his half brother’s inauguration in January inspired him to get involved in politics, but that Vance is just his brother, not his political counselor.


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[cloudbase]

1. Procurement professional is another name for a pimp.

[marble falls]

3. Or a drug runner. Or a server at McDonalds. Or a coffee shop owner ...

... I was in Cincinnati this summer and it seemed like a nice place to live. Shame anything like a MAGA ever got a hold of it.

[Aristus]

7. I've always loved Cincinnati. That and Cleveland.

Two of Ohio's most underappreciated cities.

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8. Cleveland is my home town.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Beware Republican Evangelical PASTORS

saying they want to improve stuff.

[Wonder Why]

4. Does the half-brother have the other half of the brain? Just asking.

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10. They share half of a brain.

[Bayard]

5. When did Cincinnati become a, "heavily Democratic city?"

Admittedly, its been 20+ years since I lived there, but it was a bastion of rethuglicanism then.

[maxsolomon]

6. I'm also an exile, now on 30 years.

Within Cincy limits, its "heavily Democratic" (there are African Americans and Libs). Take 1 step outside; forget about it.

The US Congressional districts carve up that Dem population into bite-size chunks that have to compete with the Repuke suburbs.

[mahina]

9. Oh he is going to get clobbered

I hope