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Hellenic News of America reviews Jane Mitakides, will review Jim Trakas soon


You can read the Hellenic News of America’s review of Democratic congressional candidate (OH-03) Jane Mitakides here.

Here’s an excerpt but I recommend you read the whole piece:

Jane Mitakides is the modern American woman – married with a family and a successful local small business owner. She has been married 25 years to John Mitakides, a dentist who has practiced in the Dayton area for over 30 years. They both graduated from Centerville High School and attended Ohio public universities. (Jane at Wright State and John at Ohio State, where he played football). They are the proud parents of two children – Katie who is completing her PhD in international relations, and Andrew, a senior at Sydney College in Virginia.

Lake Research Partners is a national polling company. Ms. Celinda Lake, its president, Daniel Gotoff, a partner and Mark Keida, a staff member, wrote an “Analysis of Ohio�s 3rd Congressional District�s Shifting Political Terrain” on January 15, 2008. In that analysis, Celinda Lake calls this a “highly winnable race” for Jane Mitakides and one that is getting national attention. She states that the “challenging electoral dynamics offer Mitakides a prime opportunity to seize on the public�s mood for change…and that 2008 offers Democrats the best opportunity to put Ohio�s 3rd district seat back into Democratic hands.” The Democrats had held this seat for 22 years until 2002.

Just out of curiosity, should Greek Americans vote for her because she’s Greek? Or women vote for her because she’s a woman? Or Greek women because she’s a Greek woman?

Where does identity politics get us/take us?

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:22 pm April 2nd, 2008 in Congress, Ohio, Politics, Women 

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3 Responses to “Hellenic News of America reviews Jane Mitakides, will review Jim Trakas soon”

  1. 1 Oengus on April 2nd, 2008 9:50 pm

    I suppose if you were a Greek National and female and never had received your dowry and that dowry would have included rights to land on Cyprus. You did not get the land because Turks occupy the land, then you may really like this candidate. Then other Greeks empathize, they support each other’s interest. Its part of networking and ethnicities do it, the Greeks are said to be the second best at it…guess who is first, the Italian rank third as the most successful “ethnic group”.

    Jewish people do not consider them selves an “ethnic group” some would say it is a faith and not an ethnicity, some may say its a cultural identity, identified though as the number one group in success none the less and that requires networking.

    All this considered, groups identify within and they certainly network. Do networks sometime burn those outside of the network…. perhaps in some instances. Typically not or unavoidably yes, I have not had my hand slapped by a Greek feminist so I have no specific issue to consider. However, I can think of a county treasurer that could be looked at for taking to much interest in his own, not so much interest but doing favors that are questionable. I believe that the obligation to serve the group has to be within legal boundaries. Then the best networks have the best attorneys…. so here we are.

  2. 2 Carole Cohen on April 2nd, 2008 11:12 pm

    No. No. No. And nowhere. But you should vote for her if you admire her and her positions. How’d I do? LOL

  3. 3 Heidi Azaloff on July 11th, 2008 8:06 am

    “Should Greek Americans vote for her because she is Greek?”

    That would be a mistake, as she is German, just married to a Greek… It seems the “Hellenic News” has deemed that close enough.

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