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Subject: Deborah Pryce<(R-Ohio) 15th District<
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 05:01:45 EST
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Deborah Pryce<(R-Ohio) 15th District<

It should have been an easy race for this open seat representing
western Columbus and its suburbs. Rated by Congressional Quarter-
ly among the most solidly Republican districts in Ohio, it lost
its incumbent when 515 House Bank overdrafts suggested to Rep.
Chalmers P. Wylie (R) that this would be a good year to retire.

Pryce, 41, resigned as a Franklin County judge to seek the Repub-
lican nomination. She won a split contest with the support of an-
tiabortion groups, but they accused her of betrayal in the gen-
eral election campaign when she declared her belief "that every
woman in America must have the right to choose."

Campaign manager Tom Wolfe said the antiabortion crowd "heard
what they wanted to hear, not what she said," when Pryce told
them she was personally opposed to abortion and was glad that her
adopted daughter had not been aborted. But the controversy
launched the candidacy of independent Linda S. Reidelbach, host
of a Christian radio talk show.

Reidelbach siphoned enough conservative support - 18 percent of
the vote in the end - to put Pryce in a genuine contest with
Democratic state Rep. Richard Cordray. Pryce eked out a plurality
- 44 to 37 percent.

Wolfe said the Pryce campaign talked about "the deficit, jobs and
the economy, and the fact that Congress needed a change in the
way it operates."

A local prosecutor before she joined the bench, Pryce "did not
spend her life planning to run for Congress," Wolfe said. "She
was motivated by frustration like many voters, and does not plan
to make a career out of this."<02:48 11-05C9999-----

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