Craig Foltin

Lenord Craig Foltin
Lenord Craig Foltin
47th Mayor of Lorain, Ohio
	In office; January, 2000 –June, 2007
Preceded by	Joseph Koziura
Succeeded by	John Romoser (interim)
Personal details
Born	c. 1967

Last updated March 21, 2019

L. Craig Foltin is a Republican politician who served as mayor of Lorain, Ohio from 2000 to 2007.^[1] At the age of 32, Foltin upset incumbent Joe 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. Kozuira had previously won by a 70% margin against, and had also served for 10 years as a State Representative. He again ran against Foltin in 2003 and lost by a 55%–45% margin.

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Foltin was endorsed several times by The Plain Dealer 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 WVIZ.

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The Plain Dealer is the major daily newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It has the largest circulation of any Ohio newspaper and was a top 20 newspaper for Sunday circulation in the United States as of March 2013.

The Morning Journal is a daily newspaper based in Lorain, Ohio. Originally the Lorain Journal, it was an afternoon paper which was historically more popular in an industrial town like Lorain, but switched to morning publication in the 1980s.

Education

Doctor of Business Administration, June 1996, Major in Accounting, Minor in Information Systems, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
Master of Business Administration, June 1991, Area of Concentration: Finance, Cleveland State University
Bachelor of Science in Accounting, June 1989, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Lorain High School, Lorain, Ohio, June 1985

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2006 congressional campaign

Craig Foltin ran for the Ohio's 13th congressional district against trial lawyer Betty Sutton. 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, Sherrod Brown, atop the ballot as the Democratic candidate for Senate. He was defeated, gaining only 39 percent of the vote.^[2] 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 Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio.

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[1] U.S. International Trade Commission. Carbon and Alloy Seamless Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe from the Czech Republic, Japan, Mexico, Romania, and South Africa. Pub. 3850. April 2006. B-3.

[2] Near East Report, Vol. 49-50. 2005. 177.