Arthur Stanley Katz (born circa 1923) is a lawyer who was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress to replace Rob Portman in the Second District of Ohio ( map) in the special primary to be held June 14, 2005. In the November 8, 2005, he is a candidate for Deerfield Township trustee.

A resident of Deerfield Township in Warren County, Katz previously ran for a judicial office in Los Angeles County, California. He graduated from Brooklyn College and the New York University law school. Katz was admitted to the California bar on October 1, 1952, and is licensed to practice law in that state. (He has not, however, registered in Ohio.) He is a veteran of World War II and an amateur archaeologist. He ran as a write-in candidate for Congress because he missed the requirement of fifty signatures on his nominating petitions by three names.

Katz told CityBeat "I have no illusions I'll be elected," he says. "I'd like to be, I'd love to be. I think I'd make a contribution." Of his rivals, he said:
:The other five, all of them are what I call 'Republican lite,' " Katz says. "They're trying to campaign, and they're falling into the trap. They take the issues that the Republicans have and try to put a different spin on it. I don't buy their issues. I don't accept it. I make my own. Get my point?[579]

See also

Ohio Second Congressional District Election, 2005

Election Results, U.S. Representative from Ohio, 2nd District

External links

League of Women Voters page on the race

Citybeat profile