A congressional legacy - The Latta family's call to service
Dear Ohio - Politics, Issues, and People
English - June 01, 2022 08:30 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MB - ★★★★ - 16 ratingsPolitics News Government ohio change community curtisjackson government policy politics spectrumnews1 Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Taking over the family business or following in a parent’s footsteps professionally is something millions of Americans do. But what about when the family business is the United States Congress? Republican Rep. Bob Latta, OH-5, has been in office since 2007. Long before that, his father, the late Delbert Latta, represented the same northwest Ohio district for 30 years.
Spectrum News 1 Washington Bureau Reporter Taylor Popielarz guest hosts and speaks with Bob Latta about what it was like growing up with a parent in Congress, whether pursuing politics himself was a given because of it and if the type of family affair helps or hurts the federal government.