Madison Gesiotto Gilbert bought multiple houses as she weighed where to run for Congress
Republican congressional candidate Madison Gesiotto Gilbert waves to supporters at a rally at the Delaware County Fairgrounds, Saturday, April 23, 2022, in Delaware, Ohio, where former President Donald Trump is expected to speak later in the day to endorse Republican candidates ahead of the Ohio primary on May 3. (AP Photo/Joe Maiorana)AP
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Republican congressional candidate Madison Gesiotto Gilbert bought three homes in Stark County since 2019 and spent more than three months running for a Toledo-based congressional seat before announcing in March that she’d instead run in the newly reconfigured 13th congressional district that includes all of Summit County, a sliver of Portage County and northern Stark County.
Gilbert’s repeated relocations and uncertainty over where to run for Congress prompted claims of carpetbagging from the camp of the Democratic candidate for the seat, longtime Ohio legislator Emilia Strong Sykes of Akron. Gilbert defeated six other candidates earlier this month to clinch the Republican nomination with around 28 percent of the GOP vote. Sykes did not face opposition in the Democratic primary.
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