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First things first. I’m terrible at predicting election results, not gonna deny it. “If Jennifer Brunner files, she wins,” is a line I must have written a dozen times leading up to the US Senate primary. I was wrong. I was banking on Jennifer catching fire online, and she didn’t. One good week of online fundraising might have won her the primary.
Failing to do so is the Brunner campaign’s biggest self-inflicted wound – they left a lot of money on the table, and let a lot of us down. I still have no good answer for this [...]
Full Story... →We’re entering Rob Burch futility here. It’s worth transcribing, with asides in parentheses, to show just how polar opposite this ad is to Lee’s entire rationale for being our nominee for US Senate instead of Jennifer Brunner.
I’m Lee Fisher. Pay very close attention to this ad, cuz you’re not gonna see it too many times. (This is your first ad in the entire general election, Lee. I’m paying real close attention.)
My campaign just doesn’t have millions of dollars to run lots of ads (Why not? You said you would. It was your entire primary campaign.), no scary [...]
Full Story... →Anthony at ODB, on Rob Portman.
If this guy has the next two years to help dismantle health care, Wall Street reform, and everything else we’ve worked on, we’ll have no one to blame but ourselves when we lose everything from the top down.
I’ll have plenty to say about that after the election.
Full Story... →John Kasich and Rob Portman aren’t just running a campaign on jobs and the economy. But very specificially, they’re claiming that Ohio’s economic woes are because despite 16 years of all Republican rule in the State of Ohio before Governor Strickland took office, Ohio is such a horrible taxing and regulatory environment that businesses just cannot succeed here and have been engaged in a mass migration out of the State.
Remember this Rob Portman ad?
OMG! Look at those fleeing arrows out of Ohio! We’ve lost nearly 400,000 while setting a record of mass business migration out [...]
Full Story... →So the Portman for Senate campaign is dropping this literature to try and win the farmer vote:
Is this the same Rob Portman who:
in an op-ed published in the Financial Times in October of 2005, laid out a proposal to cut subsidies to US farmers by 60%. In addition, Portman proposed eliminating all export subsidies by 2010. [AP, 10/10/05] in 2004, Portman voted against making permanent Chapter 12 bankruptcy protection for [...]
Full Story... →The Columbus Dispatch reports with little appreciation of the significance of what they’re reporting:
This prompted American Crossroads to issue an “Are you kidding?” reply. The organization’s law firm said that all photos and video of Portman used in the commercial came from “public domain sources,” such as the Internet and YouTube. “Absolutely no material used in the ad was obtained from the Portman campaign web site or in any other way from the Portman campaign.”
So let me get this straight. Karl Rove’s American Crossroads defense is because they got the materials from Rob Portman Senate campaign’s [...]
Full Story... →(HT: Think Progress)
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Assuming it’s accurate that Republicans will get the House, how effective will that be in throwing a monkey wrench in the gears of everything Obama does?
JORDAN: If we win, what will we get done? Mostly, I’ll be honest, most of what we can get done is have the big fight, have the big debate, and have the framework for the 2012 election.
From Rob Portman, through the Congressional campaigns, even down to John Kasich the Republicans are completely unable to offer a philosophy of governance. They simply want to win in November [...]
Full Story... →According to Real Clear Politics, the Ohio Democratic Party is going to file a complaint with the FEC alleging that American Crossroads, Karl Rove’s organization which is presently running pro-Rob Portman’s ads right now violated FEC regulations regarding illegal coordination with campaigns in making that ad.
The 527 committee’s ad showcases three photographs that originated from Portman’s campaign Web site and jobs plan document, and FEC rules state that using such photos constitutes an in-kind contribution that exceeds the legal limits.
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An exception to the regulation allows outside groups to incorporate a candidate’s campaign material “that advocates [...]
Full Story... →TPM says the bill is largely the version that passed the Senate.
“Mr. Washington” Rob Portman (actually nickname given by Portman’s political allies in D.C.) announced in April that he opposed the Senate reform bill and, presumably would have joined the GOP caucus in their attempts to filibuster it. Lee Fisher was a vocal supporter of the bill and has been since announcing his candidacy.
The Ohio Democratic Party’s Portman spoof site has a good rundown of Portman’s Wall Street sympathies and pro-Wall Street record. There is a growing awareness that the Republican candidates [...]
Full Story... →The Columbus Dispatch notes the questions being raised by the Fisher campaign over Rob Portman’s, shall we say…. evolving attitude towards TARP over the years?
The man who campaigned for passage of the bailout fund has taken a variety of stances since then about the program’s worth and how to proceed, from using some of the money for buying distressed mortgages to granting a payroll-tax suspension “holiday” to deficit reduction, Fisher’s campaign says.
Portman’s stance has consistently been that the program shouldn’t continue indefinitely and that as much money as possible should be returned to taxpayers in the [...]
Full Story... →Kumbaya! The world after a tough primary fight can look a bit difficult for the losing side, yes. Especially if you’re the guy who was the loudest blogger for the losing side. So you’ve all probably noticed a little Plund-awkwardness here from my end. Aside from becoming insanely busy with work and running for office, I’m finding it hard to blog about the Senate race.
But as you all know, I like nothing better than a philosophical argument of existential proportion, and this summer and fall in Ohio, thanks to BP and Lehman Brothers, we have that argument. Ted Strickland [...]
Full Story... →Budget Watch
