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OH: Republican and Democrat AG candidates Differ on Health Care Suit
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 10:29 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 23 September 2010 01:21
From the Columbus Dispatch:
Twenty state attorneys general – including five Democrats – have joined a federal lawsuit in Florida challenging the insurance mandate.
Cordray said he studied the merits of the case, and a separate lawsuit brought by the Virginia attorney general, and concluded that the lawsuits have little legal merit and likely would waste time and money to litigate.
“It makes little difference if my name is on a brief in a Florida case,” Cordray said.
DeWine disagrees. He says fighting the Obama health-care mandates would be one of his priorities upon taking office.
“Ohio is a major state,” he said. “We need to be part of this.”
While DeWine aligns himself with national Republicans on health care, he’s also in lockstep with Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich’s plan to replace the state Department of Development with a private, nonprofit corporation. Cordray blasted the idea as a potential sweetheart deal for the executives who would sit on the corporation’s board. DeWine derided Cordray as unimaginative and opposed to job creation.
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Ohio Chamber of Commerce endorses Republicans for Statewide Races
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 10:30 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 23 September 2010 01:02
From the OhioGOP:
Today, the Ohio Chamber of Commerce Political Action Committee (OCCPaC) announced its endorsements in races for three statewide offices. OCCPaC endorsed John Kasich for Governor, Jon Husted for Secretary of State, and Mike DeWine for Attorney General.
“These endorsements represent the leadership we need to retain and attract businesses to Ohio,” said Jeffrey S. Gorman, Chairman of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce. “They are not about where we have been; but rather where we must go if we are to, once again, be a state where businesses grow, families prosper, and a stronger economic environment exists for all.”
“OCCPaC took the unusual step of endorsing in selected statewide races this year because our state faces tremendous challenges that are demanding more from each of us, including the Ohio Chamber, “ said Andrew E. Doehrel, President and CEO of the Ohio Chamber. “Clearly, this action is not without risk, but we felt it was critically important for Ohio’s largest, oldest and most diverse business organization to boldly step forward when our leadership matters most.”
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Ohio Republicans Call out Democrats for Mailers
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 10:30 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 22 September 2010 02:05
From Journal News:
Ohio Republicans are condemning what they see as negative campaign attacks by Democrats against their candidates for the General Assembly.
Speaking at a news conference, House Republican leader Bill Batchelder pointed to a mailer that called one state representative a rat.
Batchelder called the ads “excrement.” He said both parties should instead focus on the difficulties the state is facing and not lie about people.
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New Ohio Attorney General TV AD: Mike DeWine – Alice
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 10:34 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 21 September 2010 01:21
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Ohio: AG Candidates have Spirited Exchanges
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 10:36 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 21 September 2010 01:13
From Cleveland.com:
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cuyahoga County corruption probe spilled into the Ohio Attorney General’s race as Democratic incumbent Richard Cordray and Republican challenger Mike DeWine traded blows over whether the state’s top attorney should have played a greater role in investigating the scandal.
In a contentious joint appearance before The Plain Dealer’s editorial board Monday, Cordray and DeWine had some of their sharper exchanges over whether the AG’s office should have done more to root out the graft.
“We had public corruption, which strikes at the core of the integrity of government, and for almost 10 months you sat on the sidelines,” DeWine told Cordray. “That is not my vision of how this office ought to be run.”
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Stakes are High in Ohio Secretary of State Race
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 10:36 Written by rslcpol Monday, 20 September 2010 01:56
From Dispatch Politics:
The stakes are high in this year’s race for secretary of state, the winner of which will not only oversee Ohio’s election system but also hold a vital seat on the five-member state Apportionment Board that will redraw legislative districts in 2011.
Democrat Jennifer Brunner won the seat in 2006, but rather than seek re-election, she made what ended up as an unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate.
Asked to size up Brunner’s job performance, Democratic contender Maryellen O’Shaughnessy of Columbus, the Franklin County clerk of courts, called it a “masterful job of taking a pretty miserable circumstance and turning it around for the better in less than four years.”
However, she sees room for improvement, noting that Brunner, a former judge, “tends to do directives from on high.” O’Shaughnessy said she will work to make sure directives are not seen as punitive by county boards.
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Ohio: Democrat Attorney General a Corruption Coddler?
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 10:37 Written by rslcpol Monday, 20 September 2010 01:27
From the Columbus Dispatch:
As a corruption scandal dominates the headlines in Cleveland, Republican attorney general candidate Mike DeWine is attacking incumbent Richard Cordray for allegedly standing by while corruption ran amok.
Yesterday, DeWine’s campaign accused Cordray of “ignoring corruption in Cleveland” — a reference to the wide-ranging malfeasance case implicating several Cuyahoga County politicians, including two of its three commissioners.
Cordray, like the Cleveland officials fingered in the scandal, is a Democrat. But otherwise, the mild-mannered attorney general — whose political base is in central Ohio — has little in common with the swaggering Cleveland pols at the center of the scandal.
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The GOP’s Resurgence in Ohio
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 10:48 Written by rslcpol Monday, 13 September 2010 10:50
RSLC Political Director, Ben Cannatti, co-authors another piece in the series “RSLC State Race Spotlight” on Townhall.com:
Ohio, the GOP’s most pivotal swing state in 2004, is proving once again to be fertile ground for Republicans in 2010. Despite the attention the current administration is lavishing on Ohio – President Obama has visited the state nearly a dozen times since taking office – Buckeye State Democrats are losing ground, and time is running out.
Just last week, the Columbus Dispatch reported that “Republican candidates have grabbed double-digit leads in the races for governor (John Kasich) and the U.S. Senate (Rob Portman), and the swelling red tide could lead to a GOP sweep of statewide offices,” according to a poll conducted by the paper. The Dispatch also noted that supporters of Republican statewide candidates are nearly three times as enthused as their Democratic counterparts. This situation led the Dispatch’s Darrel Rowland to surmise that “[i]f Ohioans’ sentiments favoring Republicans extend to legislative and congressional races, that could mean the GOP will retake control of the Ohio House.”
Unwinding the Democrats’ current 53-46 majority in the Ohio House chamber has been a long-standing goal of the Ohio Republican Party and earlier this summer, the Republican State Leadership Committee included the Ohio House in its inaugural REDMAP Report as one of four legislative chambers it predicted as definite GOP pickups in November. With all 99 seats up for election and the significant enthusiasm gap reported in the recent polls confirming the GOP’s early confidence, the party looks to be in an excellent position to net the four seats needed to reclaim the majority.
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Democrats Keep Spinning; Democrat Speaker says they’ll hold the Ohio House
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 10:52 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 8 September 2010 12:31
From Cleveland.com:
Democrats will do well against the odds based on the strength of a significant fundraising advantage of roughly 3-to-1 and a strong ground game focused on door-to-door campaigning, he said.
“State rep races are local and even though you all know there is a strong headwind this year, we will keep and expand the Democratic majority in the House because we have a strong message of job creation,” Budish said. The Beachwood Democrat cited a film tax credit, a renewal of the Third Frontier program and a $100 million expansion of the Venture Capital Fund as job-creating efforts pushed by Democrats.
Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Bill Batchelder said internal Republican polls show enough seats comfortably ahead to ensure Republican control following the November elections.
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Ohio Doctors Target Campaign Giving Law
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 10:53 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 8 September 2010 11:40
From HeraldStarOnline:
A group of Ohio doctors has filed a federal lawsuit against state restrictions on campaign contributions by physicians who treat Medicaid patients.
A provision in a 1978 state law bars the doctors from contributing to candidates for state attorney general or county prosecutor — officials who prosecute Medicaid fraud. The lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Cleveland says the provision is too restrictive and violates the doctors’ First Amendment rights.
The provision says no candidate for attorney general or county prosecutor or their campaign committees can knowingly accept contributions from “providers of services or goods under contract with the Department of Job and Family Services pursuant to the Medicare program.” A violation would be a first-degree misdemeanor.
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