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More Clinton in Ohio details
As reported below by Bill Hershey, Chelsea Clinton will be in Dayton Wednesday.
Here are details of Hillary Clinton’s visit Thursday and Friday: Thursday she’ll be in Youngstown in the morning and in Columbus in the afternoon for a “Solutions for America ” rally with former Senator John Glenn and Gov. Ted Strickland. That event will be at the French Field House next to Saint John Arena at the Ohio State University. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. The event is at 6.
On Friday, Hillary Clinton will be in Lyndhurst, Ohio, for a rally at Charles F. Brush High School scheduled for 5:30 pm. Doors open at 4 p.m.
Chelsea Clinton, meanwhile, will also attend rallies at 10:45 a.m. at Cleveland State University on Thursday, Feb. 14, and at the University of Akron at 1:15 p.m. later that day.
We’ll give you additional details as we get them….
Chelsea Clinton coming to Dayton
The hotly contested Democratic presidential campaign comes to Dayton Wednesday with a 4 p.m. visit to Sinclair Community College by Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Sen. Hillary Clinton.
The “Our Voice, Our Future” event is open to the public but seating and space will be limited, said Gary Honnert, college spokesman. It will be in the library on the lower level of Building 7.
Visitors may park in the Student and Visitor Parking Garage on W. Fifth Street.
Sen. Clinton of New York and Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois are competing in Ohio’s March 4 Democratic primary.
Chelsea Clinton, 27, will come to Dayton after stops earlier Wednesday at Ohio State University in Columbus and Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware. She will campaign in Cleveland and Akron on Thursday.
Eye on Ohio: Hillary Clinton’s “Falling Through” ad
Clinton ad tackles a money issue: the economy
THE AD:
“Falling through,” 30-second television commercial.
WHERE TO SEE IT:
Starting Tuesday on broadcast TV.
Continue reading for the ad’s script, a description and analysis from The Dispatch.
SCRIPT:
Clinton: “The Bush economy is like a trap door. Too many families are one pink slip, one missed mortgage payment, one medical diagnosis away from falling through and losing everything.
The oil companies, the predatory student loan companies, the insurance companies and the drug companies have had seven years of a president who stands up for them.
I intend to be a president who stands up for all of you. I’m Hillary Clinton and I approved this message.”
VIDEO:
Opens with Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York holding a microphone and speaking.
Follows with a film of a working woman, a blue-collar worker, an elderly woman going over her mortgage, a woman in a hospital, an oil tanker, and children studying, before concluding with a smiling Clinton shaking hands with supporting voters.
The commercial flashes brief slogans promising to create millions of news jobs, freezing foreclosure and mortgage rates, ending tax giveaways to oil companies, investing in education, providing health care for every American, standing up to the insurance and drug companies and winning tax cuts for the middle class.
ANALYSIS:
The commercial, which has aired in other primary states, does not mention her chief opponent, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois.
The ad is designed to take advantage of the sluggish economy; unemployment in Ohio has increased from 3.9 percent in 2000 to 6 percent today.
But some of the slogans are misleading.
For example, Clinton’s call for investing in education implies that education spending has been stagnant under President Bush.
In reality, federal spending for secondary and high school education has grown 41 percent since 2001.
In addition, state and local governments typically provide more than 90 percent of the money for primary and secondary education; the federal government accounts only for approximately 7 percent of education spending in Ohio.
The tax cuts for the middle class should come with a cautionary warning. Former President Bill Clinton campaigned on middle-class tax cuts in 1992, but in a now-you-have-it, now-you-don’t moment, he jettisoned the tax cut early in his presidency and proposed a broad-based energy tax that would have hit every working American. The Senate in 1993 killed the energy tax.
With the reference to oil companies, Clinton takes an indirect shot at Obama for voting for the final version of the $12.3 billion energy bill in 2005, which included tax breaks for energy companies.
But earlier that year, Clinton voted for the original $16 billion Senate version, which included some tax incentives to encourage oil production. The original Senate version, however, was more oriented toward conservation and renewable energy than the final measure.
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Ohio debate, part XVI (actually, we’ve lost count…)
More debate madness, courtesy of WKYC in Cleveland.
Also: Alana Russo, a spokeswoman for MSNBC/NBC says that the Clinton camp has not formally withdrawn from the planned Feb. 26 debate.
“We’re hopeful the debate will go on as planned,” she said.
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Glenn endorses Hillary Clinton
With his wife Annie at his side, John Glenn, space hero and former U.S. senator, gave his support to Sen. HIllary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president on Tuesday.
“In my view Sen. Hillary Clinton is the best qualified to provide leadership for this future and it is my pleasure to endorse her candidacy and recommend her to the voters of Ohio,” Glenn said to cheers in a downtown Columbus hotel.
“I know her very well. I respect her. I trust her. I like her….She’s experienced … and I think she’s fully capable of being a great president starting on day one.”
Gov. Ted Strickland and Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher attended the event, an indication of the support Clinton has from Ohio’s Democratic establishment in her campaign against Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois.
Glenn didn’t tell the adoring crowd that he got his political start as an outsider, against the wishes of the Ohio political establishment. In 1974, then Democratic Gov. John J. Gilligan and most other leading Democrats backed Howard Metzenbaum but Glenn defeated Metzenbaum in the U.S. Senate primary and went on to serve four Senate terms.
Eye on Ohio: Barack Obama’s “Mother” ad
Obama ad tackles a thorny issue: health care
THE AD:
“Mother,” 30-second TV commercial.
WHERE TO SEE IT:
Starting Tuesday on broadcast TV.
Continue reading for the ad’s script, a description and analysis from The Plain Dealer.
SCRIPT:
Obama: My mother died of cancer at 53. In those last painful months, she was more worried about paying her medical bills than getting well.
I hear stories like hers every day.
For 20 years, Washington’s talked about health care reform and reformed nothing.
I’ve got a plan to cut costs and cover everyone. But, unless we stop the bickering and the lobbyist, we’ll be in the same place 20 years from now.
I’m Barack Obama and I approved this message because to fix health care, we have to fix Washington.”
VIDEO:
The color video opens with a young looking mother holding a happy, smiling child. Yes, it’s a shot of Barack with baby teeth and his mother.
With present day Obama as narrator, the candidate outlines a few snippets of his health care plan.
The scenes faded into several shots with Obama chatting alone with older adults.
Graphics labeled The Obama Plan say ‘Universal coverage for all Americans’ and ‘Saves typical family $2,500.’ Viewers are directed to his website BarackObama.com/healthcare for more details.
Another graphic tells viewers “Vote March 4 6:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.” — the polling hours in Ohio.
ANALYSIS:
Obama started his ads in Ohio on cable. In this first ad on free TV, Obama tackles a thorny issue.
Obama appears to be attempting to get in front of challenger Hillary Clinton by quickly presenting his health care plan to Ohio voters in the early days leading to the pivotal March primary for Democrats.
Hillary Clinton, while First Lady, began a bid for a type of national health insurance about 15 years ago, albeit unsuccessful.
Obama needs to look like he’s got his own plan.
But, Obama himself has conceded that his plan and the proposal from Clinton are very similar. At the January debate in Los Angeles, Obama said his plan is about 95% like Clinton’s.
For example, independent analysts have said Clinton’s proposal is estimated to save $2,200, according to factcheck.org., a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
Key difference: His plan would not be universal because it does not mandate that everyone enrolls.
While the Obama website on health care offers good detail, is it unfair to expect some detail in these 30-second spots?
Because we don’t think so, let’s say this ad has a whiff of doubt.
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Hillary on the air in Ohio
Sen. Hillary Clinton launched her first TV ad in Ohio today.
The 30-second ad, called “Falling Through,” aims to hit right at the heart of a problem that’s nailed Dayton and Cleveland, among other Ohio cities: the foreclosure crisis, as well as the larger economic troubles in the state.
Clinton would put a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures and at least a five year freeze on interest rates for subprime mortgages.
Here’s a script:
“FALLING THROUGH” TV :30
Hillary Clinton: The Bush economy is like a trapdoor.
Too many families are one pink slip, one missed mortgage payment, one medical diagnosis away from falling through and losing everything.
The oil companies, the predatory student loan companies, the insurance companies and the drug companies, have had seven years of a president who stands up for them.
I intend to be a president who stands up for all of you.
I’m Hillary Clinton and I approved this message.
What do you think of her ad?
“Sir, yes sir”
Democratic Party super delegates are a popular bunch these days, taking calls from the Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama campaigns as the two candidates battle for the party nomination.
Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown is one of those guys. He said he’s not going to announce who he supports until Ohio voters have a chance to weigh in on March 4. But that doesn’t keep the candidates from trying.
Not long ago Brown was at home with his wife, Connie Schultz, when the phone rang. As Brown tells it, he picked up the phone and “the guy says, ‘Senator Brown, President Clinton would like to speak to you.” Next thing he knew Clinton was on the line saying, “Sherrod.”
Without thinking, Brown “stood up and said, ‘Mr. President.’”
At that, Brown’s wife looked at him and remarked, “He can’t see you.”
Strickland sets up bond issue PAC
Gov. Ted Strickland must be serious about his proposal to ask voters to approve a $1.7 billion economic stimulus bond issue in November.
The governor has set up a PAC - political action committee - to raise money to support passage of the issue. Separately, Strickland has set up a nonprofit corporation to more generally support the bond issue and all other job creation efforts.
Attorney Don McTigue is handling the legal paperwork. McTigue said there’s no limit on contributions to either the PAC or nonprofit corporation.
Strickland has said that if the legislature doesn’t vote to put the issue on the ballot, he will launch a campaign to gather more than 400,000 signatures from registered voters to put the issue on the ballot that way.
The governor has said passage of the issue would create more than 80,000 jobs in areas such as renewable energy, infrastructure and biomedicine. House Speaker Jon Husted, R-Kettering, has said borrowing money is not the best path to job creation and that he favors a pay-as-you-go approach.
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