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Thursday, June 26, 2008
McCain recipe for victory: “Economy, economy, economy”
John McCain has a simple formula for winning Ohio and being elected president.
Asked for the three key ingredients for winning the state, he said:
“The economy and the economy and the economy.”
McCain was interviewed by five reporters aboard his campaign bus, the “Straight Talk Express”, on Thursday, June 26 as it rumbled from Xavier University, where he held a town hall meeting with undecided voters, to downtown Cincinnati for a fundraiser.
“Ohio leads the nation tragically in the loss of home ownership….the flight of manufacturing jobs, the list goes on and on and so I’d say those are the three top issues..There are subsets of it, housing, health care, jobs.
“But it’s the economy, not so stupid.”
McCain greeted reporters as they boarded the bus as “jerks,” a term of endearment from a candidate who has courted the press for nearly a decade. Dressed in a grey, pin-striped suit, he sipped a Coke as he answered questions for nearly 20 minutes aboard the bus.
TweetTurner touts earmarks
It’s markup season on Capitol Hill, which means we can expect a flood of press releases out in the weeks to come touting earmarks for the Dayton region.
Here are the earmarks requested by Rep. Mike Turner, R-Centerville, for three bills: Military Construction and Veterans Affairs; Commerce, Justice, Science and related agencies, and Energy and Water Development. All three passed the House Appropriations Committee late Wednesday, June 25.
$14 million for construction of a new security forces building at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Right now, security forces are located in a building built in 1934 that was originally a garage. The new building will consolidate operations for the 88th Security Forces Squadron near a primary base entry gate.
$97,000 for the Turning Point Applied Learning Center in Hillsboro for employment training for offenders who are reentering society. The program combines classroom instruction with manufacturing work experience.
$30,000 for equipment replacement for the Lynchburg Police Department. It’ll be used for new computers.
$5 million in funding to help complete the cleanup of the Miamisburg Mound.
$1 million for wastewater infrastructure improvements for the city of Hillsboro in Highland County.
$2.6 million for flood protection for about 600 homes in West Carrollton, Moraine and Miami Township.
$300,000 for water and sewer infrastructure improvements to help revitalize low-income neighborhoods in Northwest Dayton near Good Samaritan Hospital.
$500,000 for Tech Town Water and Sewer Infrastructure. The money will support revitalization of a former brownfield site in downtown Dayton.
The bills now go to the House for a full vote.
TweetBrown launches website for DHL families
Sen. Sherrod Brown on Thursday, June 26, launched a new page on his Senate web-site that he hopes will serve as a clearinghouse for families affected by the possible DHL deal with UPS.
In May, German-based Deustch-Post, the parent of DHL, announced plans to end its contract with Wilmington-based ABX and ASTAR, potentially eliminating more than 8,000 area jobs.
The page, on Brown’s Senate web site www.brown.senate.gov, will allow visitors to read stories and news about the issue and to submit their own stories. Brown said he’ll use those stories to raise awareness about the plight of DHL workers.
“This is more than just numbers and bottom lines,” Brown, D-Ohio, said. “This is about families and a community that have been very good to DHL.”
TweetNot everybody undecided at McCain event
More than 150 people packed into a meeting room in Schmidt Hall at Xavier University in Cincinnati for a town hall meeting with Republican presidential candidate John McCain. The meeting was set to start at noon on Thursday, June 26.
The crowd mainly undecided voters, picked by a marketing firm, but there also were college students and McCain backers.
Rich Volkerding tagged along with a friend, with of the undecided voters, and Volkerding sounded like a likely McCain backer.
“I’m not thrilled with anybody but there’s no way I’ll vote for Obama,” he said, referring to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Why not?
“I think he’s a Marxist,” said Volkerding, 53, a machine tool salesman from Batavia.
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