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Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Obama in Dayton Friday
Sen. Barack Obama will make a campaign swing through Dayton on Friday, July 11, his campaign announced today.
Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, will visit Stivers School for the Arts in Dayton for a town hall meeting on energy security.
Obama visited Zanesville earlier this month, and visited Columbus in June.
Stivers School for the Arts is located at 1313 East 5th St. Doors open for the event at 10 a.m. While the event is free and open to the public, tickets are required.
Tickets will be distributed on a first come, first serve basis, with two tickets available per person. To get two tickets, each person must turn in two names along with contact information.
Tickets will be available at the following locations at the following times:
Montgomery County Democratic Party 131 S. Wilkinson St. Dayton, OH 45449 Thursday, July 10, 4pm-8pm Contact: 937-223-3729
Butler County Democratic Party 633 High Street, Suite 105 Hamilton, OH 45011 Thursday, July 10, 4pm-8pm Contact: 513-371-4756
Miami County Democratic Party 14 North Walnut St Troy, OH Thursday, July 10, 4pm-8pm Contact: 937-552-2626
Neuhardt for Congress Headquarters 43 South Fountain Springfield, OH 45502 Thursday, July 10, 4pm-8pm Contact: 513-371-4756 (Butler County office, fielding calls for the Neuhardt for Congress location)
Obama will be back in Ohio next week. He is scheduled to speak at the NAACP National Convention in Cincinnati on Monday. He’s also scheduled to hold a fundraiser at The Millenium Hotel in Cincinnati Monday.
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TweetEye On Ohio: Obama ‘New Energy’ ad
By Gregory Korte
Cincinnati Enquirer
The ad: “New Energy,” 30 seconds.
Producer: The Obama campaign.
Where to see it: It was released Tuesday, July 8, in four Midwestern battleground states, including Ohio. View it at DaytonDailyNews.com/eyeonohio.
Script: (Announcer): “On gas prices, John McCain’s part of the problem. McCain and Bush support a drilling plan that won’t produce a drop of oil for seven years. McCain will give more tax breaks to big oil. He’s voted with Bush 95 percent of the time. Barack Obama will make energy independence an urgent priority. Raise mileage standards. Fast track technology for alternative fuels. A thousand-dollar tax cut to help families as we break the grip of foreign oil. A real plan and new energy.” (Obama): “I’m Barack Obama and I approve this message.”
Video: The ad starts with a gas sign at $4.14 a gallon, followed by 10 seconds of video and photos showing McCain arm-in-arm with President George W. Bush. (They’re so cozy that, at one point, Bush appears to kiss McCain on the head.)
Halfway into the ad, the tone of the music changes and Obama appears, giving a speech and talking to voters. Video of a wheel in motion, a hydrogen-cell electric engine and a sandy foreign desert illustrate Obama’s energy plan.
Analysis: This ad is almost a direct, point-by-point rebuttal to two Republican National Committee ads portraying Obama as a predictable liberal opposed to offshore drilling, nuclear power and lower gas taxes. (One commercial, ironically, praised McCain for bucking his own party — the party producing the ads — on climate change.) And while it focuses squarely on issues, it’s also Obama’s first negative ad of the season.
It’s fair to say that McCain’s energy plan addresses the supply side — developing new sources of energy — more so than Obama’s, which focuses more on technologies that could reduce the demand. Indeed, even the RNC ads conceded that it’s hard for McCain to outdo Obama on conservation.
McCain does oppose the “windfall profits” tax on oil companies, which he said would hurt their exploration and research efforts. And Obama’s claim that the McCain energy plan “won’t produce a drop of oil for seven years” is accurate as it pertains to offshore drilling. That’s because of a shortage of deep-sea drilling ships, experts say.
Neither plan would have an immediate impact on gas prices — except for McCain’s proposed “gas tax holiday,” which would temporarily save 18.4 cents a gallon in the summer. In the ad, Obama counters with a $1,000 “middle-class tax cut.” But that has nothing to do with gas prices, except that middle-class families are paying more for gas.
There’s a third character in this drama: President Bush. He’s mentioned as often as either candidate; the subtext of the ad is clearly an attempt to tie McCain to the soon-to-be-former president. And as far as it goes, that’s a fair shot: McCain’s “95 percent” voting record comes from a highly respected Congressional Quarterly voting study.
Gregory Korte is a staff writer for the Cincinnati Enquirer. Contact him at gkorte@enquirer.com.
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TweetMcCain remarks - as prepared - for town hall meeting in Portsmouth
“Before I take your questions, I want to begin by talking about the issue in this campaign that Americans worry the most about - the American economy.
All of us know what is happening to the economy. It is slowing. More than 400,000 people have lost their jobs since December, and the rate of new job creation has fallen sharply. Americans are worried about the security of their current job, and they’re worried that they, their kids and their neighbors may not find good jobs and new opportunities in the future. To make matters worse, gas is over $4 a gallon and the price of oil has almost doubled in the last year. The cost of everything from energy to food is rising.
I have a plan to grow this economy, create more and better jobs, and get America moving again. I have a plan to reform government, achieve energy security, and ensure that healthcare is available and affordable for all. I believe the role of government is to unleash the creativity, ingenuity and hard work of the American people, and make it easier to create jobs.
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TweetMarc Dann’s house for sale
The Youngstown Vindicator is reporting that former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann has put his house up for sale.
Dann, who resigned May 14 as attorney general after a sexual harassment scandal involving high-level staffers in his office, is asking $295,000 for the five-bedroom house that has two full bathrooms, two half-bathrooms, a wet bar and an in-ground pool.
The Liberty Twp. property was also equipped with a security system that Dann paid for with campaign funds after reportedly receiving threats against himself and his children. On May 30, the Ohio secretary of State asked for Dann to reimburse his campaign committee for the fair market value of the upgrades. Dann had originally paid more than $33,000 for the security system.
The house is being listed by Coldwell Bankers.
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TweetObama to attend fundraiser in Cincinnati on Monday
Prior to speaking at the NAACP National Convention in Cincinnati, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will take some time to raise some funds from Queen City supporters.
Tickets are available for the fundraiser which will be at downtown Cincinnati’s Millennium Hotel starting at 5 p.m. on Monday. Tickets start at $1,000. Get more info here.
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TweetDefense Secretary reopens tanker contract
Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday, July 9, announced that he will reopen a lucrative $35 billion refueling tanker contract, following a Government Accountability Office report that criticized the bidding process.
That 69-page report recommended that the Air Force reopen its bidding process. Gates, speaking Wednesday, said he hopes to have the new contract awarded by the end of this year.
‘The contract cannot be awarded at present because of significant issues pointed out by the Government Accountability Office,” Gates said.
Gates also said the new process will be overseen by the Department of Defense, rather than the Air Force, which oversaw the previous bidding process.
Gates said he wanted “the industry, the Congress and the American people” to have confidence in the integrity of the acquisition process. The end product, he said, “will result in the best tanker for the Air Force at the best price for the American taxpayer.”
In its June report, the GAO concluded that the Air Force failed to follow its own standards in evaluating the contract bids from Boeing Co. and the rival bid from Northrop Grumman Corp. and its European partner, the parent of French aircraft manufacturer Airbus.
The Air Force had awarded the contract to Northrop Grumman - a decision which caused grumbling from lawmakers including Rep. David Hobson, R-Springfield, a Defense Appropriations Committee member who equated the decision to outsourcing U.S. military aircraft.
The tankers, needed to replace an aging fleet, are used to allow Air Force aircraft to stay aloft and get where they are needed as quickly as possible.
When a contractor is finally selected, the program will be managed from the Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
The Air Force had decided years ago to lease the tanker aircraft from Boeing, but that plan collapsed as a senior Air Force acquisition official and a high-level Boeing executive were convicted of illegal activities in connection with the deal. They were sent to prison in 2005 and 2006, respectively.
(John Nolan contributed to this report.)
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