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Thursday, August 21, 2008
Tubbs Jones appeared at fundraiser with Neuhardt Monday
One day before U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones was hospitalized for the aneurysm that ultimately claimed her life, she held a fundraiser for Miami Twp. Democrat Sharen Neuhardt in Shaker Heights, near Cleveland.
Neuhardt, who met Tubbs Jones earlier this year at a reception in her honor, invited Tubbs Jones to the fundraiser. “She was lovely,” said Neuhardt, who is running against state Sen. Steve Austria, R-Beavercreek in the race for the open 7th Congressional seat.
She said Tubbs Jones talked forcefully about the need to elect strong Democratic women, and was supportive of presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, despite endorsing Hillary Clinton in the primary election. Tubbs Jones conveyed Clinton’s support for Obama to the crowd of mostly women.
“She was laughing and joking about all the things she would do in my district,” Neuhardt recalled. “She was doing what she loved best - talking to people about issues she was so passionate about.”
On Wednesday, Neuhardt’s fundraiser dropped an envelope on her desk. Inside was a check from Tubbs Jones and a note. “I wish you good luck in your campaign and I hope to stand with you in Congress come January 2009.”
Neuhardt said having Tubbs Jones help her in her campaign was “a gift.”
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Eye On Ohio: Obama’s ‘Three Times’ ad
By Jonathan Riskin and Jack Torry
The Columbus Dispatch
The ad: “Three times,” 30 seconds.
Producer: Obama campaign.
Where to see it: It is airing in Ohio and other key states. View it at DaytonDailyNews.com/eyeonohio.
Script: Narrator: Can we really afford more of the same?
John McCain’s tax plan:
For big corporations — $200 billion in new tax breaks.
Oil companies — $4 billion.
Companies shipping jobs overseas — keep their tax giveaways.
While 100 million Americans … get no tax relief at all.
For the change we need … Barack Obama.
A plan that cuts taxes for middle-class families three times as much as John McCain would.
Barack Obama. President.
Obama: I’m Barack Obama. And I approve this message.
Video: The spot opens with a man, seemingly in his 60s and middle class, looking soberly into the camera as the narrator asks the opening question. It then goes to footage of Sen. John McCain, and to a shot of a corporate meeting and gas station prices as the ad makes its charge that McCain’s economic plan gives tax breaks that are too large. The ad then shifts to shots of Obama with ordinary-looking people and touts his tax plan’s breaks for the middle class.
Analysis: This is the latest installment in the “my tax cut is bigger than yours” argument raging between Obama and McCain. Obama wants to end the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for individuals with incomes of more than $200,000 and families making more than $250,000. He also plans a $1,000 tax break for what his campaign says would be “95 percent of workers and their families.” McCain wants to extend all the 2001 and 2003 tax reductions, which are scheduled to expire in 2010.
The 2001 and 2003 tax laws reduced income-tax rates for everyone, cut taxes on married couples, and slashed the federal tax on dividends and capital gains. Most tax analysts believe that McCain’s plan would provide greater tax benefits to wealthier Americans. But conservative economists argue that raising taxes on any income group when the economy is sluggish slows economic growth.
In addition, McCain wants to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent. That allows Obama to accurately say that McCain would reduce taxes on corporations, including oil companies. But McCain’s reason for proposing a cut in the corporate tax rate is to encourage U.S. companies to invest more in the United States rather than abroad. McCain argues that many U.S. competitors are lowering their corporate tax rates and that America must follow suit.
Jonathan Riskind and Jack Torry are reporters for The Columbus Dispatch. E-mail: jriskind@dispatch.com and jtorry@dispatch.com.
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Strickland urges No vote on sick leave
Gov. Ted Strickland worked to avoid a fight between business and workers over paid sick days but now that those negotiations failed he is urging Ohio voters to say No to the mandatory sick leave ballot issue on Nov. 4.
The proposal would require businesses with 25 or more employees to give full-time workers at least seven paid sick days a year. Ohio would be the first state to approve such a proposal.
On Thursday, Aug. 21, Strickland and Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher issued a joint statement: “While we would hope that all Ohio businesses would make paid sick days available to their employees whenever possible, we believe that this initiative is unworkable, unwieldy and would be detrimental to Ohio’s economy, and we will be opposing it and asking Ohioans to oppose it as a result.”
They had a message for the business interests that oppose it and the labor groups that support it: “We call upon both sides to avoid portraying Ohio as unfriendly to business and economic development.”
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Flags to belowered for Tubbs Jones
Gov. Ted Strickland will order the flags on public grounds across Ohio to be lowered to half-staff from sunrise Friday to sunrise Monday in honor of U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, his press secretary said.
As of 3 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21, the flags at the Ohio Statehouse were still flying high and there had been no word from Strickland’s office on when they would be lowered. This comes after Strickland’s office issued a statement about Tubbs Jones’ death on Wednesday, Aug. 20, four hours before she actually died of a brain aneurysm.
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McLin remembers Tubbs Jones
Dayton Mayor Rhine McLin had hoped that next week’s Democratic National Convention would involve a little down time with the woman she called “the sister I never had.”
Instead, U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones died Wednesday, Aug. 20 from an aneurysm, and McLin finds herself grieving a woman she considered a hero.
The two met when Tubbs Jones, D-Cleveland, ran for the state Supreme Court and McLin was finishing out her father’s term in the state General Assembly. They grew thick as thieves over the years, and McLin, also a Democrat, took particular delight in inviting her buddy over to crash the Dayton Development Coalition’s annual fly-in.
“I loved for her to come over and shake things up,” she said. “They’d be marching all these Republicans in and I’d text Stephanie and say ‘Stephanie, come on over.’”
Tubbs Jones would show up in the back of the room, and before long, she’d be delighting travelers from Dayton, McLin recalled.
“I feel like I’ve lost my sister,” she said.
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McCain, Obama agree on presidential debates
Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama have agreed to three presidential debates and a fourth debate for the vice presidential candidates. All debates will start at 9 p.m. and last for 90 minutes.
The schedule, announced on Thursday, Aug.21:
First Presidential Debate
Date: Sept. 26
Site: University of Mississippi, Oxford
Topic: Foreign Policy and National Security
Moderator: Jim Lehrer
Staging: Podium debate
Vice Presidential Debate
Date: Oct. 2
Site: Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Moderator: Gwen Ifill
Staging: To be decided after nominees picked
Second Presidential Debate
Date: Oct. 7
Site: Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee
Moderator: Tom Brokaw
Staging: Town hall debate, moderator will call on members of audience and draw questions from Internet.
Third Presidential Debate
Site: Hofstra University, Long Island, New York
Topic: Domestic and Economic Policiy
Moderator: Bob Schieffer
Staging: Candidates will be seated at a table
