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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Brunners make post-election move
Nine days after overseeing one of the biggest presidential elections, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner and her husband Rick Brunner closed on a $678,750 real estate deal.
The couple bought two adjoining units in a downtown Columbus condo building a short walk from the Secretary of State’s offices.
Brunner, a Democrat, is running for U.S. Senate in 2010.
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Turner meets with Iraqi mayor on Capitol Hill
U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, former mayor of Dayton, got to talk city leadership Wednesday with Farhan Ftaikhan Al-Farhan, the mayor of Al Qaim, Iraq. Al-Farhan, in town as part of a trip around the nation to study cities in a Democratcy, talked U.S.-Iraq relations and security conditions in the Al Anbar province where Al Qaim is located. The mayor also received a tour of the Capitol courtesy of Turner’s office.
Al-Farhan, through a translator, said he took office at a time when terrorist attacks were rampant in the city, but that, thanks in part to the efforts of the U.S. Marines, violence has died down. Terrorist attacks cost his city 5,000 homes at the height of the violence, but most of the residents of those homes have returned to the city.
Turner, R-Centerville, ranking member on the House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee, has visited Iraq five times, and toured Al Anbar province during an August 2008 trip to Iraq.
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Senate fundraising: Portman in the lead, Fisher raises about $1 million
Republican Rob Portman has a financial advantage over his Democratic opponents in the U.S. Senate primary, raising $1.7 million in the first five weeks of the campaign, according to reports filed with the Federal Elections Commission Wednesday, April 15.
His nearest competitor, Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, a Democrat, has $1.01 million on hand. And Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, also a Democrat, has $192,554 in the bank, according the reports. Brunner has raised $207,236 this quarter, spent $14,682 and had $2,248 in debt.
Fisher, meanwhile, has raised $1.01 million and spent $18,525, according to his report. State Rep. Tyrone Yates, D-Cincinnati, is also running, but hadn’t filed as of 4 p.m. All candidates who have raised $5,000 or more must file by the end of the day.
Jennifer Duffy of the Cook Political Report said the fact that Portman raised $1.7 million “in this environment as a Republican is really, really strong.” And while she called Brunner’s fundraising disappointing, she said Fisher’s showed promise.
Both Brunner and Fisher have a disadvantage compared to Portman, who entered the campaign with $1.47 million from his old congressional campaigns. He has spent $159,613 during the first few weeks of the campaign and had just over $3 million in the bank with no debt.
Portman, R-Terrace Park, former director of the Office of Management and Budget in the George W. Bush administration, served as a congressman from southwest Ohio from 1993 to 2005.
The candidates seek to replace Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, who is retiring at the end of next year.
