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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Senate candidates: Website fever
The hip thing to do if you’re running for U.S. Senate, it seems, is to redesign your website.
Republican Rob Portman did it, with www.robportman, a flashy new site with pictures of the former congressman on the campaign trail. They announced it in a news release Tuesday.
Then, Democrat Lee Fisher announced he, too, had redesigned his site, www.fisherforohio.com
We didn’t see a release for Democrat Jennifer Brunner, but it looks like she’s revamped a few things at www.jenniferbrunner.com.
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Brunner asks IG to investigate leaks about husband
Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner wants the Inspector General to weigh in on whether supporters of her primary opponent for the U.S. Senate - the lieutenant governor of Ohio - snooped into her husband’s tax records, pushed to have his corporate charter cancelled and leaked details of the whole kit and caboodle to the press.
An attorney for Brunner’s husband, Rick Brunner of the Brunner Firm, asked Ohio Inspector General Tom Charles last week to investigate whether state officials publicly discussed the temporary cancellation of the Brunner Firm’s corporate charter. Charles has not indicated whether he plans to investigate.
David Dettman, Brunner’s campaign manager said Charles was asked to investigate “state officials who publicly discussed the temporary cancellation of Rick Brunner’s law firm professional corporation charter, the timing of the cancellation and circumstances under which supporters of U.S. Senate candidate Lee Fisher quickly learned about it.”
“The request for an inspector general investigation was not made lightly,” he said.
The investigation comes after the Brunner Law Firm received a letter from the Ohio Department of Taxation in June indicating that the firm hadn’t met all its filing requirements for 1998 and 2001. The department indicated it was cancelling the charter because it had not met its requirements. That information was leaked to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which has been writing about the incident as well as Brunner’s charges that it was politically motivated.
Since they received the letter, though, Brunner’s accountant has produced documents indicating that the Brunner Law Firm met all its filing requirements. The firm’s corporate charter has been reinstated.
Fisher’s campaign manager Geri Prado, called the charges “completely baseless and unfortunate.”
“It’s up to the Inspector General to determine whether to pursue this, and we will cooperate fully with his decision. Ohioans are being presented with a stark choice: Lee Fisher is talking about keeping good-paying jobs in our state and rebuilding the Middle Class, while his opponent alleges bizarre conspiracy theories and talks about anything but the issues,” Prado said.
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$79.3 million in stimulus cash coming for Ohio cops
Ohio cities, including Dayton and Springfield, will receive millions of dollars in federal stimulus money to pay for 336 police officers over the next three years, the White House announced Tuesday, July 28. The cities must commit to retaining the officers for a fourth year, under the terms of the grants.
These Miami Valley cities are expected to receive grants: Dayton $5.6 million for 21 officers; Springfield $1.3 million for seven officers; Hamilton $1.4 million for six officers; and Trotwood $438,000 for two officers.
Nationwide, $1 billion in federal funding is expected to pay for 1,046 officers.
