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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Brown raises cash, names team
Democrat Marilyn Brown raised more than $204,000 for her campaign for Ohio secretary of state, her campaign said Wednesday, July 29.
Brown, who is a Franklin County Commissioner, is likely to face state Sen. Jon Husted, R-Kettering, who announced that he had raised $1.25 million for the race.
Brown named Cliff Schecter as her campaign manager, Don Spicer of Triumph Communications as a general consultant, and Andrew Dyer as her finance director.
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Schmidt airs commercials on Piketon decision
U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt, upset about the Department of Energy’s decision not to offer loan guarantees for the USEC’s American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio, has begun airing 30-second radio commercials throughout southern Ohio urging Ohioans to call the White House and ask President Obama to overturn the Department’s decision.
DOE announced Tuesday, July 28, that it had determined the centrifuge project is neither financially nor technologically ready for the marketplace. But the department did commit to an additional $150 million to $200 million per year for the next four years to accelerate environmental cleanup efforts at the project site, and estimated cleanup of the site will bring 800 to 1,000 new jobs to the site, which has a 15 percent unemployment rate and is one of Ohio’s poorest areas.
Obama, on Sept. 2 2008, wrote a letter to Gov. Ted Strickland pledging his support for loan guarantees. Schmidt has said she was dismayed by the decision. She’s using her campaign funds to pay for the radio ads.
“Pike County has one of Ohio’s highest unemployment rates at over 15 percent. These patriotic men and women have toiled enriching uranium for half a century. They took President Obama at his word when he told them he would back the loans,” Schmidt, R-Loveland, said. “Now his administration has done the exact opposite and every employee of the plant stands to lose their job.”
The ads began airing this morning and will run through the weekend.
Text of the ad is below:
Hi this is Jean Schmidt.
President Obama pledged that he’d support the American Centrifuge Plant.
Now the Department of Energy announced that they will not invest in the plant.
Everyone at Piketon on the project will lose their jobs.
We can’t allow this decision to stand.
Please join me
Call the President at 202.456.1414.
Tell him to keep his word.
202.456.1414
Join me in fighting for these jobs.
I am Jean Schmidt and I paid for this message.
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Portman launches RV Tour
Republican Rob Portman is all packed up and ready to hit southeastern Ohio later this week in an RV. He’ll be decrying the results of the stimulus bill and the state’s high unemployment rate as he makes his case for replacing Sen. George Voinovich in the U.S. Senate.
He’ll be at the Fayette County Fairgrounds on Thursday, July 30, at 10 a.m. before heaving to Circleville, where he’ll be at J.R. Hooks Cafe at noon. Then it’s over to Caldwell and West Lafayette on Friday.
It’s his first RV tour of what is expected to be many in this campaign. Portman faces Republican Tom Ganley of northeast Ohio in the Republican primary in May 2010, and will face either Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner or Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, both Democrats, next fall.
