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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Obama returns to Ohio
President Obama is scheduled to meet with students, workers and business leaders on Friday, Jan. 22, in Lorain County, the White House announced on Tuesday, Jan. 19.
The president plans to focus on ways to turn the economy around during a town hall meeting at Lorain Community College in Elyria.
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Strickland names Yvette McGee Brown as running mate
It’s Ted and Yvette.
Gov. Ted Strickland on Tuesday, Jan. 19, told his supporters in an e-mail that he has picked Yvette McGee Brown for his lieutenant governor running mate.
She is a former Franklin County domestic relations and juvenile court judge and currently is president of the Center for Child and Family Advocacy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus.
“I know that Yvette will make a wonderful lieutenant governor because she’s spent her entire life fighting for Ohio families,” Strickland said in the e-mail that went out at 12:33 p.m.
“She is the daughter of a single mother who worked two jobs to support her family. Yvette found remarkable opportunities here in Ohio. She’s taken those remarkable opportunities and used them not to further her own goals, but to make life better for average Ohioans, especially our children.”
She and Strickland will kick off their campaign at 2:30 p.m. at Ohio Democratic headquarters in Columbus.
Strickland invited supporters to tune in live at: www.TedStrickland.com/Live
Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich last week named Auditor Mary Taylor as his running mate.
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U.S. Rep. Boehner names new chief of staff
U.S. Rep. John Boehner, R-West Chester, has named Barry Jackson as new chief of staff for the office of House Republican leader, the job Boehner holds.
Jackson will replace Paula Nowakowski who died on Jan. 10.
“No one in America is better prepared or better qualified than Barry to pick up the torch in the wake of our tragic and unexpected loss,” Boehner said in a press release on Tuesday, Jan. 19.
Jackson, who comes from West Chester, has served as chief of staff in Boehner’s congressional office and as director of the Contract with America. He also worked in the White House as assistant to President George W. Bush for strategic initiatives and external affairs.
As Boehner’s chief of staff and executive director of the House Republican Conference in the 1990s, Jackson brought Nowakowski to the the “Boehner team” in 1995, the release said.
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Alternate site picked for Columbus casino
Penn National Gaming on Tuesday, Jan. 19, announced that it has entered into an option to purchase land for an alternate site for a Columbus casino.
The new 123-acre site is the former Delphi auto plant on the city’s west side. Voters statewide in November approved a casino for the city’s Arena District near downtown but community leaders mounted a campaign against that site.
The new site is on Georgesville Road near the intersection with West Broad Street and close to I-270.
“Ultimately we chose the Delphi site because of its excellent highway access, its status as a brownfield site which fits well with our original vision of urban revitalization and because it received very strong support from local community and business leaders,” Tim Wilmott, Penn National president and CEO, said in a press release.
The relocation is not a done deal, however.
Voters statewide must approve a constitutional amendment identifying the site. Legislators have until Feb. 3 to approve putting the amendment on the May 4 ballot. It requires super majorities - 60 votes in the 99-member House and 20 votes in the 33-member Senate - to put an amendment on the ballot.
While voters statewide in November approved casino sites for Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo and Cincinnati, voters in Franklin County, which includes Columbus, rejected he casino plan.
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Leppla drops out of supreme court race
Dayton attorney Gary J. Leppla decided to drop out of the race for chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.
Leppla, a Democrat, told supporters: “I love practicing law. The thought of giving up that independence ultimately does not suit me. I feel I can be more effective as an advocate, which is what I suppose I was born to do.”
Chief Justice Thomas Moyer, a Republican, is retiring. Justice Maureen O’Connor, a Republican, is running for the chief seat. The GOP currently holds all seven seats on the supreme court.
