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Monday, March 8, 2010
Legal challenge brewing in Republican AG ballot flap?
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner’s office and Republican Steve Christopher, who wants to run for attorney general, are at odds over about 2,000 signatures Hardin’s campaign says he filed to get on the May 4 primary ballot.
The next step could be a legal challenge to Brunner’s ruling keeping Christopher, from Hardin County, off the May 4 primary ballot.
Brunner’s office said last week that Christopher filed a total of 788 signatures and just 638 were validated, short of the 1,000 required to get on the ballot. That left former U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine of Cedarville unopposed for the GOP nomination for attorney general.
Christopher’s campaign on Monday, March 8, released a copy of the petition filing form that Christopher received on Feb. 18 from Brunner’s office. It said the “approximate number of petition signatures filed” was 2,750.
Jeff Ortega, spokesman for Brunner, said that the 2,750 represents the number that Christopher’s campaign said it filed. “Upon further looking at what they filed,” Brunner’s office determined that the actual number filed was 788 and that was the number sent to county boards of elections to be verified, said Ortega.
Jill Christopher, Christopher’s wife, said they are consulting an election lawyer to decide what step to take next.
One person who helped gather signatures for Christopher, Susan Hardenbergh of Hamilton County, said that she gave Christopher petitions with about 200 signatures to turn into Brunner.
The work log from Brunner’s office, however, showed that just one signature came from Hamilton County and that signature was validated.
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Portman continues to lead in Senate race; voters divided on Tea Party
Republican Rob Portman continues to lead his two possible Democratic opponents in this year’s U.S. Senate race, according to a Rasmussen Reports survey of likely voters released on Monday, March 8.
The poll also showed Ohio likely voters are divided in their view of the Tea Party movement.
The poll found Portman, a former Cincinnati-area congressman and budget director and trade representative under President George W. Bush, leading Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, 44-39 percent, and Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, 43-37 percent, both about the same as leads last month.
The survey also found that 40 percent of voters have a favorable opinion of the Tea Party movement while 37 percent see it unfavorably. Seventeen percent consider themselves part of the Tea Party movement.
On health care overhaul, 44 percent favor the plan working its way through Congress while 54 percent oppose it.
The poll was taken on Thursday, March 4, with 500 likely voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent.
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Sen. Husted wants to amend state try for federal school money
Sen. Jon Husted, R-Kettering, is asking Deborah Delisle, the state superintendent of public instruction, to amend Ohio’s application seeking $409 million in federal education funds to exclude requests including $600,000 for two cultural anthropologists to develop “Race to the Top” stories.
In a letter to Delisle, dated March 5 and released on Monday, March 8, Husted said that he believed this request and others he listed “could significantly hurt Ohio’s chances to receive Race to the Top funding.”
He urged Delisle to amend the application before her March 14 presentation in Washington, D.C.
In a prepared statement, Delisle said that U.S. Department of Education rules do not allow states to change their applications at this stage in the process. She did not directly address Husted’s complaints but said state officials would respond to any concerns at the March 14 presentation.
“Whether or not Ohio receives funding in the first round, the feedback we receive will be carefully studied,” Delisle said. “At that time, we can decide whether or not modifications to our plan are necessary, if permitted by the USDOE.”
Ohio has made the cut as one of 16 states invited to Washington to make presentations to compete for a share of $40 billion in education reform money offered by the Obama administration.
Other proposed expenditures that Husted called for eliminating included:
*$400,000 for a video compilation for Race to the Top.
*$320,000 to create a Race to the Top communications plan.
*$320,000 to produce and distribute Race to the Top stories in print and online.
*$160,000 to develop “creative messaging” for Race to the Top stories.
*$40,000 to revise part of the ODE Web site related to Race to the Top.
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Pepper to speak to Dems in Dayton
David Pepper, the Democratic candidate for state auditor, will speak to the Montgomery county chapter of Democrats for a Stronger America on Monday, March 8, at Montgomery County Democratic headquarters in Dayton, 131 S. Wilkinson St.
The event is from 7-8 p.m. and is open to the public, Pepper’s campaign said.
Pepper currently is a Hamilton County commissioner. He is unopposed for the Democratic nomination. State Rep. Seth Morgan, R-Huber Heights, and Delaware County Prosecutor Dave Yost are seeking the GOP nomination.
Pepper will discus his plans to make the auditor an “independent watchdog for accountability, reform and fiscally responsible government,” a press release said.
