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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Dayton CC endorses Third Frontier renewal
The Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, March 9, officially endorsed State Issue One, renewal of the Third Frontier high tech economic development plan, Chris Kershner, chamber vice president for public policy & economic development, said.
The issue is on the May 4 primary ballot.
The ballot proposal calls for the state to issue $700 million in bonds over four years to provide money to universities and businesses for high tech research with the goal of creating jobs.
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President Obama to discuss health insurance reform in Ohio
President Barack 0bama will travel to northeastern Ohio on Monday, March 15, to discuss health insurance reform, the White House announced on Tuesday, March 9.
The trip will be the President’s third in the span of a week to discuss health insurance reform, the White House said. On Monday he traveled to the Philadelphia area and on Wednesday he will speak in St. Charles, Mo., the White House added.
The trio of visits come as Obama and his fellow Democrats who control Congress try to win approval of an overhaul of the health care insurance system.
Details of the trip to Ohio are expected to be released later.
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Brunner fires back in AG ballot signature flap
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner on Tuesday, March 9, denied that her office “lost or mishandled” any signatures submitted by Hardin County attorney Steve Christopher in Christopher’s effort to run for the Republican nomination for attorney general.
Brunner’s office last week said that Christopher submitted petitions with just 788 signatures and that only 638 were validated, short of the 1,000 needed to qualify for the ballot.
Christopher’s campaign said he turned in petitions with about 2,750 signatures.
“Mr. Christopher is an attorney,” Brunner said in the press release. “Most attorneys I know keep a copy for their file when they file a document with a court or a public office. It’s what we’re taught to do in law school to keep good records for our clients, even when we may be our own client.”
Christopher’s campaign has said he has copies of a majority but not all of the petitions he submitted to Brunner’s office.
Meanwhile, Phil Herzing of Washington Township said that he gathered about 100 signatures on his own for Christopher’s campaign, most of which came from Montgomery County. Some came from Warren and Greene counties. Including the 100 he gathered himself, he and acquaintances gathered about 400 signatures from Montgomery, Greene, Miami and neighboring counties.
Herzing said he collected 60 signatures gathered by a woman from Mercer County. Brunner’s log showed no signatures from Mercer County.
Brunner’s office released a log that her office sent only four signatures from Montgomery County voters to the Montgomery County Board of Elections for validation and that all four were validated.
Christopher’s campaign has said he is working on a legal challenge to Brunner’s decision keeping him off the primary ballot, a decision that leaves former U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine of Cedarville unopposed for the Republican nomination for attorney general.
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Ohio Senate OKs bill to combat dating violence
In a rare display of unanimity, the Ohio Senate on Tuesday, March 9, voted 33-0 for legislation aimed at preventing dating violence that could escalate to physical injury or even death.
The Senate made some changes in House Bill 10, approved earlier by the House. Rep. Edna Brown, D-Toledo, the bill’s sponsor, said she hopes the House will concur with the Senate version on Wednesday and send it to Gov. Ted Strickland. Strickland would sign the bill, said Amanda Wurst, his spokeswoman.
The bill would permit juvenile courts to issue protection orders against juveniles similar to the orders adult courts already can issue. A juvenile could seek the order against someone accused of assaulting or stalking the juvenile.
Brown has been working on the bill for five years, driven by the 2005 murder of Shynerra Grant, 17, from her district who was killed by a former boy friend when she broke off the relationship after a year of intimidation and inflicting serious injuries.
“I’m very, very happy,” said Brown, who was in the Senate for the vote.
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Kasich opens double-digit lead over Strickland
Republican John Kasich leads incumbent Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland, 49-38 percent among likely voters in a Rasmussen Reports poll released on Monday, March 8.
The lead shows an increase in support for Kasich, a former Columbus-area congressman, from a poll last month in which he led, 47-41 percent.
However, the results differ from a Quinnipiac University poll released Feb. 23 that showed Strickland leading Kasich, 44-39 percent.
Political scientist John Green said in an e-mail that the difference “could be the volatility of the electorate—or volatility of polls. After all, any given poll may be in error—we just can’t tell which one.”
Also, the polls use different methodologies, said Green, director of the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron.
“Rasmussen may be more accurate for a low turnout anti-incumbent election—which we may see this November,” said Green. “But Quinnipiac may be more accurate for a higher turnout partisan election—and we may get that as well.”
In the new Rasmussen poll, voters not affiliated with either major party favor Kasich, 60-22 percent.
A Rasmussen analysis of the poll results says that the declining state economy and “general frustration” with incumbents seems to be making the campaign a referendum on Strickland, to some degree. It also says that incumbents who get less than 50 percent of the vote at this stage are “considered potentially vulnerable.”
In the new poll, 56 percent have a very favorable or somewhat favorable impression of Strickland while 48 percent view Kasich that way.
However, 48 percent view Strickland somewhat or very unfavorably while 39 percent view Kasich that way.
Just 6 percent are unsure of how they view Strickland while 23 percent - nearly one in four - are not sure what impression they have of Kasich.
The poll was taken on Thursday, March 4 with 500 likely voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
