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Monday, July 19, 2010
Candidate in town
Maryellen O’Shaughnessy, the Democratic candidate for Ohio secretary of state, will speak to supporters in Dayton and make phone calls with volunteers supporting her candidacy on Tuesday, July 20.
She will be at Montgomery County Democratic Party headquarters, 131 S. Wilkinson St., from 6:15 p.m. to 7 p.m.
O’Shaughnessy faces State Sen. Jon Husted, R-Kettering, in the November General Election.
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TweetSlots-at-the-tracks gets boost from lottery commission
The Ohio Lottery Commission on Monday, July 19, gave a boost to efforts to put video slot machines at Ohio’s seven horse racing tracks, including Lebanon.
Meeting in Cleveland, commissioners unanimously voted to seek a declaratory judgment from a court on whether the commission has the authority to implement slots-at-the-tracks without a vote of the people. It’s not clear how soon the request will be filed or in what court.
The commission also adapted preliminary rules for slots-at-the tracks. They include:
*Operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
*Requiring players to be 21 years old.
*Allowing up to 2,500 VLTs- video lottery terminals - at each track.
Rob Walgate, vice president of the Ohio Roundtable, a suburban Cleveland anti-gambling research group, said his organization was taking a look at the plan but hadn’t decide whether to mount a legal challenge.
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TweetFisher challenges Portman to seven debates in Senate race
Democrat Lee Fisher on Monday, July 19, challenged Republican Rob Portman to seven debates in their U.S. Senate race, including one in Dayton.
“While you and I have proposed vastly different plans to get our economy moving forward again, we both have a responsibility to share our plans for creating jobs directly with Ohioans,” Fisher, the lieutenant governor, said in a letter to Portman.
Portman campaign spokeswoman Jessica Towhey issued an e-mail response:
“Of course there will be debates. We look forward to a series of debates, and we’ll be in touch with Lt.Gov. Fisher’s campaign to work out the details.”
While polls have shown the race is close, Fisher trails badly in campaign cash. He had about $1.3 million on hand as of June 30, compared to about $8.8 million for Portman.
Portman is a former Cincinnati-area U.S. House member and budget director and U.S. trade representative under President George W. Bush.
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TweetSmall business group endorses Kasich for governor
The National Federation of Independent Business - Ohio, representing 24,000 small businesses, on Monday, July 19, endorsed Republican John Kasich for governor.
Steven M. Bowser, president of Bowser-Morner, Inc., in Huber Heights, was at the endorsement event at a Columbus truck dealership and afterward said that Kasich, a former Columbus-area U.S. House member, understands the issues facing small businesses, such as problems with the state’s workers’ compensation system, better than Democratic incumbent Ted Strickland.
“The current governor is a nice guy,” said Bowser. “I just don’t see him paying a lot of attention to those kinds of issues.” His engineering and testing company has about 150 employees, Bowser said.
Kasich, accompanied by Auditor Mary Taylor, his lieutenant governor running mate, pledged that as governor he would have a representative from small business regularly meet with his cabinet.
“We will put a place at the table for small business to be represented,” said Kasich.
The small business group never has endorsed a Democrat for governor.
Strickland campaign spokeswoman Allison Kolodziej said in an e-mail that Strickland has made the kind of investments in small businesses that Kasich talks about.
“While Ted has empowered small businesses to expand and create jobs by advocating for and providing additional access to capital and cutting red tape, Congressman Kasich supports outsourcing and trickle down economic policies that would only help Wall Street, big corporations, and the very wealthy,” Kolodziej said.
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