Posted on 02/17/2009 11:03:43 AM PST by buccaneer81
Brunner, Fisher announce U.S. Senate bids May Democratic primary possible Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:24 PM Updated: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 01:36 PM By Joe Hallett THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Two of the state's highest-ranking Democrats are announcing today that they will run in 2010 to replace retiring Republican U.S. Sen. George V. Voinovich.
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner and Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher have informed supporters of their plans, potentially setting up a May primary between them.
Brunner made her intentions public this morning and, shortly after noon, Fisher sent an e-mail to supporters announcing he was in the race.
"Ironically," Fisher said in the email, "we learned at about 11 this morning that Jennifer Brunner is announcing for the Senate today. So are we -- later this afternoon!"
Joined by Gov. Ted Strickland, Fisher will announce his candidacy at the Statehouse at 6 p.m. Brunner planned to announce her candidacy this afternoon in a Web broadcast.
Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern said Brunner called him this morning "and told me she would be a candidate for the U.S. Senate. She indicated to me she should be considered a candidate as of noon today and that she will make an announcement early this afternoon."
If elected, Brunner would become Ohio's first female U.S. senator.
Sources said that Democratic Cuyahoga County Prosecutor William Mason likely will run to succeed Brunner. Franklin County Commissioner Paula Brooks also is said to be considering a bid for the Democratic nomination for secretary of state. State Sen. Jon A. Husted of Kettering has said he might seek the GOP nomination for secretary of state.
Former U.S. Rep. Rob Portman of Cincinnati already has announced his Republican candidacy for the Senate seat.
Ohio Election Thief Ping!
Good. If there has to be one, let there be a bunch. Hope it’s a knockdown, drag out, bloody primary with LOTS of bitter feelings afterwards!
Acorn Brunner must be defeated.
Well, we all know who the Rat party, ACORN, and Obama are going to support. Time to payback Brunner.
Ping!
I hate to admit, I know nothing about either...but if political name recognition gets the vote...Lee Fischer’s got it. I only know the name Brunner from the family in Mentor. I’ll have to do some reading up about these two...looks like comments here show Brunner’s an ACORN gal...why are they supporting her and not him?
Brunner single-handedly changed Ohio election laws, through the leftist courts, by allowing same-day registration and voting, and early voting over a week before election day. When our side fought back, she said we were all about ‘disenfranchising the neediest and the minorities.’ All this while the ACORN vans were dropping off the same scum to vote fraudulently at Vet’s Memorial a week before election day.
Yep. Add to that tons of free pizza and you've bought yourself a lot of votes for the Dems.
May Brunner and Fisher have a long, expensive, bitter, devisive primary fight.
And in the end may Lee win because he’s a loser.
Oh look the Cuyahoga county machine wants to take over for Brunner.
Brunner is honest and works hard. I don't care for her liberal politics, but she did not throw the last election in favor of Obama. Ohio is a purple state and barely went for Bush in 2000 and 2004. Ohio conservatives were (properly) unenthusiastic about John McCain, and many moderates (properly) viewed him as old and a Washington insider.
The long and difficult Iraq War, Bush's unpopularity and the sinking economy made it easier for anyone, including Barack Obama, to sell Ohio fence-sitters on a major "change" in leadership. IMHO, Al Gore would have won here in 2000, and John Kerry in 2004, if either had faced a 72-year-old John McCain. And either of them would have defeated McCain in 2008, too.
McCain was a weak candidate in a very tough election year. Still, if he had strongly opposed the 2008 bail out (and proposed some alternative -- like a tax cut), he might have won Ohio.
I beg to differ. She was a lousy judge and she's a worse Secretary of State.
On August 13, 2008, Brunner ordered county election board officials to establish procedures to enable voters who register to be immediately issued an absentee ballot. Because a voter could show up with only a cell phone bill, give any four digits and claim they were the last four digits of his or her Social Security Number, and then immediately vote and have such ballots put into the same pool as other votes with no procedure for more rigorous scrutiny of their validity, the Republican Party opposed the same day voting plan and fought it in several Ohio Courts.
Agreed. He's the Harold Stassen of Ohio politics.
Is this parody ? She works hard to ensure mass-scale fraud for the rodents, I'll give her that. She ought to be in prison.
Dude no offense but you obviously don’t know what your talking about. Did you miss it when she stole a US house seat a couple months ago? Ever heard of George Soros’s Secretary of State Project, meant to elect dems to control (and steal) elections? Brunner is a gangster.
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