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Mike DeWine's son loses special election in Ohio.
Dayton Daily News ^ | June 14, 2005 | Lawrence Budd

Posted on 06/14/2005 10:19:55 PM PDT by RIght Wing Republican

LEBANON — Former Ohio Rep. Jean Schmidt edged former Congressman Bob McEwen by 705 votes in the special primary to pick the Republican to represent the party in an Aug. 2 election to replace former Congressman Rob Portman, according to unofficial totals.

Schmidt won with 11,486 votes after results in Hamilton and Clermont counties were added to earlier returns showing McEwen with the lead among 11 GOP candidates running to replace Portman, who is leaving the 2nd Congressional District seat after 12 years to become the U.S. foreign trade representative.... Brinkman finished third with 8,554 votes, Hamilton County Commissioner Pat DeWine fourth with 5,041.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: deal; dewine; election; gopprimary; judicial; losers; paybackisabitch; primary; republican; rino; sinsofthefather; spanked; tooooooooooomdaschel; uninterestedohioans; wakeupcall
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To: Yosemitest

I'm with you 100%! Lets take this fight to them! RINO's is the very reason the socilaist liberals win elections, and their socialist agenda keeps marching forward!

Kick A$$ and don't take any names!

82nd ABN 1/508th BN
Bco
"fury from the sky"


61 posted on 06/15/2005 7:51:26 AM PDT by standing united (The second amendment does not stand for the right to hunt, but to over throw a corrupt Gov.)
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To: RIght Wing Republican

sweet! DeWine definitely got the message. Now we'll see if he wants to rejoin the team.


62 posted on 06/15/2005 7:52:24 AM PDT by votelife (we need 60 conservative senators)
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To: votelife

It may be that DeWine is such a likely loser in 2006 that nothing he does or doesn't do can salvage his seat. Like his neighbor, Santorum, he will be very hard-pressed to be reelected. DeWine, I think, would be reliably conservative, if he thought he could still be reelected in OH. But he knows OH is full of liberals and he feels that he must court as many as he can.


63 posted on 06/15/2005 7:55:26 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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To: AnnAdoringFan

It could also be that your part of Hamilton Co. was not in the district. Hamilton is such a large county that it is likely split between two districts.


64 posted on 06/15/2005 7:56:20 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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To: AnnAdoringFan
but somebody on here said the primary included Hamilton county... which would have been ME.

The second district includes part of Hamilton county, but not all of it.

65 posted on 06/15/2005 8:05:18 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Ken Blackwell for governor 2006)
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To: dubyaismypresident

why doesn't that surprise me?

when I first moved here I was told (by my then employer) that I didn't live in city limits and so didn't have to pay city taxes. six years later, I found out that my freaking STREET is part in city limits part out.

and I had to pay six years of back taxes (and then go sit on group W bench...).
:-)


66 posted on 06/15/2005 8:16:40 AM PDT by AnnAdoringFan
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To: inkling

Thank you! Voted for Jean Schmidt. She'll be running against an Iraq war vet democrat. SHould be an interesting race.


67 posted on 06/15/2005 8:48:00 AM PDT by Blogger
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To: Postman

I have pledged money to whoever will run against Snowe in a primary. There are hundreds if notthousands of grass roots republicans who will neither vote for nor work on any Snowe/Collins campaign.

The divas survive on check book republicans and 'independent' (read democrat) voters here.


68 posted on 06/15/2005 8:54:18 AM PDT by Jim Verdolini (We had it all, but the RINOs stalked the land and everything they touched was as dung and ashes!)
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To: Jim Verdolini

I supported Schundler in the PRNJ so I know what it means to be a conservative in Liberal La La Land. God Bless you for your will to continue the fight. I too will donate to anyone reasonable who opposes Snowe and Collins in their primaries.


69 posted on 06/15/2005 9:09:51 AM PDT by Postman
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To: delapaz
You have to remember the context of this tax increase. What Taft had proposed was taxes on a squillion new services that would never be able to be repealed when the fiscal emergency abated. The single 1 cent tax can be repealed when it isn't needed and this has long be a cornerstone of the efforts of Ken Blackwell. Jean was doing good, not being a RINO. In the long run this will reduce taxes in Ohio not increase them.
70 posted on 06/15/2005 9:29:47 AM PDT by dalight
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To: RIght Wing Republican
DeRino lost? This could turn out to be a very good day.
71 posted on 06/15/2005 9:34:15 AM PDT by colorado tanker (The People Have Spoken)
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To: RIght Wing Republican

Chickens coming home to roost?


72 posted on 06/15/2005 9:47:02 AM PDT by tomswiftjr (Remember Pearl Harbor)
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To: ncountylee
Happy Father's Day, Mike! Hope you understand the message you just received.

BTW, Rush just read something from a Cincinnati paper about this. Could somebody please post this (an op ed piece, I believe).
73 posted on 06/15/2005 10:05:34 AM PDT by CDB
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To: SittinYonder
Any Ohio Freepers have insight? I thought Schmidt was pretty liberal. Did the voters send DeWhine a message at the expense of his son?

Schmidt is a moderate, claiming to be a Conservative. Pat DeWine is a non-Conservative, claiming to be a Conservative. He lost ground throughout the race because he insisted on smearing the legitimate Conservatives (Brinkman and McEwen). DeWine's father, who is a moderate Republican Senator was a non-factor, except that he raised an enormous amount of money for his son. Since Pat used it to make himself look bad, I suppose you can say to that extent he was a factor.

The result is very much of a mixed bag. Pat DeWine ran a dispicable campaign and got what he deserved. In it, he ran smears that hurt better men, who still greatly out-polled Pat. I have never seen a candidate supported by the Hamilton County Republican organization poll only 12% of the vote--not in any contest in my lifetime. This was no slap at the Senator, but there are some very, very red, local faces.

74 posted on 06/15/2005 1:17:30 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Ohioan

To be fair, I bet the vast majority of the population views Schmidt as a solid Republican, possibly even "extreme right", which won't necessarily hurt her in this district. The one tax vote would be her only blemish

As for Brinkman, many are sick of his vicious attacks on the public schools, where his group has spread lies and distortions to work against school tax levies.

And finally, about DeWine - we all may want to think his plummet was because of his dad, and that may have cost him some - but he really did run a filthy campaign and having outspent his competition 3-1 or more, you heard his filth constantly. And for the values voters, there still is the fact that he had an affair with a lobbyist and left his wife, and still voted for the lobbyist's positions (1 vote margin in favor of the lobbyist in the end).. and seeing him campaign and show off his young (5 and under) children was outright nauseating.


75 posted on 06/15/2005 9:25:43 PM PDT by eraser2005
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To: RIght Wing Republican
Good Riddance DeWimp!! Your dad is next. If we wanted a Sinator w/o a backbone we would have voted for a Rat.

Pray for W and Our Troops

76 posted on 06/15/2005 9:28:55 PM PDT by bray (Pray for Iraq's Freedom from Mohammad)
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To: Postman
Better to vote for a democrat than a backstabber. Get a conservative, or run yourself.

I ain't toleratin' no stinkin' compromise!!!!

77 posted on 06/16/2005 10:10:05 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die)
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To: Rca2000

Just wanted to see if you have accepted the reality that Steve Chabot is your representative, since you seemed not to believe that a few months ago.


78 posted on 11/28/2005 2:59:21 PM PST by GoBucks2002
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