Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman has become the latest entity to endorse Lee Fisher’s U.S. Senate campaign.
I can just see the back story to this one from here:
Scene:
{Lee Fisher sits with campaign manager Geri Prado in a dimly lit office}
Prado: Shit, Brunner’s managed to crack into the [...]
Lee Fisher Announces the Endorsement of Columbus Mayor Mike Coleman
Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman today announced his support for Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher for the U.S. Senate in 2010.
“Lee Fisher is exactly the kind of leader Ohio needs in the U.S. Senate,” Mayor Coleman said. “I have [...]As expected, Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman today endorsed Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher for U.S. Senate in 2010.
Coleman and Fisher have been allied since their losing gubernatorial campaign in 1998. Fisher, who had selected Coleman, then a city council member, as his running mate, was defeated for governor [...]
Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman today endorsed Lee Fisher in his race for the U.S. Senate. Coleman was one of the few holdout mayors in the endorsement process, leaving only Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson as the last big piece of the puzzle. Fisher also has the support of Toledo's outgoing Mayor [...]
The national Republicans today assailed Democratic Senate candidate Jennifer Brunner for what they described as her inflammatory and baseless attacks against General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
Jennifer Brunner should immediately apologize not only to General McChrystal, but to all American troops, for her inflammatory [...]
Today, while Jennifer Brunner was making her case for dramatically rethinking the U.S. commitment to the war in Afghanistan, her U.S. Senate opponent, Lee Fisher was announcing a another wave of regional endorsements, this time focusing on Lucas County and the Metro Toledo area.
In his release today, Fisher accepted [...]
It's not much of a secret that the establishment of the Democratic Party wants Lee Fisher to be the 2010 U.S. Senate race candidate, not Jennifer Brunner . But there is fresh evidence in an invitation for a Fisher fundraiser next week in Washington hosted by none other than [...]
This in via e-mail from the Lee Fisher for Senate campaign:
Lucas County Leaders Endorse Fisher for U.S. Senate
(Toledo) – Leaders from across Lucas County endorsed Lt. Governor Lee Fisher for U.S. Senate today, citing his determination to make Ohio a national leader in clean energy and green job creation.
“Lee [...]
Twelve elected Democrats from Lucas County today endorsed Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher for the party's nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2010.
The officials, including seven countywide officeholders and Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner, opted to endorse Fisher rather than his opponent for the Democratic nomination, Secretary of State Jennifer [...]
U.S. Senate candidate Jennifer Brunner doesn't have a vote, of course, but the Ohio Democrat seems to typify the intra-party problem facing President Obama Tuesday night when he reportedly will announce that he will send another 30,000 or so U.S. soldiers to Afghanistan.
Brunner says in a release this' [...]
Senate Democrats will return to Washington Monday to begin a long-awaited floor debate on the health-reform bill they hope to pass before Christmas. But it’s hardly the last battle they’ll be forced to wage on the health-care front.
As tough as the upper-chamber debate promises to be, [...]
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President Obama is scheduled to address the American people tomorrow about his plans for [...]
The “This Strikes Us” column in this week’s Sojourner’s Truth focuses on the health care bill that is now before the Senate. Since it’s been something mentioned here, it is an opinion piece that may be of interest to some of you.
There was no column by Jack Ford [...]
Gov. Ted Strickland didn't mince words last week when asked what he thought about a proposal by some Senate Republicans to fill an $851.5 million hole in the state budget.
"This is a joke," Strickland said of the GOP plan, which failed to get enough votes from Republicans' [...]
Two central Ohio lawmakers, a House Democrat and a Senate Republican, say they are moving ahead on proposals that would give individual counties more oversight over casinos, or even outright reject them.
After 58 percent of Franklin County residents voted against state Issue 3, which will allow the building [...]
Senate candidate Jennifer Brunner really knows how to entertain me on Twitter.Barack Hussein Obama defended his decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammad as a civilian by declaring that the outcome is preordained: KSM will be convicted and put to death. Attorney General Eric Holder, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, made a similar statement under questioning from Sen. Herb Kohl, a [...]
To say that there’s good reason not to be impressed with quite a few U.S. Senators is to state the obvious.
But I hope Dana Milbank either hasn’t read or really doesn’t remember A Streetcar Named Desire. Because in his coverage of the Senate vote last night to [...]
