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Senate 2010: Brunner & Fisher Eye DC
- Filed under: Ohio, Ohio Government
- Date: Feb 17,2009
I think statewide announcements deserve an update on this basically defunct blog, don't you?
Jennifer Brunner is running for Senate!
Lee Fisher is running for Senate!
I covered what I thought at the Keeler Report. In summary, here is what i said:
1. I am stupefied by all the Democrats who were begging her to run again for SoS – pitching the "team player" angle – and thought it would work. Open Senate seats come along maybe once but probably not twice in a career of a politician. Brunner obviously doesn't see herself as just a Secretary of State. This was her chance and she would have been borderline stupid to not take it. She will have the full-backing of 60th vote Sherrod which will be worth something. She cares more about herself than the Apportionment Board. So would you if you were her too.
2. Saying that Brunner doesn't see herself as a career SoS, she also knows that if Strickland wins in 2010, AG Cordray is the party choice for Governor if he wins in 2010 as well. That must have played a factor in her thinking. And she must have felt both would happen. Not saying they will, just saying that is what she thinks.
3. While 60th vote Sherrod will support Brunner, Fisher will have the backing of Strickland and what he controls…..at least the two of them will have that backing as we start out.
4. Dispatch: Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason might replace Brunner in the SoS race. I guess? Though Brunner is a formidable candidate, her departure does bring about a major opening for the Ohio GOP to take that seat back and hold the Apportionment Board. I wonder, deep down, if the Ohio GOP would rather win the Senate seat or Brunner's. Actually, I am fairly sure it is Brunner's.
5. Will this push out others in the Democratic field – or encourage them to get going on their bid? Neither Fisher or Brunner is backing down – and you can't expect anyone to with this opportunity. If Brunner and Fisher are both going to run and there will not be a clear field, there is no incentive for any of the other possibilities to stay away. It might be easier for someone like Betty Sutton or Peter Lawson Jones to win in a fractured primary – much like Sutton did for her congressional seat in March 2006. (I think this is the most important point).
6. I guess with Fisher making it official that means Bill O'Neill won't be running. He said he wouldn't run if Fisher did. What a relief.
I also think it is important that we note prediciting this race so far out would be foolish. Ask George Allen, Tom Daschle, and Ted Stevens about that.
7 Responses for "Senate 2010: Brunner & Fisher Eye DC"
You guys should write again.
Ditto. I miss this site.
I will be proud to vote for Rob Portman for this election. The tide will swing back as it always does when one side overreaches.
Thumbs up for Rob Portman
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NO NEED TO WORRY. WATCH JAN 2ND FOR BRUNNER TO COME OUT WITH SOME EXPLOSIVE STUFF–TOTAL "ROPE A DOPE"…..ALSO……LEE HAS A NEW PROBLEM….HIS LOBBYIST AND NEW CHIEF OF STAFF ALAN MELAMED….WILL BE THE JACK ABRAMOFF OF THIS OHIO RACE. THE MONEY TRAIL FROM THESE TWO BIRDS BILKING THE TAX PAYERS FOR THEIR MILLIONAIRE FRIENDS AT FIRST ENERGY AND THE NURSING HOME INDUSTRY, WILL CAUSE FISHER TO WITHDRAW MID-WAY. THE WE WILL SEE WHAT PORTMAN CAN DO AGAINST THE NEWLY ENERGIZED BRUNNER.
NO MATTER HOW MUCH MONEY PORTMAN RAISES, HE IS TOAST BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN "BUSHED" BY DADDY BUSH AND W. YOU CONSERVATIVES KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
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