State Auditor, Republican Mary Taylor, started using her office to give a leg up to Portman recently. he’s always screaming about fiscal responsibility, but a look at his own numbers in his district and his voting record shows that it’s a charade. She pulled her name off of the list of possible gop candidates to fill voinavich’s seat recently. there aren’t that many viable candidates that i know of.

Using her office–
This-
http://blog.cleveland.com/open…..ickla.html
the this-
http://www.toledofreepress.com…..attention/

as soon as Gov. Strickland started working with the Republicans in the state legislature, portman and his crew started stacking up chips and markers. Some of the same things the gop is knocking and using against strickland and democratic elected officials are the same things the republicans said they wanted implemented.

then they leave the room and blame the democrats.

now, they are using the auditor’s office. that appearance of ’slacking’, sorry to say, will be hitting a nerve with ohioans unless the democratic party starts succinctly getting out what is really going on…meanwhile, the gop pr/election team that was here during elections hasn’t left. they’re still stirring it up in the local election boards and planted in counties, and still have open cases filed in the court, especially in the north. there are a few bush pioneer fundraisers there and in columbus. their shady pasts have already been forgotten.

the democratic party needs to put a lid on the manipulations of mary taylor using the state auditor’s office to lay the groundwork for portman.
you would think strickland would know better than to let all of this go by without getting out in front of it with a press conference or two. he has dropped the ball in a few areas when it comes to communicating what he is doing. so, the repubs twist it and use it when if he would just hold a press conference and say what the plans and the goals are, they wouldn’t be able to do that.

for one, that the auditor’s office knew the reports would be late when they proposed the switch-over. time to lay it out. after portman starts to use it it’s too late.

Jennifer Brunner is exceptional. I watched the televised debate when she was first running for state office. Told everyone about her.

Then later she moved on to Secretary of State.

Level-headed. Quick on her toes, slow to remark. Brainiac. Handled things here during the election jumping over piles of — constantly put in front of her by the gop election fraud gang..they really tried to ‘mess up her hair’….she somehow repeatedly kept making people believe that she really did want everything to be ethical..a few more scandals happened here, and it made her job even more difficult. she did a great job…’i’m sure you’ve heard of them’ blackwell’s (former ohio sec of state) pack and the national gop incendiary pr experts, well, they didn’t make her job easier and it was hard enough. she came through, leading, with her hair still in place.

She’s got my vote!

(ummm, personal opinion here—-people think portman’s too ‘pretty’ and is known for taking care of his own interests first..corporate and his own district…. boehner-like…and boehner isn’t very popular here right now even in his own district-has his own primary challenger, sheriff smith from butler county. portman has money backing in his district, but jennifer will have more workers out to help her get the senatorial seat, and has better name recognition for donors. the number of obama workers as compared to mccain in ohio was pathetic. most people in ohio haven’t heard of portman unless they watch the weekly ohio politics show, state of ohio. also a politics news archive site.
http://www.statenews.org/index.cfm
everyone knows who jennifer brunner is, she’s the one the republicans tried to taint and failed. was forthcoming about the process and even mistakes when they happened. took responsibility for making sure everything was clear and as honest as she could make it. came out of it with the paulistas even defending her during the onslaught, she’s the one that tried to keep ‘their’ election clean is what they know…they/inds and rank and file gop, don’t like porter too much. too many favors of legislation for the looneybird blackwell crowd. don’t get me wrong, he has a following, but it’s an exclusive one. what is funny about all of this is she has better name recognition and people know of her integrity BECAUSE of the smear tactics by the gop during the election. she was confronted DAILY, her integrity questioned DAILY and she handled things beautifully, and it was in every paper every time she did. shot themselves in the foot again. kinda delicious really. she will make a fine senator. i said ‘will’ not ‘would’.)

Jennifer Brunner
Ohio Secretary of State
Democratic Candidate for the U.S. Senate-Ohio