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Brunner: “I am in this race to stay”
Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, who faces Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher in the Democratic primary to replace retiring Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, wants the world to know she has no plans to get out of the race.
In a blog post on her website, Brunner writes that she has been frequently prodded to give up her race for the U.S. Senate and instead run for re-election for Secretary of State.
One of the frequent topics is her fundraising - she has lagged far behind Fisher and further behind former U.S. Rep. Rob Portman, R-Terrace Park. Portman has raised more than $1.5 million in the fundraising quarter that ended June 30. Neither Fisher nor Brunner has released their most recent numbers.
But she said she’s in it to stay.
“Public service for me has never been about the money. I know I must raise it. I always have, deliberately, steadily and having enough in the end to get the votes I need to win,” she wrote in a blog post on her site. “Because I grew up here, went to public school and state university here, lived much of this state’s history through my extended family’s stories and heritage, and because I believe in the future of Ohio, I am in this race, and I will not get out.”
Brunner also writes that she “vigorously” opposes “draconian cuts in state or federal funding that deprive the middle class of tools to achievement such as libraries.”
And she works to define herself as the fresh face in the race, describing Fisher as an insider.
“If this race for the U.S. Senate is about the trappings of insider politics, then I suspect Lee Fisher will be your man,” she writes. “But if Ohio’s Democratic faithful are willing to look toward a new way that is really nothing more than the old way of the Golden Rule, then Jennifer Brunner will be the first woman from Ohio to be both nominated and elected to the U.S. Senate.”
UPDATE: Here’s Fisher campaign manager Geri Prado’s take on the blog:
“Lee Fisher believes this campaign isn’t about him - it’s about Ohioans all across the state who are out or work, or worried about losing their job or their health care. If he gets the chance to serve in the Senate, he’ll continue what he’s always done in public life - fight for the hard working families of Ohio who are too often forgotten by politics-as-usual in Washington.”
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By howard
July 10, 2009 5:08 PM | Link to this
She made a choice to ignore voter fraud last election so how can you trust her in DC. We do not need anymore “party first” politicians in DCBy Ben
July 7, 2009 4:30 PM | Link to this
Just what we need, this incompetant fool representing us in Washington. I’ll pass.