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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Dayton Tea Party hosting health care town hall meetings
The Dayton Tea Party is hosting two more town hall meetings to discuss the national health care debate.
Wednesday, Aug. 26: Dayton Tea Party’s Kettering/Centerville/ Washington Twp./Southwest/Springboro Liberty groups will hold a health care forum from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Presidential Banquet Center, 4548 Presidential Way, Kettering.
Thursday, Aug. 27: Dayton Tea Party’s Fairborn/Clayton/ Englewood/Sugarcreek Liberty groups will hold a health care forum from 7 to 8:45 p.m. at Hope Hotel and Conference Center, Building 823, Area A, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Fairborn. Read coverage of last week’s town hall meeting in Moraine here.
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Turner to be on radio town hall meeting
U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Centerville, will be fielding phone calls on health care on Thursday, Aug. 27 from 11 to noon on the Bucks Braun Morning Show.
The radio “town hall meeting” will be on Classic Country Radio, WBZI AM 1500, WKFI AM 1090 and WEDI AM 1130 and will air live. Submit questions for the congressman at bucks@myclassiccountry.com. You can also listen to it on Classic Country Radio’s live Internet stream by logging on to www.myclassiccountry.com.
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Battle over casino plan heats up
It’s not even Labor Day yet but both sides in the battle over a the four-casino proposal on the Nov. 3 ballot heated up their campaigns on Tuesday, Aug. 25.
TruthPAC, the anti-casino group, held a press conference to announce eight state co-chairs and to repeat an assortment of charges against the casino plan.
Speakers at the press conference charged, among other things, that cash wagering would not be subject to the 33 percent tax on gross casino revenue and that passage of the casino plan would ban church casino nights.
Supporters of the ballot plan said neither charge is true and announced formation of a new Web site, copsforcasinos.com, to serve as a “truth squad” to counteract charges from the opponents. The Web site is part of the Cops for Casinos coalition, formed by the Ohio FOP and the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association.
Gambling interests are on both sides of the casino plan. Penn National Gaming Inc. of Wyomissing, Pa., is a key backer of the casino plan while MTR Gaming Group, Inc. of Chester, W. Va., is helping back TruthPAC.
The plan calls for casinos in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo.
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Yates backs Fisher
State Rep. Tyrone Yates, D-Cincinnati, an early contender in the Democratic primary to replace retiring Sen. George Voinovich, has backed Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher in the Democratic primary.
Yates, who dropped out of the race earlier this summer, called Fisher “a talented leader.”
“He’s one of the quickest minds and graspers of issues that face Ohio, maybe that I know in public service in the state,” Yates said in a conference call Tuesday, Aug. 25.
Fisher faces Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner in the Democratic primary. The winner of that race will face either Republican Rob Portman or Tom Ganley next November.
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Turner to moderate housing forum
Rep. Michael R. Turner, R-Centerville, will moderate a housing forum Wednesday, Aug. 26, at the Montgomery County Administration Building, located at 451 West Third Street. The topic: The impact of the housing crisis on local communities and the federal response to the crisis.
The discussion begins at 9 a.m. and is open to the public.
On the first panel, experts from the Dayton region will discuss the effects of the housing crisis in the Miami Valley. That panel will include Beth Deutscher, Executive Director of the Homeownership Center of Greater Dayton, Dayton City Commissioner Dean Lovelace, Jim McCarthy, President of the Miami Valley Fair Housing Center, Kiya Patrick, Community and Economic Development Specialist for Montgomery County and Amy Redachi, Executive Director of Rebuilding Together Dayton.
The second panel will focus on Washington’s responses to this crisis. It will include U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Cincinnati Field Office Director Jim Cunningham, Sarah McGraw Greenberg, Community Stabilization Manager, Neighbor Works America, David H. Hehman, President and CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati and Alan Mallach, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
