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Monday, May 3, 2010
Former Mike DeWine aide to join Portman Senate campaign
Jeff Sadosky, once a press secretary for U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine, the Cedarville Republican, is joining Republican Rob Portman’s U.S. Senate campaign as communications director.
“I am proud to be joining Rob Portman’s campaign as Communications Director. It looks to be an exciting campaign,” Sadosky said in an email to friends and colleagues.
Monday, May 3, was Sadosky’s last day as communications director for U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas before taking the job with the Portman campaign, he said in the email.
Portman, a former Cincinnati-area U.S. House member, will take on the winner of the Democratic U.S. Senate primary between Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher and Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner in the general election.
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Democrat Eric Brown sworn in as chief justice
Eric Brown was sworn in as chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court on Monday, May 3, becoming the first Democrat on the high court since 2006 and the first Democrat to lead the court since 1986.
Brown was appointed chief justice by Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland to replace the late Thomas J. Moyer, who died on April 2. The appointment is for the remainder of Moyer’s term through the end of the year.
Brown, 56, is running for a full six-year term in November against Republican Justice Maureen O’Connor who was sitting with other members of the high court during the Statehouse ceremony.
The new few months will be full of challenges, Brown said after taking office.
In an apparent reference to the campaign between him and O’Connor, Brown said “the challenges will be confined to campaign rallies and campaign nights.”
“This would be a humbling moment in the best of circumstances,” said Brown, who was Franklin County Probate Judge before Strickland appointed him to the seven-member Supreme Court.
Justice Paul Pfeifer, who had been acting chief justice, administered the oath of office.
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Fisher holds 20-point lead, poll says
Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher holds a 20-point lead over Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner among likely voters the Democratic primary race for U.S. Senate, according to Quinnipiac University poll released Monday, May 3.
However, 44 percent of voters who named a candidate said they might switch and 32 percent of likely voters are still undecided between Brunner and Fisher, the poll said.
“Lt. Gov. Fisher started the campaign better known and raised more money to keep him better known and able to get out his message. On the eve of the primary, he is in very strong shape to win,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. “Ms. Brunner would need to hold all of those who say they are voting for her and win most of the undecided voters in order to prevail. Brunner voters are just as likely to change their minds as Fisher voters.”
The primary is Tuesday, May 4. The winner faces former U.S. Congressman Rob Portman of Cincinnati. Portman served as George W. Bush’s budget director and trade representative.
The poll surveyed 980 likely Democratic primary voters between April 28 and May 2. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent.
