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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Ad Watch: Fisher TV ad hits Portman on trade
During the election season, we will take a look at some of the TV ads of the major candiates.
By Jack Torry Washington Bureau
THE AD: “Economic Plan,” a 30-second TV commercial aired in cable and some broadcast outlets across Ohio.
PRODUCER: AKPD Media for Senate Democratic candidate Lee Fisher.
VIDEO: Opens with a photo of Rob Portman’s blue booklet on creating jobs, which dissolves into a red map of China. The viewer sees images of Chinese workers hard at work, Portman shaking hands with former President George W. Bush, the interior of an empty factory, another photo of Portman standing next to Bush, and one of Portman shaking hands with a senior Chinese official with a Chinese flag in the background.
SCRIPT: Male announcer: “Congressman Rob Portman knows how to grow the economy - in China. He voted for billions in tax breaks for companies that export jobs. On his watch as Bush’s trade czar, our deficit with China exploded, sending 100,000 Ohio jobs overseas.
As Bush’s budget chief, Portman oversaw a spending spree that doubled the deficit. Outsourcing. Bad trade deals. Soaring deficits. Congressman Portman. A real economic plan. But not for Ohio.” Then Fisher says, “I’m Lee Fisher and I approve this message.”
ANALYSIS: Fisher’s message? Rob Portman is the Grim Reaper, determined to destroy Ohio’s economy while making China richer. It is a clear effort to win the support of union members in Ohio, many of whom believe international trade has cost jobs. Some of the points made in the ad are accurate. As a Republican congressman from Cincinnati, Portman in 2000 supported former President Bill Clinton’s call for permanent normal trade relations with China.
Portman was close to Bush, serving a year as trade representative and a year as budget director. As trade rep, Portman helped win congressional approval in 2005 of a free-trade agreement with six Central American nations.
But the commercial also relies on a selective use of statistics that are misleading. It claims the federal deficit doubled while Portman was budget director. He was director from May 2006 through June 2007 as the annual deficit fell from $248 billion to $163 billion. He drafted the 2008 fiscal year budget, which covered the federal spending year from Oct. 1, 2007, through Sept. 30, 2008.
The second claim of 100,000 jobs disappearing while Portman was trade representative from May 2005 to May 2006 is an even greater reach. That figure comes from a 2008 study by the Economic Policy Institute of Washington, a non-profit organization that gets about 29 percent of its financing from labor unions.
Earlier: Ad Watch: ‘Jobs for Ohio’ ad
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TweetSchool levies to be discussed
CENTERVILLE - A discussion of school levies will be hosted by the League of Women Voters of the Greater Dayton Area on Tuesday, Sept. 14.
The panel discussion is open to the public and will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Little Theatre at Centerville High School, 500 E. Franklin St., Centerville.
The panel will include Roger Harden, assistant director of finance and programs for Gov. Ted Strickland, Barbara Shaner, assistant director of the Ohio Association of School Business Officials, Xenia Schools Treasurer Rosalie Townsend, Kettering Schools Superintendent Jim Schoenlein, and Centerville School Board member John Doll. The host will be Jim Uphoff, league program director.
For information call Susan Hesselgesser at the league office 228-4041 or email susan@lwvdayton.org.
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TweetOhio House Dems target Dayton, Springfield GOP-held districts
Ohio House Democratic leaders said on Tuesday, Sept. 7, that House Democrats have targeted Dayton-area and Springfield-area districts as of their strategy to keep or expand their 53-46 House majority.
The Dayton-area district is the 36th that includes part of Dayton and Huber Heights and other parts of Montgomery County. The seat currently is held by Republican Seth Morgan, who’s not seeking re-election because he ran for the GOP nomination for auditor and lost.
The Springfield-area district is the 72nd, based in Clark County and including Springfield. Republican Rep. Ross McGregor is seeking re-election.
House Speaker Armond Budish, D-Beachwood, said at a news conference that despite what appears to be shaping up as a Republican year, Democrats have the right message - job creation - , a financial advantage, superior candidates and a good “ground game,” going door-to-door for votes.
“I don’t know what else they would say,” McGregor countered. “All the messages I’m getting from the folks I’m talking to is they’re tired of what going on, they want to see a change. They’re voting Republican.”
McGregor is running against Democrat Gregory Krouse of Springfield, a teacher.
In the 36th District, Democrat Carl Fisher of Huber Heights is running against Republican Michael Henne of Clayton.
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TweetState bar ranks supreme court candidates
Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Eric Brown, a Democrat, earned a “recommended” ranking while his opponent Justice Maureen O’Connor, a Republican, was ranked “highly recommended” by the Ohio State Bar Association.
Justice Judith Lanzinger, a Republican, and her opponent, Judge Mary Jane Trapp, a Democrat, were both ranked “highly recommended.”
The bar association ranked the candidates based on legal knowledge and ability, professional experience, judicial competence, integrity and diligence, community service, health and personal responsibility.
The bar association’s Commission on Judicial Candidates reviewed candidate material and conducted interviews with lawyers, judges and the candidates.
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TweetObama to discuss economy in Cleveland-area on Wednesday
President Barack Obama will speak on the economy at Cuyahoga Community College’s west campus in Parma, a Cleveland suburb, on Wednesday, the White House announced on Tuesday, Sept. 7.
The event is for invited guests only. It will be Obama’s 10th visit to Ohio since taking office and comes with Obama trying to rally support for fellow Democrats in the Nov. 2 mid-term election.
Gov. Ted Strickland and Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher will join Obama, the governor’s office said.
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, who is not on the ballot this year, also will join Obama, a press release said.
According to published reports, Obama is expected to discuss asking Congress to permanently extend the research and development tax credit.
His Cleveland-area appearance comes after a Labor Day speech in Milwaukee in which the president called on Congress to approve major improvements to roads, rail lines and runways and create a government-run bank to finance transportation projects.
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TweetKasich launches fourth statewide TV ad
Republican John Kasich has launched his fourth statewide TV ad in the race for governor against Democratic incumbent Ted Strickland.
The ad, unveiled on Monday, Sept. 6, shows Kasich talking to workers in a Cleveland-area factory about the importance of jobs and discusses his involvement with ParkOhio, a Cleveland-based company that wanted to strengthen itself financially.
The 30-second ad discusses Kasich’s “private sector experience” but does not mention that he was a managing director of Lehman Brothers.
“If you can help people get a job and keep a job, you make their families stronger, you make the community stronger, you make your state stronger,” Kasich says in the ad.
Strickland campaign spokesman Lis Smith blasted Kasich and the ad in a press release:
“While Ted has worked every day to create good jobs here in Ohio by slashing regulations on small businesses, cutting taxes, and investing in growing industries, the only jobs Congressman Kasich helped create have been in China and Mexico.”
ParkOhio is a leading provider of supply management services and operates a number of manufacturers of highly engineered products such as pipe threading systems, rubber products, aluminum products, and forged and machined products, a press release said.
Here’s the ad:
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