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Question – what do you do when (a) your panicked, “long planned” announcement that wasn’t long planned, gets no media coverage, (b) your fundraising emails go out with no link to a fundraising website, (c) you fall 10,000 names behind your main opponent because there still is no website more than a week later, (d) rely on your cronies at Progress Ohio to get at least something on teh internets with a clumsy hit job, and (e) your campaign as a result is almost invisible?

I guess you just do it all over again!

Lauren reported that they will do a formal press release on these announcements when the campaign initates their travel schedule in the next few weeks…

This eludes even parody.  ”Formal press release?”  Is Lee going to be in period garb?  Will there be a fife and drum band?  Weren’t these names already sent out to newspapers?  Do those names now have to be engraved onto heavy card stock in gold fleece with the words PRESS RELEASE on top for it to be official?  Are you sure the chair of Columbiana County can make room in his busy schedule for the rehearsal?  

I think someone needs to sit Lee down and tell him, you know what big guy, how’s Secretary of State sound in 2010?  You don’t have to ramp up an operation on the fly, and unlike a US Senate race, your name recognition is good enough to win you a state seat, you don’t have to think about policies you’ve never once bothered to take a position on in your entire life, none of us have to pretend you’ve accomplished anything in the last, oh, 16 years, and you’ll be doing everyone a big favor by stepping aside for someone who is clearly better prepared to run for the US Senate than you are.  

Or, you could set up an encampment on the state house lawn and invite everyone over for hardtack and coffee…again.