When I was driving around to bingo games and spaghetti dinners with Tim Ryan in the cold winter months of 2002, we had a lot of conversations about how exerting leadership makes real change. Without leadership, your constituents will default to inertia that keeps your district in the past. For example, we talked a lot about [...]
Thursday, August 20, 2009
One of the positive developments of this summer’s town hall hysteria is that progressives in the House have gotten themselves some backbone on the public option. And interestingly, this move has been extremely lucrative for congressional Democrats willing to make the public option a line in the sand. The ActBlue page, where donors can reward Democrats who [...]
Monday, July 27, 2009
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Take it away, Dave! The only thing keeping me from saying the Fisher camp is in full blown panic mode is that it wasn’t Strickland’s endorsement their pushing. Or do they even still have Strickland’s endorsement locked down? By the way, congrats on wasting Tim Ryan’s endorsement twice now. That’s downright impressive. Lee Fisher should just drop out [...]
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
I honestly didn’t think Tim would do this, but I’ve been pretty damn wrong about Tim Ryan before. Five centrist Democrats –Reps. Tim Ryan, (OH), Dale Kildee (Mich.), James Langevin (R.I.), Artur Davis (Ala.) and Kendrick Meek (Fla.) — have written a letter to Nancy Pelosi urging that health reform maintain the “status quo” on [...]
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
As I’ve written about at length, Tim Ryan and I were once very close friends. I hope we can be as close again someday. I have always known that Tim is a thoroughbred politician – they don’t make ‘em like Tim Ryan anymore, at least not in Ohio. I used to tease Tim about his “Irish [...]
Monday, March 30, 2009
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I think my blog is about to get a bump in traffic.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Now comes word that Tim Ryan is endorsing Chris Do…er….Hillary Clint….er….Lee Fisher! For US Senate in 2010! Could this roll out be any more frantic? Lee Fisher’s candidacy is off to a flying start! Looks like Jennifer Brunner really caught them wrong footed. They’re rolling out all their big guns in a panic.
Monday, February 16, 2009
One of the arguments floating around Dem circles regarding the 2010 Senate primary is the “SCARY TED” meme. It’s a fun meme. Stupid, but fun. It goes like this. Ted Strickland is REALLY SCARY, so whatever Ted wants in the 2010 Senate primary, Ted will get. The current SCARY TED conventional wisdom is that SCARY TED [...]
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Anthony reports that Peter Lawson Jones is considering a run for US Senate in 2010. And thus, my case is rested. If Brunner announces soon, she would do what the current vaccum in this primary is crying out for – make facts on the ground. This would prevent a parade of no-hopers from crowding a primary [...]
Monday, January 19, 2009
Via TPM, here’s PPP’s numbers. • Portman 42%, Sec. of State Jennifer Brunner 34%. • Portman 41%, Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher 39%. • Portman 40%, Rep. Tim Ryan 34%. That’s a lot of undecideds. Which means the race is wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide open. Eric Kleefeld notes… And Portman is also registering support among black respondents of over 30%, which is something we [...]
Monday, August 24, 2009
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