GOP prepares tax attack on 2 Democrats in Ohio

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http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060410/NEWS09/604100393/0/NEWS28

GOP prepares tax attack on 2 Democrats in Ohio
Ads will spotlight voting records of candidates


The tax man is coming, and Republicans plan to celebrate by accusing two of Ohio's most prominent Democratic candidates of socking taxpayers from the U.S. House.

State and national GOP leaders will target the fiscal voting records of Democratic lawmakers Sherrod Brown and Ted Strickland with a press-release flurry this week, in advance of the April 17 deadline to file federal income taxes.

Representatives from the Ohio Republican Party and the National Republican Senatorial Committee said they'll attack Mr. Strickland, the Democratic front-runner for governor, and Mr. Brown, the party's presumptive U.S. Senate nominee, over votes for Clinton-era tax increases and against some of President Bush's tax cuts.

The push is Republicans' biggest yet to portray Mr. Strickland and Mr. Brown as too liberal for the state. It's part of a broader effort, from both parties, to define the key players in Ohio's 2006 elections before they can define themselves with voters.

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1. They're going to bring up the "Clinton-era" - ???!!!

The response from Brown and Strickland, imho, should be something like, "if we could only go back to the Clinton-era." They should use those very ads to ask voters if they'd rather return to the days of surplus and peace or continue down the path of deficits and destruction. Or something like that.

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2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2218241