Rival targets DeWine for taking funds from oil firms (Sherrod Brown)

[IndianaGreen]

Rival targets DeWine for taking funds from oil firms

By JIM TANKERSLEY
BLADE POLITICS WRITER

Mr. DeWine, a Cedarville Republican, has rubbed financial shoulders with some of the nation's most controversial politicians and interest groups this campaign. He has raised money with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, whose approval ratings have nose-dived in Ohio, and with two leading figures in a high-profile Washington lobbyist scandal: U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns and U.S. Rep. Bob Ney.

On a Toledo campaign stop yesterday, Mr. DeWine's Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep. Sherrod Brown, ripped Mr. DeWine and congressional Republicans for their fund-raising ties to large oil companies, who have suffered a rough public rela-tions streak in recent months for reporting record profits while gasoline prices rise.

"We will not be able to bring gas prices down until Congress and the White House break their addiction to oil company campaign contributions," Mr. Brown said during a news conference outside a Clark gas station on Dorr St. "In the last five years, George Bush, Mike DeWine, and Republicans in Washington have received $73 million in oil and gas company contributions."

Mr. DeWine has taken nearly $40,000 from oil and gas interests in the first few months of this year and close to $350,000 over his career. An industry lobbying group says Mr. DeWine voted its way 80 percent of the time in the last three years, despite his opposition to oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060513/NEWS09/605130344

[maseman]

1. Go Brown!

This is a must win senate race for the Dems. Ohio really needs to have one Senator as a Dem. Plus this would be a huge blow for the Reps. Kick!

[Divine Discontent]

2. w/o a DOUBT!

this is going to be close (and why I am concerned of vote fraud, NOT voter fraud), these sob's are going to do everything in ohio to cheat their ways into office

and how about puke kenny running for Gov! VOMIT! he'll probably get in with the cheating... then again, perhaps the anti-black racists in small counties won't vote for him, so their sick racism will actually keep an asshole out perhaps???

check out this site with ANTI DEWINE & pro-Brown stickers (and anti-bush stuff)-
http://www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable

[0rganism]

3. "Rival" targets? Not "Brown"? Wouldn't want to give him name recognition

Damn that liberal media, always pumping for Democratic candidates. :sarcasm: