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| News Date | Monday, June 6, 2005 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | June 5, 2005
The mud's flying in 2nd Dist. campaign
GOP turning nasty as June 14 primary nears
By Howard Wilkinson
Enquirer Washington Bureau
Attack ads have started in the campaign to succeed Republican Rob Portman.
Jean Schmidt talks to voters at the Montgomery Assembly of God, joined Friday by most of the candidates in the Ohio 2nd Congressional District race. Candidate sniping has begun at such forums.
The race for the 2nd Congressional Districtstarted out as a collegial, friendly affair.
Now, it's the check-bouncer versus the tax-raiser versus the guy who ditched his wife.
Among the best-known Republican candidates, the name-calling has increased and the tone has turned decidedly nasty in the past week, as the June 14 primary draws closer.
With the seat controlled by the GOP for the last three decades, the candidates know that the winner of the Republican primary could very well represent the district for years. That's prompted an increasingly desperate fight for the nomination:
In the past week:
Pat DeWine's campaign Friday began running television and radio spots attacking "Bouncin' Bob,'' a reference to 166 overdrafts former Rep. Bob McEwen had with the House bank while serving as 6th District congressman in the 1980s. At a Republican forum earlier last week, McEwen said there were no bounced checks - "zero, not 166, not one, but zero.''
He said they were overdrafts on his House Bank account covered by overdraft protection. McEwen said that when it became clear there wasn't enough money in the account to cover the checks he wrote, he made deposits.
"There are two ways to run for office - destroy people and hope you win, or to stand on your record of accomplishments and background,'' McEwen said. "I prefer the latter.''
McEwen, at the same Anderson Township GOP event, accused DeWine of "disgracef |
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