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  State representative says he’ll take on Portman in 2016 over gun vote
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News DateFriday, April 19, 2013 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionSen. Rob Portman’s vote opposing a bipartisan amendment to expand background checks for gun purchases drew him his first opponent for 2016 – a state senator who said Portman’s vote reflected a lack of “courage.”

State Rep. Bob Hagan, a Youngstown Democrat and 26-year member of the state legislature, said he would run against Portman because of that vote, vowing to be a “hair shirt” for Portman because of his vote.

Calling Portman “a pawn of the NRA,” Hagan accused Portman of turning his back on 90 percent of Ohioans who support gun sale background checks and “on those 20 children who were killed and the parents of those kids” who were killed in the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Ct.

Hagan said he would hold Portman “partly responsible” henceforth “for someone who has a gun and kills a kid and did not go through a background.”
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