Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Jim Renacci issued a statement Wednesday saying he opposes Issue 1, a constitutional amendment that would significantly reduce criminal penalties for drug possession. Renacci (R-OH-16) has made solving Ohio’s opioid-addiction crisis a priority of his campaign for the U.S. Senate. He is running against two-term incumbent Sen.…
Read More
The president’s son has penned a blistering op-ed, laying out the stakes in the Ohio senatorial race between incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and his challenger, Congressman Jim Renacci (R-OH-16). As campaign season heats up, it has a way of “drawing out the fakes and phonies,” says Donald Trump Jr. in…
Read More
Democrat Betsy Rader’s new TV ad takes on “Big Pharma” while slamming her opponent for “taking their money.” Problem is, so does she. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, which publishes financial data on all politicians at OpenSecrets.org, Rader has accepted $13,470 from the Pharmaceutical Industry thus far in…
Read More
U.S. Senate candidates Jim Renacci and Sherrod Brown have agreed to participate in a debate hosted by the Ohio Debate Commission on Sunday, Oct. 14, at 6 p.m. The debate will take place at the Idea Center in Cleveland. This will be the first of at least three debates between…
Read More
Rep. Jim Renacci (R-OH-16) capped off a busy week of campaigning with grassroots work, shaking hands with Ohioans and sharing his message about economic growth. Renacci, who is running for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), started early Sunday at the Ashland County Fair, after walking Saturday in the…
Read More
Rep. Jim Renacci (R-OH-16) knows that if he’s going to have a chance to take out the well-entrenched D.C. insider Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), he’s going to have to take his campaign to the people. So on Saturday, Renacci took part in a Ohio Republican Party’s National Day of Action…
Read More
In her latest TV ad Democrat Theresa Gasper promotes her run for Ohio’s District 10 congressional seat, now held by Republican Rep. Mike Turner, as morally righteous based on her funding choices. “I am sick of politicians chasing money all the time, and doing the bidding of their corporate donors.…
Read More
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) likes to come across as a man of the people, a self-proclaimed populist who “sticks up for the little guy.” At a rally on the campus of Ohio University, Browned railed against the “gun lobby,” among other special interests tied to Republicans. But according to new data published…
Read More
Aftab Pureval continues to use the shooting that killed three people at a bank in Cincinnati as a political weapon. Since the shooting Thursday Pureval has tweeted several times, indirectly alluding to his opinion that guns are killing Americans, rather than the criminals who use them to commit heinous crimes,…
Read More
A new Ohio poll shows the two candidates for governor running neck and neck while Republicans hold razor-thin leads in most of the other statewide races. Innovation Ohio, a “progressive” think tank, released a poll Thursday showing Republican Mike DeWine and Democrat Richard Cordray locked in a dead heat for…
Read More