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 Harrison Rally Day Parade in Perrysville.
It’s going to be this way from here on out. Early mornings, late nights, and little sleep as we head down the home stretch of the midterm elections. Election Day is Nov. 6 and there’s no time to waste. Renacci’s opponent is the 25-year Washington insider and career politician, Brown.
“I’m thankful for all of the support I received in Perrysburg yesterday,” Renacci said. “I enjoyed meeting folks and telling them about my support for a pro-growth economic agenda that will lead to more, better paying jobs in Ohio, as well as discussing how I would continue working to eradicate Ohio’s opioid epidemic as Senator.”
Meanwhile, his opponent was tweeting lies about what he really stands for and celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Brown tweeted that Saturday that “big banks and lobbyists” were “scoring touchdown after touchdown at the expense of hardworking families” under the Trump administration.
After the crisis, we passed Wall St reform and put in place strong rules so Main St would never again be forced to bail out Wall St.
But under this admin & this Congress, big banks and their lobbyists are scoring touchdown after touchdown at the expense of hardworking families.
— Sherrod Brown (@SenSherrodBrown) September 15, 2018
Never mind that Brown is the reigning cash king among U.S. senators when it comes to accepting money from lobbyists — more than $430,000 in the 2018 election cycle alone. That was reported last week by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
Brown may also want to check the economic data before he bemoans the plight of hard-working families. That’s because the “hard working families” he talks about have not been doing this well in decades. Black unemployment is at an all-time low, women are earning more than at any time in the last 65 years, and jobs are moving back into the country from overseas.
Last week the government reported a big jump in middle-class incomes, 1.8 percent above last year’s levels, something even CNN had to admit was a huge positive for President Trump and the Republican agenda. Yet, Brown continues to talk swagger about the good days of the Obama administration.
As the campaign wears on, Renacci can only hope that more Ohioans will discover just how insulated and out of touch being in D.C. will make you after 25 years.
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Anthony Accardi is a writer and reporter for The Ohio Star.
