DCCC checks in on Driehaus
State Rep. Steve Driehaus, the Price Hill Democrat who plans to take on Rep. Steve Chabot in the 1st Congressional District next year, has spent much of the past two months chained to a telephone, calling up potential donors in an effort to show that he can raise the big bucks.
Thursday, the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) will come to Cincinnati to see how Driehaus is doing.
Chris Van Hollen, the Maryland congressman who heads the DCCC, will be in town; and the congressman and the wanna-be congressman will hold a "discussion and media availability" Thursday morning at the Front Porch Coffeehouse on Glenway Avenue - where the co-owner happens to be Denise Driehaus, the most likely candidate to run next year to replace her brother in the 31st Ohio House District.
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Post a Comment*I am sure Leslie Ghiz will be glad to help Driehaus in any way that she can, just like she did with John Cranley.
So the DCCC is looking to see if it wants to spend a million or so to defeat Chabot? This is an old refrain, isn't it?
Last election they poured money into the race against Chabot, and
went down in flames.
Meanwhile, in Cong. dist. 2, which they ignored until the last minute, Victoria Wulsin was coming within a hair of knocking off the most vulnerable Republican congressperson in the country.
Wulsin is runnig again, and Schmidt is still an embarassment to the Republican party.
So, what do you say, Mr. Head of the DCCC? Will you take your blinders off and help us pick up a seat in the House of Representatives this time?
Or will it be business as usual,
same-old, same-old, and to hell with the people who care about this country, not just their careers in politics?
John Cranley should enter the race for the Ohio 1st CD--hopefully he will.
Ohio does not have a "resign to run" law, so I am hopeful that he will enter the race after he has secured another term on Council.
He would be a great Congressman...he's got the smarts (the Harvard Law degree), lots of experience in local politics, and hopefully he's learned a thing or two from 2006's attempt at defeating Mr '93 Buick.
Dr Wulsin was a wonderful campaigner and I am sure if it was n't for her stand on "Abortion" the 2nd CD would have elected her over Jean Schmidt (who just completed a "12-hour visit" to Iraq. (!)
In most Districts, "Abortion" would not be the make or break issue, but let's not forget that Cinci is the home of the "Right to Life" movement.
GO JC!
Chabot USES used cars every election he faces trouble. It is a great way for Chabot to comb-over his One Million Dollar stock portfolio.
How is it the same "old refrain"? Wulsin supporters need to stop spouting Republican talking points and get on board with Driehaus. The fact is, 2006 was the first time the DCCC targeted Chabot since 1998! Cranley put a great chink in Chabot's armor. Driehaus is going to take him down.
tb:
"same old refrain" was a comment on the priorities of the DCCC, not a "Republican talking point". The DCCC had an easy pickup in the 2nd district, if they had come through with support early in the campaign.
That posting was an effort to get the DCCC to focus on a winnable race, not just one that would give them bragging rights and nothing else.
Who is Denise Driehaus? I've never heard of her and I've lived on the West Side my entire life...
What is her qualification exactly? Co-owning a coffee house?
Nepotism at its worse.
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