Topic: Sherrod
Sherrod Talks with Progressive Journalists
The American Prospect just posted a transcript and audio recording of Sherrod's appearance before a group of progressive journalists last Friday. More details from the Prospect's website:
On Friday March 10, the Prospect hosted the second in its series bringing together elected officials and a select group of journalists. The guest was Congressman Sherrod Brown, a Democrat who represents Ohio's 13th district, which includes suburban Cleveland and Akron. Brown is a candidate for U.S. Senate this year, running against Republican incumbent Mike DeWine. A recording of the event is available here.
Click here to read the full transcript or listen to audio from the event.
Sherrod Blogs on the Issues at PD’s Open Mike
Sherrod's got one more day left at the Plain Dealer's Open Mike, where he's been guest blogging on issues important in this U.S. Senate race.
You can read the last four days' posts here:
http://www.cleveland.com/weblogs/openmike/
So far, Sherrod has discussed trade and national security, Medicare, faith and politics, and jobs.
Tomorrow's topic will be on energy. Send your comments and questions to info@sherrodbrown.com
Brown foraging for votes in GOP bastions
From Plain Dealer:
Candidate writing off nowhere in Senate race
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Sabrina Eaton
Plain Dealer BureauNew Concord, Ohio -- Senate candidate Sherrod Brown takes a wrong turn or two as he twists through the hilly grounds of Muskingum College in search of his elusive quarry: Democrats in a Republican bastion.
...The gravel-voiced politico with curly flyaway hair is doing all he can to become the first Ohio Democrat to win a statewide nonjudicial office in more than a decade.
Instead of relying on Democratic strongholds such as Northeast Ohio for victory, Brown is already foraging for votes all over the state.
"I am writing off nowhere," he promises during a week in Ohio's hinterlands in late February to find volunteers, develop a field organization and raise money.
The nation is watching Brown's progress. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid believes low approval ratings for President Bush and Republicans could return the Senate to Democratic control in November. A Brown victory in Ohio is key to his plan.
Democrats say Brown can defeat GOP incumbent Mike DeWine because Brown is a strong fund-raiser who has statewide name recognition from serving two terms in the 1980s as Ohio secretary of state. They hope DeWine will be stung by voter backlash against Republicans even though he hasn't been personally linked to the GOP scandals roiling Washington and Columbus.
Click here to read full article.
More from the Plain Dealer on Sherrod:
Brown looks South for votes
Multimedia slideshow from Plain Dealer:
FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL
In the first of an occasional series of slideshows..Sherrod Brown traveled to southern Ohio hoping to spread his message and his name.
Click here to watch the slideshow.
In Ohio political races, Browns usually have it in the bag
From Columbus Dispatch:
Forget the whole red-state, bluestate debate.Brown rules Ohio.
Ever since Ethan Allen Brown was elected governor in 1818, a long succession of politicians with the same surname -- some related, more of them not -- have won office statewide.
The Brown-is-gold theory will be tested again this fall in Ohio when Democrat Sherrod Brown, a former secretary of state and current U.S. congressman from Avon, challenges Republican U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine.
Click here to read full article.
Ohio Democratic Party Endorses Statewide Candidates
Contact: Brian Rothenberg, Communications Director
Phone: 614-221-6563
(COLUMBUS) - The Ohio Democratic Party Executive Committee met this evening in Columbus at the Fawcett Center to discuss the screening committee's recommendations and make endorsements for statewide candidates who filed for office last Thursday.
The Executive Committee voted to endorse the following candidates:
Official Ohio Democratic Party Endorsements
U.S. Senate: Sherrod Brown
Governor/Lt. Governor: Ted Strickland/Lee Fisher
Attorney General: Marc Dann
Auditor: Barbara Sykes
Secretary of State: Jennifer Brunner
Treasurer: Richard Cordray
Supreme Court (O'Donnell Seat): A.J. Wagner
Supreme Court (Resnick Seat): Ben Espy
Chapter Nine of the Ohio Democratic Party By-Laws requires ODP to consider pre-primary endorsements.
ODP by-laws dictate a 60 percent approval for an official Ohio Democratic Party endorsement to occur at that meeting.
"These endorsed candidates reflect a powerful democratic slate that will offer the citizens of Ohio a new vision and direction that will focus on honesty in government, jobs, education and health care instead of the culture of corruption and one party rule that has plagued this state for the last 16 years." State Party Chair Chris Redfern said.
Congressman Sherrod Brown Hosts Statewide Tour
January 13, 2006
LORAIN -- Congressman Sherrod Brown (OH-13) will launch the second statewide tour of his campaign for United States Senate on Monday, January 16, 2006. Sherrod will travel around the state for five days talking about job creation, labor issues, and economic development.
The tour will begin Monday in Cleveland, with stops through out the week in Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus, Zanesville, Athens, and Portsmouth. The tour schedule will be updated daily, with additional stops likely.
Q&A with Sherrod Brown
Question: Let's start simply. Why are you running?
Answer: I look around at what's happened to our state, and the last 10 years of failed leadership from Bob Taft, George Bush, Mike DeWine. Too many Ohioans are losing their pensions. Too many Ohioans can't afford to send their kids to college. Too many Ohioans are suffering from high prescription-drug and home-heating costs. This state and this country need a new direction.
Q: Is it fair to group Mike DeWine with Bob Taft and George Bush?
A: When George Bush said I want to attack Iraq, Mike DeWine said I'm with you, Mr. President. When George Bush wants to privatize social security, Mike DeWine says I've already got a bill to do it, Mr. President. When George Bush wanted the Medicare bill, Mike DeWine was with him. When George Bush pushed his energy - his giveaway to the oil companies' energy bill - through Congress, Mike DeWine was right there ... On every major issue, Bob Taft and Mike DeWine and George Bush have worked together, absolutely.
I don't in any way imply that Mike DeWine is as corrupt as the Republicans leading our state. But Mike DeWine has been, in the last 15 years, one of the two or three most prominent Republican leaders in our state. And when I see our state going in this direction, the leadership of this state takes responsibility for that.
Q: What issues will decide this Senate race?
A: Well, we've lost 200,000 manufacturing jobs ... [in] Mike DeWine's term of office. Yet neither state government nor federal government has any manufacturing policy. We have no policy to bring down energy costs for small manufacturers, to give tax incentives for domestic manufacturing. Our trade policy is a big part of the reason that we're hemorrhaging manufacturing jobs as companies out-source.
That's going to be one of the biggest issues of this campaign - that we continue to lose jobs, good-paying, industrial manufacturing jobs.
Q: What else?
A: We have seen our House and Senate turned over to special interests. The drug industry, the insurance industry, the oil companies.... On issue after issue after issue, this House and Senate have turned over our government to the corporate interests in the country.
Q: But aren't many of your biggest contributors labor unions? What's to stop you from turning over control of the country to them?
A: My contributors want a higher minimum wage. My contributors want worker safety in the workplace. My contributors want stronger environmental laws. Mike DeWine and George Bush's contributors want higher energy prices, higher drug prices, more privatization of social security and Medicare. That's what those companies want.
Q: Let's talk about Iraq. Should the United States still have troops there?
A: Yeah, we can't pull out tomorrow. I voted against the Iraq war initially, I voted against the $87 billion at the beginning of the war to fund the war, I spoke out against the war consistently. I have a resolution right now that requires the President ... to submit to the American public and to Congress an exit strategy at the end of this year, and next year beginning the troop withdrawal - a safe, orderly troop withdrawal - by October, 2006.
Q: What is the state of American national security right now?
A: Well, I think the President has lost his focus. He lost his focus on Osama bin Laden and was instead deciding to take out Saddam Hussein.... He's lost his focus (by) spending a billion and a half dollars a week in Iraq instead of providing the sort of homeland security at airports and train stations and water systems and public utility systems, including power plants.
Q: John Kerry made almost that exact same argument throughout the presidential campaign last year. It didn't work in Ohio. Why do you think it will work for you?
A: People understand now 1) how the President didn't tell the truth about Iraq and 2) how badly the war has been conducted, and 3) that ... fighting terrorism is mostly about homeland security and fighting al-Qaeda around the world.... Too many American kids have died. Dick Cheney has lied too many times to the American people.
Q: You recently told an interviewer, "On economic issues I'm clearly not just in the mainstream, but in the great majority." Majorities in Congress - beginning under a Democratic president - have supported free trade agreements such as NAFTA. In an increasingly global economy, are you really in the mainstream on trade?
A: Oh, I'm way in the mainstream on trade. One thing, you're going back a dozen years. Let's look at a more accurate portrayal. Let's look at CAFTA. Ninety-three percent of the Democrats voted against CAFTA. And 30 percent of Republicans wouldn't have voted for it if they could have voted their conscience or would have voted their conscience.... I am fully convinced that the American public believes their government is selling out American workers on NAFTA, on CAFTA, on trade with China.
Q: On some social issues, particularly gay marriage, you appear to disagree with a majority of Ohioans.
A: Mike DeWine and I both opposed Issue 1 last year (the state gay marriage ban); so I think that's kind of a wash. The issues in this campaign are about family security. And family security means better wages, better health care, more opportunity to send your kids to college.
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