Sherrod Brown's "Road to Change" Tour

[OzarkDem]

Again, apologies for posting here, but I'm banned from the Ohio forum. A number of people have been asking about Sherrod's upcoming campaign schedule.

THE ROAD TO CHANGE TOUR
Friday, April 21 -- Sunday, April 23

FRIDAY

11:00 AM -- 12:00 PM
University of Toledo Business Incubator
2600 Dorr Street
Toledo, OH

2:00 PM -- 3:00 PM
Laborer's Local 310 Job Training Center
3250 Euclid Ave.
Cleveland, OH

4:00 PM -- 5:00 PM
Kent Student Center - Room 319
Summit St.
Kent, OH

SATURDAY

7:30 AM -- 8:15 AM
Fire Fighters Breakfast
274 Cleveland Ave.
Ashland, OH

1:15 PM -- 2:15 PM
Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation
Commercial Street
Mingo Junction (Steubenville), OH

3:15 PM -- 4:15 PM
Location to be determined
Youngstown, OH

SUNDAY


11:00 AM -- 1:00 PM
The Entrepreneurs Center
714 E Monument Ave
Dayton, OH

2:30 PM -- 3:30 PM
Location to be determined
Cincinnati, OH

[partylessinOhio]

1. I love Sherrod Brown! We need him in the Senate ASAP.

I met him some years ago when I was active in politics. I had just graduated and told him I was looking for a job. He told me to send him my resume, I never did and always regretted that I didn't.

Sherrod always supported our democratic candidates and would appear at their campaign rallies all over Ohio.

[OzarkDem]

4. I'm sure he'd love to have you help

give his campaign office a call

http://www.sherrodbrown.com/write/contact

[blue sky at night]

2. Thanks.......

Hey Ozarkdem, I appreciate you posting this. I live in Ohio, and I am planning on helping Sherrod this cycle. I am out of town right now, or I would be thinking about going to hear him a Kent State on Friday, will have to think about another time.

[longship]

3. Recommend. This needs to be on the front page.

R & K.
:kick:ed

[OhioBlue]

5. I cross posted in the Ohio Forum.

;)

Thanks for the schedule OzarkDem! I miss your informative posts.

[OzarkDem]

6. Thanks!

Hopefully all the Ohio DUers will go see him and offer their support!

I'm putting together a fundraiser, myself.

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[wakeme2008]

7. should be called Brown's Lost Cause Tour

DCCC wants DeWine to win.. do not know why :shrug:

[OzarkDem]

8. What makes you think that?

Do tell, do you have some inside information?

[wakeme2008]

9. Brown is too liberal for Ohio,, and the DCCC dropped support for

a winner just to support one of their good old boys.

[OhioBlue]

10. I used to feel like that too

But, Brown is a true progressive - not too liberal.

The polls last month showed him with an advantage over DeWine. He has a GREAT chance to beat DeWine in November. We need all Ohio Dems to pull together and work for our Dem candidates this year. Sherrod Brown will serve the interests of Ohioans and all U.S. citizens so much more than DeWine ever has or ever will in the Senate. We need to pull together and be the catalyst that makes this happen.

[wakeme2008]

11. Well-- before they even start swiftboating him..

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2006/State%20Polls/March%202006/Ohio%20Senate%20March.htm

Ohio Senate: DeWine (R) 45% Brown (D) 42%

Survey of 500 Likely Voters

March 28, 2006

Election 2006

Ohio Senate
Mike DeWine (R) 45%
Sherrod Brown (D) 42%

RasmussenReports.com

Election 2006

Ohio Senate

Three-Poll Rolling Average
Surveys DeWine Brown
Jan-Feb-Mar 45% 40%
Nov-Jan-Feb 45% 39%

RasmussenReports.com



April 1, 2006--The latest Rasmussen Reports survey of the Ohio Senate race shows Republican Senator Mike DeWine now leading Democratic Congressman Sherrod Brown by just a few percentage points, 45% to 42%, with 9% Not Sure.

In our mid-February survey, DeWine led Brown 46% to 37%, an improvement for DeWine attributable to Democratic in-fighting in the wake of Democrat Paul Hackett's controversial departure from the race. At the time, Brown's support among fellow Democrats had slumped by eight points, and it was unclear whether this would prove a hiccup or a persistent problem.

It seems to be a hiccup. Brown has now recaptured six percentage points from Democrats, attracting 75% support, the same percentage DeWine wins from Republicans.

The race for Governor in Ohio is not as competitive at this time. Democrat Ted Strickland has a double digit lead over Republicans competing with him to replace the amazingly unpopular incumbent, Robert Taft.

..more at link.....

[OhioBlue]

12. well, we have until November and the polls

are expected to go up and down..
Here is zogby from last month:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2544408

My point is that as Dems, we need to pull together and work for change, get out there and phone bank, talk to friends and neighbors, canvass, help with the candidates we most believe in - but ABSOLUTELY become active and work to elect Dems in November. The stakes are way to high to hold grudges and give up at this point. I didn't like the way Brown entered the race but - right now, the truth is I have a choice, do I want to harbor those negative feelings or work for Dem candidates (Brown included) that I KNOW will make things better for our State and our Country. I choose to work for the change that I want to see happen.

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[OzarkDem]

15. Sour grapes

same old whining from the same old trolls.

Yep, campaigning across the state, nearly $3 million in the bank and ahead in the polls - that doesn't sound bad to most people, unless you're Mike DeWine.

[iconoclastNYC]

29. I agree.

People can't let it go that Hackett was a quitter.

And I just love how people even on DU use liberal as pejorative.

[OzarkDem]

13. Zogby has Brown ahead

If you have something more to contribute to the discussion than GOP talking points, please do.

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-flash06.html?project=elections06-ft&h=495&w=778&hasAd=1&mod=blogs

And Brown is running for the senate. The DCCC doesn't have anything to do with senate races. Do your homework next time.

Most of the "swiftboating" of Sherrod Brown's campaign seems to be coming from those who say they're Dems.

Rove has been working on this race for the last 2 months, he has his work cut out for him.

On edit: Your Rasmussen Poll has a 9% margin of error. Any poll with an MOE over 4% is considered invalid. Where did they come up with such a crappy poll?

[iconoclastNYC]

28. DSCC you mean.

And that's quite a statement you make there. Any facts?

[OzarkDem]

16. Kick for those making weekend plans. n/t

[mod mom]

17. Why didn't Sherrod Brown stand with John Conyers + Sen Boxer on Jan 6 2005

I swore after this debacle that I would never support a candidate who failed to stand for the voters who stood in line for hours. I have never heard an explanation. I asked one of his aides at a recent DFA meeting and she said "Who is John Conyers?" She really said this-I couldn't believe it!

[OzarkDem]

18. Clarify please

I'm not sure I know what you're referring to. Thanks.

And, whatever it was they were standing for, did all the other Ohio Dems in Congress stand for it too? Are you also opposing them if they didn't? I'm not sure where you're going with this. As for me, I'm in favor of having a Democrat represent Ohio in the US senate.

[mod mom]

20. No not all the other Ohio Dems stood (signed in agreement) with opposing

the seating of the Ohio Electorate, only the ones who were willing to stick out their necks and fight for the Dem Voters who stuck it out for hours in the pouring rain on that cold Nov day. I have been a lifelong Dem, as has my husband, but this is a pivotal issue with us. It is a matter of principle with us and many of our friends. This is how upset the handling of the '04 election in Ohio has made us.

[OhioBlue]

21. The '04 election made me very angry as well

This is why we have to elect Jennifer Brunner as SOS. She has tons of integrity, is very intelligent and will serve all Ohioans with great competence. I've turned my anger into active support for her and other Dems. I will be holding a fundraiser for her, have donated to her campaign, have her literature to hand out and will be wearing a shirt with her logo to various community events that I attend.

We have to be the change that we want to see. We need to work twice as hard as the Republicans this year. They have the money behind them, they have the infrastructure that has been in place, and they have Ken Blackwell counting the votes. We can win - but we have to win by more than a thin majority to ensure that we can make the changes that need to be made.

Fire the corrupt bastards that screw with the vote, engage in pay to play, launder money for their campaigns, etc. It is our State and we have to take it back.

[OzarkDem]

23. She's really good

I've heard a lot of good things about her and she seems to understand the voting issues pretty well.

[OhioBlue]

24. Yes - she served in the SOS office

when Brown was SOS. She also has years of election law experience as well as experience serving as Judge in which she executed with great integrity absent of partisan agenda.

She is undoubtedly the most qualified and competent candidate to serve as SOS.

[OzarkDem]

22. He worked on the RON voting reform ballot issue

I know he spent a lot of time helping get it going and getting out the vote. He was pretty involved behind the scenes, too. Its a shame it didn't pass. There's a lot to worry about voting in Ohio in 2006.

[mod mom]

25. RON initiatives:

Funny how the polls flipped on those, wasn't it? Who counted those votes? Who had the most to lose if they passed? Many election reformers in Ohio, myself included, are skeptical of the results. We wished the Dem leadership would have backed us up to audit the results, but the ODP has no interest in opening cans of worms.

Sorry if I sound a little jaded, but I closed my business of 17 years to expose and correct what transpired before my eyes in '04 and I have little respect for the hierarchy of Ohio Dem politics, who failed their base and continue to do so(Warned of purges what have they done to insure their base is registered?). This is a big issue in the Af Am community. Check out this post in ER:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x424458

I respect Stephanie Tubbs Jones. Her unwillingness to endose a Dem Candidate for Gov in Ohio speaks volumes to the discontent that is brewing within the ODP.

[OzarkDem]

26. That was interesting

wasn't it (re Stephanie Tubbs Jones). I'm not surprised she did it. Strickland's supporters and many of the union guys at the exec committee meeting were disgraceful in the way they treated Stephanie and Rhine McLin.

Strickland should have known better than to let those hoods get involved. He didn't need to become involved in the ODP Chair election, it wouldn't have hurt or helped him either way. He's a decent guy, but he got some really bad advice.

He and Redfern need to make amends right away.

[mod mom]

27. Not only to STJ, but the entire party to the communities who were

disenfranchised.

No one from the party hierarchy attended the hearings after the '04 elections, not even when Conyers, Waters and others came to town. I am ashamed, as a white person, on how this transpired. This issue runs deep in those who were on the ground and witnessed the travesty, regardless of color!

[OhioBlue]

30. mod mom,

you have my admiration for your activism. I appreciate so much that you are working so hard for the integrity of the vote and furthermore for the foundation of our Democracy.

This is just my opinion, but some of us throw our passions into working to spread the Democratic message of equality, workers' rights, women's rights, environmental responsibility, etc. and to put our free time into volunteering for candidates that we believe will work for a better State and a better Country for average Ohioans and Americans.

I absolutely do not minimize the work that you are doing. I appreciate it and value it.

I just feel it is important that we all focus in certain areas. We can't all be everywhere working for every cause. It is important that we all become engaged and do our part. If every vote was counted but the majority was for the Republicans - then those of us working for Dem candidates did not do our part in the effort.

I see it as we are all on the same side, we have just taken different pieces of the pie to work on. We all want to work toward freedom, equality, fairness, opportunity, compassion, integrity and responsibility, et. al.