Check back to watch Sharen and other local candidates at a  GOTV rally at N4C’s Springfield HQ LIVE from 5-7PM Friday, October 31, 2008. 

 

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Sharen, along with Gov. Ted Strickland, Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, Sen. Sherrod Brown, Sen. John Glenn, and Attorney General Candidate Richard Cordray rally voters and supporters in Lancaster.

Steve Austria stars in this scary movie trailer. Happy Halloween.

Sharen’s eight county tour ….

Steve Austria’s staff and “volunteers” showed up at the Lancaster stop on Sharen’s 8 county listening tour to disrupt the conversation.  They’re standing out on the street in front of Annies Cheesecake and Tea Room waving signs, and encouraging people to honk.  They’ve even sent a tracker - a kid with a video camera - to tape Sharen.  Well, really to try to intimidate her.  

Steve, you should really know better.  Sharen’s not going to be intimidated by cheap tricks any more than the voters of the 7th district are going to be tricked by your 10 years of filling a chair in Columbus.  You’re part of the problem, and your time is up.

UPDATE:

Austria Staff in Lancaster

Sharen held a press conference with Sen. Sherrod Brown, Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern, and workers who’ve lost their jobs to talk about the jobs crisis Ohio’s seen under 10 years of Republican leadership - and under Steve Austria’s tenure in the Ohio legislature.

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Voters in Ohio’s Seventh District face a choice: the rather cynical moral posturing that is Steve Austria’s MO, or the skeptical independence that characterized retiring Republican Dave Hobson’s leadership. 
Esquire endorses: Neuhardt

The Dayton Daily News accompanied their endorsement of Sharen with a strongly worded … well, there’s no other way to put it - it’s a  condemnation … of Austria’s shameless and baseless attacks on Sharen and her family for helping a survivor of the Rwandan genocide.

State Sen. Steve Austria says he reserves the right to attack Sharen Neuhardt for taking in a Rwandan refugee whose family was a victim of genocide and is caught in legal limbo with immigration authorities.

The issue arises because, in meetings and debates, Sen. Austria has accused Ms. Neuhardt of “harboring” an illegal immigrant and behaving unprofessionally as an “officer of the court.” (She is a lawyer.) So you might yet see ugly TV commercials.

If Sen. Austria makes that move, he’s engaging in gutter politics of the most despicable sort [emphasis added]

Austria and his cronies in Washington and Columbus have been shopping around a package of lies about Sharen for weeks … now that crow has come home to roost.   We can only hope Austria has the decency to accept the admonishment, and stop these despicable attacks.

This morning, the Dayton Daily News endorsed Sharen.

If the voters of the 7th District choose Sen. Austria, they are settling for mediocrity, quite possibly on a long-term basis. If they choose Ms. Neuhardt, they are hoping for something better. She has the potential to develop into a leader in an important policy realm or more than one. They almost certainly wouldn’t get anything less.

The Dayton region has a tradition of stronger-than-average representation in Congress. In this race, there is only one way, at most, to continue the tradition. The rookie is the better, bolder, more optimistic choice.

We couldn’t agree more.