It's Official - The Obama Crew Is In Ohio
Submitted by Administrator on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 5:31pm.
From the campaign:
OBAMA CAMPAIGN LAYS FOUNDATION IN OHIO
Paul Tewes, Obama’s Iowa State Director, to Head Ohio Operation
CHICAGO, IL -- The Obama for America campaign today announced that it will begin to dispatch resources and staff to Ohio in preparation for the primary on March 4th. Paul Tewes, the Obama campaign’s Iowa State Director, will serve as the campaign’s Ohio State Director, and field staff is expected to begin work in the state in the coming days.
“While Senator Clinton begins her Ohio campaign with support from much of the political establishment, we are confident that the strength of our longstanding grassroots support in the state will translate into a formidable organization,” said Tewes. “As has proven true across the Midwest, Ohioans are looking for a candidate who is able to work with people of all parties and all viewpoints to get things done, and a candidate who will stand up to special interests on behalf of working families who know too well how poorly our economy is performing. Barack Obama began his career by working to bring hope and opportunity to a community devastated by a steel plant closing, and as he travels the state, Ohioans will recognize that he is the candidate who can bring change we can believe in."
Last weekend, Senator Dick Durbin and Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman kicked off a statewide organizational meeting that attracted over 500 activists. Grassroots chapters from Toledo to Marietta and Ashtablua to Cincinnati have been organizing for months to lay the groundwork for a field operation. Key elected officials supporting Obama throughout the state have helped spur the grassroots organization, including Mayor Coleman, Legislative Black Caucus Chair Tyrone Yates, Cuyahoga County Commissioner Tim Hagan, Cincinnati Senator Eric Kearney, Youngstown Mayor Jay Williams, Cuyahoga County Commissioner President Peter Lawson Jones, Warren Representative Tom Letson, Akron Representative Vernon Sykes and Dayton State Senator Tom Roberts.
Senator Obama has visited Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati twice each since the beginning of his presidential
As I mentioned earlier today, last night at the Obama Cleveland party folks suggested the Cleveland office might be open by the end of the day today. If not, offices will certainly be opening up shop across the state this weekend. You can see a picture of Tewes on this post.
Full of crap
Submitted by Administrator on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 6:47pm.
Since someone has elected officials on board, that means they can't be "anti-establishment" (I wouldn't characterize the whole thing as that anyway, but whatever...).
Look at Ohio. Who's on board with Team Clinton?
The Governor
The Unions
A Majority of the DNC delegates
So Obama has the support of the Mayor of Columbus and a couple county commissioners? That hardly makes your point.
The Superdelegate count alone makes me start laughing at your point.
What?
Submitted by modernesquire on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 7:08pm.
So the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus and the mayors aren't part of the Democratic establishment?
And didn't you just last week write that Obama probably only trails Clinton in three Ohio superdelegates with eight uncommitted?
So what's so funny about my assertion that Obama's claim that he's running against the Ohio Democratic establishment is an embellishment of the truth.
Mark Penn's latest filth on "establishment candidates"
Submitted by Tim Russo on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 7:11pm.
c'mon, modern, be original for once. hillary arguing obama is the "establishment candidate" is like mitt romney arguing he's conservative.
No, that's not what I said
Submitted by Administrator on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 7:16pm.
If you read the post, I said Clinton's got double the superdelegates that Obama has in Ohio..with the most of them out in the pasture still.
And if I had to put odds on where they'd all end up today, I'd say they break for Clinton hands down.
And what's with your preoccupation with the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus? One endorsement ( a powerful one), but one nonetheless. You think the OLBC nod means that Obama can't represent change still? I'd love to see you outline that thought process.
Hands down, Clinton has an overwhelming majority of the institutional support in Ohio. You've said it yourself.
So why are you getting all antsy about that now?
Your Headline is a Lie
Submitted by Administrator on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 7:17pm.
By the way...I've pointed it out already, but you should really change your headline. It's blatantly false.
yeah, modern, the headline is just false
Submitted by Tim Russo on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 7:22pm.
change it. if you're gonna spin for your buddy strickland in the hopes of following him to the office of the vice president, the least you could do is not lie.
Obama: the "anti-establishment" myth
This is too comical to be true.
First:
Followed by:
And, of course, let's not forget the entire endorsement from the Ohio Black Legislative Caucus.
When will Obama drop this "anti-establishment candidate" crap? You don't get more Democratic establishment than an endorsement by Senator Edward Kennedy for God's sake.
He's running against the Clinton establishment, but that's hardly the Democratic establishment (ala DNC chairman Howard Dean, you know, the last anti-establishment candidate).