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Thursday, July 28, 2005

OH-02: Jean Schmidt Campaign in Turmoil

UPDATE: Joe Braun says he's still campaign manager.

Big news in the Special Election. The Jean Schmidt campaign has been 100% taken over by Washington Republicans hell-bent orchestrating the worst smear campaign that Ohio has ever seen (quite a bold statement).

OH-02 has two sources on this.

It appears that Campaign Manager Joe Braun -- who had vowed NOT to go negative -- was forced out after Schmidt insisted on letting the D.C. hacks do their nastiest.

There is also word that the RNC is dumping $750,000 in smear ads into the district.

If any of this is true, it shows that the Schmidt campaign is desperately trying to hold onto a slim lead. The polls are moving for Hackett, the netroots are providing the resources to compete, and all the Schmidt campaign has left are dirty tricks.

Posted at 01:51 PM in Ohio | Technorati

Comments

I guess this means the RNCC has had to put $1 million into what should have been a safe seat.

See my tears?

Posted by: stumpy at July 28, 2005 02:51 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

It appears that Campaign Manager Joe Braun -- who had vowed NOT to go negative -- was forced out after Schmidt insisted on letting the D.C. hacks do their nastiest.

Maybe this also had something to do with it.
I'll readily admit that it is just educated guessing (which bears a little more weight than speculation), but what the hey.

Just providing some levity.

Posted by: fxd at July 28, 2005 03:15 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment