Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher Opens Campaign Office In Shaker Square In Cleveland For His Bid For A U.S. Senate Seat
Ohio Democratic Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher
By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the Determiner Weekly.Com and
the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network
Ohio Democratic Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher on Monday opened a campaign office at Shaker Square in Cleveland., Oh. for his Senate bid to replace former Cleveland Mayor and retiring U.S. Senator George Voinovich, a Republican. The event drew a host of area movers and shakers, college students hoping to help catapult the Shaker Hts. high school graduate and licensed attorney to Wash. D.C., political wannabes, and office holders like Cleveland City Councilmen Jeffrey Johnson, Kevin Conwell and Matt Zone, Fisher's brother-in- law.
"We opened this office because I am home grown," said Fisher, a native of Ann Harbor Michigan who grew up in the Cleveland area with his parents and three siblings. "Campaigns are still won on the ground with grassroots people like you."
After initiating his speech with the typical campaign gibberish Fisher,58, then lit into the Republicans and whom he hopes to be his opponent in the general election, primary shoe-in Republican nominee Rob Portman, a friend to former president George W. Bush who advised the then president in many arenas as his trade advisor and otherwise.
"They have spent more money on a non-incumbent than any U.S. Senate race in this country," Fisher said, referencing Portman of Cincinnati, who does not have a primary as Fisher does with Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner where recent polls show the Lt. Gov. 10 points ahead with 40 percent of voters undecided. "They [the Republican Party] will do anything, say anything, and spend an astronomical amount of money because they want Ohio."
A key battleground state for the presidency where few Democrats and literally no Republicans have won the White House without winning Ohio, the U.S. Senate race between Portman and either Fisher or Brunner promises to be an all out war between Democrats and Republicans, political pundits have said.
Political strategist Arnold Pinkney, whom Fisher's wife, Peggy Zone Fisher, teasingly recognized as more important than her own husband, said that he predicts that Fisher will sail through the upcoming May primary because he is in the lead and has the money and endorsements to overcome Brunner, including Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, and that the real battle will come against Portman as Republicans fight to keep all current seats in the Senate, and gain more.
"The true battle begins with the general election," said Pinkney, though he added that he thinks Fisher will ultimately win
Currently Democrats have control of both the House and Senate under the leadership of President Barack Obama, the first Black president of the United States of America.
Volunteers and others can reach Fisher's Cleveland campaign office at 216-751-2010.
By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the Determiner Weekly.Com and
the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network
Ohio Democratic Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher on Monday opened a campaign office at Shaker Square in Cleveland., Oh. for his Senate bid to replace former Cleveland Mayor and retiring U.S. Senator George Voinovich, a Republican. The event drew a host of area movers and shakers, college students hoping to help catapult the Shaker Hts. high school graduate and licensed attorney to Wash. D.C., political wannabes, and office holders like Cleveland City Councilmen Jeffrey Johnson, Kevin Conwell and Matt Zone, Fisher's brother-in- law.
"We opened this office because I am home grown," said Fisher, a native of Ann Harbor Michigan who grew up in the Cleveland area with his parents and three siblings. "Campaigns are still won on the ground with grassroots people like you."
After initiating his speech with the typical campaign gibberish Fisher,58, then lit into the Republicans and whom he hopes to be his opponent in the general election, primary shoe-in Republican nominee Rob Portman, a friend to former president George W. Bush who advised the then president in many arenas as his trade advisor and otherwise.
"They have spent more money on a non-incumbent than any U.S. Senate race in this country," Fisher said, referencing Portman of Cincinnati, who does not have a primary as Fisher does with Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner where recent polls show the Lt. Gov. 10 points ahead with 40 percent of voters undecided. "They [the Republican Party] will do anything, say anything, and spend an astronomical amount of money because they want Ohio."
A key battleground state for the presidency where few Democrats and literally no Republicans have won the White House without winning Ohio, the U.S. Senate race between Portman and either Fisher or Brunner promises to be an all out war between Democrats and Republicans, political pundits have said.
Political strategist Arnold Pinkney, whom Fisher's wife, Peggy Zone Fisher, teasingly recognized as more important than her own husband, said that he predicts that Fisher will sail through the upcoming May primary because he is in the lead and has the money and endorsements to overcome Brunner, including Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, and that the real battle will come against Portman as Republicans fight to keep all current seats in the Senate, and gain more.
"The true battle begins with the general election," said Pinkney, though he added that he thinks Fisher will ultimately win
Currently Democrats have control of both the House and Senate under the leadership of President Barack Obama, the first Black president of the United States of America.
Volunteers and others can reach Fisher's Cleveland campaign office at 216-751-2010.
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