In this week's Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast, Mike Thompson and Steve Brown are joined by special guest Ann Fisher to discuss how the gubernatorial candidates are pushing an economic message in the final days of the campaign. This episode was recorded live at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs Leadership Forum.
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In this week's episode:
Recession Aggression
Mike DeWine is out with an ad blaming Richard Cordray for the Great Recession. Cordray is countering with an ad saying GOP policies are leaving the middle-class behind.
Campaign finance filings show Cordray outraised DeWine in this final stretch of the campaign, but DeWine is way ahead overall and has loaned his own campaign millions of dollars. Whichever way the election goes, the race has already broken records as the most expensive governor contest in Ohio history.
Slinging Mud
With just one debate left in the U.S. Senate race, Republican candidate Jim Renacci and the Ohio Republican Party are bringing up Sen. Sherrod Brown’s messy mid-80’s divorce from his first wife.
Brown's ex-wife, Larke Recchie, has held fundraisers for Brown and repeatedly asked Republicans to stop using their divorce in campaigns. At their previous debate, Brown called the allegations "disgusting" and said, "You should be ashamed of yourself."
View From Richwood
Rural voters strongly supported President Trump, but his tariffs on China have hurt farmers who now have silos filled with soybeans they can't sell. Are farmers second-guessing their support of the president?
John Kasich GPS
Our governor appeared on CNN this week and shared his observation that President Trump is "not capable of being a unifier. In fact, I’ve become convinced he doesn’t know how to accept personal responsibility and always finds somebody else to blame.”
