According to the Associated Press and reported by the Akron Beacon Journal.....
The Ohio Democratic Party has filed a formal complaint against Rep. Deborah Pryce's congressional campaign, claiming she violated the law by not verbally approving the message of her latest TV ad.
The complaint to the Federal Election Commission says the 30-second spot, running on cable channels in central Ohio, didn't contain the disclaimer when it ran on Fox News in Columbus on 5:18 Saturday evening.....
Also, from Time.......Ohio, where three Republican incumbents are in real danger of losing, is having a very intense campaign is hardly surprising; the state’s close balance between the two parties meant it was overwhelmed with attention by both presidential campaigns in 2004...
...Ohio’s Bob Taft has a 78% disapproval rating, after pleading no contest to accepting free golf outings from a prominent Republican activist in the state last year....
The Republican activist the Time article refers to is actually Tom Noe, Mr. Coingate himself!
There is even more news about the Republicans from Redding:
...On a party-line vote, GOP members of the House Energy and Commerce committee approved a White House-backed measure that would essentially eliminate a state's right to ban pesticides without approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
This is not a trivial issue, nor a theoretical one. EPA inaction has prompted several states to outlaw or sharply restrict pesticides and other industrial chemicals on their own. In Minnesota, for example, some state legislators want to phase out the herbicide atrazine, strongly implicated in frog deformities but, after a series of industry-friendly reviews, still blessed by EPA.
....Rep. Paul Gillmor, R-Ohio, was happy to offer a series of amendments needed to bring U.S. laws into line with the treaty - and also, while he was at it, to throw in some irrelevant gifts to the chemical industry....
You remember Paul Gillmor? He is the Republican who says he is from Old Fort, Ohio, but he actually has a pricey house in Dublin, Ohio (must need to get more golf in these days). I have a suggestion for the good folks in Paul Gillmor's district (OH-5)----Go knock on the door of his "house" in Old Fort and ask for Rep. Gillmor and when he'll be there. Don't you think if a person represents a district, he/she should live there?????????