...Brown considered the liberal lion of the Senate a mentor and friend, and he felt the loss....
...The elder senator took the younger senator under his wing. He’d invite him to his hideaway — an office he had in the Capitol — and Brown, Kennedy and others would shoot the breeze until the wee hours of the night on nights when the Senate was stuck in session. Brown would study the pictures of the Kennedy family on the wall, pictures of iconic people that had never been released to the public.
“I would pinch myself when I got to sit with Ted Kennedy,” he said. “He was always bigger than life to all of us, particularly those who didn’t know him as long.”
It is clear the Sen. Kennedy's work touched those in the Senate and will have a lasting effect on all our lives.
*** 10TV.com reports that a large pro-health care reform rally was held last night in Columbus:
The debate over health care reform took center stage in central Ohio Tuesday night.The pro-reform rally at the Ohio Expo Center had all the sights and sounds of a presidential campaign rally, including music, signage and even a bus emblazoned with President Barack Obama's logo, 10TV's Glenn McEntyre reported.
Sen. Sherrod Brown said the stakes are just as high as they were in November.....
I think that those of us who have experienced loved ones with health problems understand why health care reform is a priority.
>>>> LOL----Marion Star:
...With a handful of successful meetings that have recruited about 30 members, the Harding Area Young Republicans group is up and running and ready to help get their conservative candidates elected....
....While there was bowling, pizza and pop for all attendees at Tuesday’s meeting at bluefusion entertainment, state officials Sen. Karen Gillmor, Rep. Jeff McClain and Rep. Dave Burke all attended, as did Ohio Republican Party Chairman Kevin DeWine and Sen. Jon Husted, a sixth district representative from Kettering who is running for Ohio Secretary of State.
About 30 people of all ages attended, socializing and pausing to hear Osborne, DeWine and Husted address the crowd, all championing for a new, energetic Republican party to take back Ohio in 2010....
Did you read that-----"....have recruited about 30 members...." OMG! LOL! Do you know what that "about 30 members" means? It means that it is not quite 30. Seriously, what young person wants to join a Republican Party that is so anti-everything?
It sounds to me that the young voters of Ohio are rejecting the old politics of the Republican Party.