Dispatch:
U.S. Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, the only Ohio member of a committee tasked with pushing through Wall Street reforms, spoke yesterday with constituents who urged her to keep up the heat on mortgage lenders who, they said, contributed to foreclosures through slippery business practices.....
....Most of the constituents spoke about their difficulties in dealing with mortgage lenders, particularly as loans are swapped among various companies. They said the lenders impose punitive fees and offer few opportunities for buyers to make payment arrangements to keep their homes....
Kilroy's meeting with constituents was the right thing to do. Can you imagine any Ohio Republican member of Congress, or even Republican candidate Steve Stivers, a former bank lobbyist, meeting to talk about the abuses of mortgage lenders?
>>>> DailyKos has the story about Gov. Strickland's NRA endorsement:
OH-Gov: Strickland grabs endorsement normally reserved for GOP
You can probably count on one hand the number of Democrats who can swing an endorsement from the National Rifle Association (NRA) in a competitive race against a legitimate GOP challenger. Yet that is precisely what has happened in Ohio, where Democratic Governor Ted Strickland earned the endorsement of the organization over Republican John Kasich....
It is amazing how the Kasich campaign team is now "dissing" the importance of the NRA endorsement. In case you're interested-----Kasich still hasn't released all this tax returns.