Isn't Mandel Ever Going to Finish a Term?

Josh Mandel, the ambitious Republican Ohio Treasurer, just doesn't seem to be satisfied with his current elected position.  Mandel, who is positioning himself to run as a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate against Sen. Sherrod Brown, Democrat.  Mandel has been hit with an FEC complaint.

Toledo Blade:

The Ohio Democratic Party filed a complaint Monday with the Federal Elections Commission against Republican Josh Mandel, the Ohio state treasurer and potential U.S. Senate candidate.


The complaint alleges his Senate campaign committee has taken material from his 2010 state treasurer campaign -- including the Web site and e-mail list -- without paying for it. The complaint says that under FEC regulations, candidates' committees must pay fair-market value for the assets they take over from other committees.

It also alleges he is using material produced for his state treasurer Web site at taxpayer expense and transferring it to his Senate campaign site illegally.....

Mandel and his sponsors are ready to pour money into a Senate campaign, even though he just took the office of the Treasurer a few months ago.  To date, Mandel has publicly refused to say whether he supports SB 5, which might make voters wary of supporting him for any office.  Mandel has been making appearances in Hawaii, and Las Vegas, meeting with other Republicans to discuss his future and possible federal candidacy.  According to the Plain Dealer, has a fundraiser scheduled soon in Washington, DC.  Mandel already has a campaign committee formed and registered at the FEC: CITIZENS FOR JOSH MANDEL

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 **** Now that we've seen that the Bush tax cuts have been a total failure because they did not spark economic growth in the ten years that they were passed, why do Republicans continue to want more tax cuts?

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----->  Republican Rep. Steve Stivers (OH-15) is on a list at Tell the Truth on Them: in which he is named as one of the "....most dangerous people in Congress..." because he wants to end Medicare for Vouchercare.

    ....These 42 are among the most dangerous people in Congress.  They are: Martha Roby of Alabama, Tim Griffin of Arkansas, Paul Gosar of Arizona, Cory Gardner and Scott Tipton of Colorado, Sandy Adams, Dennis Ross, and Allen West of Florida, Rob Woodall of Georgia, Robert Dold, Randy Hultgren, Adam Kinzinger, Bobby Schilling and Joe Walsh of Illinois, Todd Young of Indiana, Kevin Yoder of Kansas, Jeff Landry of Louisiana, Andy Harris of Maryland, Bill Huizenga of Michigan, Alan Nunnelee and Steve Palazzo of Mississippi, Billy Long and Vicky Hartzler of Missouri, Frank Guinta of New Hampshire, Jon Runyan of New Jersey, Chris Gibson and Tom Reed of New York, Renee Ellmers of North Carolina, Bill Johnson and Steve Stivers of Ohio, James Lankford of Oklahoma, Lou Barletta and Patrick Meehan of Pennsylvania, Trey Gowdy and Tim Scott of South Carolina, Kristi Noem of South Dakota, Diane Black of Tennessee, Bill Flores and Blake Farenthold of Texas, Sean Duffy and Reid Ribble of Wisconsin and Scott Rigell of Virginia.  Not only did these 42 join every House Republican present in voting for the Ryan Plan, they also complained, in writing, when the Democrats explained it to the American people....

....Nobel Prize winning economist, Paul Krugman, knocked on out of the park in his June 6^th New York Times article entitled, Vouchercare Is Not Medicare!  Krugman is brilliant and I have often recommended reading him.....

(In case you missed it..... I highlighted Steve Stivers name.)