ODP responds to DeWine attack ad with new television ad

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ODP RESPONDS:

DeWine Ads Exploit 911

Negative Campaigning Nothing New To Ohio Senator

For Immediate Release                                                                     

Contact: Brian Rothenberg, Communications Director                 614-221-6563

COLUMBUS – Garbage campaign allegations are nothing new for Ohio’s Senior Senator Mike DeWine. In a 1988 race against American Hero John Glenn, DeWine who gambled and lost, was panned nationally for attacks against the national icon.

More telling is the fact that back in the 1970s a then unknown candidate for Greene County Prosecutor named Mike DeWine challenged the authority of Ohio’s first ever Election’s Commission. DeWine’s case became the Marbury v. Madison type hallmark of Ohio’s ability to regulate Election conduct as DeWine lost the case in which the Commission ruled cause to move forward over false statement by his campaign.

[Shortly after its creation, the Commission's jurisdiction was challenged after a complaint was filed in a case involving the campaign for the office of Greene County Prosecutor. A complaint was filed against then candidate for Prosecutor, Mike DeWine. After a finding was issued by the Commission and the matter forwarded for further prosecution, the decision was appealed by Mr. DeWine. The court upheld the constitutionality of Ohio's false statement statutes and identified the Commission's role in such proceedings as "somewhat similar to that of a grand jury in felony cases," while the "purpose [of the statute] is to prevent the promiscuous filings of criminal charges in court during the heat of a political campaign,, requiring instead that a preliminary determination be made by the Ohio Elections Commission prior to the commencement of any prosecution." DeWine v. Ohio Elections Comm., 399 N.E.2d 99, 104 (1978). From the History of the Ohio Elections Commission http://elc.ohio.gov/History.stm]

“So it is no surprise that Mike DeWine is up to the same old negative slash and burn politics,” said Ohio Democratic Party Chair Chris Redfern. Redfern unveiled an ad Monday calling DeWine’s swift-boat style politics sad.

The ad, launched statewide on Monday, reads as follows:

“It’s sad. Mike DeWine using images of 911 to smear Sherrod Brown.

Brown voted for the death penalty for terrorists, …

… tougher port security, tighter borders…

… and led the fight against bioterrorism…

Dewine? He’s on the intelligence committee that failed us before 911

And on weapons of mass destruction

He supported trade deals with China even after thousands of lost jobs…

And the transfer of sensisitive military technology. That’s not protecting Ohioans.

The Ohio Democratic Party is responsible for the content of this ad.”

Video Availaible at: http://www.ohiodems.org/ht/d/sp/i/726198/pid/726198

“Mike DeWine should be ashamed of exploiting the hallowed ground of 911 for his partisan purposes,” said Redfern. “When you look at his own voting record, as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, his exploitation of 911 and attacks on Sherrod Brown show how out of touch he really is with his own responsibility for homeland security issues.”

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