Paul Hackett’s Contributors; Jean Schmidt’s Contributors

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August 03, 2005

Ohio 2 Congressional Race: Paul Hackett’s Contributors; Jean Schmidt’s Contributors



Last night, Democrat Major Paul Hackett, USMC, lost his race for the House of Representatives in Ohio’s Second District by 4 points – about 4,000 votes out of 114,000 votes cast. In 2004, the Democrat running in OH02 lost by 44 points. Last night, Major Hackett had one eleventh the prior margin, in one of the reddest parts of Ohio.

Jean Schmidt, the Republican challenger, won the race 52% to 48%. 114,000 voters is a huge turnout for a special election, and big turnout was supposed to hand a disastrous result to Hackett. But a 70% Republican district voted 48% for a Democrat.

Here is a partial list from the Federal Elections Commission of contributors to Paul Hackett’s campaign, and to Jean Schmidt’s campaign. These lists identify some organizations and companies whose officers or owners contributed to each candidate. These lists do not reflect the complete list of individual contributors.

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Partial List of Contributors to Hackett For Congress:

Association of Trial Lawyers of America PAC $5,000
Parson Bishop Services, Inc., Milford Ohio – Luther Bishop, Principal $250
Blessing & Company Property Management, Colorado Spring, CO. Buck Blessing, Principal $500
Cincinnati Bengals, Mike Brown, President $1,000
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Committee on Political Education $5,000
Machinists Nonpartisan Political League $10,000
Nordic Motors, Cincinnati, Ohio, Bill Seitz, Boss $300
Ohio Democratic Party $3,000
Precision Motor Cars, Cincinnati, OH Daniel Fitzsimmons, Owner $1,000
Gerald Springer (Yes, Jerry Springer), Chicago, Ill $2,000

Complete lists at http://query.nictusa.com/cgibin/com_ind/C00411207/ (http://query.nictusa.com/cgibin/com_ind/C00411207/)
http://query.nictusa.com/cgibin/com_rcvd/C00411207/ (http://query.nictusa.com/cgibin/com_rcvd/C00411207/)


Partial List of Contributors to Jean Schmidt For Congress:

Altria Group Inc. PAC $2,500
Bank of America Corporation State and Federal PAC $1,000
Cinergy Corp PAC $1,000
Cintas Corp. Vice Chairman Robert J. Kohlhepp, $1,000
Club For Growth Inc. PAC $120,683
General Electric Company PAC $1,000
McGraw Insurance, Cincinnati, Ohio, Michael McGraw, Owner $500
Pfizer Inc. PAC $1,000
Republican National Committee $5,000
United Parcel Service Inc. PAC $2,500


Complete lists at http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_rcvd/C00410647/ (http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_rcvd/C00410647/)
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_ind/C00410647/ (http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_ind/C00410647/)



Posted by Martha at August 3, 2005 12:00 PM



Money and elections, as an Iraqi War veteran, he lost by a small margin considering these districts were said to be 70% Republican. Also, these districts are heavily gerrymandered by, I believe, republican interests.

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Published on Sunday, August 7, 2005 by Press & Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, NY)
New Democrats are Being Born on the Front Lines
by David Rossie


On Tuesday, seven Marines, six of them members of a sniper team, and all from Ohio, died in Iraq. The six snipers were ambushed outside a town called Haditha. The next day, 14 more Marines, also Ohio-based, died when the amphibious vehicle in which they were riding was destroyed by an improvised explosive device, not far from where the snipers died the day before. All were members of the Ohio-based 3d battalion, 25th Marines.

Their deaths pushed the official total of men and women who have lost their lives in a war to which they should never have been sent to more than 1,800. That figure, horrible as it is, may be as bogus as the reasons given by Cheney and Bush for starting the war, given reports that it does not include wounded who died en route from Iraq to hospitals in Germany or after they arrive there.

We know the administration has lied about the number of wounded, in that they do not include in that number men and women who have suffered combat-related mental breakdowns that required evacuation. Even so, the number of wounded is probably more than10 times the KIA figure.

Also on Tuesday, another Ohio Marine became a casualty, but this Marine's story may come to have a happy ending. Paul Hackett, a Marine reserve major recently returned from service in Iraq, lost his bid to fill the unexpired term of Republican Rep. Rob Portman who resigned to become U.S. trade representative. Hackett, a Democrat, lost to Jean Schmidt, a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives.

Hackett, a newcomer to politics, figured to be steamrollered, because Ohio's 2nd Congressional District is about as Republican a district as there is to be found, in Ohio or anywhere else. But he came close to winning, losing by a 52-48 margin.

Democrats in Ohio and nationally are hailing Hackett's near thing as a victory, which is a bit of stretch, given that it will be Schmidt, a down-the-line Cheney/Bush devotee, going to Congress and not their man.

Even so, Hackett's near upset may be a portent. In a pre-election television interview, Schmidt dismissed Hackett, telling a reporter in effect that all her opponent had going for him was Iraq. Which was almost enough. In an interview with Democracy Now's Amy Goodman the day after the election, Hackett told about Marines from Ohio and across the country, men who had served in Iraq and had experienced the results of that mismanaged venture, who came to campaign for him.

To his credit, Hackett refused to let Goodman put words in his mouth. He declined her invitation to call the war unjust and he also declined to call for an immediate pullout. He called the war mismanaged from the start, but argued that we cannot, in good conscience simply walk away from the mess we've made of that country.

At the same time, he spoke of Marines and soldiers still in Iraq as "young Democrats in the making." If he's right about that, then Bush and Cheney and the rest of those neocon liars who raved about weapons of mass destruction and a "cakewalk" invasion are going to find themselves in trouble if and when those young fighters come home.

Hackett also said he is ready to return to Iraq if called upon, which appeared to confound Goodman. She apparently doesn't understand Marines.

As for Schmidt, she is fortunate that the election was held the day before rather than the day after those 14 Ohio Marines died in Iraq.

But how many more of those brave men and women need to die before an indifferent public wakes up and demands a workable end to what's happening there, and not just empty slogans coming from an empty head.

Rossie is associate editor of the Press & Sun-Bulletin.

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