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The Cincinnati Enquirer is reporting that former Cincinnati Councilman Charlie Winburn hasn't wasted time licking his wounds from his third-place finish in that city's mayoral primary. Instead, less than a week later, the Enquirer says Winburn had a poll in the field testing the waters for Ohio Senate.

From the story:

"I have not just gone home and taken my marbles, crying and bellyaching and complaining about everybody else," Winburn said.

The seat is going to open up next year because state Sen. Mark L. Mallory is term limited - and could open sooner if Mallory defeats fellow Democrat David Pepper for the mayor's job.

Winburn's poll shows him beating state Rep. Catherine Barrett, D-College Hill, 47 percent to 40 percent in a 2-1 Democratic district.

Winburn, a Buckeye Firearms Association 2005 primary endorsee, said he also may be interested in running for Hamilton County commissioner. Commissioner Phil Heimlich is gubernatorial- hopeful Jim Petro's running mate.

In 2000, Winburn worked with the NRA to challenge the city's reckless lawsuit against gun manufacturers. The Senate seat he is considering running for is being vacated by the term-limited Sen. Mark Mallory, who has been a consistent anti-gun vote in the Statehouse, and was one of the top two vote-getters in the Cincinnati mayoral primary.

By Chad D. Baus

There have been ten issues of the Cleveland Plain Dealer (and ten opportunities to correct glaring falsehoods repeated in a September 29 editorial about how House Bill 347, Rep. Jim Aslanides' sweeping firearms law reform bill, would amend the media access loophole) since editorial page editor Brent Larkin told Buckeye Firearms Association "if there is an error in the story, I will address it."

In those ten issues, sixteen other corrections have been published. The average length of time Plain Dealer has taken to publish corrections about stories in October has been two days (not including one correction left over from a September story).

Although one letter has finally been published in response to the editorial (one that does NOT address the errors), the newspaper has had ten opportunities to publish one of the two letters to the editor sent by PAC Chairman Jim Irvine and myself on the same day the editorial ran. The Plain Dealer editors have ignored the letters just as the editorial writer ignored the facts themselves.

So why the long delay in publishing the truth about House Bill 347? With each passing day, the hypothesis that the Plain Dealer doesn't want to write the true facts about what this bill would do becomes more and more plausible.

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