Ohio Politics

KEY RACE: Poll shows Stratton-Burnside race dead heat

9:38am Tuesday, October 08, 2002
The tightest statewide race of the fall campaign appears to be between an incumbent Ohio Supreme Court justice and her challenger, according to a newspaper poll. The poll results, published Monday by The Columbus Dispatch, show the race between Justice Evelyn Lundberg Stratton and Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Janet Burnside to be a virtual tie. Burnside's edge over Stratton was 25...

Hagan spouts fear-based rhetoric on Conceal Carry Reform

1:51pm Saturday, October 05, 2002
Buried in an Athens Messenger story about gubernatorial hopeful Tim Hagan's ideas on fixing the state budget were these comments about his beliefs concerning HB274: "Hagan...is opposed to the concealed weapons bill as it is presently written. Hagan said more restrictions need to placed on the bill so law enforcement has greater discretion." "'We don't want guns in the hands of the mentally-ill,...

Ohio Democrats Putting A Premium On Supreme Court Races

1:17pm Friday, October 04, 2002
The state's latest monthly campaign finance reports indicate the Ohio Democratic Party is placing a strong emphasis on winning two Ohio Supreme Court seats up for election this year. The reports say the party bolstered the campaign treasury of Supreme Court candidate Janet Burnside by $65,000 in September. The party already had given $185,000 to Tim Black, a Hamilton County Municipal Court judge...

Cleveland Plain Dealer endorses Stratton & O'Connor

2:34pm Tuesday, October 01, 2002
In its endorsement of Evelyn Lundberg-Stratton and Lt. Gov. Maureen O'Connor for Ohio Supreme Court, the Cleveland Plain Dealer notes that "Ohio needs judges who are satisfied with their constitutionally defined role." They point out that Stratton has already proven she understand a Justice's role, pointing out that "she [has] proved reluctant to usurp the legislature's turf. ...In most cases,...

Dirty Tricks begin in District 13: Senate challenger desperate

12:32pm Tuesday, October 01, 2002
Democrat Sue Morano claimed Friday that state Sen. Jeffry Armbruster attempted to profit after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by raising prices at a gas station he owns in Bay Village. Her campaign manager, Jack Kilroy, furthered her claim by saying that prices at Armbruster’s Bay Village Shell station rose 50 cents a gallon Sept. 11. But the State Attorney General's Office (not to mention...

Cincinnati Enquirer to Democrat Court Candidates: ''No Smear tactics, please

8:47am Tuesday, October 01, 2002
Here we go again. Ohio got a sneak preview of a possible sequel to the ugly smear tactics that marred the 2000 Ohio Supreme Court campaign. This year, it's coming from the other side of the political spectrum. An eight-page memo obtained by the Cleveland Plain Dealer details a "class warfare" strategy that supporters of the two Democratic-supported nominees for the court, Tim Black and Janet...

Business, Lawyers Groups Back Different Candidates For Supreme Court

10:48am Friday, September 27, 2002
In the two Ohio Supreme Court races in the November 5th election, groups are pushing candidates because of whether they are perceived as tending to be pro- or anti-business. The Ohio Chamber of Commerce endorsed Lundberg Stratton and Lieutenant Governor Maureen O'Connor, who is running for an open seat. Both are Republicans. The Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers backs Burnside and Hamilton County...

Court candidates reluctant to give stances on issues

12:09pm Monday, September 23, 2002
The Cleveland Plain Dealer asked the four Supreme Court candidates for their opinions on a variety of hot-button legal and political issues, in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that allows judicial candidates to announce their views on such topics. An Ohio rule barring such public pronouncements was abandoned in 1996, though few, if any, judicial candidates have publicly expressed...

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