Ohio Politics

Buckeye Firearms Assoc. on hand as Petro names Sen. Joy Padgett as running mate

3:30pm Monday, January 30, 2006
Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson was on hand at the Statehouse Monday as current Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Jim Petro announced that state Sen. Joy Padgett, of Coshocton, will be his Republican running mate for governor. The announcement was made in the Capitol atrium to a crowd of about 100 people, including numerous senators and representatives who...

Blackwell & Petro both see positives in latest GOP polling data

12:10am Monday, January 30, 2006
Late last year, a spokesman for Ohio Republican Party Chairman Bob Bennett announced that the party would conduct a poll before the Feb. 16 candidate filing deadline in hopes of persuading at least one among the three statewide officer-holders seeking the Republican nomination for governor to seek another office. It became obvious last week that the results of that poll were made known to the...

Dems' pro-gun/anti-gun gubernatorial ticket latest in a series of 2006 surprises

12:10am Friday, January 27, 2006
By Chad D. Baus For political junkies, the 2006 Ohio Governor's race has been providing fix after fix for well over a year now. Among Republicans, battles between Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, Attorney General Jim Petro, and Auditor of State Betty Montgomery have been a microcosm of the larger power struggle in the Grand Old Party of late between conservatives and moderates. Among Democrats,...

Dispatch: Anti-gun Montgomery to quit governor’s race; campaign for Atty Gen

1:14am Tuesday, January 24, 2006
The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that State Auditor Betty Montgomery, who has voiced her personal opposition to an Ohio law which allows law-abiding citizens to bear arms for self-defense, will announce later today that she will quit the Republican race for governor and announce her candidacy for attorney general. The move comes less than three months after she told attendees at a central Ohio...

Buckeye Firearms Assoc. endorsee Jean Schmidt faces primary challenger

12:05am Monday, January 23, 2006
The Cincinnati Enquirer is reporting that in spite of having been defeated by Jean Schmidt in a special election last June, Republican Bob McEwen has returned to Southwest Ohio from his job as a Virginia-based lobbyist once again, to try to unseat the Congresswoman in the 2nd Congressional District's May 2006 primary. Click on the "Read More..." link below for more. After defeating McEwen and...

Gun ban extremist announces candidacy for governor

12:05am Friday, January 20, 2006
In a move which ended heavy speculation that began in the hours after Columbus Mayor Mike Coleman quit the race for governor, anti-self-defense State Sen. Eric Fingerhut has announced that he will challenge NRA A-rated Congressman Ted Strickland in the Democrat's gubernatorial primary. And unlike many Democrats who have recently expressed concerns that their anti-gun positions have been hurting...

Candidate Petro's Lt. Gov candidate withdraws

6:04pm Monday, January 16, 2006
Following weeks of rumor, and a strong insistence just last week by Petro campaign manager Bob Paduchik that it was all just a story being circulated by his opponents, the Petro campaign announced Monday that Phil Heimlich would not be running for Lt. Governor on the Petro for Governor ticket. The Cincinnati Enquirer writes that with Petro "facing a potentially difficult state-wide election – and...

Ohio candidate for U.S. Congress takes concealed carry class

8:16pm Tuesday, January 10, 2006
The Lima News is reporting that State Representative Mike Gilb, a two-time Buckeye Firearms Association endorsee who recently announced his candidacy for U.S. Congress in the 4th Congressional District, recently took part in a concealed carry training class in Allen County. From the story: State Rep. Mike Gilb wanted to get a good look at the training for carrying concealed weapons, especially...

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