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Plurality: 665,445 votes (17.44 percentage points). OH
Secretary
of State
Notes: Sen. George Voinovich (R) announced on Jan. 12, 2009 that he would not run for a third term (>). Former U.S. Rep. Rob Portman (R) defeated Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher (D) and three third party candidates to keep the seat in the Republican column. Portman was unopposed in the May 4 Republican primary. He was elected to Congress in a 1993 special election and served to 2005 when he took up the position of U.S. Trade Representative in the George W. Bush administration. Fisher was elected lieutenant governor in 2006; previously he served one term as Attorney General, and ten years in the state legislature. In the May 4 Democratic primary, Fisher defeated Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner by 380,189 votes (55.57%) to 304,026 votes (44.43%). Portman and Fisher debated at Bowsher High School in Toledo hosted by WTVG-TV 13 ABC and the Toledo Blade on Oct. 4 (>) ; at the City Club of Cleveland on Oct. 8; and sponsored by the Ohio Newspaper Organization cooperative in Columbus on Oct. 12. According to Open Secrets, the Portman campaign raised $13.2 million, spent $5.3 million and finished with cash on hand of $1.5 million. The Fisher campaign, which had a competitive primary, raised and spent $6.4 million and finished with less than $15,000 cash on hand (>). Campaign Managers: Rob Portman: Bob Paduchik (Feb. 2009) Vice president of client services at DCI Group, June 2006-Feb. 2009. President of Agincourt Consultants, LLC, Jan. 2003-June 2006. Ohio campaign manager on Bush-Cheney '04, Inc. from April 2004. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental and External Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy, Oct. 2001-Jan. 2003; was a member of the Department of Defense Transition Team. Executive director of Bush's Ohio primary (Dec. 1999-March 2000) and general election campaigns (Aug. 2000 to year's end), while on leave from position as director of constituent affairs to Gov. Bob Taft. Political director for Taft’s 1998 gubernatorial campaign. Served on the staff of U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine; Northeast Ohio coordinator for DeWine’s 1994 U.S. Senate race. Worked at the Ohio Department of Transportation during the gubernatorial administration of George Voinovich. Bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Akron, 1989, and an honorary certificate in applied politics from the Bliss Institute. Native of Tallmadge, Ohio. Lee Fischer: Lynne Bowman (July 2010) Director of programs and services at Equality Federation, Jan.-June 2010. Executive director at Equality Ohio, Aug. 2005-Dec. 2009. Customer implementation and support at Primary Solutions, Aug. 2003-Aug. 2005. Director of adult services and service coordination for the Liking County Board of MR/DD, Aug. 2001-Apr. 2003. Owner at Dynamic Pathways, June 1999-Aug. 2001. Ohio state director for SupportCare, Sept. 1994-June 1999. M.S.A. in administration from Central Michigan University, 2001; B.A. psychology and music theory/composition from Otterbein University, 1992. Jay Howser (Feb. to June 2010) Geri Prado (to Feb. 2010) See also: Mark Naymik. "Lee Fisher's internal campaign document shows he's planning for best- and worst-case scenarios in final weeks of U.S. Senate camapign." cleveland.com, Sept. 30, 2010. Shira Toeplitz. "Fisher's campaign has Dems worried." Politico, July 28, 2010. Sean J. Miller. "Months after primary, Ohio Dems still split." The Hill, July 7, 2010. |
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