103120 Lens Letters #33 What should the Democrats do about the Federal Courts?
Joe Biden’s Commission should propose an expansion of the District Courts and the Circuit Courts of Appeals.
Women Candidates for Whom Donations Could Make a Difference
A reader asked. Can you put together a list of 30 candidates for the House of Representatives for whom donations would make a difference? Some Senate candidates, too?
Political Note #296 Ohio Supreme Court John O’Donnell and Jennifer Brunner
Check out the website: https://lenspoliticalnotes.com Look at the recent Daily Bits on the website. Chuck Grassley and the Inspector Generals. Steve King is gone, does JD Scholten have a chance? Political Note #296 Ohio Supreme Court: John O’Donnell and Jennifer Brunner 2020 General election The election of state supreme court judges is important. We had one election in April. Democrat Jill Karofsky’s election upset reduced Wisconsin’s Republican majority in the court from 5-2 to 4-3. And one of the Republicans is not a reliable Republican vote. There is…
Political Note #289 Kate Schroder OH CD 01
No candidate for Congress is more identified with health care than Kate Schroder.
April Summary (including Len’s mistake)
Shannon Freshou’s victory in the Democratic primary in OH 04 demonstrated how bad Len Lubinsky’s judgment can be.
Political Note #264 Mike Larson OH CD 04
Mike Larsen made television shows for everyone. Sabrina the Teenage Witch is not a television show for the elite.
Political Note #129 Danny O’Connor OH CD 12
Danny O'Connor's case for election rests on his work as Franklin County Recorder. Not glamorous work. Not work for a member of the elite. The Recorder keeps land records -- deeds, surveys, mortgages, easements, and liens. Danny O'Connor cleaned up an office which was badly run. He is in tune with his electorate.
Political Note #105 Richard Cordray OH Governor
Richard Cordray https://cordrayforohio.com/ is the very bright son of parents who devoted their lives to working with children and adults with disabilities. High School Quiz Show champion Jeopardy Champion. Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude graduate from Michigan State. A Marshall Scholar. Editor in Chief of the University of Chicago Law Review. He chose politics as his career. Academic success was the easy part. In politics, he won some and lost some. He had genuine political accomplishments. Will those accomplishments get him elected governor?
Political Note #101 Aftab Purewal OH CD 01
An All-American Boy overcomes the odds. Can he do it again? 2018 General Election Lost 52 -- 48 The route to political success -- especially in the South, but also in the Midwest. President of the student body at the main campus of the state university. Law school. A politically connected local law school. Edit the law review. A big firm in Washington. Come home. The US Attorney's office. A big, locally based, corporation. Run for office. All before you are 35. ......Fill in the blanks: The Ohio State University, University of Cincinnati Law School. Proctor and Gamble. Hamilton County Clerk…
Political Note #50 Sherrod Brown OH US Senate
Sherrod Brown is not an upper class liberal. Notwithstanding his upbringing as the son of a doctor, he is a blue collar figure in the US Senate. He had been a state Representative in Ohio and then Secretary of State. After losing the Secretary of State post to Robert Taft, he moved to blue collar Lorain. He ran for the open Congressional seat there and was elected. After seven terms in the House, in 2006, he ran for the Senate and won. He made his mark as an opponent of trade agreements -- leading the unsuccessful effort (by a single vote) against the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) in 2005. He was not a conservative on cultural issues. One of the few to oppose the Defense of Marriage Act, he also opposed an Ohio constitutional amendment to prohibit same sex marriage.