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Another special. Don’t underestimate Danny
……Danny O’Connor’s special election will be on August 7. Win or lose, he will run again against the same opponent for this open Republican seat on November 6. Danny O’Connor https://dannyoconnorforcongress.com/can win in August and run as the incumbent in November.
……Democrats have amazing Congressional candidates in 2018 — Rhodes scholars, entrepreneurs, ex officers from the military (a bunch of them), former senior foreign policy officials (a few of them), former CEOs (a few of them, too), philanthropists (we are glad to have them). They are almost glamorous.
……Not Danny O’Connor. He is not glamorous. He went to Wright State University — one of Ohio’s public universities. Google Wright State. Under the button for the University’s website it says: We already have one of the lowest tuition rates in the state. And we want to make sure it stays that way …. Not Ivy League.
……Danny O’Connor ‘s law school was Syracuse. Respectable. After law school, he did not go to Washington or New York. He did volunteer work. He came home. To Columbus. He worked as a divorce lawyer.
……There is nothing fancy about O’Connor’s life or his website. He makes his case with his bio. Healthcare is one of his issues. He is grateful that his mother, a school teacher, had good health insurance. He returned home every weekend from Dayton his freshman year of college because his mother had breast cancer. Genuine family values. Not the Family Research Council version.
……Danny O’Connor did some volunteer work while in law school. He was a legal advocate for the Jesuit Volunteer Corps working with veterans to get benefits and low income families to avert eviction. After graduating from law school, he worked in the Franklin County Prosecutor’s office. He makes his case: help the needy, prosecute the criminals.
……Ultimately, Danny O’Connor‘s case rests on his work as Franklin County Recorder. Not glamorous work for a member of the elite. The Recorder keeps land records — deeds, surveys, mortgages, easements, and liens.
……A County Recorder can do the job efficiently or not. Something politically meaningful can come up. O’Connor did his job efficiently. People see him as having instituted reforms that helped homeowners and others who rely on the office. A meaningful event did came up. Ohioan Jim Obergefell’s ultimately successful effort to gain the US Supreme Court’s recognition of equality for same sex marriages came up. Danny O’Connor encouraged the American Association of Matrimonial Lawyers to file an Amicus Brief. He makes a case for himself as an effective public servant with a commitment to contemporary family values.
……Don’t underestimate Danny. His website describes his positions on seven issues: healthcare, Medicare and social security, jobs, climate change, education, voting rights, and putting an end to excessive partisanship. He is brief. The longest essay is 82 words.
……O’Connor also has a 19 minute YouTube video of him speaking about the issues that are important to him. He speaks for about three minutes on each issue, easily and comfortably. He speaks on each issue for a little longer than he might have in a candidate debate.
……Danny O’Connor https://dannyoconnorforcongress.com/ is prepared for this campaign. He is comfortable with who he is and what he is trying to do. He became County Recorder by primarying an incumbent who had made a mess of the office, then defeating a Republican. To win election to Congress in a Tilt R district, he will need resources. Don’t overestimate his ability to get resources. Help him out. Help him out now. The special election is in August, only a couple of months away.
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