Bob Latta’s Campaign: Full of Sleaze and Distortions
From The Toledo Blade:
COLUMBUS - Congressional candidate Bob Latta faces a full hearing on allegations that he lied about opponent Steve Buehrer’s position on prayer and the Ten Commandments in schools.
The day before Republican voters decide who their candidate will be to succeed the late Paul Gillmor in the 5th District, the Ohio Elections Commission will decide whether state Representative Latta (R., Bowling Green) misrepresented the responses of a candidate survey in characterizing state Senator Buehrer (R., Delta) as opposing prayer in schools and the public posting of the Ten Commandments.
“It’s a lie,” the Buehrer campaign’s attorney, Donald Brey, told the panel. “It is a lie to the voters. It is not a small lie. It is a big lie.”
A four-member panel yesterday unanimously found sufficient cause to hold the matter for a hearing before the full commission, most likely on Nov. 5.
And here comes Scott Pullins’ lame ass response, trying to show that he has earned the money that Latta will pay him, even if he will lose this battle before the Ohio Elections Commission:
Mr. Latta’s campaign has presented those omissions as opposition to those issues in campaign materials while the Buehrer campaign points to a disclaimer on that survey indicating that omissions should not “necessarily” be characterized as opposition.
Scott Pullins, attorney for Mr. Latta’s campaign, latched onto the word “necessarily.”
“It doesn’t rule it out,” he said. “It doesn’t mean they’re absolutely opposed or they’re absolutely neutral.”
Scott is trying to quibble that, if a survey answer is omitted, then the opposition can take that answer to mean “yes” or “no”, depending on which answer is more useful for a deceitful mailer? How lame.
As I’ve pointed out before, it is a matter of easily accessible public record to find out how Steve Buehrer feels about matters of faith and religion. And since Bob Latta served in the House with him, Bob certainly knows how Buehrer feels about these issues.
We are quickly approaching election day, and it is a shame that a shady, deceitful campaign is being run against Steve Buehrer. But what do you expect when you combine a TV ad firm which used video from their video shoot with Steve from a year ago against him, a lawyer who was once too close to the Householder/Bureck crowd for comfort, and a campaign manager who was recently the director of Congressman Bob Ney’s district office?
A GOP source tells me that even Buehrer’s tracking polls are showing him at least 30 points down and dropping. This blog is the last, dying gasps of the Buehrer campaign. He’ll be lucky to beat your hero Blackwell’s 38 percent.
This race is very close… Polls I’ve seen from other candidates who are in the field shows its just about within the margin of error. And regardless, I’m always happy to help those rare Republicans who put their careers on the line and voted against Taft’s tax increases. If Latta wins… so be it… spineless dweebs win all the time.
Show us a poll.
Seriously? The poll I’ve seen (not candidate commissioned, but third party had latta up double digits. Can we see those polls?
You can see the poll on Tuesday, Nov. 6th around 9pm. It will have Buehrer ahead. Looks like Latta has completely run of out gas. Didn’t anyone in his campaign tell him to save some money for the last 10 days??? Poor guy.
Ha ha,
It looks like Steve Buehrer and Bob Taft have been preparing for this campaign for a long time.
Mr. Buehrer thought he would help himself by sponsoring a bill which made gas more expensive.
Fortunately for Buehrer, he has special interest groups buying his future votes. It would be nice if he was free of strings and could vote the way OH_5 would want.
Looks like another puppet wants to go to DC only instead of Rove, Club for Growth will be pulling the strings.
What do you mean sponsoring a bill that would make gas more expensive? I haven’t heard that yet. Is this some hack attack trying to take down the conservative candidate. I mean who the heck would make gas more expensive right now.
2 things:
1) Latta voted for the gas tax.
2) In my humble opinion, I dislike all taxes. But in terms of fairness, no tax in Ohio is more fair than the gas tax… It is directly tied to consumption and it funds roads. IE, the people who drive more, pay more for the roads. In Ohio, I’d scrap the CAT tax, income tax, various taxes on businesses, and reduce the sales tax long before I’d look at the gas tax.
So is it not true that Buehrer is only bringing this unfounded issue to the Ohio Elections Commission to make the negative press, surrounding his lies, null.
Steve Buehrer claimed he was ready to file paperwork against the Latta camp on October 18th.
If he felt confident that he would win the case he would have brought it before the Commission with enough time for the general public to know Steve Buehrer is crying wolf.
Also if gas tax is good why is Club for Growth attacking Bob Latta for it while neglecting that Steve Buehrer led the efforts on that tax.
I never said it was good… But I looked through Buehrer’s entire voting record, and I now know why Latta’s campaign can’t talk about any other tax…. Because Latta has a consistent record of voting for MASSIVE tax increases and Buehrer hasn’t. Buehrer’s record on taxes, compared to anyone except maybe Tom Brinkman, is as conservative any state legislator could be.
I suppose when you work at the BWC you know you don’t need to raise taxes. Buehrer had his eyes on the coins and knew our state budget was well funded.
From http://www.toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/comments.pl/16/2188:
Why does BG care if that money is tainted.
Bowling Green State University is currently one of the only State Schools in a budget deficit. Maybe Latta’s superiors requested that she continue to use the much needed money from the Noe family.
On that issue I believe it is inappropriate to comment any further.
Buehrer may be being polite by not asking the important questions about Bob Latta’s and his wife’s close, personal relationship with the Noes.
It is nice to know Buehrer is a gentlemen maybe that will go over good with the over 16% of the district which has a negative opinion on him.