Ron Hood To Run in OH-7 Against Senator Austria?
Scott, via email, informed me that Ron Hood is considering a run for the 7th Congressional district. Hood is a staunch conservative who has sponsored Vermont-style concealed carry. This should be interesting!
Hood is awesome. He voted against the Taft and Voinovich tax hikes. He’s 100% pro-gun and pro-life. Of course, that means the party will work against him, since the party does not like conservatives winning elections anymore.
Hood is a joke. He gave up a solid Republican House seat, and ran a pathetic race against Tim Schaffer and now that seat is in the hands of Democrat. He was a one termer that thought too highly of himself and thought he could go straight to the Senate and lost.
NOW HE THINKS HE CAN RUN FOR CONGRESS????!!!!
I guess I didn’t realize how highly he thinks of himself. He should run against the Democrat in his Statehouse seat, so we can increase our margin in the House.
Austria is 100% pro-life, he managed the conceal carry bill in the Senate and worked against Taft’s veto of the conceal carry bill.
So how do you respond to that?
The house seat was lost because the Ohio House Republican Campaign Committee ran a pathetic, idiotic campaign as usual. Ron actually served 4 total terms in the Ohio House. 3 terms in a district from the Youngstown area and one in this district.
You are right, he served up in Canfield I forgot about that.
Hood should run for that statehouse seat though. The Congressional race is a stretch for him, and if he is the congressional candidate, that district will go Democrat too.
Unfortunately, Republicans stupidly changed the law or he could have run for both at the same time. If he lost the congressional primary he would still be running for the Ohio House.
I don’t think it is stupid at all they changed the law. You should either run for one seat or another, not both.
Running for both seats is something Democrats do, ask Joe Lieberman.
Or Ron Paul.
Birdman, Hood’s House seat was so solid Republican that a Democrat won it after he stepped down. I don’t know where you’re getting your facts from.
As for Steve Austria, you know the big government crowd is going to love him as he proudly supported Bob Taft’s tax increases. Ron Hood opposed the Voinovich tax hikes when he served in the 90’s and opposed the Taft Taft Hikes his decade. Austria is a tax-and-spend Republican who believes the government can do better things with your money than you can.
Unfortunately that gives Austria a head start, as Ohio Republicans love their Republicans to be as much like Bob Taft as possible. Witness the victories of Mean Jean Schmidt and Tax Me More Bob Latta over qualified conservatives.
CincyJeff,
Hood’s house seat in the 91st District (Perry, Licking, Pickaway & Fairfield) was solid Republican. When Hood decided to run for Senate and LOST, that seat went to a Democrat. Hood should have stayed in that seat to keep the majority of the House strong.
Now he wants to run for Congress? You might want to ask those who used to support Hood, who they support now. They certainly aren’t going to support a candidate who could care less about maintaining a majority in the Statehouse, and worrying about his own career.
Sometimes you have to bide your time, and Hood has not done that.
Austria is not tax and spend Republican. He believes in low taxes and reduced spending.
The Democrat that won the seat actually was more conservative than the Republican that won the primary. That Republican won the primary with the backing of the GOP leadership. Ron Hood actually backed a different candidate in the primary. I worked for another conservative from Licking county.
My point exactly, let’s get Hood in that House seat again. He can win it. He won’t win the primary against Austria, let’s face the facts.
He is not going to have the financial support that he got in the Senate primary again from like the Dick Farmer and others.
My question is what the heck is doing for work right now? I know that Hood had quit his job.
Is that he wants to run for Congress to get a job?
“Austria is not tax and spend Republican. He believes in low taxes and reduced spending.”
Austria proved he is a tax and spend Republican when he voted for Bob Taft’s tax increases. You can lie to us all you want and claim Austria is everything you want us to think he is, but his record speaks for himself. When push comes to shove, Austria believes the government needs your money more than you do. His record proves he is a tax hiker.
Well CincyJeff when you file your taxes this year, let me know whether you are paying a higher percentage of your income this year compared to last. My bet is that you will be paying less, ergo a tax cut.
Secondly, tell me what has Ron Hood done during his time in the House. Nothing!!!!
So you can blame the House leadership, or the way the Republican Party keeps him from being successful. When you blame someone else for your own shortcomings as you have been doing with Ron Hood, you begin to sound like a Democrat, blaming someone or else or “the man” for keeping him down.
Maybe you should look at Hood and simply say he is not effective.
Hood has no chance aginst a seasoned public servant like Austria. Austria has been groomed for the post, and is clearly the best prepared and most experienced in the race.
Right on Allen!!!!
That is old news
http://dayton.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/2007/10/29/story1.html