The DSCC is attacking one of Ohio's best progressive candidates...

[madfloridian]

and threatening to support her primary rival who most likely can't win.

Jennifer Brunner is Ohio's Secretary of State who has been so brave fighting election change. She has put up with death threats as well.



Jennifer was one of four Secretaries of State that we supported in 2006 through DFA

Protect the vote: DFA supports 4 for Secretaries of State

Jennifer Brunner -- Ohio. Jennifer is a former Franklin County, OH Judge. Before being elected to the bench, Jennifer served as Legislative Counsel of the Ohio Secretary of State's Office. She is a former member of the Franklin County Board of Elections and has over thirteen years of experience in election law representing citizen groups, labor unions, and candidates for state offices. Brunner has promised to make all Ohio elections "free, fair, open, and honest" and to oversee a process that can be "audited and verified." Please join Democracy for American, Emily's List, the Women's Campaign Forum, and we can win this seat and end the corruption in Ohio's election process.
http://www.jenniferbrunner.com /

Jennifer is so very qualified, but Bob Menendez of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is threatening not to support her until she raises more money. Her opponent has raised more money but not near the candidate she would be.

This is the age old tactic of the DSCC and the DCCC...if you don't get enough money right up front they will not support you. They have turned down good candidates and recruited millionaire Republicans to run...just so they could fund themselves. Rahm lost us a couple of house seats in Florida with this stunt.

From Daily Kos recommended list:

DSCC threatens Jennifer Brunner in OH-SEN, over money! UPDATE

Bob Menendez, the head of the DSCC, is threatening to attack Jennifer Brunner if she is deemed to not have enough money in her primary against perennial loser Lee Fisher.

The DSCC has all but written her off, however, and the establishment has turned to Fisher. In fact, Brunner said when she spoke with DSCC Chair Bob Menendez in Sept., he first told her that he “didn’t want to see a Democratic candidate at the end of the primary with zero dollars,” and he followed up that his organization would go into the state to work against a candidate perceived as “being negative in the primary or not raising enough money.”

Brunner said she responded: “If you do that, the women of Ohio will never forgive you.” Menendez, she said, retorted: “I know you’re not scared of me, and I’m not scared of you.”

All because Lee Fisher has more money. Newsflash, Bob. Lee Fisher CANNOT WIN THE SEAT. He has lost his last two statewide campaigns, the most recent in 1998 to BOB TAFT, after OUTRAISING Bob Taft.

Here is the UPDATE from Tim Russo at DKos:

UPDATEx2 - Ohio blogs are weighing in, confirming that the establishment is coming after Jennifer guns blazing. Ohio Daily Blog.

The line from the people who really know her goes like this : "God help these f___ers if they don't take her seriously. She's a wonderful person. Don't get me wrong. She's caring and compassionate and I'd walk through fire for her. But God help these guys if they cross her. She's got ice water running through those veins and she'll take you down a brick at a time or blow your whole house down."

And that's from the people who not only really know her, but from the people who really respect her.

This afternoon, the DC publication Hotline ran a story that's chock full of every side story we've heard over the last six months, but could never repeat or report. At long last, the story about the behind the scenes look at the Jennifer Brunner for U.S. Senate campaign is playing out. In part, because Jennifer Brunner doesn't care what the establishment thinks anymore.

Bottom line is she was discouraged from running because the governor supported her opponent, Fisher. Many of us believe without real proof that she is not acceptable because she was a DFA candidate. It has happened to others like Cegelis, so it is a possibility.

SO...on the surfact the main condition for getting party support is money. Not being a good candidate...just having money.

Being a great Secretary of State does not qualify Jennifer for party support.

That is just terrible.