THERE ARE TWO REPUBLICANS RUNNING AGAINST VIC WULSIN IN OH-02-- AND ONE IS IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY

Last cycle Victoria Wulsin was one of Blue America's favorite candidates. Almost 1,100 of our members donated just over $27,000 to her campaign and our PAC also bought hundreds of radio spots in rural southwest Ohio to help OH-02 voters understand the stark difference between Victoria and the divisive and controversial incumbent, Mean Jean Schmidt. Victoria came with a handful of votes of beating Schmidt and is certainly poised to take that seat in 2008. We've already endorsed her and we urge anyone with a little extra money to consider lending Vic a hand. Maybe our song from last year will encourage you?



I know the archive of the chat we had with Vic over at FDL should help you to understand why this race is important, important to poeple in the district and important to people all over the country.

Now everytime I mention how close we are to winning OH-02, I get a comment from someone connected to the campaign of an ambitious and opportunistic man who would like to be a member of Congress. He saw how well all the grassroots and netroots work got Vic and he decided he could do better. His name is Steve Black and he's a well connected lawyer in a major Republican law firm ( Graydon, Head, and Ritchey, Taft's and Portman's old firm) and he thinks he can march in and win the Democratic nomination. In fact, Black may claim to be a Democrat now but he's been a Republican-- and a donor to Republican candidates-- alll his life and for the last few years while Paul Hackett and Vic Wulsin were doing the hard work of opening people's minds in the very red CD, he was still voting in the Republican primary.

Public records show that Black contributed money to Republicans right up to last year, including Greg Hartmann, Mary Taylor, Jim Petro, Bob Taft, Betty Montgomery and... believe it or not... Ken Blackwell. And now he's a Democrat? And thinks he should be the Democratic congressman from the district?

Last week another opportunistic fake Democrat looked around at reality and dropped out of his race against Eric Massa. I have a bad feeling that this isn't going to happen in OH-02. I think Steve Black is too good of a Republican to drop out. It looks to me like he's doing Mean Jean's wrork by getting Vic to spend campaign money on a primary. We should redouble our efforts to assist Vic Wulsin in winning the congressional seat in OH-02, against Republican Steve Black and then against Republican Mean Jean Schmidt.