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Meet Sherrod Browns Louder HalfPulitzer-winning columnist and Trump foe Connie Schultz will redefine the role of campaign spouse if her husband runs in 2020.
CLEVELANDConnie Schultz stood at her stove this week and stirred a big pot of thick vegetarian chili. On the long brown table set and waiting for lunch was a copy of that days New York Times, folded and opened to a page with a column with a headline I couldnt help but notice, The Secret to Winning in 2020, and on the refrigerator and the walls around her were pictures of her four children and her seven grandchildren and of course her husband, toothe only statewide elected Democrat in Ohio, the potential presidential candidate, Senator Sherrod Brown.
Brown, 66, the curly-haired progressive populist who was preaching fair trade over free trade back when Donald Trump was reintroducing himself as a reality television business boss, last month won a third term in the Senate in part by winning back a sufficient slice of those who had voted for Trump two years before. His six-point victory in a state Trump carried by 8 prompted immediate 2020 chatter. Brown himself labeled it a blueprint for America. Hailing from this perennially critical swing spotand this region of the country that decided the last presidential election and almost certainly will decide the next one as wellhe has the unusual and proven ability, according to strategists from both parties, to appeal to black voters and urban liberals and workers in fading factory towns. For these reasons, Trump aides say, Brown is on a short list of possible foes the president fears...
If there is a commonly held image of how a political spouse should behaveseen and heard but not too much, not exactly muzzled but certainly measured, ever aware of some nebulous, help-or-hurt calculusConnie Schultz is not it. And only Sherrod Brownno other person who might run for presidenthas a her. Shes not just a spouse whos a journalist. Shes a spouse whos a journalist whos a liberal feminist columnist whos won a Pulitzer Prize and teaches journalism at her alma mater at Kent State University. Shes a spouse whos a journalist whos a liberal feminist columnist whos won a Pulitzer Prize and who is a Christian who actually practices her faith. Shes a spouse whos a journalist whos a liberal feminist columnist whos won a Pulitzer Prize who is a Christian and who also packs a blue-collar backstory as the Ashtabula-born-and-bred-daughter of a maintenance mechanic and a nurses aide. She has working-class cred, a powerful platform and opinions she is utterly unafraid to express. And shes all these things at a moment when the current president is unceasing with his anti-press invective.
I am the woman he hates, Schultz said, getting water from the fridge.
She stopped and smiled.
Can I tell you just how proud I am to be that woman? she said. I never measure myself against what Donald Trump would think of me. But if I am exactly what he hates, and I think I am, it makes me feel all the more necessary...
read more: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/12/21/connie-schultz-sherrod-brown-donald-trump-democratic-primary-2020-223416
(...Politico, but an interesting article, nonetheless, fwiw)
rampartc
(5,407 posts)is he serious about running?
pnwmom
(108,978 posts)him running with Kamala Harris. They could be quite a team.
Ohiogal
(32,002 posts)I've been reading her columns for years. She is indeed ,"the real deal."
mountain grammy
(26,622 posts)FM123
(10,053 posts)I suspect that there are a great many women that trumpy hates, he personifies misogyny.
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)So admire both of them
LuvNewcastle
(16,846 posts)They seem to be genuine people who care.
hlthe2b
(102,282 posts)gordianot
(15,238 posts)monmouth4
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bigtree
(85,996 posts)...lost?
marble falls
(57,097 posts)bigtree
(85,996 posts)― Tennyson
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)will not be able to google her to see naked photos? Wasn't THAT one of the attributes the tRump followers admired? But, but "Maleria is a top model who speaks 5 languages and has two college degrees" Yeah, right. All that had to be removed from her biography when it was revealed that she dropped out of college in the first semester, to become a nude, lesbian soft porn "model" (escort) tRump's type of woman has to be paid at the end of the evening. No woman of quality would associate with the orange ass. We need a couple with real intelligence in the WH after this Keystone Kops administration.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)watoos
(7,142 posts)Spanish - cerveza
French - sacre bleu
German - Mein Kamph
Italian - ciao
British - wanker
excuse the spelling.
ProfessorGAC
(65,051 posts)We all know sushi, karate, sayonara, and a few other words!
See, you know 6!!!
blm
(113,063 posts).
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)and I love this woman. I would not only vote for Sherrod Brown, but I would be out there campaigning for him in anyway I could. They have my full support if he becomes our 2020!
zeusdogmom
(994 posts)He's my senator - the one bright spot in this miserable repug state of Ohio
Met him when I was a volunteer for the Kerry campaign. I was a lowly campaign worker - basically bringing people coffee - but he was so gracious and respectful of everyone in the room.
llmart
(15,540 posts)Wouldn't she be a breath of fresh air after Birther Botox Barbie.
Thanks for the article. I don't know much about Sherrod Brown other than what I read on DU, but my roots run deep in Cleveland and I always shake my head at how Ohio seems to be going backward from the staunchly democratic, union supporting state it was in my youth.
Of course it goes without saying that I would vote for him and support him and her in 2020.
mcar
(42,333 posts)and Brown could be an interesting 2020 candidate.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)Contrast this with vapid stripper Barbie.
samnsara
(17,622 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)No comment about that, but remember the BIG stink Limpballs made, mis-pronouncing Brown's first name to make it sound more "ethnic" in a blatant attempt to race-bait white voters?
standingtall
(2,785 posts)especially if the economy goes in the direction it appears to be headed for in the next two years.