Well, Sherrod Brown has announced

-unofficially-, I guess.... http://www.growohio.org/
I'm not happy with his decision to jump in now, when he already said that he wouldn't run for the Senate seat and threw his support behind Paul Hackett. I'll vote for Hackett in the Primary and would be much more inclined to volunteer for his campaign. I will however support either in the general election. I'm just disappointed in Brown for the way he went about this.

Paul Hackett too.

He uses statements like:
Due to personal and professional obligations, I was unable to enter the race earlier this year...The requests for me to run never abated.

I was honored to accept the call to run statewide.

He claims he consulted National Democratic Leaders and they told him he should run. Who are these leaders? Joe Lieberman? The DLC? Who?
From what I've read most leaders...Reid, Pelosi, Byrd, Boxer, Feingold and Feinstein have already said they look forward to supporting Paul Hackett for Ohio Senator.

He has the right to run, but is it right that he does?

He seems to be trying to cover his bases b/c he knows people will be angry with his flip flop of running, not running and now running. It looks a lot like he saw the political tide shift in Ohio. He was ready to back Hackett when he thought the Senate seat was a long shot, but now that the GOP is self destructing, he sees an opportunity and is jumping on it. As far as who is backing him... I will defend Brown on the aspect that he is progressive and has been a great Congressman for Ohio. I'm mad at him for the way he went about this decision, but do think his positions are progressive and not DLC. I will vote support Hackett in the primary. I will support the Dem in the general, b/c either is better than DeWine.

I would support Hackett on the sheer fact that he pulled a bait and switch and screwed Hackett over.

guy-the righter one or the lefter one?

I just hope its not an indication that big labor in Ohio is calling the shots. They're notorious for getting involved and screwing up Dem races in Ohio. Not sure why, but they're pretty consistent about it.

Bill Burga (AFL-CIO), who likes to throw his weight around, has a lot of baggage of his own these days, considering he was serving on the Ohio Workmen's Comp board when Noe and other Repub donors were robbing it blind.

Just wait and see and support the Dem candidate is all we can do. I just don't have a good feeling about how these events are unfolding - deja vu.

The dissapointment with Brown over his decision. To look on the brightside a little bit it looks like the Dems won't be the only ones with a primary. It looks like former Bob McEwen may challange Dewine.

What a tool....

But anyway, I have to second OzakDem on this....

Ohio big labor tends ot muck things up by making dmands on the party....

And to a degree, the Dem's have no other choice having come to rely on Big Labor for a rather large chunck of money....

It wouldn't be hard and Hackett has already shown money can be raised from Ohio's Dem grassroots. IMHO labor is threatened by this and wants to keep their stranglehold on Dem politics in the state. The idea that big labor is the only place Dems can raise money for races is a myth.

They've brought nothing but failure to us in this state and we're better off without their money if we want to change direction and start winning races instead of losing them.

The SEIU and others who split wanted more money spent on union organizing and less money spent on political campaigns. I don't see how this helps the Democratic Party ultimately..

For candidates..... They would rather send 150 people out to walk door to door than cut a check for 2,000.00, for instance....

Big Labor, would rather vut a check...

So, it is tha fault of the demcrats for not cultivating other areas of fund raising and depending, for so many years, on labor money....

Then the SEIU could be quite useful.

two weekends in a row for the party ticket in 1998 and 2000...

They also were running phone banks...

I'm not sure what they did in 02 or 04 becuase I was no longer an officer in the Dem Party at that time as was dealing with health issues...