When it rains it pours. Many of you from here at DailyKos know me as a progressive/independent type who has been working to unseat John Boehner since I moved to the ultra-conservative bastion of Southwest Ohio. In the past I supported several candidates who I thought would force John Boehner to at least have to work for his own re-election. I hoped they would at least restrict Boehner to Ohio and stop him from fund raising for the GOP. Unfortunately this didn't happen and Boehner didn't have to work too hard for re-election.
Well, times they are a changing. First the local Sheriff said he was going to run against Boehner in the GOP Primary, but Jones gave Boehner his conservative stamp of approval and that was that. Apparently this gave some folks ideas because Boehner know faces 2 Primary challengers and 1 General Election challenger: A Democrat!!!
More below the fold!
First of all the GOP Primary Challengers:
Manfred Shreyer
At first glance this guy seems like a Tea Bagger. Hopefully this guy will force Boehner even farther right through some sort of contest of conservative purity. This is the only link I have found so please post any links you find below. Especially if you find a donation link. I am sending this guy $20.
Tom McMasters
This guy seems like a Tea Bagger as well. The only evidence I can find of his campaign are some comments he made in response to a Journal news article that I linked to above. Again, if you find any info on this guy post it in the comments. I want to give him $20 as well. There is nothing like a little money coming in to keep you running.
I hope both of these guys go after Boehner hammer and tong. They have plenty to bloody him up with.
Finally I would like this guy, Justin Coussoule, to win. He at least has a website with a place to donate. He is running as a Democrat, and he uses the word "progressive." Yea!!!
This is all the info I have on him but this article has a nice run down of the Ohio-8 election scenario. If you send this guy some bucks remember to add the .01 so we can tell him where it came from.
I actually thought Boehner was going to run unopposed this cycle. With Obama's election we made huge GOTV gains in Ohio-8. I hope we can still capitalize on these gains and dump Boehner.