The Ohio House Republican Campaign Caucus has begun airing its first television ads in the battle to keep the state House.

This ad attacks Democratic candidates for two districts in suburban Columbus: attorney John Carney and Ohio Physical Therapists Association Director Nancy Garland.

Garland was the treasurer for OPTA's political action committee and lobbied as a government-affairs director for the American Physical Therapy Assocation in Washington, D.C.

Carney is a health care attorney.

UPDATE: Garland campaign director Liz Brown said in a statement yesterday that Garland's lobbying work has benefited patients and health-care providers by helping pass Medicare Direct Access legislation and her attempt to pass a Patients' Bill of Rights in Congress.