Ohio: Deb Pryce

MARYSVILLE – U.S. Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-Columbus), who barely survived the Ohio GOP’s 2006 bloodbath, said this year’s environment for Republicans is better than it was two years ago.

Pryce won re-election in 2006 by 1,055 votes, amid Gov. Bob Taft’s single-digit popularity, Tom Noe’s scandals, and U.S. Rep. Bob Ney’s (R-Heath) resignation and her with U.S. Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.), who was embroiled in a page-sex solicitation scandal that year. The absence of those men makes 2008 a better year to run in, she said.

The financial bailout bill failed to pass during a vote in the U.S. House this afternoon, 228 to 205 voting to defeat it.

Most Ohio representatives voted against the bill, with seven of the 17 supporting the bill's passage.The seat of former U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones is vacant.

Four Republicans voted in favor: U.S. Reps. John Boehner (R-West Chester), Deb Pryce (R-Columbus), Ralph Regula (R-Navarre), David Hobson (R-Springfield).

MINNEAPOLIS -- State Sen. Steve Stivers' (R-Columbus) hired a new communications director today, who is a veteran of the last campaign against Franklin Co. Commissioner Mary Jo Kilroy (D-Columbus).

Rob Nicohols was U.S. Rep. Deb Pryce's (R-Columbus) presse secretary and knows the 15th Congressional District having served as spokesperson for Pryce's 2006 campaign against Kilroy

President Bush is coming to Ohio this afternoon to raise $570,000 for Republican Congressional efforts following an 11 a.m. signing of U.S. Rep. Deb Pryce's (R-Columbus) pediatric cancer bill in the Oval Office.

Pryce applauded the signing of the legislation she authored titled the Caroline Pryce Walker Conquer Childhood Cancer Act. The statement said the legislation authorizes $150 million over five years for pediatric cancer research and outreach, and reaffirms our nation's commitment to eradicating the number one cause of death by disease for children.