Ohio: Gas Tax

In a new television ad, the campaign of Dr. Victoria Wulsin (D-Indian Hill) is going after U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Loveland) for her vote on Ohio's 2003 transportation budget, which raised the state gas tax by 6 cents per gallon over the course of three years.

Wulsin communications director Kevin Franck criticized Schmidt for supporting the "27 percent" increase in Ohio's gas tax because he said it "hurt middle class families across the district who are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of a gallon of gas."

State Sens. John Boccieri (D-New Middletown) and Kirk Schuring (R-Canton) each have a record in the Ohio legislature, in both the state Senate and the state House of Representatives. Schuring entered the House in 1993 and the Senate in 2002. Boccieri served in the House from 2001 to 2006 before being elected to the Senate.

Now, both campaigns are targeting their opponent's voting records, and saying that the other is attempting to run away.

The campaign of state Sen. Kirk Schuring (R-Canton) called on state Sen. John Boccieri (D-New Middletown) to apologize, renounce the behavior of and fire a pair of Boccieri staffers that the Schuring campaign says "marched unannounced into the Schuring for Congress Headquarters" in Canton this morning.

[img_assist|nid=361|title=Congressional candidate Victoria Wulsin|desc=Campaign photo|link=none|align=right|width=200|height=208]A poll conducted by Momentum Analysis for the campaign of Dr. Victoria Wulsin (D-Indian Hill) shows Wulsin within single digits of U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Loveland) in the race for Ohio's 2nd Congressional district.

The poll has Schmidt leading Wulsin 41 percent to 33 percent in the district, which Momentum Analysis called "within striking distance" in a memo to the Wulsin campaign.