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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Voinovich: Bipartisan for Buckeyes and Bobcats.
When Dr. Barbara Gellman-Danley, president of Antioch University McGregor, introduced Sen. George Voinovich to members of the Dayton Development Coalition visiting Washington, D.C., Wednesday, she didn’t settle with just the niceties.
Voinovich, she told the crowd, had received his undergraduate degree from Ohio University. But he’d gotten his law degree from the Ohio State University.
So who would he back when the Bobcats faced the Buckeyes in September on the football field?
“I’m getting a shirt made half and half,” he said.
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Hobson retirement provokes metaphor madness
Rep. David Hobson is retiring at the end of this year, and the laurels are already fast and furious - particularly from fellow lawmakers who spoke to the Dayton Development Coalition Wednesday, April 30, about their soon-to-be-former colleague.
The metaphors are fast and furious as well.
Rep. Mike Turner, R-Centerville, told the group that he felt like Hobson’s little brother. He said he considers Hobson, R-Springfield, a mentor, and likened Hobson’s retiring to feeling like his big brother was graduating high school.
Rep. John Boehner, R-West Chester, meanwhile, compared the veteran lawmaker to an “old washerwoman.”
Say what?
Boehner explained that Hobson earned his reputation and relationships in Congress in part through his chatty and convivial nature, always “talking, talking, talking.”
“I don’t know what I’ll do without Hobson,” he said, backing away from the laundress metaphor. “He’s the grease between the gears around here. He’s got relationships with everyone.”
A spokeswoman said that for the record, Boehner does his own laundry.
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Superdelegates backing different candidates still BFFs
When Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones got a text message from her old friend, Dayton Mayor Rhine McLin, in Washington, D.C. this week for the annual Dayton Development Coalition fly-in, even different allegiances in the Democratic presidential race couldn’t keep the two old buddies apart.
Jones, D-Cleveland, is a leading supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., for president. McLin, also a Democrat, backs Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
No matter. When McLin sent Jones a text asking her to stop by and say hi to the coalition, Jones hightailed it across Capitol Hill to say hello.
“Our friendship goes beyond all that,” Jones said, dismissing the idea that the current fracture in the Democratic party would strain a friendship that goes back years.
McLin, meanwhile, insisted Jones’ allegiance to Clinton is something to admire, not disagree with. She admires Jones’ tenacity in backing her candidate.
“If I was in a fight, I’d want her around to have my back,” McLin said. “I know her word is good.”
