RNC Chairman Reince Priebus:
“Well here we are today on January 4th and surprise surprise, just hours after returning from Hawaii Barack Obama is out on the campaign trail in yet another battleground state. It’s funny how his plane and bus and car all seem to find its way to battleground states across America…
“The White House insists of course that this isn’t the campaign event but let’s be honest, Obama has been in full time campaign mode for a while and now that it’s 2012 everything this president does is with his reelection as a top priority.
“And we know of course that Ohio is a very important state. We also know that Ohio is a real challenge for Obama because he’s swimming upstream in Ohio. Recent polling shows that Ohioans don’t approve of the job this president is doing. And just 19% of Ohio believes that our…country is heading on the right track…
“The reason behind these numbers is something that the RNC will work really hard to highlight. This president has racked up three years of broken promises from a failure to create jobs, to a failure to address the debt and failure to change Washington – all things that he promised he would accomplish in his first term. And the good thing for Republicans out there – and quite frankly for all Americans – is that we at the RNC have catalogued every single speech, every press release, every utterance that has come out of this president’s mouth, and we’re going to use those words against him to ensure that Ohioans know that Barack Obama has failed to deliver. And his failures come based on not the standards that I or someone else in the Republican Party had set, but these are the standards that Barack Obama had set for himself. And he’s failed to meet even the standards that he promised the American people that he would meet.
“Before I close out, I just want to mention the massive setback the president faced in Ohio this past November that I guarantee you will be an issue in 2012. Voters in every one of Ohio’s 88 counties voted against Barack Obama’s signature achievement, Obamacare. In Cuyahoga County alone, 58% of the voters said no to Obamacare as well.
“Remember, one of his failed promises was that he said health care costs would go down by $2500 dollars for the typical family. Well guess what? They went up about 9% last year alone. So, the fact of the matter is, voters in Ohio rejected his failed policies in November and I’m confident they’ll reject his reelection next November.”
Ohio GOP Chairman Kevin DeWine:
“Barack Obama’s visit to Shaker Heights High School this afternoon comes after a 2009 visit to the exact same venue where he urged the passage of his hallmark legislation, Obamacare – a government takeover of the health care industry. And as the Chairman appropriately pointed out, just two short months ago, Ohio voters in all 88 counties rejected Obamacare.
“As I outlined in my News Herald Op-Ed this morning, Barack Obama would be well served if he listened to voters and he looked at the work being done by Ohio republicans such as John Kasich, John Boehner, Rob Portman and our Congressional Delegation like Jim Renacci, as examples of economic reforms which are real results.
“Back in 2009, Obama was joined in Shaker Heights by then-Governor Ted Strickland, then-Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner and then-State Treasurer Kevin Voigt. And I think their political careers met last November – in November of 2010 – provide the best example of why we aren’t going to see Sherrod Brown on the stage today. Now Brown may avoid the President’s unpopularity with a recurring stream of scheduling conflicts, I think his excuse is that he’s in Columbus. But, he can’t run from his voting record, which, according to Congressional Quarterly, corresponds to the President’s agenda 98% of the time. And that’s why I believe that Sherrod Brown can be best described as Barack Obama’s left hand man.”
Congressman Jim Renacci (OH-16):
“If President Obama put as much time into forming a sensible economic policy as he puts into delivering campaign speeches in our state, maybe Ohio’s economy would be better than it was when he took office. The President’s addiction to overregulation, reckless spending and paralyzing higher taxes has been devastating to Ohio, and it’s nothing that he can repair in campaign rallies…
“Since he took office, Ohio has lost 88,300 jobs. Each Ohio share of the national debt has increased almost to $50,000. And 287,000 Ohioans have fallen into poverty since the president took office…
“As someone who’s created over 1,500 jobs in this state, I can speak not as a Republican Congressman but as a business owner and job creator and tell you that the administration’s policies are choking progress toward economic recovery. From the disastrous health care law that raised fees, cut Medicare and has sent premiums through the roof to his efforts to ram through a cap and trade bill in 2009, it seems that every corner the president has a new threat to our economy here in Ohio.
“I would encourage the President to step off the campaign trail, ditch the rhetoric and really get to work reevaluating his policies of the past 3 years that have failed the American people and the people of Ohio.”
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