Sharen Neuhardt’s stealth campaign faultering

She barely had signs out in the primary. Voters don’t know her. She refuses to take a stand on anything- except saying she still supports boondoggle military programs like the unwanted C27-J and the M1 tank updates that the Air Force and the Army don’t want, it’s no wonder that the DNC pulled money from her campaign to assign to candidates who are actually running a race:

National Democratic panel pulls some Neuhardt ads

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has pulled back at least a week of advertising it had planned to run in support of Yellow Springs lawyer Sharen Neuhardt in her bid against Rep. Mike Turner, R-Centerville.

via D.C. Dispatches | The Columbus Dispatch.

Her site only has her appearing at a few events before election day and the first ad of the campaign is focused on her- not on the voters-

Her only claim is that she’ll stop tax breaks for companies that outsource- an odd claim, since in her professional role as a corporate attorney, she represents companies that do just that.

Take a look at her campaign site: http://www.neuhardtforcongress.com/ see if you find anything compelling to give you a reason to vote for her. The juvenile references to sitting congressman Mike Turner as “Mike “who” Turner” show that she not only severely underestimates her opponent, but lacks respect for the office.

Considering she’s raised more than Turner, she’s still behind (she was carrying almost $100k in debt from her last run)

One of the few exceptions was in Ohio’s newly drawn 10th district, where Democrat Sharen Neuhardt, a Yellow Springs attorney, raised more than twice what U.S. Rep. Mike Turner did during the first quarter of 2012. She raised $224,903 to Turner’s $111,950. The district includes all of Montgomery and Greene counties and part of Fayette County.

But Turner still has an overall financial advantage — as of March 31, he had more than twice what Neuhardt had in the bank — $421,953 to her $186,709.

Turner’s campaign has raised $701,121 to date this election, and has $6,996 in debt. Neuhardt, who ran against Rep. Steve Austria, R-Beavercreek in 2008, meanwhile, had $92,000 in debt.

via Incumbents winning in fundraising | www.springfieldnewssun.com.

Even with the redistricting that makes OH-10 more competitive, the only chance of anyone beating Turner would require a massive, well organized ground game, hard hitting attacks on Turner, and a message- or for Turner to do an Anthony Wiener. Counting on Obama’s coattails  isn’t going to do it- in 2008, I remember seeing Turner signs right next to Obama signs in the area showing how ineffective 5 different campaigns have been in challenging the urban myth that Turner is a some sort of progressive urbanist when in fact he’s a neo-con puppet.

If Neuhardt wants more than the 43% of the vote I predict she’ll get at best, she better take the gloves off, and start wearing through some serious shoe leather- while praying for Turner to get indicted for something like his wife’s former slush fund false front marketing firm that took no-bid contracts for “marketing campaigns” from the regions lobbyists or did work on a GSA schedule for the Army Corps of Engineers while her husband was on the armed services committee.

 

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