Bill, Ben And Brunner: A Campaign Flub
By Reid Wilson
We're sure Sens. Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Ben Nelson (D-NE) are used to being mistaken for one another. But it looks pretty bad when someone running to join them in the Dem caucus does the mistaking.
In an email to supporters sent last night, OH Sec/State Jennifer Brunner (D) voiced her support for health care legislation free of anti-abortion language similar to the House bill.
"On Tuesday night the U.S. Senate turned aside a dire threat to the rights of women to reproductive health services when Sen. Bill Nelson's amendment to the Senate health care reform bill was defeated by a 54-45 vote," Brunner writes to supporters.
The only trouble is, the amendment was Ben Nelson's effort to include Stupak-like language in the Senate bill. On a vote to table the measure, effectively killing it, Ben Nelson voted no, in order to keep his bill alive, while Bill Nelson voted yes.
The campaign immediately sent out a correction.
Not everything has been going smoothly for Brunner lately. Whether it is liberal bloggers accusing Brunner of changing her position on a troop increase in Afghanistan, or the campaign catching flack for sending 2 aides to work in her official office, the last month has been particularly difficult for the Sec/State.
Establishment Dems have rallied around LG Lee Fisher (D), who has raised considerably more money than Brunner has. The party is not so quietly urging Brunner to leave the race, though she has signaled she will stay in for the long run.
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