Rep. Brown Takes a Pass

Posted on August 17, 2005

Democratic Rep. Sherrod Brown announced today on his blog GrowOhio.org that he’s not going to challenge Mike DeWine for his Senate seat next year. He’s going to hold on to his House seat and try to build the Democratic caucus in the House instead.

That’s too bad — Brown is one of the most promising Democrats in Ohio and would have made an excellent candidate against the tottering DeWine. Now that Brown (who was by far the most obvious choice) is out, it’ll be interesting to see who the Ohio Dems find to try and take DeWine out…