First with the Worst: Official McEwen Statement

I haven’t seen this posted elsewhere, and the McEwen campaign web site has been inaccessible virtually all day so far. So I guess this is the first place where the below item is being posted.

I called the McEwen Campaign and asked Communications Manager Mike Harlow at about 4 PM for the campaign’s official response to Malia Rulon’s Enquirer stories on April 16.

Here, though it is not labeled a response to the Enquirer stories, is the “response” I received via e-mail:

Statement from Michael Harlow, Communications Director, Bob McEwen for Congress:

“Jean Schmidt is the subject of two Ohio Elections Commission investigations accusing her of misstatements on her resume and on her endorsement list.

Voters of the Second District would like to know where the candidates stand on the important issues such as jobs, taxes and spending, immigration, and national security.

When she does talk about the issues, she flip-flops. She disagrees with herself on the death penalty. She disagrees with herself on gays in the military.

Jean Schmidt voted for every single one of Ohio’s tax increases while in the legislature. She also lobbied the governor for gambling interests, yet she wants people to think she is a conservative.

Jean Schmidt has ducked debates claiming a “scheduling conflict” yet she can find time for cheap political stunts.

Bob McEwen is out discussing real issues with the voters and hearing their concerns about Washington’s out of control spending and inability to control our borders.

Bob is an associate at a firm with offices in Cincinnati and Washington, DC and he has always maintained a residence in Ohio in accordance with state law.

Somebody help me with where this “response” is responsive.
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UPDATE: Being Mike Harlow must have been a lot more fun last summer when he was campaigning for Jean Schmidt. In fact he was so enthused about her (and even yours truly) that he said the following in one of his Yankee Red blog posts on July 30, 2005 (brought to you courtesy of our good friends at Google cache, and saved by yours truly before Mike apparently cleared out the cache; apologies for the extraneous characters; the item below is a picture, so the links don’t work):

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Those were the days, eh?

UPDATE 2: Lincoln Logs, blogging from an area that used to be in the Sixth District of the 1990s, get in some mighty choice rips –

Over in the OH-02, Bob McEwen’s campaign was pretty much totally destroyed over the weekend. Some supporters may blame the Cincinnati Enquirer’s investigative reporting, but after reading the story, I blame McEwen.

….. McEwen thinks a police officer pulling him over for speeding in California is determining residency, rather than using the license as an ID tool. Besides that, it goes to further illustrate just how disinterested Bob McEwen is in applying laws that cover everyone else to himself.

….. But McEwen still doesn’t feel he owes us an explanation.

That’s ok though - it makes the decision easy, the voters of the OH-02 certainly, then, don’t owe him any votes.