Renacci announces his January mobile offices

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Wayne Democrats

The Northern Wayne edition of THE POST for January 21, 2012 contains the following on Page 22:

Mon., Jan. 23 – Wayne County Public Library/Main Branch, Conference Room East, noon to 2 p.m. 220 W. Liberty St., Wooster;

Wed. Jan 25, Medina County District Library, Community Room B, noon to 2 p.m., 210 S. Broadway St., Medina

“My goal is to ensure my office’s services are of the highest quality and are as convenient as possible for the people we serve.” p. 22 The POST for Northern Wayne, Jan. 21, 2012.

Good opportunities to register complaints in person to his staff.

Rep. Betty Sutton to challenge Rep. Jim Renacci for Congress

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Wayne Democrats

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Copley Township Democratic Rep. Betty Sutton said this morning that she plans to seek election to a newly reconfigured congressional seat drawn to favor freshman Republican Rep. Jim Renacci of Wadsworth.

Jim Renacci Town Hall – September 28, 2011

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Wayne Democrats

We have full video of Representative Jim Renacci’s (R) Town Hall Meeting at The College of Wooster on September 28, 2011.

Congressman Renacci Raises The Level of His Game

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Wayne Democrats

We thought it would be proper to point out that Congressman Jim Renacci (R) appears to be raising the level of his game. Then again, when you set the bar of performance and truthfulness so low that it lays on the ground, clearing it takes very little effort.

During his first town hall (Walsh University/Jan. 10) since joining Congress, Renacci responded to a member of the audience with this line as justification for voting to repeal the health care law:

“I agree with you, there are some good things, but there are also a half a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare that are going to go in place.”

I don’t think you actually needed to do any research to recognize that this statement seemed a little ridiculous. Common sense would tell you that this doesn’t seem right. Fortunately PolitiFact, a Pulitzer Prize winning website, fact-checked this claim and found it to be Barely True. Continue reading →

Game, Set & Match To Republican & Teabaggers’ No. 1 Talking Point

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Wayne Democrats

President Obama is a socialist who is bad for employment, bad for business, bad for growth and bad for America, right? That’s what Republicans and their brethren the Teabaggers would have you believe. Heck, even our new congressional representative Jim Renacci (R), continually went to the “uncertainty” in the economy talking point that amazingly was uttered by every Republican in the country last year. I wonder what their response would be to this graph?

Fact-Checking Jim Renacci’s Wooster Debate Performance

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Wayne Democrats

In an effort to shed more light on the candidacy of Jim Renacci (R), who is the primary challenger to incumbent John Boccieri (D) for Ohio’s 16th congressional district, we poured over every statement Mr. Renacci made during a Sept. 20, 2010 debate in Wooster, Ohio, sponsored by the Wooster Area Chamber of Commerce. Ideally, the local media would do this work, but since they either don’t have the time or the will to do so, we will fill this void.

The debate featured the three candidates named on the ballot — Boccieri, Renacci and Jeffrey Blevins (Libertarian). What we discovered is that a great many of the accusations that Renacci makes are exaggerations, distortions or downright falsehoods. But was most surprising is that taking Mr. Renacci at his word for some of his policy positions leads one to an unusual conclusion — that he supports many Democratic ideas. Read on to learn more.

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