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[photo] Senator Brown, looking like Ohio feels


Here’s the description given by the AP:

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D- Ohio, pauses in the elevator after arriving on Capitol Hill from his mothers wake in Ohio to cast the final vote to pass the stimulus bill Friday, Feb. 13, 2009 in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Again, may his mother be of blessed memory.

I could speculate, without too much difficulty, as to what he might have been thinking about when this photo was snapped – if only because there is so much to choose from that could be on his mind.

But honestly? When I saw this photo? I thought, here is a person who looks like Ohio feels. And while that might seem like a derogatory observation, to me, it’s a supreme compliment because, to me, it means, “this person – who is representing Ohio, as its junior senator, feels what we feel – feels how this state feels.”

There wasn’t one person I spoke with today with whom the topic of job loss didn’t play a role.  Including someone who left this state for what was supposed to be a greener more stable pasture and less than two years after the move, had his company bought and dismantled, with nothing but four weeks severance after 20 years of employment.

Or the anemia many school districts are going to experience in an effort to keep a quality of life circulating through the entire state’s education system that we can all accept.

Will the bill Brown flew back to Washington to sign make a difference? Good or bad? How soon? Big enough?

No one knows for sure.

But anyone who says they do know? Doesn’t.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:35 pm February 14th, 2009 in Economy, Government, Ohio, Politics, Sherrod Brown, senate 

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9 Responses to “[photo] Senator Brown, looking like Ohio feels”

  1. 1 Jeff on February 14th, 2009 11:25 pm

    Tough times for Ohio, no question. We’re paying a heavy price for having made our state so hostile to capital and capitalists relative to others.

    Would that Brown were committed to reversing this decades-long trend.

  2. 2 Jill Miller Zimon on February 14th, 2009 11:26 pm

    Jeff – that would be the decades-long that the GOP was in charge of both Ohio and the US, right?

  3. 3 Jeff on February 14th, 2009 11:33 pm

    No question. Voino, Taft, GOP legislature – disasters.

  4. 4 Dennis Spisak on February 15th, 2009 10:04 am

    However, Ohio is not getting any better under Governor Ted.

  5. 5 RightRunner on February 15th, 2009 9:23 pm

    Oh Jill. Get real. The man just lost his mother. Of course he is going to look sad. Who wouldn’t. I doubt that he had Ohio’s feelings on his mind when the picture was snapped. Of course, you liberals are all about feelings and not too much on logic.

    Further, I don’t think the man has ever owned a hair brush.

    One more thing. I just love the way you liberals always mention the past stupidity of some in the Ohio GOP in the past decade as some sort of reason for the Dems to continue with stupid policies that continues Ohio’s problems. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

  6. 6 Jill Miller Zimon on February 15th, 2009 9:27 pm

    RR – not only don’t you know what’s on his mind, you definitely don’t know what’s on my mind.

    I don’t think “sad” at all when I see this photo. I think carrying a big burden, loss, searching, exhaustion, and determination of going to do what one has to do – which by the way is the way in which Sen. Brown’s mother has been portrayed.

    Here’s a great article on that:

    http://mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20090215/NEWS01/902150303/1002/rss01

  7. 7 Laura on February 15th, 2009 9:44 pm

    That is a really great metaphor for this photo. Even though I live in Virginia now (a state that’s very welcoming to business but still has its issues), I was proud of Sherrod for getting the job done.

  8. 8 Loraine Ritchey on February 16th, 2009 10:05 am

    Maybe he just found out about the “State House” in Lorain :)

    http://thatwoman.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/the-housing-court-judge-part-two/

  9. 9 PunditMom on February 17th, 2009 6:44 am

    Flying back to DC for the vote was obviously the right thing to do for him. I just hope that the StimPak will be enough and be the right way to get things going. I’m cautiously optimistic, but also scared.

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