Ohio Senate Race: Fisher gives his final $100,000 to Ohio Dem party for GOTV

[WI_DEM]

COLUMBUS -- As of two weeks ago, Lee Fisher's campaign for U.S. Senate was down to $308,631 in its bank account. Sums like that don't last long and replenishing it is a challenge when a candidate lags in the polls. So Fisher apparently decided to put it to good use.

He has given $100,000 to the Ohio Democratic Party for its final, aggressive get-out-the-vote drive. This is according to Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, but the Fisher campaign confirms the donation and says it indeed came from Fisher's campaign account.

Fisher told The Plain Dealer that he is not abandoning the campaign or giving up. But he sees this as the best way to get out the vote, which is the best way for him to win.

Brown described it as an act of courage, statesmanship and generosity.

"Few times in the course of a rigorous, frenetic and difficult campaign do candidates step up and do something spectacular -- and unselfish," Brown said in an e-mail to supporters of his own campaign, which will not begin in earnest until next year because he doesn't face re-election until 2012.

"Lee Fisher just did," Brown continued.

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2010/10/lee_fisher_gives_last_of_his_m.html

[Deep13]

1. Well, that was nice of him.

:fistbump:

[Tippy]

2. K&R...nice to see a politician with common sense...