Tag: Steve Austria

Fresh off his vile, shameful attacks on Dem Sharen Neuhardt for giving shelter to a refugee of the Rwandan genocide, Republican Steve Austria’s crack finance squad sent out this blundersome plea for funds:

What a hilariously naked ask for PAC dough – it’s as though Austria is just begging the moneyed interests to let him sell out. (Evidently, the cognitive dissonance of accusing your under-funded opponent of trying to “buy the race” didn’t trouble the trog who hit “send” on this puppy.)

But the best part is the hilariously awful syntax and spelling. They’ve worked very hard to put a strong grassroots support in order! It practically reads like a Nigerian 419 scam letter. There’s only one word to describe something like this: morans.

(Great catch by bluefiftytwo.)

Hoo boy. You gotta hand it to Republicans. They always know how to “stay classy”.

The latest? Republican state Sen. Steve Austria, running to replace retiring GOP Rep. Dave Hobson in an R+6 central Ohio district, is spewing out a “unique” new attack against his Democratic opponent, attorney Sharen Neuhardt. Austria is now criticizing her family’s sponsorship of a Rwandan political refugee and survivor of that country’s brutal genocide:

Austria’s campaign manager, Brad Mascho, told Cox News that “harboring an illegal immigrant with a criminal record is a serious matter.”

There are lies and then there are vile lies — this one is the latter. As Jeff at the Ohio Daily Blog writes, Ishema Umuhoza has been living in the United States legally as he waits for federal courts to review his petition for political asylum. In the meantime, he graduated from the University of Dayton in 2005 and had some minor brushes with the law (driving without a license and walking home while intoxicated). The Neuhardt family has been aiding Umuhoza since 2002, offering him a place to stay and taking up his legal fight for political asylum in the courts. In turn, Republican Steve Austria and the slimeballs at the NRCC are attacking Neuhardt for her act of generosity.

The Sharen Neuhardt campaign calls this a “cowardly attack”, and we’re inclined to agree. Austria and his slime crew should be ashamed of themselves, assuming they had any moral fiber to begin with.

UPDATE: Here’s the reaction from DCCC spokesman Ryan Rudominer:

“Steve Austria smearing Sharen’s family for helping a Rwandan refugee who escaped a mass genocide is one of the most shameful and despicable moves made in any race this cycle,” Rudominer said. “Clearly, Steve Austria spit on John McCain and Sarah Palin’s request to keep a candidate’s family off limits.”