COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Third Frontier
backers are pulling out the big names — and hoping for the big bucks —
for a campaign aimed at getting voters to approve a $700 million bond
issue to renew the state’s biggest economic development project during
the May 4 primary election.
Jo Ann Davidson, the first woman speaker of the Ohio House in the mid-1990s and c0-chair of the National Republican Committee; and David Wilhelm, the Athens, Ohio, native best known for managing Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign who’s also a venture capitalist and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, will co-chair the still Third Frontier campaign, said Dorothy Baunach, special adviser on the program to the Ohio Business Roundtable (pdf).
Cleveland attorney (Tucker, Elllis & West) and political campaign veteran Matthew Cox will manage the campaign, which though not officially begun hopes to raise $3.5 million, starting with roundtable members, said Baunach, founding president of NorTech, the technology economic development organization in Northeast Ohio.
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Author: Mary Vanac
