Brunner, a former Franklin County Common Pleas Court judge, was legislative counsel and deputy director for former Secretary of State Sherrod Brown. She said she was dismayed in 2004 to see Blackwell use his job as secretary of state to campaign for State Issue 1 and for President Bush's re-election.
"When I worked for Sherrod Brown back 20 years ago, it was understood, and we had a creed and we had a code that we could not go out and promote someone's election, especially when we were counting the votes," she said. |