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GOP Senate candidate’s in-laws take out ad ripping his anti-gay positions

Ohio Republican candidate Josh Mandel

With days to go before the 2012 elections, Ohio Senate hopeful Josh Mandel is taking heat from an unexpected source: his in-laws. On Monday, Mandel’s wife’s cousins took out an ad in the Cleveland Jewish News blasting Mandel for his anti-gay policies. Nine cousins signed the open letter, including members of the…

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Republican Mandel refuses to comment on Mourdock’s ‘gift from God’ rape remark

Ohio Republican candidate Josh Mandel

Ohio Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel refused to comment Wednesday night on controversial statements by Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, who said that abortion should not even be legal in cases of rape. When confronted by blogger Marc Kovac of the Ohio Capital Blog and asked if he…

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Ohio GOP Senate hopeful shorting U.S. Treasury bonds and betting on default

Josh Mandel Ohio via screencap

Republican Josh Mandel, the former Ohio congressman and State Treasurer who is running against Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) to represent Ohio in the Senate, has positioned himself and his wife financially to reap a significant profit if the U.S. government fails to raise the debt ceiling and defaults on its…

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