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    DAVID KRIKORIAN ANNOUNCES RUN FOR 2010
    By David DeWitt

    PolitickerOH
    http://www.politickeroh.com/d aviddewitt/krikorian-announces-run-2010
    Nov 6 2008
    OH

    Businessman David Krikorian (I-Madeira) wants to be the next member
    of Congress for Ohio's 2nd Congressional District...in 2010.

    Just one day after losing the 2008 race, Krikorian told
    PolitickerOH.com that he was making plans for 2010.

    U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Loveland) was re-elected in Ohio's 2nd,
    beating Krikorian and Dr. Victoria Wulsin (D-Indian Hill).

    Schmidt got 44.96 percent of the vote to Wulsin's 37.27 percent and
    17.77 percent for Krikorian.

    Schmidt received a total of 143,287 votes, compared to 118,770 for
    Wulsin and 56,633 for Krikorian.

    "I think our results were actually pretty darned good," Krikorian
    said. "When you factor in the fact that both of my opponents spend
    ten times more than I did, each. And you factor in that in the last
    week alone, Sarah Palin was in the district and Schmidt was stumping
    with her. Joe the over-hyped plumber was stumping for her. [Former
    U.S. Rep.] Rob Portman was stumping for her. And McCain won our
    district, so you had a lot of people out there pulling the party
    levers."

    Krikorian pointed to President-elect Barack Obama, Gov. Ted Strickland
    and U.S. Rep. Jack Murtha (D-Pa.) stumping for Wulsin.

    "We also had the serious headwind of a whole lot of people who wanted
    to vote for us, but ended up not voting for us because they were
    afraid that if they did it would help Wulsin get elected," Krikorian
    said. "That was a very real dynamic in this race, and there were a
    whole lot of people who, quite frankly, just did not think that an
    independent could win and therefore voted with one of the two party
    candidates."

    Krikorian said that the fact that he still pulled 18 percent of the
    vote was pretty remarkable.

    "We'll be back in 2010," Krikorian said. "In fact, we've spent much
    of the day [Wednesday] planning our next move."

    Krikorian said he thinks Wulsin will be done after this and that
    Schmidt is still an extremely vulnerable representative, "and a bad
    one at that."

    "I think that depending on how things play out, I'm going to be there,
    either as a Republican in the Republican primary, as a Democrat or
    as an independent," Krikorian said. "I don't think there's any reason
    whatsoever not to pursue this office, and I think if it's a two-person
    race, me against her, I think I would have won this time."

    Krikorian pointed out that his campaign also had the opportunity to
    point out Schmidt as a denier of the Armenian genocide.

    "If you denied the holocaust there's no way that you would be in
    the U.S. House of Representatives," Krikorian said. "And I think
    it's going to come back to bite her fairly substantially. And in
    fairly short order, because Obama is already on record -- in fact,
    he reaffirmed last week -- that he would indeed officially recognize
    the Armenian genocide."

    Krikorian said Schmidt would look silly when Obama does so and Schmidt
    has denied it.

    Schmidt spokesperson Bruce Pfaff has said that Krikorian showed his
    colors at the end of the campaign as a one-issue candidate when he
    started hitting Schmidt on the issue.

    Krikorian said that he would work to make sure that district was
    well aware "that she took the blood money" from Turkish government
    political action committees "in exchange to deny it."

    Krikorian said he may write a book about his run for Congress to
    raise some funds for his next run, and in a larger sense, keep him
    in the public eye.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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