DAVID KRIKORIAN ANNOUNCES RUN FOR 2010
By David DeWitt
PolitickerOH
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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
