State Representative Tyrone Yates (D-Cincinnati) has “formally established an exploratory committee for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate nomination in 2010,” the Dayton Daily News reports.
Yates, who set up the committee on Wednesday, Feb. 25, said he wants to model his campaign after the successful effort that vaulted the late Paul Wellstone of Minnesota into the U.S. Senate.
Yates, 55, said he’d like to find an “old school bus that we can green up, weld a platform on the back, stick an American flag on it, put ‘Yates for the Senate’ on the side and ride across Ohio.”
He’s entering the primary race against two better known Democrats, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner and Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher.
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