How many former Obama appointees are running for congress?
>Obama jumps into Dem fight to reclaim Ohio
>COLUMBUS, Ohio — Barack Obama is diving into Democrats’ campaign to retake the Midwest on Thursday, headlining an Ohio rally for former top appointee Richard Cordray in a bid to rebuild the stricken state Democratic Party.
>Cordray, the former attorney general of Ohio appointed by Obama to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is locked in a dead-heat race with Republican state Attorney General Mike DeWine — a sign of Democrats’ resurgence since President Donald Trump swept Ohio and neighboring states on his way to victory in 2016.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/13/obama-jumps-into-dem-fight-to-reclaim-ohio-819524
>Obama-backed Democrat in tight House race can't escape ethics complaint
>Aftab Pureval is an excellent candidate. He is young, energetic, and has even attracted the endorsement of former President Barack Obama. But the Ohio Democrat is also under investigation by the Ohio Election Commission.
>Pureval couldn’t keep his hands out of his campaign account, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. While serving as Hamilton County Clerk of Courts, he used campaign cash for that county office to jumpstart his federal congressional race. And that might be illegal.
>The Enquirer reports:
"Pureval spent $30,000 in the first six months of this year out of the clerk campaign account – even though a potential run for re-election wouldn't come for another two years when Pureval's term is up, according to a campaign finance reports filed Tuesday at the Hamilton County Board of Elections. Pureval was elected clerk in 2016."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/obama-backed-democrat-in-tight-house-race-cant-escape-ethics-complaint
>A former Obama administration official running for a U.S. House seat in Florida once penned an article claiming the U.S. response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was a “moment of hypocrisy.”
>Lauren Baer, who worked for the State Department under both Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, also criticized the country’s “shameful history” while hoping the attack, which killed nearly 3,000 people, would make America more "humble and humane."
>Baer, a Democrat, is now running for Congress in Florida's 18th District against incumbent U.S. Rep. Brian Mast, a Republican. The district is along the state's Atlantic coast, north of Miami.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/13/us-response-to-911-was-moment-hypocrisy-former-obama-official-running-for-congress-wrote.html