Former Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner promised that we hadn’t heard the last of her when she left office in January. Now she’s fulfilled her promise with the launch of her Courage PAC. The online and real-world organizing tool aims to harness the energy of the passionate base of grassroots supporters she built while running in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate (she lost to Lee Fisher, who eventually lost to Republican Rob Portman in November) to be a voice for progressive issues at a time when state government and the U.S. House of Representatives are controlled by conservative Republicans.
This article appears in Feb 9-15, 2011.