This recent entry on Rob Portman’s blog is probably a useful piece of foreshadowing for what the Portman campaign plans to use to defuse Fisher’s class warfare tactics. The title is “Lee Fisher, Height of Hypocrisy”:

We know Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher’s campaign is desperately trying to distract voters from his failed record as Ohio’s Job Czar but his recent campaign fundraising email is hypocritical and offensive.
In yesterday’s email Lee Fisher’s campaign attacks Rob Portman with false claims of “strings attached” to campaign contributions. Ohio working families are just too smart for Lee Fisher’s clumsy attempt to smear Rob Portman.
But what’s even more shocking than Lee Fisher’s false attack is the blatant hypocrisy in the Fisher campaign e-mail.
Just two weeks ago Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher awarded the maximum grant possible from the Ohio Department of Development to the companies of two families that contributed more than $23,000 to Fisher’s campaign. Talk about “strings attached” to donations! Someone raises tens of thousands of dollars for Lee Fisher’s campaign and BINGO! they get $3.5 million from taxpayers.
And earlier this week Lt. Gov. Fisher continued his refusal to call for the resignation of County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora and Auditor Frank Russo, two of his long-time political allies who are under federal investigation. Despite calls from Gov. Ted Strickland and Democratic Party Chairman Stuart Garson for Dimora and Russo to immediately resign Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher refuses to speak out. Maybe there are “strings attached” because Dimora and Russo have given Lee Fisher more than $31,000 over the years to fund his many political campaigns?
I’ve said this before, if Lee Fisher truly believes that campaign contributions from Wall Street are evil then he must do the honorable thing and return the tens of thousands in contributions he has received from Wall Street, unless there are “strings attached.” In fact, Lee Fisher’s hometown newspaper, The Plain Dealer, reported on a summer fundraiser for Lt. Gov. Fisher in Washington, D.C., where he schmoozed with lobbyists from Big Pharmaceutical, Big Oil and Wall Street hedge funds.
Sadly, this kind of hypocrisy seems to come easily to Lt. Gov. Fisher. When he served as the state’s Attorney General, Lee Fisher promised that he would not take campaign contributions from private attorneys who worked with his office. Despite that pledge, Lee Fisher took more than $410,000 from these outside attorneys. There must have been “strings attached.”
Campaigns are tough, and we all know that the Democrats are going to do and say anything to distract voters from their failing policies and bankrupt ideas. But yesterday’s email is the height of hypocrisy and frankly it’s insulting to the more than 18,000 individuals, the vast majority of them Ohioans, who are supporting Rob’s campaign. Ohio working families deserve better.