Last year, Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown was the U.S. Senate's top target for defeat by the gun lobby. This year, groups that want to limit gun sales are aiming at Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman.
Portman landed in the crosshairs of gun control advocates after his April 17 vote against legislation that would have required background checks for firearms purchases over the Internet and at gun shows. His vote helped defeat the Manchin-Toomey Amendment, which effectively halted Senate consideration of gun control legislation prompted by mass shootings like the December killings of 20 students and six staffers at a Connecticut grade school.
As Portman traveled through Ohio during this week's congressional recess, occasional gun control pickets greeted his appearances. And a Springfield, Ohio woman whose 27-year-old son was killed in last year's Colorado movie theater rampage tried to arrange a dinner with Portman so she could express her frustration with his vote. She did so at the urging of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a national group founded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg that claims the support of about 100 Ohio mayors, including those from Akron, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, Lorain and Toledo.
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