The Republican state treasurer is the leading candidate in a six-way March primary to determine who will face Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown in November.
A Jan. 27 luncheon at the downtown Union Club is billed as Mandel's "first Cleveland event of 2012" in an invitation signed by Eaton Corp. Chief Executive Sandy Cutler.
For $1,000, supporters can receive a general admission ticket for the lunch. For another For $2,500, donors can also attend a private, pre-lunch reception with Mandel and Cutler.
The invitation does not identify Cutler's place in the corporate world; not that it needs to.
The Fortune 500 exec is well-known in civic circles. He is a past chairman of the Greater Cleveland Partnership, the region's chamber of commerce. And he was a leader in the successful effort three years ago to replace the Cuyahoga County commissioners with a charter government. Cutler cut a personal $10,000 check and helped raise money; Eaton contributed $50,000.
Cutler has contributed to other GOP candidates, notably former State Rep. Matt Dolan, who failed in a 2010 bid to become the first county executive under the reorganized government that Cutler favored. He also donated that year to Mandel's successful state treasurer campaign.
The return address on the Union Club invitation, mailed with a one-page Mandel biography and contribution form, tracks back the county's Republican Party. In the letter, which was sent to The Plain Dealer, Cutler lauds Mandel's service in the Marines and Cleveland roots. The former state legislator and Lyndhurst city councilman grew up in the area and lives in Beachwood.
"He honorably served two tours in Anbar Province, Iraq, and is now serving as our state treasurer," Cutler writes. "Under Josh's conservative leadership, his $4 billion local government investment fund received the highest possible credit rating from Standard & Poor's, and Fitch recently issued their highest rating for Ohio's short-term general obligation bonds."
To underscore the Marine factor -- "he has never failed to answer the call when his community or country needed him" -- Cutler perhaps unintentionally acknowledges that Mandel was not the GOP's first choice for the Senate race. More experienced Republicans, U.S. Reps. Pat Tiberi and Steve LaTourette among them, were courted to run but took a pass.
Mandel, Cutler writes, "was drafted into this race by a strong mix of Republicans, Democrats and independents, and we are proud that he is stepping forward to once again serve his country."
Cutler does not directly attack Brown in the letter. But he closes, with the assistance of another military metaphor, by encouraging recipients to "join me in supporting Josh in this next mission to steer Ohio and America in a starkly better direction."
Source: http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2012/01/corporate_cleveland_titan_sand.html
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