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'This is the year' for the GOP to reclaim the House, Boehner tells Republicans

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By Doug Page, Staff Writer Updated 11:26 AM Sunday, March 14, 2010

KETTERING — U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner was preaching to the choir, and the choir was loving it Saturday night, March 13, at the annual Montgomery County Republican Party Lincoln Reagan Day Dinner.

The West Chester Republican told the 450 party leaders and volunteers it was their energy and support that would turn the midterm elections into a GOP victory.

“This is the year. This is the moment,” Boehner told those gathered at the Presidential Banquet Center in Kettering.

U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Centerville, who introduced Boehner, said “John Boehner has the greatest opportunity: To demote (Speaker of the House) Nancy Pelosi.”

As minority leader in the House, Boehner would have an inside track, should the Republicans regain the majority, to become speaker of the House.

Should that happen, Boehner promised, “I will run the House differently. … I’m looking for the fine line between courage and stupidity. That’s the line I have to balance.”

Boehner threw a few jibs toward Democrats Pelosi, President Obama, and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Each was greeted with applause and laughter.

“We knocked their socks off (on health care) because we are for common sense,” Boehner said of House Republicans. “If they had the votes to pass this thing, they would have. Guess what? They haven’t because the American people have said, 'No.’”

Boehner told local Republicans it was their job to continue to keep pressure on the White House and Congress to defeat the current health care reform plan.

Turner, for his part, said he looks forward to next week when Pelosi brings the bill to a vote. “I will get to vote 'No’ again on 'Obamacare.’”

State Sen. John Husted, R-Kettering, told the group his campaign for secretary of state was important because he would then be on the state apportionment board that will drawn up the new state House and Senate districts following this year’s Census.

“The party that controls the apportionment board will control the Legislature for the next decade,” he said.

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