Sherrod Brown raises $8 million in the first six weeks of his Senate campaign: Capitol Letter

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Money matters: Sherrod Brown’s political network raised $8 million in the six weeks since the Columbus-area Democrat launched his 2026 U.S. Senate campaign. As Jeremy Pelzer reports , that’s more than the $7.6 million that U.S. Sen. Jon Husted’s campaign apparatus has collected in total since the Republican from suburban Columbus was appointed to the Senate in January. But Brown isn’t the only well-funded Democratic Senate candidate: first-time office seeker Fred Ode, a Lorain County entrepreneur, stoked his campaign with $5 million from his own pocket.

Getting schooled : A bill is advancing in the legislature that would require Ohio students in grades 6-12 to learn about the “Success Sequence,” a three-pronged theory that states people who complete at least a high