Senate challenger rails against D.C.

Mike Gibbons, a Cleveland banker who is running for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, is out with an ad positioning himself as an outsider.

The ad, titled “Vacation,” is running on cable TV and the internet as part of a “six-figure” effort, his campaign said.

“We sent them to Washington to repeal Obamacare and cut taxes,” Gibbons says in a voiceover as fat cats sit in a plush room toasting expensive glasses of whiskey and wine. “That’s what they promised. But now the career politicians have gone on vacation. Do you get the month of August off ?”

The ad launched on a day when the U.S. Senate is expected to take up a motion to proceed with debate on a bill that would impact Obamacare, perhaps by repealing it.

Gibbons is running in the Republican Primary against Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel. Both hope to make it to the November 2018 general election to challenge incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat.

Gibbons, a political newcomer, surprisingly raised almost $700,000 in his first four weeks in the race.

Two Stark County women are accusing of trying to kill an elderly woman through a drug overdose.

Lilly Brunoni, 40, was charged Wednesday with conspiracy-murder, attempted murder, corrupting another with drugs and practicing medicine and/or surgery without a license.

Nicole Dailey, 29, of Canton, was charged with conspiracy-murder, attempted murder, corrupting another with drugs and theft from an elderly person.

The Stark County Sheriff ’s Office reported that the charges stem from an incident in May, when authorities responded to a Belden Avenue Southeast home in Canton Township and found an unresponsive woman.

The victim was taken to Aultman’s Compassionate Care Center, an inpatient hospice facility, where she required multiple doses of Narcan to revive her from an opioid overdose, authorities said.