Plunderbund

Well folks, it’s the time of year that we look back and begin to assess the past year’s activities and accomplishments. Wrap up the 365 day journey that was 2005 and put a nice bow on it for remembrance sake. I can’t quite do that here as only 3 months of the year […]

Pirro Quits Senate Race to Run for Attorney General (NYT). And the ONLY reason I’m posting on this is because this is just too much fun to watch:

I’ve been trying to think of ways to articulate precisely why I support Hackett over Brown in the primary. Well, BSB went ahead and did it for me. I’m not sure I can say it any better (well, I know I can’t - different maybe, but not better).
The majority, the center, are seeing […]

Cincy Enquirer:
“I am the official vice chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party,” Portune said today.
Official Release
It would have been nice to see a non-Redfern endorsee get a spot soon after the display of division at the vote, but to the victor the spoils I guess. I hope Todd’s experience with grassroots organizing does […]

From WaPo:
A federal judge in Pennsylvania today struck down a school board’s policy on including “intelligent design” in high school biology classes as an alternative to evolution, ruling that the requirement illegally promoted religion in public schools.
In his 139-page ruling, Jones wrote that intelligent design was essentially biblical creationism. He also harshly denounced the Dover […]

via BFD and Micro Persuasion, a new extension for Firefox is a very handy way to blog as you browse without having to be in your admin screen.  In fact, I’m using it now.  I have been using Avant Browser for IE due […]

Buckeye Senate has some interesting audio clips up of the ODP meeting. I was able to get them all to amplify and export as MP3 (they are in .mov format and the level a bit low) - all but the last one, not sure about that one. I think I have it in […]

via email from Phil de Vellis:
Anyone who has met Sherrod knows that he deals with confrontation
well. As a congressman and a candidate for the U.S. Senate, people confront him with questions, accusations and complaints every day. Even when he strongly disagrees with somoene, he remains respectful and would never blow up at […]

Update: I’m hearing there may be more to this story, but until I hear it officially won’t comment on the Brown side of things. Meanwhile, Russell has his take.
OK, I promise not to use the cold sore thing again - I’ve officially worn that one out. No mention of Blogger Balm either. […]

Update: Editor has a compiled MP3 of the Russo voicemails.
Wins overwhelmingly according to Tim. I liked Lieberman and what he had to say, but hopefully Redfern will get the job done. Now to commit to being full time.
Russo’s impressions and some commentary over at BP.
I really hope it’s not more of the […]

Update: Doh! No Wifi at ODP - imagine that. But you can follow audio updates as it happens!
Unable to make it down to the meeting/party Tim over at Buckeye Politics is planning on live blogging it though, so you might check there. I’ll report any news I hear here […]

…and I’m glad to see it actually. This is the kind of stuff I’ve been bitching about since the Blogad buy that he should be doing instead of buying ads - actually participate in the medium. Kudos for that step.
The post is at Huffington Post and is titled “Why I’m a […]

(from an email):
In a new twist, Republican Gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell has distributed emails to his supporters using Libertarian candidate Bill Peirce’s campaign theme, “Freedom to Prosper”.
Check out Bill Pierce’s website to see for yourself. I thought it was the Dems standing around with no message? I guess the Blackwell folks are not […]

This post by Ron Copfer got me thinking of something that happened around our dinner table recently. We were watching the news as dinnertime wound down and there was a story about the new wall being built between the U.S. and Mexico. After my wife and I discussed it for a bit […]

Update: (from Forbes.com: The United Auto Workers said its 17 area councils and 10 at-large representatives had voted 26-1 for Hackett)
We’ve been hearing about this for awhile, but it goes official now. Ohio UAW is behind Hackett. This is surely a blow to the Brown campaign, thought how big electorally it […]