Plunderbund

from Dispatch (hat tip Renee):
Pastor defends sending pro-Blackwell e-mail
A Fairfield County pastor granted a Good Friday request from the campaign of J. Kenneth Blackwell to distribute an e-mail boosting the GOP gubernatorial candidate.
But the Rev. Russell Johnson said he complied with Internal Revenue Service rules since he only sent the missive to a group […]

PD Openers:
…So if you sit down with Wilson over lunch, it’s only natural to ask: Is Ney a good congressman? Putting aside the federal corruption investigation — no small matter — does Ney take care of the people’s needs?
“Yes,” Wilson said. Ney, he said, “works hard.” If a constituent had a problem with the Social […]

CNN:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Continuing a shakeup in President Bush’s administration, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Wednesday he is resigning, while longtime Bush confidant Karl Rove will lose his policy portfolio.
So Simple Scotty is getting off the crazy thing and Rove is going to focus on politics. Cue evil mastermind music. Watch […]

Bloggers help shape gubernatorial race
“Blogs and the Internet are the great equalizers. We try to focus on policy and ideas with MTB and the blogs,” said George Nemeth, who blogs at BrewedFreshDaily.com and is an MTB founder. “It doesn’t matter how much political capital you have at that point, it’s about how you articulate your […]

from NYT: Political Clout in the Age of Outsourcing:
On ABC, George Will said the outsourcing of radiology could make health care affordable again, to which Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York retorted that thousands of American radiologists would lose their jobs. On NPR, an economist said the pay of radiologists was already suffering. At […]

The last 3 Democracy Guy segments are must read…and I hear it’s just warming up. Check it out!
This can’t be happening, I thought. Over and over. No way. Not here. Can’t happen here.

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Russell interviewed Subodh Chandra tonight at a Licking County Dem Club Dinner. The result was some pretty strong words from Mr. Chandra to Mr. Dann. Tim has been pointing out all week that there are ties to the Cafaro sue happy one and the Dann campaign. Subodh references such by saying:
Here’s my […]

(via email) Columbus, Ohio – Subodh Chandra, Democratic Candidate for Ohio Attorney General, announced today at a press conference his plan to make the Ohio General Assembly fulfill its responsibility to guarantee every child in Ohio access to an adequately funded education.
“The Attorney General’s clients are the people of Ohio and that includes […]

(via email)
Dr. Stephanie Studebaker Endorsed By The Progressive Democrats Of America
Today the Progressive Democrats of America announced their endorsement of Stephanie Studebaker’s campaign for Congress in Ohio’s Third Congressional District. The Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) exists to carry the progressive agenda from the American grassroots to Congress to guide the development of progressive legislation, […]

Wendling writes it up at the PD. It sounds like Dann touts his legislative experience, while Subodh counters:
Chandra countered that, as a former federal white-collar prosecutor and Cleveland law director, he cleaned up fraud and corruption, went after predatory lenders and corporate polluters and operated “the people’s law firm” under former Mayor Jane Campbell.
Let’s […]

Though not Christian, I’ve been saying for some time that Democrats need to take Republicans to task for having distorted and mis-used religion in order to whip conservative Christians into a frenzy for electoral gain.
From the sounds of Joseph Lindsley’s latest piece in The Weekly Standard, they might just be doing it and […]

Update: Citizen Action goofs! See this PD Openers post
BSB had a great find yesterday on Ohio Citizen Action’s 2005 Campaign Finance Report. I’ve made a pdf of the report you can get:
Full Report in PDF (221 KB)
Full Report in Word from Citizen Action (1.51 MB)
It shakes out like this:
Flannery - […]

WARNING! If you are easily offended by either curse words or poking fun at religion, then please PLEASE do not press play on the below audio clip. I had a long conversation with some family members about religion on Sunday and one of the parties to the conversation sent me this via email. […]

Be sure to check out the latest MTB session with OH13 candidate Tom Sawyer.
Also, see this post by Scott Bakalar at Word of Mouth about a feature story on MTB in the Morning Journal.
On a related note, don’t miss playing Scott’s new game: Quotation Interpretation Contest

Joe and crew pound on the Culture of Corruption and Ney in his first spot. Also makes good mention of taking care of vets (you know, support the troops?):

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