Plunderbund

(from Strickland’s blog) The Insider Strikes

It was hard enough to believe Ken Blackwell was a political “outsider” when you took into account his twelve years as one of the top Ohio Republicans, the over $1 million the Ohio GOP has given to his various campaigns and the various Bob Bennett-inspired concessions Ken Blackwell has agreed to over the years (dropping out of the governor’s race in 1998 to let Bob Taft run unopposed in the primary, running for Secretary of State despite declaring that the only thing worse than running for the job was doing the job, postponing his TEL amendment from last November’s ballot to this year’s, bringing “hypocritical”, “Taft-lite” Jim Petro into his campaign…the list does go on for a while).

It’s impossible to believe it with this news today from the Columbus Dispatch:

Republican lawmakers expect to pass a law next week that would give the TEL issue committee the ability to pull it off the ballot, while also passing the new spending restriction immediately.

It’s highly doubtful that after Ken Blackwell’s TEL flip-flop there exists much room in current law for him to pull it off the ballot. So, in true “outsider” form, Ken Blackwell’s statehouse buddies are going to create a law for him to save him from himself.

Ken Blackwell is just more of the same from Ohio GOP. It’s time for a change, whether you’re a Democrat, Republican or Independent – the current structure of the Ohio GOP no longer represents the best interests of Ohioans. They only represent their own best interests.