Plunderbund

Ken Blackwell has a five-word plan for education:
Articulation, Massification, Accountability, Efficiency and Accessibility.
Well, actually it’s four REAL words and one that is made up.
Can you figure out which one is not in the dictionary?
I’ll give you a hint: the spell-checker wants to change it to “Mystification”.
The answer, of course, is Massification.
And, while […]

From OH-12.us…
The campaign of Bob Shamansky continued to gain steam on Monday as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) named the race for Ohio’s 12 Congressional District to its list of “emerging races” in this midterm election cycle. The DCCC Emerging Races list is made up of candidates who have taken traditionally non-competitive districts and, […]

A recent post on ProgressOhio reveals that “A federal court Judge this morning ruled that State Auditor candidate Barbara Sykes has cause to proceed in her lawsuit alleging that her opponent Mary Taylor used a race-baiting push poll against her.”
They sure do love those push polls…
Bob Dole used the SAME COMPANY as Taylor (Western Wats […]

Before ‘84
Norman B. Cummings is a Republican political consultant. He is originally from Bartlett, Ohio.
He was born March 25th, 1948, the same day as Cleveland Rocker Michael Stanley.
Also in the news that day: a flying saucer crashes in Aztec, New Mexico and, in Washington DC, President Harry S. Truman gives a news conference […]

Blackwell’s Hitler Photo
The Blackwell blog’s latest post Ted Strickland’s Michael Dukakis Photo
attempts to compare Ted to Mike because they both had their picture taken in a race car.
Naugle tried this once before with Fidel Castro.
In response, Aberrant Equation had a silly, but very funny set of pictures comparing Ken Blackwell to […]

From VoteVets.org.
Dear VoteVets.org supporter,
You are incredible! Since we unveiled this ad on Wednesday, which targets George Allen for voting against giving our troops the right body armor, donations have poured in fast and hard. On behalf of my fellow veterans, I thank you.
Reaction has been quick and strong, as well! DailyKos said […]

From Openers - HT BSB.
Washington — Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Ney has agreed with the Justice Department to plead guilty to at least one criminal charge in a deal that could be announced as early as Friday, Capitol Hill sources said Thursday.
The Justice Department and Ney’s attorney would not discuss whether a deal has been […]

Joy Padgett won the special election yesterday in OH-18.
She won nearly two-thirds of the vote in yesterday’s low-turnout election to take Ney’s place on the ticket. Unofficial results show that she received 9,451 votes, or 66.5 percent of the total cast.
Four other Republicans ran: financial analyst James Brodbelt Harris, who got 14.8 percent of the […]

Homosexual PAC Endorses Ted Strickland…
Nice one, guys.

NewsChannel5 is sponsoring the gubernatorial debate in Cleveland on Sept. 20th.
They are asking people to send their educational questions for Republican Ken Blackwell and Democrat Ted Strickland to Watson@wews.com .
Here are some examples to get you started…
Mr Blackwell:
Why do you hate Ohio’s children?
Are you really planning to sell our schools to foreign investors for 6 […]

Akron Beacon Journal (OH)
January 15 …

[the Democrat running for Governor] is not expected to mention taxes during the 45-minute speech but instead will focus on … efforts to stabilize school funding and return jobs to the state.
He also is expected to lay out a road map for Ohio’s economic future that
would carry the state into […]

VoteVets.org is running an ad against Senator George “Macaca” Allen for voting against an appropriations bill amendment that would have provided National Guard and Reserves troops being deployed with adequate armor and supplies. It’s a powerful, simple ad.

DeWine voted with Allen.

Princeton University researchers demonstrate how a Diebold machine can be compromised in under one minute to silently and undetectably steal an election.

This isn’t - or at least shouldn’t be - a partisan issue. Democracy relies on the integrity of elections. Technology can be used to make elections less vulnerable to fraud, but Diebold’s […]

Ted Strickland’s campaign is sending out free bumper stickers. I’ve already got mine on my car, much to the chagrin of my Republican father-in-law. What are you waiting for - annoy your conservative family members today!
http://www.tedstrickland.com/bumpersticker

Some speculation is starting to make the rounds…
One of the early “cattle calls” for Republicans who want to follow President Bush into the White House is apparently being hosted by Ohio gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell.
A steady stream of early contenders for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination have been popping in and out of Ohio during […]