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A federal court yesterday upheld Ken Blackwell’s ruling that Charles R. Morrison II cannot run in the general election as an independent, challenging Mary Jo Kilroy (D) and incumbent Deborah Pryce (R). Morrison has called the race choosing “the lesser of two liberals”.

Senator Voinovich is putting Republicans facing election this year under pressure and is calling for a temporary “war tax”.
At a Senate hearing where Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff testified, Voinovich said Congress should approve “a temporary increase in our taxes” to pay for the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and to defend the nation […]

(Why can’t I come up with clever titles? Sigh.)
Yesterday’s primary in Maryland was plagued by all kinds of problems with the new (Diebold) election equipment. Ohio election experts wonder if we face the same fate.
Voters in Baltimore and suburban Washington had to wait or were turned away from the voting booth because computer […]

Blackwell blogger Naugle’s nuclear explosion wasn’t contained, and has spread beyond the “Republicans for Strickland” press conference and on to “teh internets”. Naugle, apparently quite miffed after the presser, appears to have gone back to work and posted an entry attacking Saxby on Blackwell’s blog.
Rocky is a Republican who has made a fortune at […]

COLUMBUS – Volunteers preparing for today’s “Republicans for Strickland” press conference at the statehouse were confronted by Matt Naugle, Blackwell’s official campaign blogger, and another young Blackwell staffer.
They had a message for one of the Republicans scheduled to appear at the event:: “Tell Rocky that his father would be rolling over in his grave if […]

Today a judge ruled that Barbara Sykes, running for state auditor, will be allowed to push forward with her lawsuit against Mary Taylor for running a race-baiting push poll.
HT: ProgressOhio.org

This was in the mailbag yesterday, but I’m still swamped at the job that actually pays the bills…
Jennifer Brunner, Democratic candidate for Ohio Secretary of State, today stressed the need for a Secretary of State who provides uniform poll worker training to the state’s boards of elections to strengthen the quality of Ohio’s election process […]

But don’t worry, Blackwell’s wrong too…
An article over at RABid caught my eye a couple of minutes ago about a judicial challenge to John Boccieri’s (D-New Middletown) new law barring protests at military funerals. The Beacon-Journal also wrote a McNews worthy article in their morning edition. The sudden spike in interest regarding the new state […]

Silly me, this fact didn’t even occur to me, but Michael E. Hanke over at the Canton Repository points it out…
Shame on Republican Ken Blackwell for saying his opponent for Ohio governor, Democrat Ted Strickland, will raise taxes if he is elected. A governor can’t raise taxes. He might propose a tax, and he might […]

Norm Cummings is the highest paid and the longest serving member of Ken Blackwell’s campaign staff.
Over the past 12 years, the Blackwell campaign paid his rent, bought him a laptop and coughed up A LOT of cash for his consulting services.
Since 1994, Norm Cummings has received over $400,000 from Blackwell and […]

Last night was the first part of the ABC “docudrama” The Path to 9/11. While I did not watch it (instead I watched CIA “superagent” Stan Smith turn a refugee camp into a summer camp called “Camp Refoogee”), The Anonymous Liberal did. And it’s worse than we thought.
It was much worse than I […]

Rather than crosspost them here, I will simply provide a link to my other blog, OH-12.us.

Eric’s first post is up over at ProgressOhio.org. More or less a brief introduction for ProgressOhio. You can also find a link over in the blogroll.

A new poll underlines sagging support for the President, and the Iraq War.
A new poll on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack shows Bush’s approval rating at 38 percent — the first time it’s dipped below 40 percent in regular surveys for The Dispatch by Saperstein Associates.
Also for the first […]

Also in the mailbag…
America Votes Invites You to a Fall Open House!
September 18th, 19th or 20th
On September 18th, 19th and 20th, America Votes will host fall open houses in each of our offices in Cleveland, Columbus and in Cincinnati. Individuals will have the opportunity to meet our staff and learn firsthand about all the […]