From the monthly archives: November 2006
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Blackwell campaign hurt by negative ads, lack of contributions
COLUMBUS – Those involved with the campaign to elect Republican J. Kenneth Blackwell governor argued among themselves and made a lot of mistakes in the months leading up to his defeat on Nov. 7.
On the other hand, those who ran Democrat Ted Strickland?s campaign stayed on message and made the right moves. ?You see the result,? said Norman Cummings, Blackwell?s campaign manager.
Yep – 18 years.
A former GOP fundraiser at the center of a scandal-plagued state investment in rare coins that helped Democrats seize power in the midterm elections was sentenced Monday to 18 years in prison.
Tom Noe, a prominent coin dealer accused of taking at least $2 million, was convicted last week of theft, corrupt activity, money laundering, forgery and tampering with records.
Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Thomas Osowik, who described the crime as an “elaborate scheme of theft on a large scale,” also fined Noe $120,000.
“You continued to spend the bureau’s money at what I [...]
Full Story... →Just wanted to ping the world to let everyone know that I’m back from a productive week in Tampa (and one crazy college football game) with all my fingers and toes intact. Just working thru the backlog, and with Thanksgiving coming up, it may be a little while yet before I can settle back into the daily routine of posting on Plunderbund.
Just wanted to squash the rumors, in case anyone cared: “I’m not dead yet!”
Full Story... →Outgoing Congressman Jim Ryun, R-KS, needs someone to pass him a tissue on his recent loss to Nancy Boyda. Today in the Topeka Capital-Journal Ryun gave one of the primary reasons for the loss:
Rep. Jim Ryun, R-Kan., blamed his re-election defeat Thursday on a range of influences, including overconfident campaign volunteers, news reports that questioned his honesty and distortion of his voting record by Democrat Nancy Boyda.
Yeah, you read that right. He blamed his defeat on his volunteers.
Of course he didn’t think Mr. 38% hurt him at all:
Ryun said he didn’t think it was [...]
Full Story... →I’m down at SuperComputing ’06 this week, and despite spending a nice morning with family I have down here (lunch on the beach in Clearwater… fabulous), the first evening of the conference was a madhouse. I don’t expect the rest of the week to be any better. So, despite my best intentions, I will almost certainly be unable to squeeze in any blogging until after The Game this weekend, when I’ll be back in Ohio and things will have settled down a bit.
Full Story... →A 25 point manifesto about the liberal agenda: The Right was Right. I tried to excerpt a few of my favorites, but I couldn’t do it – it would have been the entire list.
Full Story... →And this is why we don’t let kids vote…
Kids select Blackwell for governor, DeWine for senate
By Jill Gosche
Kids Voting USA participants selected a different route for the state of Ohio when they didn?t agree with their parents on several election races.
Participants from Hopewell-Loudon Local Schools, New Riegel Local Schools and Tiffin city and parochial schools selected Republicans Kenneth Blackwell as Ohio?s governor and Mike DeWine as their U.S. Senator.
Their totals were: Blackwell, 1,180, and Democrat Ted Strickland, 976. For the Senate race, the totals were DeWine, 1,031, and Democrat Sherrod Brown, 994.
In [...]
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It looks like Michael “I Love Puppies” Steele has been offered the opportunity to replace Ken Mehlman as Chairman of the RNC.
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There has also been talk of having Steele serve on the President’s cabinet.
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No word yet on any job offers for out-going Ohio Secretary of State (and non-governor) Ken Blackwell.
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What GOP anti-liberal hate-mongering has wrought
Stumbled across this letter, allegedly from a soldier, decrying the result of the midterm elections as a terrible blow to morale:
Last night, while we watched the press conference with the President, there was utter discust, [sic] and the common feeling amongst us all that we soldiers are now the loneliest people on Earth?. we fight an enemy over here, and we have a country full of enemies to go home to that are our countrymen. We watched President Bush say his own political funeral, our commander and chief.. as well as ours?.. He tried so hard to spin [...]
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