From the monthly archives: January 2010
This time it’s the Lorain Morning Journal:
A story released yesterday by the Associated Press calls into question Kasich?s claims that eliminating the income tax will return money to Ohio residents? pockets. The story reports that of the nine states without a broad-based tax on personal income like Ohio?s, four still collect more taxes per person than Ohio by charging more in other taxes. The other five states are collecting within $650 of Ohio in total per-person state taxes.
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If Kasich indeed has a large ?good? idea, he needs to explain it, particularly how eliminating the Ohio [...]
Full Story... →And who said these two crazy kids weren’t getting along?
Mark Naymik from the Plain Dealer just reported that the Strickland campaign last month hired Sandy Theis, who also is a communication consultant for the Brunner campaign.
I, too, recently just joined the campaign staff of the Brunner campaign.
Again, the idea that people for Strickland are monolithically for Fisher is simply not true.
Now that Governor Strickland has announced a running mate, Fisher’s ability to use the Governor as a foil to try to keep people from going to Brunner is weakening as people realize that regardless [...]
Full Story... →Here’s the roundup of editorials on yesterday’s State of the State address:
GOV. Ted Strickland’s State of the State address yesterday was long on initiatives that may reap long-term benefits in jobs and economic growth, but short on what many of the state’s nearly 675,000 unemployed residents hoped to hear: when there will be work for them. That’s as good as could be expected under the circumstances.
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Mr. Strickland can’t spend money the state doesn’t have. Faced with massive cuts in many areas of state spending, the governor was honest about his commitment to maintain [...]
Full Story... →Good.? Now is the time for Jennifer Garrison to drop out.
Full Story... →Hi Tonya!? You’ll get to know Tonya Gurr real well here.? Maybe after this, Tonya Gurr will get to know Dennis Kucinich, even!
I dropped off my MacBook Pro at the Crocker Park Apple Store today to fix the rapidly deteriorating fan situation?(thanks for all the suggestions, none worked!), and was again seduced by Iphones everywhere.? For those new to my Iphone upgrade nightmare, I’ve been in a death match with AT&T over Iphone upgrade for a long time.?
Since this battle began, AT&T has sent me no upgrade offer, despite having sent me a?fraudulent one [...]
Full Story... →Matthew Yglesias has a pair of posts up that reinforce the fact that Obama is still much more popular than Congress, and that Democrats are slightly more popular than Republicans.
I’m pretty sure Democrats will continue to take the wrong message away from losing Kennedy’s seat and turn a papercut into a sucking chest wound. Sorry Conan O’Brien – I’m a cynic.
Full Story... →Looks to me like there’s a sanity streak breaking out amongst some Republicans.
$47,621.14 raised
$51,174.85 spent
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$27,319.20 cash on hand…
I’ve got nothing against the Tea Party folks.? I agree with probably 90% of what they stand for.? But being angry at Democrats and some Republicans and showing up at a rally every twenty years or so is not enough….
Beware the siren song of the teabag. ?In the heat of the moment, passion rushing through you like Sophia Loren’s probing tongue, it seems like a good idea, but you won’t respect yourself in [...]
Full Story... →Ask yourself this, if there was any predictable, foreseeable event in which the Kasich campaign would want to use State Auditor Mary Taylor to be the face of the campaign’s response, wouldn’t it have been the Governor’s State of the State address?
Given all the hype and spin and justification as to why Taylor was such a great pick by the Kasich campaign, wouldn’t it had made sense to have the State Auditor out front today? Seriously, you have the State Auditor on your ticket and your opponent, the incumbent Governor, is talking about his record of fiscal conservatism. If [...]
Full Story... →I’ve just seen this ad by Tom Ganley twice in the last 2 hours on two separate Cleveland broadcasts on local ABC affiliate WEWS in the 6pm local news (big money slot), and just after Jeopardy before primetime (highest dollar). ?Which means Rob Portman is about to be deepthroat teabagged for 4 solid months. ?Let it hang, Rob!
Full Story... →Who’s bright idea was THIS?
Hey, John, to compete with the Governor appearing at the well of the People’s house to bipartisan applause, we’re going to film you in an empty room. But we’ll make it all white like the loading room in “The Matrix.” The kids will love it even if we never make any guns appear and you never kick ass. Yeah, we’ll keep it as blank as your plan to fix Ohio’s economy. Look into the camera like your talking to your dog after it just took a dump on your exotic, [...]
Full Story... →Sunday’s Dayton Daily News poll seems like bad news on the surface: Kasich leads Strickland by 6 points.
But if you look at the details, specifically about who Ohioans blame for the current economic problems, it actually seems to bode well for Strickland’s strategy.
Strickland’s campaign, among other things, is attempting to tie Kasich, who worked as a managing director for Lehman Brothers until the company’s epic fail, to the banking meltdown and subsequent economic distress.
While Kasich’s entire campaign strategy is focused on linking Governor Strickland to the current economic problems in the state merely because Ted [...]
Full Story... →Budget Watch
