From the monthly archives: February 2010
I guess it all matters on what your definition of “arm’s length transaction” is.? To me, if your arm is doing a celebratory “reach around” to the other side at the bargaining table, it’s not really an “arms length transaction.”? John Kasich and his lawyer/business partner/campaign donor apparently disagree.
Today’s front-page story on the Cleveland Plain Dealer was a story first broke by Bill Sloat over at the Daily Bellweather. (Well, actually, it’s been news since Kasich ran for President in ’00, but Sloat brought it back up a few weeks ago.)
Here the key paragraphs:
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Full Story... →I bounced between airports and being locked in a hotel room shooting video most of last week, so I watched from afar as? Lee Fisher plant TJ Johnson, who no one has ever heard of, made it to the ballot for the US Senate primary.? And if you don’t believe TJ Johnson is a Lee Fisher plant, you’re just a damn fool.
I’m hearing that TJ Johnson is quite close with former Lee Fisher campaign manager Marc Gaunce, current Progress Ohio board member.? You’ll remember Gaunce from his recent check bouncing.? TJ Johnson used to work for Lee [...]
Full Story... →Shameless self-promotion alert!? As you all know, I freelance for James Renner’s new Cleveland alt weekly, The Independent. The March 4 issue will double circulation to 20,000, distributed all over Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Akron, Kent, and the rest of NEO.
So if you’re a campaign on the ballot on May 4, you want to advertise in this issue.? James Renner is a reporter’s reporter, and anyone who can piss of Kevin Coughlin to the point of threatening to sue is ok in my book!? Your campaign will reach the core of likely voters in NEO through the Indy…..I have a [...]
Full Story... →Gee…..wonder what land deal John Kasich was obsessing about in 1996, to the point of trying to impeach a sitting president?
Full Story... →Best idea ever: Atheist entrepreneur starts a company that promises atheist pet care service for the dogs, cats and llamas of true believers after they have been safely carted off to heaven to meet their maker.
Full Story... →Republicans are as predictable as the movement of the solar system.? At the moment, this is manifesting itself in their continued pursuit of the margins of political thought in pursuit of power.? After a moment of reflection in 2009, in 2010 they are all in.
For perhaps two decades now, the GOP has been captive to a hard right core of activists whom official Republicanism uses like whores to win marginal elections, then ignores utterly.? In that period, that core has been the God, guns, and gays neanderthal knuckle dragging rejectionist wing of anti-abortion sexual obsessives.? And yet, abortion remains [...]
Full Story... →The Sandusky Register isn’t a bad paper all around. They ran a good opinion piece about Strickland last Friday. And they seem, unlike a lot of other smaller Ohio newspapers, to maintain a balance in their political news coverage.
But headlines like this one totally make me cringe:
Kasich promises to be pro-business if elected governor
It immediately makes me think: Is that all it takes to get a headline in the Sandusky Register? Random, empty promises?
If I promise to be pro-business can I get a headline too?
Hell, I’ll take it multiple steps further…
If [...]
Full Story... →This email is making the rounds (and blowing up on FreeRepublic); apparently that Muslin Negro Manchurian candidate from Kenya who stole the election and conned his way into the Presidency has the nerve to disrespect, well, everything by putting his feet up on his desk.
Oops. Wrong photo. Let’s try again.
Nope, still got it wrong.
There we go – third time is the charm. Here’s the text going around attached to the photo of Obama.
Does this photo taken in the Oval Office convey anything to you about attitude and arrogance?
Would you [...]
Full Story... →I’ll throw it out there since no one else seems to want to do it: the guy who flew his plane into a building this morning killing at least 2 US Government employees was a right-wing nutjob who was obsessed with the IRS and government bailouts.
In short: he was a tea-bagger.
Today wasn’t just some randomly-selected day to fly your plane into an IRS building.
Today was a big day in the Tea Party movement. Tons of big Tea Party events were being held today because it’s the anniversary of the evil, liberal, Obama-signed stimulus package that has [...]
Full Story... →I submitted this to the PD last Friday.? They have decided not to print it.? Which is funny, given that I’m the only candidate for either county council or county executive with any credibility on the issue, or who is actually talking about it.? Oh well….it gets printed here at Plunderbund!
Coup d?etats in the former soviet republics are not subtle.? They have, however, become more sophisticated.
The list of best practices includes giving the opposition just enough seats at the table for window dressing, every step of the way, packing legitimate committees of government with an overwhelming majority who [...]
Full Story... →Budget Watch
