From the monthly archives: February 2010
Judging him just by his twitter feed, ONN’s Jim Heath comes across as relatively knowledgeable, politically moderate and a pretty reasonable guy.
Jim is the host of Capital Square on ONN – the Ohio news channel owned by the Dispatch – and it seems like he’s the only anchor not on Fox News to actually get an interview with John Kasich.
Call it tight message control. Call it being a total pussy afraid of taking real questions from real reporters. However you describe his behavior, John Kasich has refused to give any public interviews to anyone that [...]
Full Story... →You’ll notice when you visit my campaign website two things.? First, it’s barebones – we have a lot of work to do to get all the content up for a real campaign website.? Not even gonna launch it for real yet, long way to go.? However, the urgency of raising money online for an election on September 7, 2010, pushed us to get this up, now.? It’s up.
The second thing you’ll notice is that this campaign is going to be verrrrrrry different from anything you’ve ever seen before.? Fasten.? Your.? Seatbelts.
So if there’s anyone out there [...]
Full Story... →Gonna be on the road for the rest of the week, so light blogging alert on my end.? Couple thoughts from the County Council campaign trail.
Full Story... →I’ve been saying this to people for a while, but I haven’t blogged it in a while.? Time to fix that!
Democrats will be able to defeat Republicans by running against George W. Bush for decades to come.
Repeat.
DECADES.
And if Democrats don’t do precisely that in 2010, they will be committing political malpractice.? Some dude running for some random office 20 years from now in Anytown, USA, will have taken a picture with George W. Bush at his college Republican shindig and will whine about that picture’s use against him, and he’ll still [...]
Full Story... →I consider myself pretty moderate on gun issues. I’m not against concealed carry permits and I don’t really favor bans on certain types of weapons. If you want to buy an Uzi I don’t really care. (though it seems perfectly reasonable that you submit to a pretty thorough background check before you walk out of a gun store carrying a submachine gun capable of firing hundreds of rounds a minute)
Funny thing about the candidates in this year’s Governor’s race: the Democrat is actually is more pro-gun than me and the Republican is the exact opposite.
That’s right, when it [...]
Full Story... →Here’s a man willing to display some courage and actually advocate for what the American people want.
Although we strongly support the important reforms made by the Senate-passed health reform package, including a strong public option would improve both its substance and the public?s perception of it,” Bennet wrote to Reid in a letter cosigned by Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio).
“The Senate has an obligation to reform our unworkable health insurance market — both to reduce costs and to give consumers more choices,” the senators added. “A strong public option is the [...]
Full Story... →This one ain’t goin’ away.
As a wrong-wing blogger, Jon?s post is disturbing, but understandable. Both?Plunderbund and?Ohio Daily Blog, however note this disturbing bit: Jon Keeling is a Homeland Security consultant. I have enough problems with Homeland Security in general without contemplating that someone with Jon?s attitude toward Islam could be working on the taxpayer?s dime, even as a consultant.
I?ve dropped an email to?Intrepics which has been suggested as Jon?s employer to discover if he is, in fact a consultant for the Department of Homeland Security.
Here’s Intrepics’ website.
INTREPICS is an elite [...]
Full Story... →Jon Keeling, former John Kasich staffer, and current consultant for the Department of Homeland Security, notices all the traffic he’s getting regarding his lumping of all Muslims into a terrorist stereotype.? First, Jon Keeling backtracks.
I think it’s fairly obvious to anyone with a brain in their head that all Muslims are not terrorists.
Why yes, Jon, that’s why when you post an image implying that all Muslims are terrorists, people with brains in their heads do, in fact, notice.? Apparently, though, those people with brains in their heads do not include Jon Keeling, because Jon Keeling goes [...]
Full Story... →The PD’s Gomez is all over this.
According to?recently posted minutes, the public engagement committee met from 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 3 at the Thompson Hine law firm in downtown Cleveland.
And of course, guess what was the major topic of discussion – doling out a contract.
Attendees discussed a pending?request for proposals (follow link to see the request) from communications consultants. Zanotti?confirmed this monththat the transition team wanted to hire someone for the job. The public engagement committee plans to score the proposals received by Thursday’s deadline.
I’m having a hard time understanding why [...]
Full Story... →If Jennifer Garrison doesn’t decide to run for reelection in the 93rd, it’s quite likely we’re going to end up with this guy taking her place.
His name is Andy Thompson. He’s a Marietta city councilman and he works as the publisher for Bird Watcher’s Digest, a company his parents started back in the late 70′s. He loves sweaters.
And in case you wondered, he’s a Christian. It’s not that I really care about his religious beliefs, but it’s really hard to miss. He mentions Christianity more times on his First Principles page than he does [...]
Full Story... →Budget Watch
