From the monthly archives: April 2010
Steve Stivers has this problem that people actually did keep track of what he actually says.
According to the Columbus Dispatch, here’s what Steve Stivers said in just the last election:
“I would take a serious look at treating health insurance the same way we treat auto insurance: requiring people to have it,” Stivers said in a 2008 radio interview. “I think that would create a robust marketplace.”
Now?
Stivers pledges to “work to stop job-killing measures like health-care mandates.”
Of course, Stivers claims he’s not reversing positions.
“Mr. Stivers did take a serious look at a health [...]
Full Story... →It’s been an amazingly bad news week for John Kasich, and it’s only Tuesday!
Yesterday the AP’s Julie Carr Smyth reported that “Ohio’s public pension funds took a $480 million hit to investments managed by Lehman Brothers” noting also that John Kasich “reported earning nearly $590,000 in salary and bonuses from Lehman Brothers” the same year. Ouch.
The bad news continued…
The Dispatch’s Joe Hallett and Mark Niquette caught Kasich advertising on Militia websites:
Around the time last month that federal agents arrested eight members of a Michigan militia for allegedly plotting murder and anarchy, an ad [...]
Full Story... →High comedy.
What the hell do these guys think they’re going to accomplish?? I mean, seriously.? I can see hiring a tracker to follow a Republican around, because Republicans say stupid shit all the time just to prove to their supporters that they too are moronic imbeciles.
But Jennifer Brunner?? What the hell is she going to say?? You think you’re gonna catch Jennifer Brunner commenting how Lee Fisher is a total ASSHOLE, for hiring OTHER TOTAL ASSHOLES, to follow her into BATHROOMS?
Get a fucking life, for God’s sake.? And when I’m the one telling [...]
Full Story... →If the Lee Fisher campaign were any more like the Keystone Cops, they’d be infringing on copyright.? There was a pathetic effort afoot today to claim that creepy tracker dude was not with the Fisher campaign and is in fact a Republican, which the Fisher campaign could easily communicate by putting a comment into any one of the blog posts which detail creepy tracker dude’s exploits, which the Fisher campaign hasn’t done.
Apparently, this effort to claim creepy tracker dude is not with the Fisher campaign is based on the fact that he is NO LONGER with the Fisher [...]
Full Story... →I don’t know what this video’s existence says about the politics of our time, but it certainly says that (a) this tracker dude is one strange fellow, and (b) for Lee Fisher to pay someone to do this to Jennifer Brunner is really, really pathetic.? Both Lee Fisher and his tracker really need to get a life.
Full Story... →Cough it up, folks.
Full Story... →Only a few weeks after sending out a statewide Republican ballot promoting Jon Husted and Yost’s “Tea Party values,” the ORP sent YET ANOTHER statewide Republican sample ballot mailer, this time with no Tea Party references.
Of course, they still label Husted with the word “conservative” like Frank Lutz with ideological Tourette’s Syndrome.
Only two weeks left to the GOP primary, and yet despite a national Tea Part protest, the Ohio GOP is in open war with the Tea Party, not a single ORP-endorsed candidate spoke at any of the large Tea Party rallies in Ohio, and John Kasich, the [...]
Full Story... →From a commenter.
This is what I just sent to Emily’s List. I live in Ohio.
I have been a longtime supporter of Emily’s List. I went to college with Ellen Malcolm and our fathers were college roommates. But this time I am not renewing my membership because I am furious that you have not supported/endorsed Jennifer. I have worked for her for the past year and know that she is the PERFECT EL candidate. She has even been bold enough to come out in favor of gay marriage. What more do you want from a candidate? [...]
Full Story... →This guy…
…Is a tracker for the Lee Fisher campaign, by the campaign’s own admission.? He tried to follow Jennifer Brunner into the bathroom at the Marcia Fudge 11th CD Caucus meeting at John Adams High School, where all the county executive candidates were invited to debate.?? According to people on site, this created quite a scene, with an African American minister confronting the young man to ask if he worked for Lee Fisher, which the man would not answer.
Then….the tracker followed the Brunner campaign to the west side for a Beers for Brunner event [...]
Full Story... →Very interesting comment from a regular visitor.
Hey guys,
I got a “boilerplate response” to my email to “Emily’s list” including a link to their website that has multi-ethnic, multi-age, multi-gender pictures. I guess that they are selling we’re the “big tent” support. The reply came from a woman Stephanie Schriock President at least.
Sounds to me like EmiLEE’s List is now claiming they don’t really have to support women, despite that their entire reason for being, their stated purpose for existence, their entire donor base assumes, and has assumed for decades, that EMILY’s [...]
Full Story... →Budget Watch
Lee Fisher’s $2 million problem
I’m stunned this doesn’t get more attention in the press.? Lee Fisher’s Senate campaign has spent in the past year over $2 million, and I’m pretty sure that’s BEFORE his first television ad buy.? $2 million on what?!? And what does he have to show for it?
A seven to nine-point lead in the low 30s with over 40% undecided less than two weeks to go.? Joel Hyatt did better.
Where’s Harry Reid, Bob Martinez, or former President Bill Clinton now?? Why aren’t they coming to stump for Fisher here in Ohio telling us Democrats how Lee [...]
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