From the monthly archives: May 2010
Remember how the Carpetblogger predicted that a supposedly cash strapped Democratic Governors Association wouldn’t want to invest early in response to the RGA’s modest ad buy (which at last count was half of the size of the ad buy by the Strickland campaign)?
Whoops.
According to Politico, the Democratic Governors Association has lead the charge to form the independent expenditure group “Building a Stronger Ohio.”? They are sponsoring the same ad that AFSCME has running now.? According to the Rothenberg Report, the DGA has invested $1.5 million into Building a Stronger Ohio with the American Federation [...]
Full Story... →I first saw this at Rothenberg, the hint of the DGA coming out with a response to the RGA ad. It’s a good one. No people at a lunch counter. Just hit after hit defining Kasich the same way Strickland did in his big speech. Kasich = Wall Street values. Strickland = Ohio values.
No clue why the DGA didn’t put out an embeddable one so it could go viral online, so I captured it and put it up on the PB YouTube account. Feel free to spread the love:
The group behind the ad is [...]
Full Story... →So, this morning I saw this ad twice during the “Today” show:
Not a bad ad.? And I was impressed that it manages to run twice during a highly watched “broadcast” national morning news show as well which gives it already more market penetration than I saw in the earlier Strickland campaign ad or the RGA’s response.
Of course, any time a union weighs in on a political campaign, there has to be a Republican screaming bloody murder.
This time it’s Ohio Republican Chairman Kevin DeWhine who accuses Governor Strickland of money laundering:
The $448,000 in negative [...]
Full Story... →Today, the State Senate will vote on whether or not to confirm Cathy Collins-Taylor as Director of the Ohio Department of Public Safety.? Most people, including Collins-Taylor’s lawyer Rocky Saxbe has publicly declared the confirmation battle a likely lost cause given that the RGA already had an ad ready to go on the air referencing Collins-Taylor the morning after the Senate committee confirmation vote.
However, sources close to the “whip count” being done on Collins-Taylor behalf indicates that it may be a much closer vote than people realizes. Multiple sources who spoke on the condition that they be anonymous and [...]
Full Story... →You are aware that Massimo’s is probably more wired than a guy trying to quit cigarettes on his fourth pot of coffee?
Full Story... →I love living in Columbus. I really do.
It’s a great town in a so many ways. The music scene. The restaurants. The parks. The people.
Everything, except of course, the local newspaper.
Don’t get me wrong, The Dispatch doesn’t do everything wrong. But when it comes to politics they tend to suck a good deal of the time. Especially compared to some other Ohio papers. The Dayton Daily News immediately comes to mind.
I mention this specifically because today’s political coverage in the two papers couldn’t have been any different.
The Dispatch ran this piece today that [...]
Full Story... →In today’s Cleveland Plain Dealer story about the debate over the enabling legislation to regulate the newly state constitutionally created casinos, we see the GOP Jon Husted decrying policies to encourage labor and minority hiring:
Winning the support of minorities was crucial for the passage of last fall’s Issue 3, which will bring casinos to Ohio’s four largest urban areas.
Cleveland Cavaliers majority owner Dan Gilbert and Penn National Gaming, the entities that control the four gambling sites, knew it, too. They personally targeted NAACP leaders across Ohio, promising jobs, which earned them an endorsement from the [...]
Full Story... →Coda Automotive, which plans to commercially sell an all-electric car later this year, has announced plans to construct its battery manufacturing plant in Columbus, the Columbus Dispatch reported today.
The plant would create an estimated 1,000 jobs. However, Coda announced that it is relying on being awarded financing by the U.S. Department of Energy for much of its plant’s start up costs. The State’s Controlling Board must also approve an incentive package as well.
Kevin Czinger, Coda’s chief executive, views the battery as the most important technology in the vehicle. The debut sedan will have a range of [...]
Full Story... →Today, Governor Strickland announced a partnership with General Electric and the Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation to develop the first fresh water offshore wind farm in North American. Gov. Strickland made the announcement at the American Wind Energy Association’s annual WINDPOWER Conference in Dallas:
Ohio’s greatest potential for creating wind energy is offshore in Lake Erie, and this partnership marks a significant step forward,? Strickland said. ?In Ohio, we have all the right assets to make offshore wind energy successful, including an innovative workforce and the manufacturing strengths that would allow us to build all the component parts for wind [...]
Full Story... →The Carpetblogger is becoming so predictable that I now only need to read him to confirm what I expected he’d say.
Today, in light of further evidence that Ohio’s economic recovery is gain steam and creating jobs, Keeling engages in his most tried and true tactic: history revisionism. When the facts no longer support your argument, Keeling pivots, and denies that his camp ever made the argument in the first place.
Today, Jon Keeling claims that John Kasich never blamed Governor Strickland over the job losses in Ohio:
In other words, the top two elected officials in Ohio [...]
Full Story... →On Friday, Ohio made national economic news as the leading state in job creation in April for the nation.? 37,000 new jobs were created last month alone.
Our state’s unemployment rate only dipped .1% of a percent, though, and returned to the same rate as in February.? So, that’s not great news, huh?
Actually, it’s great news… so long as you aren’t John Kasich if you look at the trends.
Month Change in Nonfarm wage and salary employment from prior month Ohio Unemploy. Rate January ’10 – 12,800 10.8% February ’10 + [...]
Full Story... →Budget Watch
