From the monthly archives: August 2010
I give you Basil Marceaux, Republican candidate for Governor of Tennessee:
And you thought Ken Blackwell and Matt Naugle were bad. Um. Damn. But wait. There’s more! I get a feeling I’m going to be wanting more and more Basil. This clip makes me think whoever is working on his campaign is seriously messing with him:
[Note at 1:04 in the above clip the squinting. Note to campaign: No more shoots on bright ass sunny days]
America. What a country!
Full Story... →In 2008, Steve Chabot’s twelve-year career in Congress ended when he lost to Steve Driehaus by 5%, or roughly 15,000 votes. That was as big of a margin as any Republican incumbent in what is not considered a marginally Republican district that lost despite no sex or ethics scandal.
In 2006, Chabot barely won re-election by roughly 9,000 votes. In other words, for some reason, people started to get “creeped” out at the idea of having Steve Chabot as their congressman.Nonetheless, as soon as he lost, Chabot conceded and then promptly began campaigning for his old job back.
Steve [...]
Full Story... →Rich Cordray wraps up the law enforcement vote by announcing the final 4 law enforcement organizations expected to endorse in the Attorney General’s race have all lined up behind his candidacy. This includes the Ohio Fraternal Order of Police, Ohio Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, Cleveland Police Patrolman’s Association, Toledo Police Command Officers Association, Toledo Police Patrolman’s Association, Canton Police Patrolman’s Association, and Troopers for a Safer Ohio.
That’s a clean sweep folks for those keeping score. Rich Cordray is clearly the best candidate for Attorney General given his great support from law enforcement. You don’t become Ohio’s “top cop” by not [...]
Full Story... →I bet John Kasich regrets every day he was done in by this Lehman Brothers recruitment video:
Two years later, we’re still struggling to climb out of Lehman Brothers’ epic financial implosion.
Let’s remember that most of what little we do know of John Kasich’s after he left Congress for Wall Street came despite Kasich’s efforts to conceal them from the people of Ohio. We’ve only been able to barely scratch the surface.
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all [...]
Full Story... →What is the Ohio Republican Party and Josh Mandel’s campaign thinking? Are they insane?
The Ohio Democratic Party couldn’t believe the gift that Josh Mandel gave it and State Treasurer Kevin Boyce a golden gift. And that gift is Mandel attending a fundraiser with disgraced former State Treasurer Joe Deters.
Deters was the GOP’s Marc Dann before 2006. As the press release from ODP details, Deters left Columbus in a cloud:
Deters’ Chief of Staff was convicted of “giving preferential treatment to some investment brokers who do business with the treasurer’s office.” [Dayton Daily News, 9/14/04]
• Deters’ [...]
Full Story... →The State Auditor’s race normally is one of those types of races that despite its Apportionment Board importance just struggles to define itself on the issues. Like alot of down ballot statewide campaigns, the races generally are framed on the candidate’s background and devolves into attacks over their records that rarely have little or anything to do with the office (such as Mary Taylor’s ‘06 attacks against Sykes over the Taft sales tax increase.)
Today, David Pepper’s campaign released his twenty-seven page plan for the office. It is not a fluff piece, nor is it dripping with ideological [...]
Full Story... →So the Portman for Senate campaign is dropping this literature to try and win the farmer vote:
Is this the same Rob Portman who:
in an op-ed published in the Financial Times in October of 2005, laid out a proposal to cut subsidies to US farmers by 60%. In addition, Portman proposed eliminating all export subsidies by 2010. [AP, 10/10/05] in 2004, Portman voted against making permanent Chapter 12 bankruptcy protection for [...]
Full Story... →Blogger vs. candidate struggle is still ongoing. This video from Modern really warmed my heart – there certainly is a Seabiscuit feel to all this. I got a good night’s sleep for once, up early, so I thought I’d throw out some advice from the field to fellow Democrats facing a long autumn campaign, before I really disappear into the final two weeks of my own campaign.
Democrats need to be Democrats. It’s a cliche, I know, and yes, I am, in fact, running in a safe, 89% Democratic seat in rock solid blue Cuyahoga County inner city Cleveland. [...]
Full Story... →Chris writes us tonight to tell us that he loves his PB tee from Skreened (A Cbus company). He’s sporting his in Central Oregon representin’ the PB spirit:
You note his daughter is not nearly as excited about it as dad. Word is she didn’t get any frozen yogurt or something.
Thanks Chris!
Remember, if you send us a photo of you in your Skreened PB tee we’ll post it and you’ll receive 10,000 frequent Plunderbunder Points™. If you’re IN Cbus (and many of you are), why not just go down to Skreened and watch your [...]
Full Story... →Maryellen O’Shaughnessy takes the Democracy for America Grassroots All Star voting for Ohio. Support from the DFA Chair and email list use will go a long way toward helping Maryellen become the next Secretary of State. There are other perks as well. This is a good get for O’Shaughnessy. Good stuff.
Congrats to the campaign and to Maryellen!
(ht Dave at ProgressOhio)
Full Story... →Not quite ready to pull the trigger this week. I’ve got a feeling Kasich’s implosion today (HIDE THE COFFEE!) at his press conference when he foolishly proposed a policy of regulatory reform that was already law thanks to Governor Strickland is going to play out for awhile.
I had someone ask me today if that was the bombshell I mentioned on Monday. The fact that I called it a “September surprise,” and it’s still August should have been the first clue. Yes, today was nothing more than yet another unforced error committed by the apparently utterly [...]
Full Story... →Budget Watch
