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Here’s a headline Lee Fisher doesn’t want to see in a major national political publication roughly two weeks from the end of the primary:
National Journal “Rethinking the Ohio Dem Primary”
Take OH, for one. DSCC chair Bob Menendez has been upfront about his support for LG Lee Fisher (D) over Sec/State Jennifer Brunner (D) in the May 4 primary. But Dems in OH and DC have begun to whisper that Brunner may just pull out a come-from-behind primary victory. It’s a long-shot, they say, but even those who have worked against her behind the scenes say it’s [...]
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Pt. I You?d think there?d be drugs involve in a drug raid? Pt. II: Trooper lied; the Dispatch denies Pt. III: Former Patrol leader mislead the Senate Committee about prior Patrol/KKK photo flap.
Reginald Fields’ story in today’s Plain Dealer?is the first real newsstory that puts the so-called “Troopergate” political mess into perspective.? The entire thing is just a trumped up scandal motivated by politics.
It all stems from Governor Strickland’s efforts to bring a wayward Ohio Highway Patrol back into line.
You’d be hard pressed to make a case that the [...]
Full Story... →Ohio Chief Justice Thomas Moyer, who was in the sunset of his long career on Ohio’s Supreme Court, died unexpectedly of natural causes today.?
While he was a Republican jurist whose jurisprudence I disagreed with occasionally, he was someone I respected greatly as a person dedicated to improve the justice system and guarded of its reputation.? Moyer was the longest chief justice of any state’s Supreme Court in the nation.
Governor Ted Strickland has ordered all state flags to be flown at half mast and issued this statement:
I am saddened to learn of the passing of my friend and [...]
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Pt. I You’d think there’d be drugs involve in a drug raid… Pt. II: Trooper lied; the Dispatch denies
One of the supporting characters in the trumped up farce being called “Troopergate” is former Highway Patrol Superintendent/Col. Richard Collins.? Collins is part of the retired Superintendent’s forming “Trooper to Trooper” who are alleging that that Ohio Department of Public Safety is wrongfully trying to assert influence over Patrol matters.? He is an advocate that the Patrol be able to act independently of the Ohio Department of Public Safety even though it legally is not [...]
Full Story... →“Scoop” Keeling, Matt Naugle, and Kyle Sisk get another one absolutely wrong.? After spending the last few weeks trying to turn a thwarted legal tobacco smuggling plot into the next Coingate, the Columbus Dispatch reports today what I said last week.
The biggest reason the bust couldn’t go through had nothing to do with the Governor or politics, it was because there were serious doubts that any criminal law would be broken under the plot.
“State officials now believe the plan involved tobacco ? not drugs.”
Actually, even that is inaccurate reporting.? From my sources, it was that [...]
Full Story... →“Scoop” Keeling gets yet another Ohio news story completely wrong.
Remember how the conservative Buckeye Institute claimed that their private RICO lawsuit forced ACORN into a settlement that kicked it out of Ohio and from any voter registration or GOTV efforts altogether in the State?
Yeah, it turns out that just like the overblown allegations of voter fraud, it was completely meritless.
From the Associated Press, we learn that the settlement agreement did not force ACORN to surrender its business license in Ohio at all:
ACORN also has agreed to surrender its Ohio business license and [...]
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A hot button statewide issue could determine whether Granville Township will have turn to local taxpayers to bolster its general fund, township officials say.
The repeal or paring down of the inheritance tax — proposed by a candidate for governor and a state legislator, respectively –coming on the heels of falling state and local revenues, would necessitate a request for a local operating tax levy, said Fred Abraham, chair of the township trustees.
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The inheritance tax is one of several state and local sources of revenue for the general fund. But in this [...]
Full Story... →The State of Ohio is expecting that the Obama Administration will announce that it will receive $400 million of the $564 million it requested in ARRA federal stimulus funds to implement the 3C rail project.
Officials have said that this is sufficient funding to start passenger rail service among Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, and Cleveland by 2012.
Eventually, once there is a reliable source of dependable passenger rail service in Ohio, the 3C rail project is expected to be a precursor to a high-speed rail service.
There are unsubstantiated reports that a company will open a plant [...]
Full Story... →How often do you see this?? Today, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections announced, via an affidavit in federal court, that it has adopted a new lethal injection protocol.? The protocol was necessary after several death row inmates challenged the constitutionality of Ohio’s lethal injection method of executions under the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution after a few executions were practically botched.? In fact, Governor Strickland issued a temporary reprieve of one inmate, after he spent two hours literally sobbing on the execution table as he unsuccessfully tried to assist the execution team find a suitable vein in [...]
Full Story... →I didn’t hear much about this yesterday, but there was a hearing before the Senate subcommittee looking into the UT mine disaster last month. More evidence of how pathetic the Bush Administration is…and I agree with the president of the United Mineworkers (full disclosure: this is another union my company works with) that SOMEONE needs to be held responsible, especially when these details start coming to light:
Reporting from the hearing, and for the AFL-CIO blog, was Mike Hall:
Much of this morning?s hearing centered on a controversial mining plan submitted by Murray Energy Corp. and approved by MSHA [...]
Full Story... →A federal judge yesterday knocked down some provisions of the Patriot Act.
A federal judge today struck down portions of the USA Patriot Act as unconstitutional, ordering the FBI to stop issuing “national security letters” that secretly demand customer information from Internet service providers and other businesses.
U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero in New York ruled that the landmark anti-terrorism law violates the First Amendment and the Constitution’s separation of powers provisions because it effectively prohibits recipients of the FBI letters (NSLs) from revealing their existence and does not provide adequate judicial oversight of the process.
Whew.
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