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The latest Quinnipiac Poll shows that Ohioans find the idea of having the State Attorney General sue to challenge the constitutionality of the health care reform is overwhelmingly unpopular.
53% of registered voters in Ohio thinks it’s a bad idea, while only 37% think its a good idea.
Of course, that means Mike DeWine continues to push a legal theory that he knows, or should know, is completely frivolous.
He’s fundraising over a case that will likely be dismissed before the election. And, of course, the Columbus Dispatch fails to note the only public polling on [...]
Full Story... →The Akron Beacon Journal let’s Ohioans know just how outrageous the allegations against Rich Cordray’s campaign finance reports are:
Oh, the outrage!
The Republicans’ hollow rage at political money transfer Published on Tuesday, Aug 03, 2010
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“What is amusing is the outrage from Arshinkoff and fellow Republicans, themselves masters at moving political money. Arshinkoff’s GOP organization casts a wide net, and is a major donor to statewide candidates. During the Taft re-election campaign, Ohio Republicans routed corporate contributions (illegal in Ohio) to the national party, which then supported Taft. The Franklin County Republican Party was caught money [...]
Full Story... →Any time you see a conservative non-lawyer blogger write something about Ohio law, you’re safer to assume the opposite is true.
Today, the Carpetblogger claimed that an entire joke of an Ohio Elections Commission complaint filed by the Summit and Franklin County GOP alleging that the Cordray campaign violated Ohio’s “excess funds” law.
In other news, Ohio has a likely unconstitutional law that limits the ability of political campaigns to retain its own donations.
According to the Columbus Dispatch, before Cordray filed for re-election, Cordray’s campaign donated money to the Franklin County Democratic Party, the Summit [...]
Full Story... →Richard Cordray joins Governor Ted Strickland as the only candidates to be endorsed by both the Fraternal Order of Police and the Buckeye Firearms Association. Conversely, John Kasich joins Mike DeWine as being the only Republican candidates for statewide office to be endorsed by neither (although the BFA has yet to endorse in the Auditor’s race, but it’s expected they’ll endorse Yost since they endorse him in the primary.)
“The Buckeye Firearms Association represents the interests of an important group of people in Ohio, and I am honored to have received their endorsement,” Cordray said. “The right to keep and [...]
Full Story... →Apparently, the Ohio Fraternal Order of Police issued their endorsements today. Here’s the list with some thoughts and obligatory press release quotes from the campaigns after the jump:
Governor: Governor Ted Strickland Senate: Rob Portman Attorney General: Richard Cordray Treasurer: Kevin Boyce Secretary of State: Maryellen O’Shaughnessy Auditor: ???
Yep, you read that right. The F.O.P. announced no endorsement in the Auditor’s race between Hamilton County Commissioner David Pepper and Deleware County Prosecutor David Yost. Given Yost’s present elected office, I would say that the lack of a law & order endorsement by the F.O.P. hurts his candidacy the most.
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Full Story... →Yesterday, the Buckeye Firearms Association announced that they were endorsing Jon Husted for Secretary of State and announced today an endorsement for Josh Mandel for State Treasurer. Amazingly, not a single conservative blog in Ohio, let alone a media outlet, has reported this yet.
Mandel’s campaign hasn’t even mentioned the endorsement on its website or Twitter, but Husted has it listed on his campaign website and Twitter.
In its endorsement, the Buckeye Firearms Association compared former House Speaker Husted’s quick vote (within three hours) to override then-Governor Bob Taft’s veto of bill that ultimately created the [...]
Full Story... →The Carpetblogger is never a disappointment in Iraqi Minister of Information (aka “Baghdad Bob”) level of political spin.
A month ago, the NRA endorsed Strickland for Governor. Keeling wrote that’s okay because it doesn’t look like the Buckeye Firearms Association’s “widely read” forums supports the NRA on this endorsement.
Today, what does Keeling say about the Buckeye Firearms Association’s endorsement of Governor Strickland? That’s okay there aren’t that many Second Amendment single-issue voters out there and nobody follows the Buckeye Firearm Association anyway.
Keeling then claims that it’s okay, because the more these endorsements are pushed [...]
Full Story... →(HT: Dave Harding at Progress Ohio)
Governor Ted Strickland is scheduled on Monday to open the 2010 National Matches will once again feature traditional National Rifle Association Championships and Civilian Marksmanship Program National Trophy Rifle and Pistol Matches and CMP Games Events plus important training activities and special events like the Pistol and Rifle Small Arms Firing Schools at the Friends of Camp Perry Memorial Plaza, located at the opposite end of the entrance to Camp Perry on Lawrence Road.
Just look what this opening ceremony involves:
The prestigious First Shot Ceremony is a colorful kickoff [...]
Full Story... →Apparently, PPP had a few more nuggets in their polling they decided to dump out today:
Sherrod Brown’s approval is on the rise (although PPP has it substantially lower than Quinnipiac showed it) with an eleven point swing in his favor since March and leads against a generic Republican for 2012. PPP attributes this to Brown improving his standing with independents. Mike DeWine has a slight lead of 44% to 41% in the AG’s race. However, voters are almost equally divided between having a favorable, unfavorable, and not knowing enough to form an opinion over DeWine. [...]
Full Story... →The good thing about a statewide poll where you have two largely unknown candidates is that it demonstrates the partisan barometer. And the Quinnipiac shows that Ohioans aren’t as crazy about Republicans and the Tea Party as Old Media has led you to believe.
The Quinnipiac poll has been the only poll to test Ohio voters attitudes on such things and here’s what it found:
While voters are generally split on their opinion of the Democratic Party, Ohioans have a net negative six point opinion of the Republican Party. Male voters are split on the Republican Party, but have a [...]
Full Story... →Wow, this is a horrible lede to a Columbus Dispatch blog post:
Richard Cordray, ever the opportunist, smelled blood.
Of course, this appears to be the words of Marc Dann:
Cordray, a fellow Democrat and the state treasurer at the time, was preparing to take on Dann for his job in the 2010 Democratic primary, Dann said in an interview he granted to investigators April 27 as part of the criminal investigation of the former attorney general. Dann disclosed Cordray’s aspirations while discussing his own political operation, which got Dann into legal trouble.
Dann said he worked [...]
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