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from Gay People’s Chronicle:
Cleveland–The matter of a gay man who spent four months in jail for a non-existent sex crime has become a flash point in the Democratic primary race for Ohio attorney general.
It’s not going to go away.

(via email) Columbus, Ohio – Subodh Chandra, Democratic Candidate for Ohio Attorney General, announced today at a press conference his plan to make the Ohio General Assembly fulfill its responsibility to guarantee every child in Ohio access to an adequately funded education.
“The Attorney General’s clients are the people of Ohio and that includes […]

Wendling writes it up at the PD. It sounds like Dann touts his legislative experience, while Subodh counters:
Chandra countered that, as a former federal white-collar prosecutor and Cleveland law director, he cleaned up fraud and corruption, went after predatory lenders and corporate polluters and operated “the people’s law firm” under former Mayor Jane Campbell.
Let’s […]

Update: Citizen Action goofs! See this PD Openers post
BSB had a great find yesterday on Ohio Citizen Action’s 2005 Campaign Finance Report. I’ve made a pdf of the report you can get:
Full Report in PDF (221 KB)
Full Report in Word from Citizen Action (1.51 MB)
It shakes out like this:
Flannery - […]

Remember that story? Capri hired a lawyer to “put people on notice”? What Pho calls a Kamikaze move, and everyone else pretty much agrees was a stupid move politically - why ensure there is focused attention on something you would rather see go away? Dunno. It gets more interesting…
Today, Tim hunts […]

(Pinned to the top for the PD folks - gotta teach them about permalinks)
Welcome PD Openers viewers (Thanks Ted)! Bandwidth has been hit pretty hard with these as the one is pretty big. Enjoy, but consider tossin’ in some spare change in the tip hat!
(hat tip OH02 and BSB)
Sometimes bloggers are […]

from MVN:
“If my party values loyalty over competence and ethics, then it is lost. And I think most Democrats are not that extreme.”

Our choice: Subodh Chandra in the Democratic primary
Ohioans often lament the brain drain afflicting the state, the younger people who leave for brighter prospects or do not come in view of the dearth of jobs. Subodh Chandra bucked the trend. He first gained exposure to the state during a fellowship under Gov. Richard Celeste. He […]

OK, so a Dann supporter (his father-in-law) comes here and posts a comment supporting Marc. No biggie. I’m all for it. I even replied back to it and it was all pretty amicable. Next thing I know I get a carpel tunnel inducing comment from the same person that I promptly […]

I’m not in the habit of deleting comments on Plunderbund unless they are clearly abusive and of no value. I’ve not had to do that much at all and for that I’m grateful. Most people that read disagree in ways that I don’t find troublesome. I also have very few trolls. […]

This post lays out some damaging details about Subodh Chandra’s primary opponent:
1. Ex parte conversations with the judge- Dann discussed with the judge the appropriate sentence for Phillips. Lawyers (and judges) are prohibited by the ethical rules from having direct one-on-one conversations on a matter before the court. Counsel for Keith Phillips should have been […]