Plunderbund

Jerid has a post up today about the final parting shot of the Culture of Corruption in the ousted statewides. You won’t see it on any “conservative” blogs because…well, you can figure that much out. Moral relativism and intellectual dishonesty abounds!
…the disgraced administration of Gov. Bob Taft left office last year not with […]

I heard rumblings of this earlier today and Jerid over at BSB confirms it with an exclusive phone interview with John. This is good stuff. John appears to be very solid and will make a formidable candidate. Jerid links to a post by Tim Tagaris just after the November election and it’s […]

Typical of these partisan hypocrite hacks. The uproar over Pelosi’s trip to Syria was well documented - and Republicans making the trip was conveniently ignored by most of the press, as noted here. Think Progress notes that David Hobson (A Republican from Ohio like Boehner) never got a call from Boehner criticizing his […]

(ht Jill) Bill “No Money From Nobody” O’neill might have a new slogan when he runs for Congress against Steve LaTourette. More like “Mo’ Money From Mo’ Bodies!” He’s taken off the judicial shackles by resigning from his Court of Appeals seat in order to raise money to defeat LaTourette.
“I’m running […]

(Pinning to the top for few days) Voice is good. Sometimes voice can be heard by reading someone over a long period of time, but there is nothing like the good old spoken voice. A friend at Blue State Digital is working on a project with Americans United for Change and asked me […]

RABid yesterday, about Strickland fighting the DoD about proper equipment for Ohio National Guard members:
Gov. Mulligan feigns outrage about Ohio’s Nat’l Guard’s service in Iraq, spouting the tired leftist canard that the military is ill-trained and ill-equiped.
He also insultingly alludes that Ohio’s NG is soft, unfit, and in need of his protection from the enemy […]

(ht Schecter and friends) Peter Brown, Asst. Director at the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute has a piece today about the dark cloud over Ohio for the GOP:
In fact, polls of Ohio voters are finding them less inclined to support GOP candidates, less likely to consider themselves Republican than in the recent past, and giving […]

Thanks Mary! Really helps to have you point out the incredibly obvious:
Columbus - Today Ohio Auditor of State Mary Taylor released the 2005-06 audit of the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation and Industrial Commission of Ohio. The audit contains four major findings that highlight the inadequate policies and procedures that existed within […]

“I am getting rather sick of these lifestyle nazis that are using the blunt force of government to crack down on … the eating of crappy food.”
Matt Naugle on Strickland’s Health Insurance Plan
I know Matt doesn’t understand this concept- any more than he understands why we have to wear seat belts. So let […]

Want proof? (Like it’s hard to find…)
Two months ago today, talking about potentially leasing the turnpike out (giving control of a public infrastructure asset to a for-profit company):
The conservatives who would be likely to support this type of plan will be disappointed if they don’t see in the proposal a plan for this money to […]

Kenny is everywhere lately!
Just today he joined the homophobic, ultra-conservative Family Research Council as a “Senior Fellow for Family Empowerment” - because what an ‘empowered family’ needs is not love or access to health care or help paying for education. No, what an ‘empowered family’ needs some twit like Ken Blackwell to “stand and […]

After Strickland’s State of the State speech, ONN’s crack political reporters were on the scene at the State House to find out what people like State Senator Kevin Coughlin thought of the speech.
Not suprisingly, Mr. Coughlin hated the school voucher cut and the proposal to eliminate for-profit schools- what he calls the ‘proposal to […]

I have to be honest, I had tempered my expectations going in… and Strickland blew me out of the water. Belt-tightening in excess of Blackwell’s ridiculous spending cap nonsense, a freeze on college tuition, and a real focus on improving the lot of Ohioans living in the bottom half. In addition to killing […]

Ted Strickland was getting a bunch of standing ovations from the entire audience.
The Republicans seemed to love the talk about cutting the budget- until he announced he was cutting the EdChoice Program (school vouchers) from his budget.
That got a bunch of woo-hoos from the Democrats in the room- and sad looks from the Republicans.

This is Ted Strickland’s week. It started with a huge, front-page article in the dispatch on Sunday- and it’s only going to get better with today’s State of the State speech and tomorrow’s budget release.
Given the previous administration’s support for the status quo- I’m sure Strickland’s budget is going to seem like a […]