Plunderbund

Gerrymandering has turned blue-state Ohio into a strongly red state:
While Democrats won nearly 53 percent of the congressional votes statewide, only about 39 percent of Ohioans will be represented next year by Democrats in Congress.
That’s the biggest so-called “wrong winner” disparity in the country from the 2006 midterm elections, says the nonpartisan FairVote.org.
Despite Democrats winning […]

OK, want more evidence the whole Husted thing is BS? How about Tiberi being hailed as a hero for helping stop RON and saving GOP seats? Yeah? Yeah.
Roll Call has an article about it. It’s subscription based, so I’ll leave it up to you to subscribe or figure out […]

[Cues Bullshit Alarm] Ohio House Speaker Jon Husted wants Dems to have a seat at the table to discuss, among other things, fairer redistricting. Folks, I’m having another one of those “Well Fuck Me” moments. According to the Plain Dealer, Husted is “extending an olive branch” in a rare “gesture of bipartisanship”. […]

Link to state election results
Link to Delaware County election results
10:21pm - Riddle me this batman. How the hell does a poll show an issue 61/25 FOR and on election night same issue is 64/36 AGAINST? I truly don’t get that…
10:03pm - OK, here’s the deal. Every single Democrat who did not come […]

Some interesting sleuthing has been done by E Pluribus Media as it relates to what is behind the RON opposition group Ohio First (hat tip Tim).
Let’s play the follow me game, shall we?

…or maybe just doesn’t get it. Issue 4 (Gerrymandering tonic) looks about to go down in defeat. Issues 2 and 3 appear likely to pass, while Issue 5 (what I’ll term the FU Mr. Blackwell amendment) is very tight. It appears that the final efforts on RON will be the key in […]

OK, enough is enough. I sat back and watched while the state party and county parties stood around with their hands in their pockets on RON. I even listened to some Dems who wanted RON defeated - the reasoning of which always seemed to boil down to the same intellectually dishonest position of […]

Still pounding on the COC (Culture of Corruption), this new spot uses the Wizard of Oz "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain" analogy to drive home the point that the real special interests in this campaign are those 170 big donors that want politicians accountable to them and not the people.

Yes on […]

Ohio PIRG has a report out that demonstrates why Issue 4 is so important: “Safe Seats, Dangerous Democracy“. We have too little competition, too many uncontested races (probably due to the lack of competitiveness in districting), we continue to see weak candidates, gerrymandering has been 91% effective in getting the person on the […]

I love irony. I mean really I do. Other than sarcasm, it is my favorite tool - especially when it comes to pointing out right-wing corruption in the Buckeye State. In today’s “The People’s Defender” (irony), Jean Schmidt tells us we should “Run From RON“. I love Jean Schmidt (sarcasm).
If “How […]

[sings] I’ll tumble 4 ya…I’ll tumble 4 ya…I’ll tumble 4 ya…I’ll tumble 4 you. It’s the Culture Club - the culture of corruption! Two new RON related ads out.
First up is from the Reform Ohio Now folks themselves:

Second is from Citizens to End Corruption:

Both play on what is sure to be […]

State Issue 4 would stop party hacks from fixing voting districts to grab offices and will force politicians to compete for our votes, rather than just rigging districts in their own best interests.
In today’s WaPo (hat tip Hypo Speaking), Michael McDonald refutes the October 29th Rosenbaum Op-Ed, pointing out a quote taken out […]

Recently on a canvass outing for Reform Ohio Now I ran into a house with a little R beside it on my sheet. Most of the people I worked with winced when they saw that, but me - being a fan of confrontation and having enjoyed the sport of argument for years - smiled […]

Happy Halloween first of all. Seems here locally we have a bunch of tricking going on as it relates to RON yard signs and theft. It is a good sign that we are on the right track with these reforms to cause the opposition to go to such extremes as trying to limit […]

Well, this article in today’s Toledo Blade gives you many.
YES on Issue 3? Here you go:
The success of Mr. Voinovich’s $8.7 million campaign, along with Republican Bob Taft’s $2.7 million bid for secretary of state, ignited a political machine that would dominate Ohio for the next 15 years - and nurture a […]