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Back in March, during the height of the so-called “Tobacco-gate” hysteria, the Ohio Inspector General announced indictments in Brown County of several Franklin County ODNR employees alleging that those employees decision to handle a personnel administratively, but without a criminal referral, constituted felony obstructing of justice and complicity to felony tampering of records.
The indictments were announced with much fanfare and were viewed as a veiled threat and “shot across the bow” to the Ohio Department of Public Safety which was embroiled in a very public fight over the Superintendant of the Highway Patrol’s decision of what the [...]
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Just in case you missed it. Also, note the second part of the initial footage in which the [...]
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Here’s some video from yesterday’s unofficial debate between John Boccieri and his opponent at his opponent’s “town hall” event.
The federal government needs to get out of the way and have local governments on civil rights. Says its not a federal issue…
RENACCI: [...] A lot of the problems you’re talking about are local issues. And I’m also a firm believer that the federal government and our Constitution was based on freedom, and was based on the freedoms that our number one goal of our military is freedom. We need to get our federal government [...]
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... →Going to make lunch and watch the entire MLK speech with the girls at noon. Absolute must watch. Reminds us of the struggle and our ability to overcome. Tomorrow will be the realization of one part of the dream, but we must remain ever vigilant in our quest for a more perfect union.
A Dream:
Full Story... →Thanks Guvna! Why can’t more Republicans be sensible like this?
MISSION VALLEY – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said yesterday he would strongly oppose an inititiative to outlaw same-sex marriage if it qualifies for the November ballot.
“I will always be there to fight against that,” the governor said to thunderous applause in San Diego at the convention of the Log Cabin Republicans, a national gay Republican organization.
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