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Secretary of State Jon Husted recently issued a press release followed by an email to their list a couple of days later about a neat little “Ready 2012 and Beyond” proposal to – well, get ready for the GOP to do electoral battle against Obama and Democrats in 2012. Duh. The quoted part does seem like a dog whistle to their brethren who will get the message. This isn’t about reforming the elections process to instill voter confidence and increase access. The GOP has proven time and again that they really don’t care much for that. This is a [...]
Full Story... →According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Jon Husted has decided to drop out of the Cleveland City Club debate with his Democratic opponent Maryellen O’Shaughnessy.
The debate was scheduled for September 29th. Both campaigns had confirmed their attendance.
Husted’s reason? He’s scheduled to do nine joint appearances with O’Shaughnessy. Not sure how many of those are nothing more than editorial board meetings with Ohio’s newspapers. [UPDATE:] Yep. We’ve confirmed with the O’Shaugnessy campaign that Husted’s “nine joint appearances” consists of two planned debates, and the rest were joint appearances in front of Ohio newspaper’s editorial boards seeking [...]
Full Story... →There’s a PD story today on just how primordially primitive Jon Husted’s Pavlovian teabagging of the Tea Party has been on its face, and how “angry” this all has made our good friends in the Tea Party (whatever the fuck that is).
Chris Littleton, president of the Ohio Liberty Council, said Husted’s overtures to the Tea Party are all propaganda that would make him laugh if he weren?t so angry. He said Husted declined to attend many candidate forums put on by Tea Party groups and similar organizations.
The reporter, Joe Guillen, even goes on to quote head Cleveland [...]
Full Story... →A movement is afoot to destroy the Tea Party by infiltrating it.? And in what may be the most sublime tactic deployed, they have a message board complete with poor spelling.
Is it possible that the Ohio Republican Party is a part of the infiltration?? That FAKE logo has Matt Hurley worried!? And Jon Husted?? Non-patriot!
Full Story... →An Ohio Republican has a brain – shocking, I know!
I got news for ya Jon, Ohio GOP primary voters don’t care all that much about you standing up to liberal ACORN, or protecting public prayer at the statehouse, or being against whatever the heck immoral government debt is…..They think and they will tell you that the problem is a lack of prayer in schools, or gay marriage, or the divorce rate, or drugs, or Obama, or whatever they latch onto to focus their anger on.? But you and I know what the real problem is.
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Full Story... →I like Ohio House Elections and Ethics Committee Chairman Dan Stewart (D-Columbus).? He was the main Democratic sponsor of H.B. 176, the bill that would have added sexual orientation and gender identity to Ohio’s housing and employment anti-discrimination laws.? But I don’t understand what his committee is doing killing the Golden Week of voting.
Today, his Committee voted out H.B. 260, which would make substantial changes to Ohio’s election laws.
According to the Columbus Dispatch, the Democratic House bill would get rid of the “Golden Week”- wherein people could register to vote and then cast an [...]
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Kasich-Taylor ticket rumor is evidence of total Kasich campaign desperation.
I’m going to give you a Madden playbook why John Kasich’s courtship of State Auditor Mary Taylor makes no sense for anyone but John Kasich.? But let’s start with the most obvious point: it is absolute insanity for the Republicans to risk the only Apportionment Board seat they held in 2006 by moving an incumbent who was on track for a relatively safe re-election so that she can run for the non-essentially (from both a political and governing sense) Lt. Governor slot.
It’s is amazingly insane.? Second, if it were a done deal, Kasich wouldn’t first float it through Jon [...]
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