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Josh Mandel’s protestations about how oh so sorry he is for his racist bigoted attack claiming Kevin Boyce is some kind of terrorist are just plain bullshit. It’s an ongoing campaign. Hasn’t stopped, it’s only gone further into the gutter. There’s nothing deeper in the gutter than Matt Naugle, who today links to a Townhall diatribe which has to have come from Mandel’s campaign, using long time Mandel sycophant Joel Mowbray, parroting the same crap, except this time they quote an anonymous Boyce staffer.
Although Boyce’s name is the one voters will see next Tuesday, Ahmad will continue to [...]
Full Story... →It’s an election year in Ohio, which means it’s time for the national wannabe blog kingpins to fuck up our state’s politics. Yay.
We all remember Cliff Schecter in Ohio. Used to be one of our favorite Ohio bloggers. Now, Cliff is making a habit of being Jane Hamsher’s whore, and getting fired from campaigns all over the state, including Marilyn Brown’s doomed 2009 primary against Jennifer Garrison’s doomed run for Secretary of State. Recently, Cliff got fired (i.e. resigned lol) from Kevin Boyce’s state treasurer’s office. Why this guy keeps turning up like a bad penny is anyone’s [...]
Full Story... →Josh Mandel couldn’t tell the truth if it could win him an election.
On Friday, he claimed that his campaign was “pulling” their controversial Islamophobic ad. It turned out it ran all this weekend as planned. The campaign just simply tried to shoot for positive spin on it for the Sunday opinion columns for “doing the right thing" when, in fact, the campaign did everything according to their plans.
Then Tim posted about how a mailer, with the exact same message, was received on Saturday. Despite a week of widespread condemnation for an attack Mandel has been using all year.
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Full Story... →Modern notes that Mandel’s racist ad hasn’t been “cycled out” as he claims. And today, this piece is hitting swing households in Ohio. Exact same script as the ad.
It really is sad to see a once promising young man turn into such a parody of all that is repulsive about Republicans.
Full Story... →What is the Ohio Republican Party and Josh Mandel’s campaign thinking? Are they insane?
The Ohio Democratic Party couldn’t believe the gift that Josh Mandel gave it and State Treasurer Kevin Boyce a golden gift. And that gift is Mandel attending a fundraiser with disgraced former State Treasurer Joe Deters.
Deters was the GOP’s Marc Dann before 2006. As the press release from ODP details, Deters left Columbus in a cloud:
Deters’ Chief of Staff was convicted of “giving preferential treatment to some investment brokers who do business with the treasurer’s office.” [Dayton Daily News, 9/14/04]
• Deters’ [...]
Full Story... →As my co-bloggers have been reminding me lately, I’ve not been blogging much here at the ol’ PB, lately. Sorry! Being Candidate Man is beginning to take over my life almost entirely. Most of my blogging is now at the campaign site (thoughts on sharing a last name with Frank Russo here, on Harvey Pekar’s death here, and Plain Dealer stupidity here). We’ve got about a month and a half to go before the primary, I feel pretty confident, so the blogging will be even lighter. People have been asking me my thoughts on stuff, though, so [...]
Full Story... →How in the world did Ohio’s “conservative” blogosphere miss this one?
State pension funds and communities in a state investment pool will save nearly $20 million in bank fees over two years through new contracts competitively bid by state Treasurer Kevin L. Boyce.
Fiscal responsibility. It’s not just a bumper sticker.
Full Story... →Here’s a clue. If you are running for statewide office and you are going to be in charge of all our money, you probably should be as transparent as a previously unbroken window in a Democratic Party Headquarters. It’s very simple.
Transparency = Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way
Apparently Republican Josh Mandel and his staffer and current legislative aid Joel Riter are un-American fascists who don’t understand this concept and don’t like the glare of transparency peeking in on their right wing lovefest.
Chris Johnson at the Cincinnatti Beacon has the goods. A video (below) in [...]
Full Story... →A lot of people ask me why I support Jennifer Brunner for US Senate, the answer is simple. ?Courage. ?Brunner says what she’s going to do, then does it. ?She ran for Secretary of State saying she’d clean up our sad electoral processes, she did it. ?Brunner saw an opening for the US Senate, she’s going for it.
Unfortunately, it’s increasingly likely that when Brunner is our nominee, she will be the victim of a statewide Democratic ticket filled with a bunch of opportunistic cowards, backed by a bunch of opportunistic cowards, thus pathetic in the extreme because this state’s [...]
Full Story... →Budget Watch
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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