On Oct. 30, John Kasich took part in a fascinating discussion at Regent University about free markets and economic liberalism. Click here to watch. (Not sure why they didn’t bring in a translator for Arianna.)
Not only does John Kasich embody the same optimistic spirit of Ronald Reagan and explains [...]
has been indicted on two more charges for her illegal scheme to pay $5/voter via the Ohio University College Democrats.
She was already indicted for laundering more than $27,000 in campaign contributions through personal bank accounts during her race for county prosecutor.
Ted Strickland has remained silent throughout these ongoing scandals.
As an update to my post on the Ohio House Democrat’s questionable numbers the supposed benefits of the 3rd Frontier corporate welfare scheme, Minority Leader Bill Batchelder is pissed:
“It has come to our attention that for more than half a year the House Democrats have been drafting, working and [...]
I doubt that General Stanley McChrystal is the leader whose advice we should follow without significant validation of his recommendations. Gen. McChrystal recommended the deployment of additional troops in a “surge” modeled after the one in Iraq. Also, General McChrystal’s previous association with the abuse [...]
Hamilton County Commissioner David Pepper, candidate for Ohio Auditor, lied to voters and cast a lone vote for higher property taxes.
[...]From the inbox:
Program has created over 40K jobs and provided a 10 to 1 return for taxpayers
COLUMBUS – Citing an impressive job-creation performance and a strong return on investment for taxpayers, State Reps. Sandra Williams and Jay Goyal joined business leaders in growing high-tech industries from across the state to [...]
Now that Gov. Mike Huckabee’s presidential aspirations are sunk with his own version of Willie Horton, I wonder how comfortable Gov. Ted Strickland feels about recently releasing 78 convicts from prison?
If Ted takes the vetting process as serious as he did his appointment of a trustee to [...]
With that initial editorial, the Dispatch was merely warming to the fight. The Sunday after the election, the newspaper’s first-rate senior editor, Joe Hallett, piled on, arguing in a column, “Like strip clubs, casinos should be put to a test of acceptance from the communities where they [...]
Watch this video about health care from the Ted Strickland campaign:
Did you get the idea that many children without health insurance now have it, thanks to Gov. Strickland? After all, it did say “He’s passed legislation guaranteeing health-care access for all Ohio children, and he’s working to make that [...]
His union masters will be pleased:
WASHINGTON Youngstown Mayor Jay Williams is scheduled to appear 9 a.m. today on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal.”
Williams is expected to discuss the success of stimulus funding to the city of Youngstown and will point out the the city received $350,000 in Recovery Act funding that [...]
“In the 1990s, Kasich tried to get rid of the Appalachian Regional Commission, which would have completely devastated our area,” said Molly Varner, chair of the Washington County Democratic Party. “The ARC is more than just ‘pet projects’ as he once called them. If Kasich wants [...]
The Other Paper gave reporters the chance to take anonymous cheap shots at their least favorite PR professionals. Check out what was said about Ted Strickland’s Spokesbabe:
Amanda Wurst may be the most beloved spokeswoman (by her bosses) to ever work a media room. The voice of Gov. Ted [...]
From Senator Sherrod Brown’s email (my TWENTY-FIFTH Happy Thanksgiving email from a politician):
I’m personally most thankful to have all our kids living in Ohio again, and look forward to spending as much time with them as I can. On Thanksgiving, we’ll be gathering at my brother Bob’s house and the [...]
Unless you have been living under a rock (or only read the NY Times), you heard that the myth of man-made Global Warming was totally destroyed this month. Glad that’s over!:
[...]Right Ohio proudly endorses Dennis Spisak for Governor of Ohio.
According to his website, he is true liberal who is not a fan of the corporatist nature of ObamaCare’s health insurance mandates. And, more importantly, while running as an independent, he earned almost 5% of the vote running against [...]
Then this column from Maura J. Casey in First Things will thoroughly depress you.
However, to quote the wise philosopher of Cleveland, Mike Trivisonno, “It is only a gambling problem if you are losing.”
[...]Paul Aker, one of the last few serious investigative reporters in Columbus, exposes what they are doing with your money in the Strickland administration:
Now I finally know where to go for a good deal on a Mac!
[...]Apparently, Gov. Ted Strickland, who as a Congressional benchwarmer was an early supporter of HillaryCare in 1993, is so anxious to reduce the quality of medical care in Ohio that he’s not even waiting for Obamacare and death panels to become a reality…
From the Ohio Hospital Association:
(COLUMBUS, OH) – [...]
Just like Connie Schultz is quick to call anyone who opposed her husband’s Utopian health care scheme a Nazi-sign-waving nut, she is wrong to call her readers racist for their reactions to a SERIAL MURDER.
I really hate Connie Schultz.
[...]BLOG POST EDITED: I originally referred to the DeWine campaign being “run out” of the Ohio GOP office. That certainly isn’t true, at least in the physical sense of an actual office space. In addition, Hall is not currently an employee of the Ohio Republican Party.
All [...]
I’ve personally examined the collection of shoes that Rep. Josh Mandel has worn out. After the cameras turned off for this news report, I can assure you that Josh kept walking, and walking, and walking….
[...]At an anniversary for the 30th Anniversary of the day he was elected Mayor of Cleveland. He was the only Republican not to not vote against moving forward on debate on socialized health care.
George is a man who will not hesitate to describe himself as a deficit hawk, so [...]
His name is Lou Gentile of Steubenville, a former Strickland congressional staffer who worked for the Strickland office worker who exposed himself to 12 year old girls.
The unpopular Governor gave his former employee a glowing endorsement:
“I know how much Lou loves this region,” said Gov. Ted Strickland. “I [...]
Unemployment continues to skyrocket:
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s unemployment rate was 10.5 percent in October, up from 10.1 percent in September, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services said today.
Ohio’s nonfarm wage and salary employment increased 1,400 over the month, from 5,097,000 in September to 5,098,400 in October.
And this [...]
It is fantastic news to hear the Senate is again deadlocked on a budget agreement, but why does Stephen Majors and most Ohio reporters insist on using the phrase “tax cut delay” or “tax freeze?”
Taxpayers must be thrilled that it isn’t actually a tax hike, so they [...]
Bill Buckley once suggested that he would rather have the US government run by the first 400 people in the Boston telephone book. And considering that 79% of voters are apparently smarter on fiscal policy than your average Democrat Congressman, I agree:
As the policy debate has unfolded in Washington [...]
Gary Andres in the Weekly Standard explains that Rep. Zack Space, who represents a district where Pres. Obama received less than 50% of the vote, is playing a political risky game by supporting cap-and-trade and ObamaCare.
[...]From Dan Balz in the Washington Post:
That issue flared briefly during the opening day of the Republican Governors Association annual conference here Wednesday. Former Ohio representative John Kasich offered a provocative assessment of his party’s failures on that front when he complained about the lack of success of [...]
For those of you who are fans of syrupy compassionate-conservatism and a record on taxes in Arkansas which mirrors that of Gov. Bob Taft’s in Ohio, Mike Huckabee will be at the Easton Barnes & Noble from noon to 1 p.m. today.
From his eloquent column today in The Plain Dealer:
People are catching on. The longer the debate on health care goes on, the more unmistakable the power grab becomes and the more the opposition to it grows.
And yet, across that philosophical chasm I see a vast number of Americans tempted [...]
Not only did Meteorologist Ben Gelbert write a fascinating column in the NY Times about global warming from a historical perspective, he has his own rap song!:
From the Dayton Daily News this evening:
It is rather amusing to hear Ted Strickland’s office talk about responsible budgeting. By “responsible,” does Spokesbabe Amanda mean: 1) plugging budget holes with incredibly optimistic projections about revenues that could be generated from various morons at slot machines [...]
The erosion among independents, however, isn’t simply a regional problem. Democrats are anxious about the prospects of five-term Sen. Chris Dodd in Connecticut, who trails one of his GOP opponents by 28 percentage points among independents in a prospective head-to-head matchup, and Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter and [...]
In her column today, she calls her white readers racists, explains how horrible life is in poor urban cities that have been ruined by decades of corrupt Democrat leadership, and fantasizes about rape.
[...]Bill Sloat, former Plain Dealer newspaper reporter turned Democrat political blogger (no difference in the job, other than the salary), has caught onto an interesting story about Team Fisher.
[...]I thought it was rather interesting to see the Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants throwing in their two cents on the state budget debate, essentially calling for government consolidation, move to zero-based budgeting, and plan to sunset agencies by evaluating them at least every decade, and sin taxes.
Later, [Speaker Bill] Harris said: “All of the small businesses that I’ve talked to, including my sons’, feel that [Strickland's proposed income tax "freeze] is absolutely a tax increase.”
Harris has been adamant in the past that he will not vote to raise taxes. Democrats have called the" [...]
An urgent email from the National Taxpayers Union:
Dear Matt,
Governor Strickland’s income tax increase could pass as soon as today if we don’t convince the Senate to reject it. Join us in calling Chairman John Carey and the rest of the Senate Finance Committee and urge them to vote NO [...]
Fred Dailey is nervous about his race against Bob Gibbs for Congress, and had to hire some political operatives. That is a smart move, but nothing can cover up Dailey’s record as a pork-loving state bureaucrat.
From the New York Times, “Iowa Finds Itself Deep in Heart of Wine [...]
Roger Geigner of the National Federal of Independent Business’ Ohio chapter returned to his alma mater of Franciscan University of Steubenville to discuss health care reform and class warfare. His important message to young people that it is OK to be an unapologetic entrepreneur is one quite difficult to [...]
Kyle Sisk beat me to this. A handful of Ohio Republican Senators, will support a compromise version of HB 318 that would include apprixmately 2/3rds of Ted Strickland’s propose tax increase (a freeze on planned income tax reductions) and a handful of “cash management maneuvers” (accounting tricks?) to [...]
Sarah Palin will be in Ohio on Friday to sign copies of her fantastic new book, Going Rogue:
Friday Nov. 20, 2009:
Cincinnati- Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 2692 Madison Rd, Norwood, Noon (Click here for directions.)
Columbus- Borders bookstore on Sawmill Road from 6 to 9 p.m. (Click here for directions.)
My understanding [...]
According to Lynn Walsh of the Buckeye Institute, not only do stimulus jobs cost more in Congressional districts controlled by Democrats, but jobs have been “saved or created” in districts that don’t exist.. such as District 00 or District 99.
But the question remains: In those pretend districts during [...]
I’m sorry for being a day late on this. There are a lot of candidates announcing for state rep this week that I’ll be writing about. But one campaign that I’m especially excited about is Bill Todd, prominent lawyer and former Columbus mayoral candidate, running for State Representative:
From Bill Hershey in The Dayton Daily News:
COLUMBUS — Ohio taxpayers are right in the middle of the civil rights lawsuit that Samuel Joseph — “Joe the Plumber” — Wurzelbacher has filed against three former state employees, charging that they illegally accessed his confidential information through state databases.
Ohio Attorney [...]
Finally, we have confirmation that the Boyce Bandit, who apparently has been harassing Rob Portman lately, has a name, and it is Troy Perry. Thank you to Jesse for solving the mystery.
Here is the original YouTube where I chased this loser out of a picnic for Josh Mandel [...]
The decrepit, mummified remains of Joe Hallett, fresh off of his campaign for the Columbus income tax increase (which didn’t provide the promised increases in city safety services) continues using the extensive resources of the Columbus Dispatch for his endless hard-hitting investigative reporting campaign for higher taxes. He describes [...]
From Robert Vitale in The Dispatch:
Mayor Michael B. Coleman’s 2010 budget proposal didn’t go over well yesterday with police and fire forces, whose campaigning helped win passage of the city’s first income-tax increase since the early 1980s.
In his $655 million general-fund budget plan, Coleman proposed adding 50 police officers [...]
COLUMBUS — Ohio became the first state Friday to adopt a one-drug method of execution, essentially overdosing inmates with a sedative. Terry Collins, director of the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, also announced that the state will employ a back-up method of injecting drugs directly into [...]
Apparently, voters in Butler County want a candidate for Attorney General who DOESN’T have a F rating from the NRA…
From the inbox:
Defeats Mike DeWine for Butler County Endorsement, calls victory a “game-changer”
(Hamilton) Delaware County Prosecutor Dave Yost last night secured the endorsement for Ohio Attorney General from the Butler County [...]
Ted Strickland’s new web ab endorses socialized health care the government takeover of 1/6th of the private economy by the government.
Does this mean the media will finally pretending Strickland is a moderate? Oh wait… he likes guuuuns. Never mind.
Remember that Quinnipiac poll shows Ohio voters disapprove of the way [...]
From Mike Memoli’s report on the new Quinnipiac Poll: (The full poll is here.)
Economic woes in the Buckeye State put Gov. Ted Strickland in a vulnerable position for 2010, a new Quinnipiac Poll (1,123 RVs, 11/5-9, +/- 2.9%) finds.
General Election Matchup
Strickland (D) 40 (-6 vs. last poll, [...]
Invitations to two fundraisers for Gov. Ted Strickland’s re-election campaign that advertised special access to state officials appear to perpetuate a pay-to-play political system that the governor promised in 2006 that he would end.
A third fundraising invitation by the Ohio Democratic Party to join Strickland [...]
Athens’ top Democrat rejected the state chairman’s call for her resignation yesterday, asserting that he should resign instead.
Chris Redfern, chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, released a statement yesterday [...]
Per Lyndsey Teter’s blawg, the animal rights extremists are not happy with how Ohioans voted last night for Issue 2 (Passed 64-36). And they must already be throwing their money around, as penis-loving Brian Rothenberg’s shadowy organization hosts the video:
I really didn’t care much for Issue 2. [...]
Usually one might call this a negative ad. But when it comes to describing Ted Strickland’s accomplishments as Ohio’s governor, this is as polite as it gets:
[...]Jon Honeck of the Center for Community Solutions, a Cleveland-based think tank, has an answer that may surprise many people. His analysis, released last week, shows that raising taxes during a recession will not harm an economic recovery. He points to the Ohio experience during [...]
Susan Gwinn, the county party chairwoman, said yesterday that such a plan was discussed with members of the OU College Democrats but never was instituted.
The party agreed to pay some [...]
A man, dressed like a giant breathalyzer for Hallowe’en, was pulled over for drunk driving.
[...]To add to the voter fraud committed by Athens Democrat party bosses and pinhead college morons, a press release from the OU College Republicans raises an interesting question about the legitimacy of Democrat State Rep. Debbie Phillips:
The Ohio University College Republicans applaud the statement of Ohio Democratic Party [...]
And I do have this horrible habit of laughing uproariously whenever a woman my age swears she is constantly mistaken to be her daughter’s sister. Seriously, who says that out loud?
Do I laugh because I don’t believe her, or to stifle a homicidal urge? Who knows? Who cares? [...]
The DSCC Chair has “all but endorsed” Lee Fisher.
In the Democrat Party, sexism is alive and well.
[...]Ohio’s top Democrat this morning chided Athens County Democratic Party Chair Susan Gwinn for allegedly running a campaign that promised $5 cash bonuses to Ohio University student Democrats for helping to get out [...]
And in Ohio, the fuzzy Obama math continues:
The Obama administration announced Friday that federal stimulus money had created or saved about 7,200 education jobs in Ohio as of Sept. 30.
Although a couple of hundred of those jobs were in Columbus City Schools, the district acknowledged yesterday that many of [...]
From Janet Hook in the LA Times:
Reporting from Washington – The triumph of conservative forces over the Republican Party establishment in upstate New York has emboldened like-minded activists around the country, and it could drive the GOP sharply to the right as it lines up candidates for the 2010 [...]
In an article about Issue 2, this quote jumped out at me:
If passed, Issue 2 would establish an appointed, 13-member Livestock Care Standards Board with virtually unlimited authority to set standards for everything from care to slaughter of livestock and poultry.
Fisher told the Rotarians that farmers care about animals [...]
After Gov. Strickland’s hilarious assertion that he provided “detailed plans when he ran in 2006″, I was wondering how long it would take for the ORP to send this out.
Ted Strickland was campaigning on vague platitudes before President Obama made vague platitudes cool.
Apparently with ACORN under a microscope, they had to instead turn to stupid college liberals to commit fraud and buy votes:
[...]I don’t care for the tone of this article by Jonathan Riskind, Joe Hallett and Mark Niquette of The Dispatch. Even though it comes to the defense of Kasich against weak class-envy arguments made by MTR Lobbyist Chris Redfern, it starts with the notion that being a successful Wall [...]
As a club full of unapologetic capitalists, OU CR member Colton Henson has designed a new t-shirt design to mock the College Democrat’s efforts of helping the Democrat Party buy votes in targeted races. Nicely done!
[...]WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced his support for a bill that would provide for an extension of emergency benefits to unemployed workers and expand the homebuyer tax credit. Brown is a cosponsor of the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009, [...]
From Stephanie Czekalinski in The Dispatch:
News that the state will cancel the car registrations of possibly thousands of undocumented immigrants has caused panic and created rumors among those living in central Ohio.
Before Aug. 24, a loophole in the state Bureau of Motor Vehicle’s policy allowed illegal immigrants to register [...]
It is OK for casinos to target working class ignorant people to throw their money away gambling, but only if it is a state runs the operation, as only a comand and control organization of an industry can truly benefit all Ohioans. Brilliant commentary, Mr. Marrison.
Not sure how wide spread this is, but it appears that in Athens, Democrats are offering $5 to voters in targeted districts. Not sure who the money is going to- the friend or the voter- but is this legal?
From: Kellie Galan
To: dems-l@listserv.ohio.edu
Sent: Fri, Oct 30, 2009 7:27 am
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