edited by: Lisa Renee Ward,
Ohio Editor
Yesterday five Ohio Senate Republicans vote for HB 318, which was the budget compromise that’s been detailed in other posts on GCJ. Senator Mark Wagoner was one of those who voted yes, but I really recommend watching the video of his remarks from yesterday…I think he deserves some credit for [...]
No, it's not because they're a compromised media outlet for the Republican party whose programming is contributing to the country becoming ungovernable. but because of the exorbitant fees that Fox wants to charge TW for their programming in the latest round of contract negotiations set to' [...]
A message to progressives: By all means, hang Senator Joe Lieberman in effigy. Declare that you’re disappointed in and/or disgusted with President Obama. Demand a change in Senate rules that, combined with the Republican strategy of total obstructionism, are in the process of making America ungovernable.
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When George Bush was president, Republicans were quick to criticize anyone who voted against the defense supplemental bills as being against the troops, even going so far as to call a no vote on defense supplemental bills to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan "treason".
Senate Republicans said [...]
Gongwer has the name of the Republicans who caved on the Budget:
The bill cleared the Senate on a 17-15 vote. Joining all Democrats in backing the bill were: Senate President Bill Harris (R-Ashland), Sen. John Carey (R-Wellston), Sen. David Goodman (R-New Albany), Sen. Tom Niehaus (R-New [...]
Lawmakers polished off the budget fix tonight, with the expected votes in each chamber. A number of reactions are rolling in.
Senate President Bill M. Harris, R-Ashland. He voted yes. There was not a simple or good option to addressing the shortfall, but we were committed to reaching an [...]
Former state Sen. Steve Stivers today filed paperwork to run a second time for Congress, but it appears that he won't have the Republican field to himself.
Stivers, who narrowly lost to Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy in last year's congressional race, formally entered the 2010 race with a press' [...]
Rob Portman, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, sent out a fundraising appeal on Facebook, declaring that the Obama administration should end the $700 billion financial rescue package approved last year and use the leftover money to reduce the deficit and cut taxes.
That prompted Democrats to respond [...]
He knocked off Republican Brad Wenstrup last month in the mayor's race. Now Mark Mallory is starting his second term by appointing Wenstrup -- a 51-year-old physician and Iraq War vet -- to an important city board. OhioDaily has the scoop from City Council submissions being readied this week:
"APPOINTMENT, submitted" [...]
Sen. George V. Voinovich, R-Ohio, has joined with Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska to try and prevent the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from regulating emissions of greenhouse gasses believed to cause global warming.
Just one week after the EPA declared that greenhouse gasses are a dangerous pollutant which [...]
Today’s DDN editorial, “Ohio’s GOP Senate to blame if cuts come” describes the needed postponement of the 4.2% income tax cut as “significant and painful.” According to the Chillicothe Gazette, Republicans in the Ohio Senate have agreed to a deal to postpone the 4.2% tax. The immediate budget [...]
At about 2am, they cut a deal. This is from Gongwer ($):
A test drive of new public construction contracting laws and a delay in all-day kindergarten mandates for local schools provided the breakthrough late Wednesday in a stalemate over how to address an $851 million budget shortfall, according to Senate [...]
If five of Ohios 21 Republican senators are willing to vote for the latest proposed budget compromise, the long impasse will come to an end.
Senate Democrats say their 12 members are ready to vote yes. House Democrats say all of their members will vote for the plan. But [...]
This in via e-mail from the office of Congressman Latta, the links shared were added by me for those of you interested in additional information:
LATTA OPPOSES NATIONAL DEBT LIMIT HIKE
WASHINGTON- Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) made the following statement today after voting against H.R. 4314, a bill [...]
Declaring herself to be "in campaign mode,'' House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., today brushed aside concerns that Republicans could take the House in next year's elections, telling reporters, "I think we will have a Democratic majority.'' Pelosi made her comments today in a session with reporters from newspapers covering [...]
The latest effort at a state budget compromise would allow the state chancellor to select three university construction projects to operate under overhauled public construction laws.
While there was some hope being expressed by House Democrats, Senate Republicans, prior to heading into a closed-door caucus, gave no indication of [...]
I was sitting down getting ready to share this Toledo Free Press story that came out on Sunday about how the local Republican Party had been given an additional 21 day extension to provide documentation related to their campaign finance reports, and I was going to comment how frustrating [...]
Ohio Right to Life likes Ohio’s judicial election process just fine, thank you very much.
In a press release issued from the organization today, the ultra conservative group expressed its opposition to efforts to change an elective system which has produced a 7-0 Republican majority on Ohio’s high court.
Given [...]
