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http://www.onntv.com/content/stories/2012/02/03/story-gop-co Kasich and his allies are in open warfare with the leadership of the Ohio Republican Party headed by chairman Kevin DeWine — the team that led the Republicans to victory in November 2010 and squeaked Kasich's sorry ass into office with a mere 49% of the vote. Personal animosity between the two men and their camps ha...
Ohio Daily Blog - 8:42 p.m. - 3 clicks 
With news that the unemployment rate went down nationally, you have to wonder why Ohio is not seeing the same movement. It must be because of the leadership of Gov. John Kasich. Here are some new layoffs from the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services Warn Notice page: Date Rec'd Company City (County) Number Affected Layoff Date(s) Phone Number Union ...
Ohio15th District - 3:49 p.m. - 12 clicks
Victoria Collier is the editor of www.votescam.org. Daughter and niece of James and Kenneth Collier, authors of "Votescam: The Stealing of America," Victoria continues to educate the public on her family's groundbreaking 25 year investigation into how elections are centrally rigged using computerized voting machines....
Fraudbuster Bob - 9:45 a.m. - 8 clicks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/breaking- It's probably too late. The uproar is growing and growing. Boycott lists are being passed around the Internet, and sponsors' Facebook pages — from Yoplait Yogurt to Pepperidge Farm Cookies to Energizer Battiers — are blowing up with demands that the company withdraw its support of Susan G(OP) Komen for the Cure. Now...
Ohio Daily Blog - Thu 3:42 p.m. - 12 clicks
In OHD-41 (formerly OHD-37) Republicans have clobbered Democrats in each of the five contests since the last reapportionment in 2000. The repeal of SB-5 surprised many entrenched Republicans. The repeal of SB-5 gives stark evidence that our Republican governor, along with the Republican Senate and Republican House, in advancing a right wing agenda, has gone beyond what most Ohio voters will sup...
DaytonOS - Thu 12:44 p.m. - 43 clicks
http://ohiohousedems.com/index.php?option=com_content&vi Read it and weep because none of this is going to get out of the gate. A local government jobs fund to return new revenue to the local communities whose money Kasich stole. A community foreclosure protection fund. A small business working capital program to provide credit to small businesses. JobsOhio oversigh...
Ohio Daily Blog - Wed 9:08 p.m. - 12 clicks
You think Ohio state legislators are bad? (And certainly, when you have the likes of Lynn Wachtmann and Shannon Jones infesting the statehouse, your thinking is accurate). As you might imagine, Alabama state legislators can top them! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/01/shadrack-mcgill-ala This uncharitable, compassion-challenged doofus, who prominently states in his bio ...
Ohio Daily Blog - Wed 7:23 p.m. - 15 clicks
There is a great new campaign tee shirt available at the Barack Obama campaign store which details all the Obama accomplishments (h/t DailyKos). The Kasich administration still hasn't stopped the layoffs. The Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services has listed the latest Warn Notice: Kmart Store, in Springfield (Clark County), Number Affected: 52 . Gov. Kasich's o...
Ohio15th District - Tue 8:04 p.m. - 20 clicks
The 10th congressional district is much more compact than other Ohio distrists. It contains all of Montgomery County and all of Greene County and part of Fayette County. Six individuals are on the March 6 Democratic Primary ballot seeking to be the Democratic Party’s candidate to represent Ohio’s new 10th Congressional District. The winner of this Democratic Primary will challenge the five t...
DaytonOS - Tue 1:48 p.m. - 3 clicks
>>>> And so it starts...... Dispatch : The Kasich administration’s decision to keep secret how it will determine whether Ohioans are getting a good deal from the $100 million a year that JobsOhio will spend on economic development did not stop the state Controlling Board today from approving the contracts to formally get the privatized entity going..... ...Hottinger and his ...
Ohio15th District - Tue 9:28 a.m. - 23 clicks
On March 6, voters who request a Democratic primary ballot will have the opportunity to pick Cuyahoga County’s next prosecutor. No Republican has filed so whoever wins the primary has the job and can start making plans for what they will do when they’re sworn in next January. When current prosecutor Bill Mason dropped the surprising news in 2010 that he would not run for re-election, candidates...
Ohio Daily Blog - Mon 10:22 p.m. - 15 clicks
Reception/fundraiser for Green Presidential candidate Jill Stein Saturday, February 4 – 6:00PM Immediately following the Ohio Green Party convention Meet and greet the candidate, refreshments Suggested donation: $10-25 Bob and Suzanne’s house – 1021 E. Broad St., side door, parking in rear 253-2571 ————————R...
Fraudbuster Bob - Mon 8:00 p.m. - 14 clicks
All across the state, thanks to the efforts of those who gathered signatures to put HB 194 on the November ballot, early voting starts in Ohio. That means you can waltz into your board of elections and cast a vote. If you filled in an application for an absentee ballot (and if you want one and didn't get an application, call the BoE now), you should be getting it soon. Please vote and please, b...
Ohio Daily Blog - Mon 7:44 p.m. - 13 clicks
The continuing story of charter schools ripping off tax payers continues in Ohio.... Dispatch: A charter-school treasurer who has been ordered to repay more than $600,000 in public money has lost his job at one local charter, and another plans to fire him on Tuesday. Carl W. Shye Jr. of New Albany still was employed at two Columbus charter schools, FCI Academy and Patriot Preparatory Acade...
Ohio15th District - Mon 6:48 p.m. - 14 clicks
Will he really say anything? OhioDailyBlog has news about Josh Mandel and his planned visit to the Akron Press Club: ....Mandel has caved: http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2012/01/josh_mandel_ He'll be speaking to the group on March 1.... .....The event takes place at 11:45 a.m. at the Martin University Center on the University of Akron campus. It'...
Ohio15th District - Sun 7:42 p.m. - 11 clicks
Often times when I’m running errands around town, I lose track of time and inevitably find myself hungry/starving/famished. When I get to that point, my brain no longer functions well enough to remember what vegan-friendly restaurants are around me. So I’ve created a Google Map of all my favorite vegan-friendly restaurants, which I can then [...]...
PeaceChicken.com - Sun 2:43 p.m. - 12 clicks
For months, Ohio treasurer Josh "The Empty Suit" Mandel has said he's "too busy" to speak to the Akron Press Club. He's taken a lot of flak for his elusiveness, including from me. It's hard to imagine what he is "too busy" doing, since he doesn't seem too engaged in learning about the functions of the office of treasurer, a job he was unqualified for when he was elected. It seemed inescapable to ...
Ohio Daily Blog - Sat 1:23 p.m. - 19 clicks
The strategy behind "bait and switch" is to show something appealing to people, and when they're successfully lured, to switch the bait to something else. One often thinks of the practice as a sleazy sales pitch by an unscrupulous marketer, but here in Ohio and around the nation, it's being used more and more in politics. John Kasich and other Republican governors, senators, and c...
Franklin County Democratic Party - Sat 10:08 a.m. - 21 clicks
I'm sure PD columnist Kevin O'Brien is chomping at the bit to make a condescending rebuttal this this. http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/01/ohio_poli On federal health care reform, those same politicians campaigned on smaller government and said government had no place in the health decisions of Americans? You may remember, but our politicians have clearly forg...
Ohio Daily Blog - Sat 10:08 a.m. - 17 clicks
The Kasich administration loves to spend your money. Since winning the election for governor by the slimmest of margins, Gov. John Kasich and his staff have been living high off your money. In the last year, we've heard about ----- 1. a still undisclosed amount of money spent to beef up security at the Kasich private estate in Westerville (see NewsHerald ). 2. the ov...
Ohio15th District - Sat 8:21 a.m. - 21 clicks
As you know, Governor John Kasich is going to deliver his inspiring, uplifting State of the State address at a Steubenville elementary school this year instead of the statehouse in Columbus. OK, OK, I'm kidding. He's going to deliver a b.s.-packed SOTS address there. Ohioans who can see through the b.s. plan to be there in droves. Various organizations who are not happy with the gov's stances...
Ohio Daily Blog - Sat 7:21 a.m. - 15 clicks
Thank you so much, Progress Ohio, for the link to this. I've watched it half a dozen times and laughed my ass off. Just loved the shot of Joshie hunkered down in the limo outside his D.C. fundraiser today, although I guess I have to take their word for it that it's really him. Meanwhile, although he was busted in advance, Mandel shamelessly skipped a work day at the treasurer's office, paid for b...
Ohio Daily Blog - Jan 26 - 16 clicks
Already people are starting to read the tea leaves about 2014 and who will be running for governor of Ohio. The only sure thing is that our current governor is a failure. During the campaign, he said he wouldn't run for a second term, and I believe that's true. I honestly don't see increased popularity on the horizon for him and he can make 10 or 15 or 20 times as much going back to Fox "News"...
Ohio Daily Blog - Jan 26 - 22 clicks
Today, retiring Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank announced he was endorsing Dennis Kucinich in the 9th district congressional primary over colleague Marcy Kaptur, making him the second high-profile congressional figure to do so. If Frank, who is leaving congress after more than three decades, feels moved to do this, then whatever. Kucinich probably stood up for some piece of legislation w...
Ohio Daily Blog - Jan 26 - 13 clicks
>>>> We've heard this many times in the past--- Dispatch : A charter-school treasurer from New Albany owes the state more than $600,000 because he illegally spent tax dollars at a Columbus school and two others in Ohio, the auditor of state says. Carl Shye was the school treasurer for several charter schools statewide, including the now-defunct Montessori Renaissance Ex...
Ohio15th District - Jan 26 - 19 clicks
Nothing to do with Ohio (unless this is giving some fool like Lynn Wachtmann or Shannon Jones some ideas for new legislation here) but this is too good not to share: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/oklahoma_g Oklahoma elects some of the most demented, delusional and neanderthal politicians anywhere on earth. Its Senate delegation of Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn...
Ohio Daily Blog - Jan 25 - 4 clicks
Did you read our last post about how our purported state treasurer, Josh "The Empty Suit" Mandel, has missed every single meeting of the board of deposit over which the treasurer is supposed to preside? The right-friendly political website Politico has more. They've learned what Mandel may actually be doing at the time of the board's next scheduled meeting. http://www.politico.com/blogs/david-...
Ohio Daily Blog - Jan 25 - 5 clicks
Imagine that you've been elected to a public office. People would assume that you are carrying out your duties, following events, attending meetings, verifying work, and fulfilling all of you responsibilities. That is what most people would expect of an elected official. Unfortunately, that does not appear to be happening with Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel. CantonRep (Associated P...
Ohio15th District - Jan 25 - 3 clicks
http://www.ohio.com/news/break-news/ohio-treasurer-is-a-no-s According to AP, Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel hasn’t attended a single monthly meeting of the powerful but mundane state board that decides which banks will hold billions in state deposits. The story goes on to say that it's a common practice to send a deputy to the meetings (which his spokesman gives as a excuse ...
Ohio Daily Blog - Jan 25 - 5 clicks
Now even Republicans are complaining about their party's lack of initiative and their light legislative schedule. Could the John Boehner's Speakership be in trouble? Politico : ....Staring nervously at a high unemployment rate, with the November elections around the corner, GOP lawmakers are concerned that what their leadership is revealing for this year’s work is simply not enough. ...
Ohio15th District - Jan 25 - 2 clicks
Top 10 Ways to Describe Current Conservative Legislators Conservative Legislators... 10. try to give the appearance of being "like the boy (or girl) next door." 9. are experienced in using party-approved double-talk to spin extreme ideologies. 8. put ethics aside to give lobbyists and other special interests preferential treatment. 7. DO NOT believe in compromise. ...
Franklin County Democratic Party - Jan 24 - 3 clicks
The draconian Citizens United ruling declares that corporations are people. It allows them to donate as much as they want to any candidate or issue at any elections without immediately reporting. I attended the demonstration against the Citizens United ruling on January 20, 2012 reported by Deanna Pan in the Dispatch under the headline: “Occupy protesters pounce on Kilroy at rally.” “Abo...
Franklin County Democratic Party - Jan 24
Is John Boehner issuing a dare to American voters? Has Boehner become so arrogant that he thinks that there is no way that Republicans will lose control of the House of Representatives? Boehner and his "do-nothing" Republican House of Representatives have refused to back the President's job bills, but now Boehner thinks he in his leadership role to stay. Politico: Republicans wi...
Ohio15th District - Jan 24 - 3 clicks
How voters apparently see Josh Mandel: The Man Who Isn't There. By late December before election year even began, third-party (non-candidate) rightwing groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Karl Rove's outfit American Crossroads, the odious Concerned Women of America, and the 60 Plus Association had already spent almost three million dollars in Ohio attacking Senator Sherrod Brown, ba...
Ohio Daily Blog - Jan 23 - 3 clicks
I was starting to wonder if there was going to be a Rootscamp this year, an annual get-together organized by Progress Ohio that brings together progressive activists, organizers, volunteers, bloggers, officeholders, and candidates from all across the state. I've been to every one — I think it's been five now — and really love getting to meet and talk to people from other parts of the state, gaini...
Ohio Daily Blog - Jan 23 - 2 clicks
Guess what? Neither did I. Dispatch : Gov. John Kasich headlined an Ohio Theatre event last week funded by lobbyists with deep ties to his administration, raising questions about his oft-stated commitment not to favor special interests. The Tuesday evening “One Year Later” celebration was sponsored in part by lobbyists Douglas J. Preisse, Robert F. Klaffky and Matt Borges, all...
Ohio15th District - Jan 22
One of the most watched races on March 6 will be the Democratic congressional primary in the new 9th district, where incumbents Marcy Kaptur of Toledo and Dennis Kucinich of Cleveland have been pitted against each other. As I wrote a couple of posts ago, Kucinich yesterday landed the endorsement of his home county, Cuyahoga, although it was not unanimous by any means. I can't find any evidence ...
Ohio Daily Blog - Jan 22
"Hey Gingrich, nobody here likes you." Although she no longer has even a remotely challenging primary now that state senator Nina Turner wisely decided to drop her candidacy and certainly has no challenging general election race, incumbent congresswoman Marcia Fudge (11th district) is running an aggressive reelection race. Yesterday she opened her campaign headquarters at Van Akin Center ...
Ohio Daily Blog - Jan 22
With the redistricting in Ohio, current Republican Mike Duffey (and Kasich's BFF), will have some tough competitors for District 21 in the Ohio House of Representatives. The new alignment has Dublin and Worthington in Ohio House District 21. One of Duffey's opponents is Democrat Donna O'Connor . Donna O'Connor is a classroom teacher and she has been a fighter for her students...
Ohio15th District - Jan 21
Recently the Ohio Senate overwhelmingly approved House Bill 116, a bill designed to strengthen schools’ anti-bullying policies. HB 116 requires that school districts educate students on policies prohibiting harassment, intimidation, and bullying. The law defines “harassment, intimidation, or bullying" to be any intentional written, verbal, or physical act that a student has exhibited tow...
Franklin County Democratic Party - Jan 20 - 2 clicks
Free Press FREE Movie: Brother Towns Tuesday, November 24• 7:30pm - 9:00pm Drexel Theater, 2254 E. Main St., Bexley ...
Fraudbuster Bob - Jan 20
There are more planned layoffs in Ohio. ODJFS has posted the latest Warn Notice: PCCW Teleservices (US), Inc., in Tiffin (Seneca County), Number Affected 128. >>> Think Progress found this about Ohio's approach to health care reform: Ohio of two minds on health reform: “When it comes to federal health reform, the Kasich administration seems to be of two minds. One o...
Ohio15th District - Jan 20
Mitt Romney has flipped, flopped, and in some cases, flipped again. Personally, I cannot keep all his statements straight. Perhaps this will help us ( YouTube ): Check out MittvMitt for more. ______ A prison guard in Ohio has lost his job over something he wrote on his Facebook page. See HuffPost for the story. >>> Gov. Kasich spoke at Central State on Mar...
Ohio15th District - Jan 19
Are you interested in helping President Obama get re-elected? Volunteers are needed at the brand new "Obama for America" headquarters located at 1973 Dublin-Granville Road in Columbus, Ohio (at the corner of 161 and Beechcroft). The office is just getting set up, but they are already scheduling volunteers. For additional information, visit http://www.barackobama.com/state/OH/ ...
Ohio15th District - Jan 19
It has come to this in Ohio's schools---- Fox8 has a report on Garfield Heights School District which has made drastic cuts to programs, teachers, the school day, and eliminated lunch. Fox8 : ...As of Tuesday, programs like elementary music, art and physical education are gone and libraries are closed. School days are shortened to just 5 1/2 hours -- leaving kids less time for instructio...
Ohio15th District - Jan 18
Delay. Delay. Delay. Why is everything in Ohio taking so long to fix? When he was elected by the slimmest of margins, John Kasich said he would bring jobs to Ohio. We are still waiting. Ohioans have learned that despite all of Kasich's braggadocious plans, nothing is really getting accomplished. Here are a list of projects that Kasich has yet to accomplish or has "fixed" ...
Ohio15th District - Jan 17 - 9 clicks
Which job training program provides a chance for a bright future? Gov. John Kasich has a new initiative he is pushing---job training. Here is a story followed by my opinion. Fox 19 : Governor Kasich announced a commitment Monday from three community colleges to actively recruit and train young minorities in Ohio, including Cincinnati State. The Queen City college will be launching a new t...
Ohio15th District - Jan 17 - 9 clicks
U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown spoke today at a breakfast honoring Dr. Martin Luther King. The ToledoBlade : The fight of Martin Luther King Jr. continues today in Ohio against efforts to restrict worker and voting rights, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown told a crowd honoring the slain civil rights leader Monday. The Democratic senator made the remarks despite the fact that the man who signed tw...
Ohio15th District - Jan 16
The Ohio Republicans must have some crazy notion to do everything that Ohioans don't want. 1. First they passed SB 5, then voters defeated it. 2. Then Kasich proposed selling the state prisons, even though Ohioans were against it. Of course, Kasich did not get his over-hyped money and not all the prisons were sold. 3. Kasich wants to sell off/lease the Ohio Turnpike like Indiana did. Kasi...
Ohio15th District - Jan 15
Bob and Connie interview Susan Carter from the Ohio Fair Food campaign, the Immokolee workers and the effort to get Trader Joe's and Krogers in Columbus to sign off on the fair food agreement...
Fraudbuster Bob - Jan 11
Beware of smiling people bearing petitions with the word “ freedom ." Freedom sounds like something we should all aspire to have, but the Republicans' overuse of the word during the Bush tenure (remember Freedom Fries?) has turned the word into a tool often used in conservative political rhetoric. Members of the Ohio Tea Party were not satisfied with tricking Ohio voters into pas...
Franklin County Democratic Party - Jan 11
States have until June 30th to enact an insurance exchange as required by the Affordable Care Act, otherwise the federal government will do it for them. In Ohio, Democrats have been trying to gauge the efforts to implement the exchange, but have been stonewalled by Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor who heads Ohio’s Department of Insurance. So, Democratic state Rep. John Patrick Carney of Columbus went above Ta...
The Madrigal Maniac - Jan 11
