Ohio
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You can create your own Ameritrade account today and begin buying politicians, just as Joe Ricketts did, but remember that the STARTING bid appears to be around $250,000.00. At least, that’s the Ameritrade price of a US Senate candidate in Nebraska. Your politician may cost you more, or less, depending on who you want to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry... ...
Plutocrap - 2:27 a.m.
The Interwebz were abuzz this weekend with the story of Desmond Hatchett , a 33-year old Tennessee man who has managed to father 30 children ranging in age from toddler to 14 with 11 different women. He brags of having fathered 4 kids in a year, twice. Hatchett is complaining that his minimum wage paycheck can’t cover his child support expenses. For a moment, let’s set aside the ob...
Plunderbund - Sun 8:29 p.m.
Sen. Sherrod Brown talked about his bill, Bring Jobs Home Act, which aims to close loopholes that some businesses got when they moved jobs overseas. Sen. Sherrod Brown's legislation is described in the Mount Vernon News . Actor Martin Sheen, will join American hero, John Glenn, in a special reception on May 31st. Visit Sen. Sherrod Brown's Facebook page for information. >>>&g...
Ohio15th District - Sun 12:27 p.m. - 13 clicks 
Klanbaggers, as we know, just hate to live up to their obligations, whether it be making their house payments (Mike Lee of Utah,) or pay their child support (Joe Walsh of Illinois,) or honor just about any other agreement they enter into. Across this country, Klanbaggers have left countless merchants, businesses, landlords, and children, holding […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry... ...
Plutocrap - Sat 9:48 p.m. - 8 clicks
no one should be discriminated against when all they are trying to do is find a place to call home Did you know that discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people is generally legal in Ohio? Recent surveys show Ohioans overwhelmingly oppose discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The people of Ohio clearly place a high value on jus...
Plunderbund - Sat 3:26 p.m. - 13 clicks
Republican Gov. John Kasich, a former Vice President at Lehman Brothers, has really been failing at keeping jobs in Ohio. It seems that the only companies that have gotten tax deals and incentives to stay in the state were those on a friendly basis with Kasich and the GOP. Meanwhile, the job losses keep piling up in Ohio. The ODJFS (Ohio Dept. of Jobs and Family Services) has posted...
Ohio15th District - Sat 10:48 a.m. - 18 clicks
Being on the governor's public relations team has to be one of the hardest jobs ever. This week his PR team promoted a story to The Columbus Dispatch entitled “Kasich Battles Hunger,” because he signed an order to provide more money to feed poor Ohio children during their summer break. The newspaper reported that "Feeding Ohio's hungry has become a priority for Gov. John Kasich." ...
Franklin County Democratic Party - Sat 8:09 a.m. - 26 clicks
On April 1st, we reported that the FBI was investigating Kasich and his allies for using threats, intimidation and promises of influence during their take over of the State Central Committee. Yesterday – 48 days later – someone finally went on the record. In an email, Andrew Manning’s attorney confirmed the FBI investigation, and we broke the story . [Joseph pats himself on...
Plunderbund - Sat 7:47 a.m.
This week, Governor Kasich made a bit of a fuss about Vice President Biden’s visit, suggesting on Facebook and Fox News that the White House should not take credit for jobs created by Ohio’s auto industry. He then hilariously went on to do the exact same thing : We have created 1,400 direct auto manufacturing jobs Here’s the thing about taking credit for job creation. I...
Plunderbund - Fri 8:27 p.m. - 17 clicks
The right wing, anti-worker, and anti-women's rights groups are touting their support of Republican Josh Mandel. Which groups support Josh Mandel in his latest campaign? The Ohio Chamber of Commerce • The Ohio Chamber of Commerce supported SB 5. ( Cleveland Plain Dealer ) • The Ohio Chamber of Commerce was against the amendment to raise Ohio's minimum ...
Ohio15th District - Fri 7:45 p.m. - 15 clicks
• • • The San Francisco Weekly has an informative article about Mitt Romney: America's Parasite: Romney's Bain Represents Capitalism's Worst ...His specialty was flipping companies — or what he often calls "creative destruction." It's the age-old theory that the new must constantly attack the old to bring efficiency to the economy, even if some are destroyed along the way. In other w...
Stubbon Liberal - Fri 5:34 p.m. - 2 clicks
Bullying and harassment is a crisis in our schools. Surveys show that 56% of surveyed teenagers in Ohio have been verbally or physically harassed or assaulted during the last year because of a particular characteristic, such as gender, disability, sexual orientation, or race. Nearly half (43%) of Ohio students report that bullying is a serious issue in their schools. Yet almost two-thirds (6...
Plunderbund - Fri 1:07 p.m. - 15 clicks
It's tough out there for a Republican governor like Ohio's John Kasich, wanting to make himself look good by touting his state's economic growth and job gains, but also wanting to leave room for his party's presidential nominee to blame President Obama for a bad economy. That is, after all, 95 percent of Mitt Romney's campaign. So when Romney and Kasich campaigned together in Ohio recently, ...
DailyKos (Ohio) - Fri 11:29 a.m. - 18 clicks
A lot has changed since Donna held the spotlight. My attitude towards the entire Disco era, for one thing. I couldn’t stand disco back then, as a teenager with an ear for both Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow (and the indomitable Ronnie James Dio) and punk acts like The Ramones and The Clash-but when I think about […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry... ...
Plutocrap - Fri 2:43 a.m.
It’s nice to know that, at the age of 48, I can still be surprised by the cluelessness of some people. Hell, some of those people are even hyper-successful people. Billionaires. And yet, they reveal themselves to be the same as the Neanderthals of the last 10,000 generations. President Barack Obama’s campaign says a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry... ...
Plutocrap - Fri 12:42 a.m.
The Joe Ricketts that is behind a planned smear campaign of President Obama (see NY Times ) is part of the Ricketts family that also owns the Chicago Cubs? This is the same Ricketts family looking for money to fix their baseball stadium in Chicago????? HuffPost : Chicago Mayor and former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is "livid" over a proposed $10 million ad campai...
Stubbon Liberal - Thu 11:11 p.m. - 2 clicks
Today on Sean Hannity's show, he said the following: "I'm not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was." Yup, "whatever it was." Now there's a man with a deep moral or philosophical center — NOT. No, it's not "taken out of context." It sounds even more ludicrous when taken in context, which you can view here: ...
Ohio Daily Blog - Thu 8:08 p.m. - 2 clicks
Sunday morning, Mother's Day, I drove to Kenyon College to meet a young Millennial who is graduating from college this month. She and I sat in the Kenyon College Bookstore and chatted over coffee about her generation's inheritance of the world such as it is. Bettina majored in political science with minors in religious and women's studies. She remarked how her generation is misjudged as enti...
Franklin County Democratic Party - Thu 4:29 p.m. - 2 clicks
Plunderbund has breaking news: Two months ago Portage County Republican Party Chairman Andrew Manning asked the FBI to look into allegations that Manning had been asked to withdraw as a candidate for the state Central Committee race and in return he would be “given influence” over state government appointments. Manning’s attorney just confirmed that the FBI is looking into the charges....
Ohio15th District - Thu 9:28 a.m. - 18 clicks
••••• Did we just witness a flip-flop by Republican Josh Mandel?????? In a March news article at the Youngstown Vindicator, Josh Mandel said he had opposed the auto recovery plan (aka auto bailout), even though 850,000 Ohio jobs are related to the auto industry. Now, Mandel has a different story. News-Herald: ....Mandel said he didn’t have a position on the federal au...
Stubbon Liberal - Thu 7:32 a.m. - 18 clicks
Two months ago Portage County Republican Party Chairman Andrew Manning asked the FBI to look into allegations that Manning had been asked to withdraw as a candidate for the state Central Committee race and in return he would be “given influence” over state government appointments. Manning’s attorney just confirmed that the FBI is looking into the charges. In an email receive...
Plunderbund - Thu 7:32 a.m. - 19 clicks
I really don’t get it. Jamie O’Keefe is apparently immune from the laws that govern the rest of us. After he drew probation for trying to break in to the offices of a United States Senator, he surely had travel restrictions imposed upon him. Apparently those restrictions are in theory only, because he continues to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry... ...
Plutocrap - Thu 2:49 a.m. - 3 clicks
Before you do anything today, go and read Josh Mandel's "Jobs Plan" because it will tell you a lot about him. I've read through the plan and it is devoid of anything that offers jobs for human beings in Ohio. It is nothing more than a repeat of the same drivel that has been promoted by every Republican candidate in the country for the last thirty years. Here are the usual Republican b...
Ohio15th District - Wed 10:50 p.m. - 17 clicks
Garry Wills is one of my favorite writers. A devout Catholic, he writes with incisive clarity about the church, both its credal underpinnings and its real-life shortcomings, taking a scalpel to the latter to reveal the contradictions and hypocrisies of men who fall short of what they profess way too often. In this column from the New York Review of Books, titled "Bullying the Nuns," Wills contr...
Ohio Daily Blog - Wed 6:28 p.m.
Yes, today was the big day — the latest set of "hearings" on the Republican scheme to try to defund Planned Parenthood in Ohio. Never mind that nothing about it makes sense; that it's based on lies; that it would strip women of essential health services and leave some to die; that it has absolutely nothing to do with abortion and even if it did, abortion is LEGAL, and all the posturing is an inap...
Ohio Daily Blog - Wed 6:05 p.m. - 16 clicks
Today Dennis Kucinich sent out an email to his supporters, announcing that he will NOT pursue a congressional seat in Washington state, as I predicted a long time ago. There seemed to be very limited enthusiasm there for an out-of-state carpetbagger, despite Kucinich's claim in his email that "tens of thousands" of people contacted him about running there. That wouldn't made much difference...
Ohio Daily Blog - Wed 5:27 p.m. - 13 clicks
In an email to his supporters, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH10) has decided that he will not run for further Congressional office in the State of Washington, saying that he would work for change outside of Congress instead. Dennis Kucinich's seat was eliminated after redistricting from the 2010 Census, pitting him in a primary against long-time Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH9). Kucinich lost th...
DailyKos (Ohio) - Wed 4:43 p.m. - 16 clicks
The Ohio Association of Professional Fire Fighters (OAPFF) has endorsed a candidate for the U.S. Senate: OAPFF @ Ohio_pro_ffs OAPFF delegates vote to unanimously endorse @ SherrodBrown for US Senator from Ohio. "A true friend of fire fighters." Sen. Sherrod Brown...
Stubbon Liberal - Wed 3:26 p.m. - 15 clicks
Vincent: Pilot? What’s a pilot? Jules: Well, you know the shows on TV? Vincent: I don’t watch TV. Jules: Yeah, but, you are aware that there’s an invention called television, and on this invention they show shows, right? Ohio Senate Republicans have proposed a three-county, two-year program where welfare applicants who are suspected of having a drug problem woul...
Plunderbund - Wed 9:44 a.m. - 19 clicks
While Josh Mandel takes a grand tour of Ohio to collect campaign money from business owners, Ohio's working men and women are wondering how he gets paid when he is clearly not at work! Josh Mandel's jobs plan is a joke. I've read it and I was quite surprised at the frequency of certain words in the document. Josh Mandel's "jobs" plan is not for people, but for businesses and business own...
Ohio15th District - Wed 8:41 a.m. - 15 clicks
In just-released excerpts of Joe Biden's planned speech today in Youngstown, Ohio, the vice president takes aim at Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital and goes into rather more detail about the company's involvement in GST Steel than you can fit in a 30-second (or even 2-minute) ad Politico And below the Orange Squiggle of Power I quote Biden's speech as quoted by Politico (I can't imagine ...
DailyKos (Ohio) - Wed 7:25 a.m. - 12 clicks
Well, I guess we can all just stay home in November. because the most important endorsement of all has been made. And Willard, of course, got that endorsement. Chimpy, like every other Rushpubliscum moron, is anxious to see the economic policies that ruined this country come back with a vengeance. And with Willard in the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry... ...
Plutocrap - Wed 12:25 a.m.
In looking over information at OpenSecrets , I found something very interesting. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown has collected more campaign cash from residents of Beachwood, Ohio (zip code 44122) than his opponent. Republican Josh Mandel attended high school in Beachwood, but apparently not very popular. Open Secrets Beachwood, Ohio 44122...........Sen. Sherrod Brown...........$297,012 campa...
Ohio15th District - Tue 8:08 p.m. - 19 clicks
Bubba Carpenter, an elected Republican official in Mississippi, is an idiot. Think Progress has the text and the video, provided by Rachel Maddow. Bubba seems proud that poor women will have to resort to the coat hanger as a self-abortion method. Read the whole post at Think Progress . (Be sure to read the comments!) Why do Republicans, especially Republican men, think that they should ...
Stubbon Liberal - Tue 6:29 p.m. - 3 clicks
Just a little while ago, I got a request from a candidate to add his website to our candidates page, and I did so. Since I was there, I updated the page with a number of new websites for candidates running this year, particularly in congressional races. I'd like to call everyone's attention to this resource — just click on the word "candidates" at the menu underneath our banner. http://www.o...
Ohio Daily Blog - Tue 5:02 p.m.
Why are conservative legislators promoting cookie-cutter bills at statehouses all over the country? The "American Legislative Exchange Council," commonly called ALEC, is a secretive corporate-backed group that creates and lobbies Republican lawmakers for passage of their model bills. A goal for us all is to educate others about ALEC and ask that they pass on the information to their friend...
Franklin County Democratic Party - Tue 4:50 p.m. - 8 clicks
I wrote the other day about Democrat Sharen Neuhardt, who is taking on congressman Mike "Who?" Turner in the new 12th district (Dayton area), outraising him in the first quarter. http://www.ohiodailyblog.com/content/sharen-neuhardt-outrais Now Emily's List has jumped on board her campaign. Emily's List is a 25-year-old D.C. based group which recruits, supports, and raises mon...
Ohio Daily Blog - Tue 4:50 p.m. - 17 clicks
According to a "press release" on Republican Josh Mandel's website , he "....will visit small businesses in 22 of Ohio’s 88 counties..." this week. Hmmmm. Which unqualified, inexperienced staff members in the Ohio Treasurer's are doing his job? Why isn't Mandel speaking with and visiting voters? Isn't he interested in their views and needs? Is he just visiting bu...
Ohio15th District - Tue 4:34 p.m. - 17 clicks
In 2010 Ed FitzGerald defeated Matt Dolan by a measure of two to one to win the race to be County Executive of Cuyahoga County. Or, as I like to view it, FitzGerald won the high risk, low reward opportunity to clean up the mess that a bunch of knuckleheads who thought they were gangsters left behind for him. Even though FitzGerald was one of the only bright spots on election night in 2010, I s...
Plunderbund - Tue 10:10 a.m. - 19 clicks
Republican Josh Mandel's comments about Politifact have some people wondering about Mandel's grasp of reality. Mandel believes what Politifact has to say about Sen. Sherrod Brown, but calls Politifact wrong for calling some of his own statements as "Pants on Fire." Politifact Ohio has judged Josh Mandel's statements in the following manner: Mandel's statements by ruli...
Stubbon Liberal - Tue 8:44 a.m. - 23 clicks
Ohio Republican Party Chairman Bob Bennett announced today that he’s hiring Matt Borges as executive director of ORP, despite the fact that Borges was involved in a public corruption scandal that likely cost Ohioans millions in bad investments. Back in 2004 Borges pleaded guilty to steering state investment business to convicted swindlers like former Cuyahoga Lehman Brothers broker F...
Plunderbund - Tue 8:27 a.m. - 21 clicks
270 to win has added a cool new feature listing different combinations that add up to 270 electoral votes when there are 12 or fewer swing states. www.270towin.com Let us begin with some absurdly favorable assumptions to Rmoney and see where that lands us. ...
DailyKos (Ohio) - Tue 4:32 a.m. - 7 clicks
Rushpubliscum lawmakers just love to be “tough on crime.” These lovers of “freedom” never seem to run out of ways to create more felonies, and harsher penalties, that guarantee that their jails stay full to the bursting point. Why do they do this? Are they sociopaths who revel in the misery of others? Of course […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry... ...
Plutocrap - Tue 2:32 a.m.
How does one neuter, what was never there to be cut? I think that, when later history is written, it will be remembered that the Rushpubliscum Party elevated two men to the top leadership positions of Congress who never should have been there. “Junket John” Boehner is a hapless drunk, not particularly intelligent, and one […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry... ...
Plutocrap - Mon 11:12 p.m.
This has zilch to do with Ohio, but it's so good I have to share. Democratic U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California is up for reelection. She is such a shoo-in that the California GOP is having a problem similar to what the Ohio GOP faced in the 9th congressional district here: no serious Republican wanted to run and get their ass kicked by Marcy Kaptur or Dennis Kucinich. So they got stuc...
Ohio Daily Blog - Mon 9:23 p.m. - 17 clicks
Nice CNN piece on how Toledo-based Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (who will also be representing a swath of Cleveland's western suburbs starting early next year) is urging foreclosed constituents to stay in their homes if they have not had adequate legal representation: Kaptur is also going after banks for the way they've traded and speculated upon mortgages so much, that in many cases it's un...
Ohio Daily Blog - Mon 7:11 p.m. - 17 clicks
Here is a video from the website Romney Economics----Mitt Romney's Private Sector Record: How is it right that Romney and Bain made money while people lost their jobs? Bain made a profit of $12 million, yet 750 people were put out of work. Is that being a job creator? ...
Stubbon Liberal - Mon 6:49 p.m.
The Josh Mandel campaign must be run by third graders. The Youngstown Vindicator : ...Mandel said Brown and his “team have shown they’re willing to lie about a lot of things.” Mandel pointed to The Plain Dealer’s PolitiFact Ohio, a political fact-checking organization, as proof. Mandel said PolitiFact determined Brown was “false” when he said in June 2011 that a Republican plan would...
Ohio15th District - Mon 6:10 p.m. - 23 clicks
It probably won't surprise you to learn that Josh "The Empty Suit" Mandel has snagged the endorsement of the National Right to Life Political Action Committee. Although elusive about most issues, he didn't hesitate to endorse the "Heartbeat" Bill last year. He's made it clear he's an enemy of women's rights and their access to health care. In their statement National Right to Life said, ...
Ohio Daily Blog - Mon 4:43 p.m.
>>> U.S. Sen. Rob Portman (OH-R) obviously doesn't care about the debt being faced by college students and their parents. CantonRep. has news about a vote that would have lowered college student low rates and increased taxes on some business owners: ....Senate Democrats are pushing a bill that also extends the rate for one year and pays for it by applying the payroll ...
Ohio15th District - Mon 1:30 p.m. - 17 clicks
•••• I saw a clip of Mitt Romney speaking at the right wing Liberty University. I have two questions: (1) Was Romney using a teleprompter? (2) How many women were on that stage in front of the graduates? I counted one. •••• With the scandal surrounding the latest problems at JP Morgan Chase, why does Republican Rep. Steve Stivers continue to fight against safe...
Ohio15th District - Mon 8:41 a.m.
••••••• The boycott by listeners and advertisers of the Rush Limbaugh program has proven to be a financial disaster. Do you think they got the message or are they too stubborn headed to care????? MediaMatters : Last night, Cumulus Media, a radio company that carries Rush Limbaugh's show on 38 of its stations, announced millions in losses directly attributable to Limbaugh...
Stubbon Liberal - Mon 7:46 a.m. - 3 clicks
Have you heard about ALEC? The Center for Media and Democracy has just published a must-read report for anyone concerned about the shadowy influence of money on public policy in the Ohio Statehouse. The report is pretty dense, so we will try to provide some context and observations. Organizations such as People for the American Way, Think Progress, and Common Cause have been doing great wo...
Plunderbund - Mon 5:51 a.m. - 23 clicks
Back in February, before she won her primary, I wrote about Democratic congressional candidate in the new 10th district, Sharen Neuhardt: http://ohiodailyblog.com/content/sharen-neuhardt-running-con Sharen ran against Steve Austria in 2008 in his heavily Republican district and lost. But with the former 3rd district in the Dayton area, now the 10th, reconfigured, she feels she's ...
Ohio Daily Blog - May 13 - 11 clicks
I don't know how many of you have been following the saga of "Americans Elect," a "new model" Internet political party started by a handful of deep-pockets funders. Its contention is that voters are turned off because politics is too polarized, and what voters REALLY want is a "centrist" presidential candidate. Never mind that it would be difficult to be more centrist and open to negotiating t...
Ohio Daily Blog - May 13 - 2 clicks
http://www.treehugger.com/public-transportation/walkscore-ra This recent story, ranking 25 U.S. cities in terms of how user-friendly and effect their public transit systems are, has some unsurprising news about Ohio's two largest cities. While New York, San Francisco, and Boston lead the list of cities where you can actually live without a car, Cleveland and Columbus, not so mu...
Ohio Daily Blog - May 13 - 12 clicks
Burning the Midnight Oil for Living Energy Independence Back in the 29 Nov 2009 Sunday Train, Frequency and Waiting on a Train , I reacted to a point made in John McCommon's book, Waiting on a Train : "Once those intermodal trains can go through Stampede Pass, it will take some traffic off the main line and free up more room for additional passenger trains," said Uznanski. By bringing ...
DailyKos (Ohio) - May 13 - 2 clicks
You should have been in Shaker Heights this evening when Sherrod Brown spoke to a full house at the Stephanie Tubbs Jones community center. (Yes, Connie came too). He opened by pointing out how the Republicans ran in 2010 on jobs, jobs, jobs, and after they tricked the voters into electing them (my words, not his), they governed on taking away voter rights, taking away women's rights, ta...
Ohio Daily Blog - May 12 - 9 clicks
This was far and away the highlight of the week. The players are Rep. Paul Broun, Republican from Georgia, with an amendment to end all funding for U.S. Department of Justice enforcement of Section Five of the Voting Rights Act, and civil rights veteran Rep. John Lewis, Democrat from Georgia, who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. REP. LEWIS: It is hard and difficult and almost unbeliev...
DailyKos (Ohio) - May 12 - 2 clicks
You're invited to join us for the: Free Press Second Saturday Salon May 12, 2012 - 6:30pm-midnight Join progressive friends for food, drink, music, art, and a presentation on ecosocialism with Steve Bloom. Watch the live national broadcast of the Green Party debate between presidential candidates Roseanne Barr and Jill Stein - 10:30pm! 1021 E. Broad St., east side door, parking on street or in...
Fraudbuster Bob - May 12
Livestream Worldwide Debate: Green Party Presidential Candidates Jill Stein, Rosanne Barr From the same venue that brought you the Occupy Movement, Tonight Saturday, May 12, The American Green Party Presents: The historical debate between Roseanne Barr and Jill Stein Live from 7:30 P.M. PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) 10:30 Eastern (EDT)...
Fraudbuster Bob - May 12
Recent Fight Back - Episodes: Podcasts 05/09/12 Trotsky In America, Eco-Socialism 05/02/12 Ohio's Progressive Agenda 04/25/12 Unite Against The War On Women...
Fraudbuster Bob - May 12 - 4 clicks
A veteran's letter to the editor in the PlainDealer explains how Josh Mandel abandoned veterans and, in particular, has ignored violence against women in the military. Plain Dealer : ....While I respect his service, we were not taught in the military to abandon our fellow citizens when we left active duty. Not only did Mandel support Senate Bill 5/Issue 2 , which stripped veterans' pre...
Ohio15th District - May 12
Tonight, from 6:30-8 p.m., in an event sponsored by the Shaker Heights Democratic Club and cosponsored by ten other area Democratic organizations, Sherrod Brown will meet & greet supporters, answer questions, and make it manifestly clear why he and not Josh "The Empty Suit" Mandel should be the U.S. Senator from Ohio. It's a great chance for Democrats to get fired up for this important race, ...
Ohio Daily Blog - May 11 - 4 clicks
So the defunding of Ohio Planned Parenthood was stripped from the budget review bill in the legislature. But don't be fooled: the Republican leadership there is still contemptuous of women and wants to strip them of access to health care. They've got another hearing on the defunding of Pllanned Parenthood — the only source of health care for many poor and moderate-income women, especially in is...
Ohio Daily Blog - May 11 - 5 clicks
I hit a bunch of art openings tonight in Cleveland including the one at artist-run contemporary gallery SPACES, which features conceptual, installation, and mixed-media art. The show was a commentary on Cleveland tourism. One artist invited visitors to write things about the area on little wooden cutouts in categories like "Growth," "Abandonment," "Stagnation," and "Regeneration." I wrote "Food,...
Ohio Daily Blog - May 11
Those people voicing their opposition to President Obama's support of marriage equality certainly are loud, but they are still wrong . These same people against marriage equality are also against--- women's rights, voting rights, public schools, low interest rates for college loans, the separation of church and state, diversity, etc., etc. >>>>> Republican cand...
Ohio15th District - May 11
Some bankers never learn! ABC News : J P Morgan Chase & Co. is rocking the financial markets with the disclosure that its in-house trading operating lost $2 billion in the past six weeks, raising new questions about whether the big banks that caused the financial meltdown have sufficiently changed their ways. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said the trading loss was an...
Ohio15th District - May 11
There is probably no one with more contempt for democracy than the Republicans in the Ohio legislature. The very concept of fair, free, transparent, and straightforward elections seems to unnerve them. While there were things that still needed tweaking, following Jennifer Brunner’s term of secretary of state, Ohio’s elections were no longer fundamentally broken. Yet last year, the Republicans ...
Ohio Daily Blog - May 10
I push pretty much every year for people to look beyond the high profile races. Some of the elections that MOST affect people directly are downticket races like judicial or school board races, state assessors and state and local reps. Yet these are almost universally ignored, so big money almost always wins them...and regular folks lose out. I try to help the best of those downticket races acros...
DailyKos (Ohio) - May 10 - 2 clicks
There is another great ad about Josh Mandel's unbridled ambition---- YouTube A recent poll indicates that many Ohioans don't know Josh Mandel. The ad above explains part of it, but you should also know that Josh Mandel has demonstrated cronyism in the Treasurer's office. Why would anyone vote for this totally inept person? >>>>> If you haven't seen the news tod...
Stubbon Liberal - May 10 - 2 clicks
With the presidential race in a bit of a holding pattern (especially with most of us waiting a few days to see what sea change, if any, emanates from the president's historic announcement on Wednesday), today's Wrap discussion will focus on the Senate. Markos noted earlier this week that the conventional wisdom on where the balance of power in the Senate will come to rest after November ...
DailyKos (Ohio) - May 10
President Obama yesterday reminded us all, strongly, that the Constitution guarantees equal rights for all citizens. And that marriage is a civil contract; various religious groups can, of course, have their own celebrations and restrict who has access to those celebrations if they choose. But they can’t restrict the rights of other people. Not so many years ago my own marriage, to a Roman Cath...
Franklin County Democratic Party - May 10
••• A new Quinnipiac Poll in Ohio has lot of information, and the Toledo Blade has the details. According to the latest Quinnipiac Pol l, the race is tightening up between President Barack Obama and Romney. And , according to Quinnipiac , as published in the Toledo Blade : .... I n the Brown-Mandel Senate race, Senator Brown leads among independent voters 42 percent to 38...
Ohio15th District - May 10 - 5 clicks
It seems like everyone I know has been a-buzz today since President Obama announced his support for marriage equality today. To gay activists. it must feel like maniac-depression, following yesterday's landslide vote in North Carolina in favor of a stringent anti-marriage equality measure. But after years in which the President's avid gay supporters often felt betrayed and abandoned, it also seem...
Ohio Daily Blog - May 9
Reactions from around the state to President Obama's statement supporting marriage equality. From Ed Mullen, executive director of Equality Ohio: Amid increased speculation, President Barack Obama announced today his full support of marriage equality. With this announcement, Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. president to back the right of gay and lesbian couples to marry. Obama told ABC...
Ohio Daily Blog - May 9 - 3 clicks
Any furrow-jawed commentator or pundit who opines in the future that Washington is "gridlocked" and that "both sides" are responsible and need to "move to the center" should henceforth be whacked across the face each time he or she utters that piece of common "wisdom." Yesterday, longtime Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, a hardcore conservative who was nonetheless known for being able to at least...
Ohio Daily Blog - May 9
My husband and I have been married for 38 years. We've been blessed to have children, grandchildren, dogs, and a great extended family. I think it is wonderful that President Obama has stated his support for marriage equality. This is the right thing to do to provide civil rights for everyone. As a married couple, my husband can visit me in the hospital, can provide power of attorney...
Stubbon Liberal - May 9
>>>> Republican Rep. Steve Stivers (OH-15th) just said, on Martin Bashir's MSNBC program, that he believes that marriage is between one man and one woman. Stivers, a former bank lobbyist,bragged about his jobs bills (?). Gee. Has anyone seen any of the jobs Stivers has created? Bashir just asked Stivers if the job growth in Ohio could be attributed ...
Ohio15th District - May 9 - 2 clicks
I applaud the President for his historic support of marriage equality. I am sure most strategist would have advised against him supporting this issue in an election year. Speaking as a gay man, I fully support and work hard to bring marriage equality into reality for all Americans. This statement makes me incredibly nervous this election. I believe that the SCOTUS will decide the fate for the ...
DailyKos (Ohio) - May 9
Fair Elections Ohio, announcing its successful petition effort, now in question. ( Fair Elections Ohio ) The Ohio House, dominated by Republicans, is trying to pull a fast one on Ohio voters, and still keep Democratic-leaning voters away from the polls in this critical election in a decisive state. Last June, the legislature passed House Bill 194 , to restrict early voting, prohibit co...
DailyKos (Ohio) - May 9 - 2 clicks
Mitt Romney has flip flopped on so many issues, he must be sick in the stomach from flipping so much. YouTube Mitt Romney wanted to destroy the entire American auto industry. Even Bain refused to invest their private money into the industry. President Obama's emergency rescue plan saved millions of American jobs. While Mitt Romney has Swiss bank accounts, and money in...
Ohio15th District - May 9
Yesterday, Mitt Romney swept through Ohio, demonstrating again his patented ability to talk out of both sides of his mouth, his nose and lower regions of his body, all at once. In addition to praising Governor Kasich for doing a "heckuva job" of God only knows what, and failing to chide an ignorant supporter who said President Obama should be tried for treason, Romney — who once wrote an editor...
Ohio Daily Blog - May 8 - 3 clicks
Apparently, Mitt Romney thinks it's a winning move to imitate George W. Bush at his most pathetic and out of touch. Remember back in 2005 when, with New Orleans under water, and thousands of people on their rooftops or crowded without food or water into a hot, smelly Superdome (which I noticed, in glancing out the hotel window this weekend, has been renamed, in some sort of obscure irony, "the ...
Ohio Daily Blog - May 8
Today's data underscores a couple of key themes that have been in place for weeks now in the 2012 election cycle: (a) a sharp disparity between the daily tracking polls and other presidential polling; and (b) a disparity between the national presidential polling numbers and polls emanating from key battleground states. That, and a couple of new polls in coin-flip Senate races, highlight to...
DailyKos (Ohio) - May 8
Whatever damage the perceived "softness" of the recovery is doing to Obama's numbers nationally over the weekend, it has not extended to Ohio, a state that contrary to Beltway wisdom about the dreary job prospects of White Working Class Voters (tm) in the manufacturing rust-belt, actually has a jobless rate significantly below the national average. ...
DailyKos (Ohio) - May 8 - 2 clicks
The Josh Mandel Lie/Smear/ Machine is in full operation. With no real legislative record, a newly hired staff filled with unqualified school friends, campaign workers, frat friends, and college buddies, Josh Mandel has nothing to stand on. The Josh Mandel campaign has become unable and unwilling to answer questions about issues, votes, hirings, or anything. Mandel's campaign is willin...
Ohio15th District - May 8
If you live in Brooklyn Heights, Ohio, you might be able to catch a glimpse of our often absent Ohio Treasurer, Josh Mandel. Josh Mandel will be available to the media at Modular Systems Technicians at 5399 Lancaster Road, Brooklyn Heights, Ohio TODAY at 9:30am. You might want to ask him: 1. Why did he refuse to endorse the renewal of VAWA (the Violence Against Women Act)?...
Ohio15th District - May 8 - 2 clicks
Don't look now---- Mitt Romney is hoping that you didn't bookmark/read the opinion piece that he wrote for the New York Times in 2008 that had the following as a headline: "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt." Now Romney wants credit for the recovered American auto industry. HuffingtonPost has all the dirty details: ....Despite his 2008 call to " let Detroit go bankrupt ," presumpti...
Stubbon Liberal - May 8
The Ringling Bros. Circus is once again coming to Columbus this week, May 10th – May 13th, bringing all their cruel practices and abused animals with them. The week starts with chained up elephants walking from the train in Grandview to the Schottenstein Center. Elephants in the wild can walk up to 50 miles per [...]...
PeaceChicken.com - May 7 - 2 clicks
I'm not surprised that Republican Josh Mandel and his surrogates have already started their smear campaign against the champion of the middle class, Sen. Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio. Josh Mandel has filled his Treasurer's office with his buddies, friends from college and high school, and his campaign workers. Now, with his continuing refusal to discuss any issue or respond to any questi...
Ohio15th District - May 7
Republican Mitt Romney spoke in front of a crowd of approximate 300 people today (see Toledo Blade ) in Euclid, Ohio. Seeing as how voters find Romney's campaign as exciting as cement, Romney is going to have to work a lot harder if he wants to turn up enthusiasm among the voters. With his plans to cut off Planned Parenthood, follow Paul Ryan's plan and give vouchers to current Medicare re...
Stubbon Liberal - May 7
How disgusting and disingenuous can Romney's supporters get? Let's ask the Ohio state Auditor Dave Yost, who just introduced Romney at a town hall meeting a short time ago: Ohio State Auditor Dave Yost took a shot at President Barack Obama for claiming credit for the killing of Osama Bin Laden in a rambling introduction of Mitt Romney at a town hall. Yost said Obama claiming credit for the ra...
DailyKos (Ohio) - May 7 - 2 clicks
Dear Mr. Romney: Your welcoming letter to President Obama felt a little sketchy to me. I remember, as I am certain my fellow Ohioans remember, you supporting actions, or in many cases inaction, which would have cost Ohioans their jobs, their homes and their rights. You, Mr. Romney, made it clear that you don't understand how average Ohioans live and support their families. That i...
DailyKos (Ohio) - May 7
I love this----- YouTube We all work with what was given to us. President Barack Obama was given an economic mess by the previous President. With positive job growth, an end to the war in Iraq, and a reborn, thriving American auto industry, President Obama has put the country on the path toward total recovery. When the American middle class is strengthened, we all do better. ...
Ohio15th District - May 7
President and Mrs. Obama were in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday. A woman remarked to me that she like Michelle Obama because she liked shopping at Target, just like she did. People that were able to meet and speak with President and Mrs. Obama said that they were nice, engaging, and polite. On many levels, people can relate to President Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama because of their wo...
Stubbon Liberal - May 6
On Saturday, President Obama spoke before an enthusiastic crowd of 14,000 at the Schottenstein Center on the campus of the Ohio State University. The crowd was made up of students, women, men, and volunteers from across Ohio. Also accompanying the President on the trip was Mrs. Michelle Obama. The President addressed the large rally and reiterated his support for ---- lower interest r...
Ohio15th District - May 6 - 2 clicks
Recent events in northern Ohio underscore the new COINTELPRO assault on activism. On Tuesday, May 1, federal authorities arrested five "anarchists" charging them with conspiracy in trying to bomb property used in interstate commerce, according to the Associated Press (AP)....
Fraudbuster Bob - May 6
Earlier today, I joined thousands of others at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio to hear first lady Michelle Obama and President Obama kick off the 2012 general election. You can read the transcript of their remarks here , but I was able to take some photos at the event and thought you might enjoy them—starting with the lovely and amazing first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama...
DailyKos (Ohio) - May 6
I was at the Obama event today at Ohio State's Schottenstein Arena where he kicked off his 2012 campaign. The theme was "Forward," referring in part to Republican efforts to turn the clock back on everything from from women's reproductive rights, health care, taxes, etc. I like it--also ties in with progressive. About 20,000 people were in the arena to cheer him on and get fired up themselves ...
DailyKos (Ohio) - May 5
ACLU video Viviette Applewhite is 93 years old and has voted in nearly every election for the last 60 years. She marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Georgia. She has tried for years to obtain photo ID to no avail. Under Pennsylvania's new voter ID law, Ms. Applewhite's vote will not be counted. She is a plaintiff in our lawsuit to stop voter ID. Mrs. Applewhite doesn't have a...
DailyKos (Ohio) - May 5 - 2 clicks
Wow, that was one great speech! Trust me on this, just watch it . link to livestream clip [start around 39:00] I'll post the youtube, when it's available. President Obama - 2012-05-05 Rally in Ohio link to youtube clip Many thanks to Diogenes2008 for finding the complete youtube clip. Here's a teaser of what's ahead (if you need a bit more persua...
DailyKos (Ohio) - May 5
Anti-abortion forces suffered a major loss in Ohio yesterday--major enough to merit a repost from yesterday. Religious right activist Janet Porter has spent most of the last two years trying to get the Ohio General Assembly to pass a bill that would make abortion illegal the minute a fetus' heartbeat could be detected--as early as six weeks in some cases, before a woman knows she's pregnan...
DailyKos (Ohio) - May 5
Republicans view Mitt Romney as "malleable," or as the Free Dictionary defines it: "Easily controlled or influenced..." In other words, special interests within the Republican Party think that Romney can be easily influenced. This week, we had an example of "Malleable" Mitt Romney. His adviser that was acknowledged as openly gay, was fired or forced to resign because of pressure exerte...
Stubbon Liberal - May 4
Religious right activist Janet Porter has spent most of the last two years trying to get the Ohio General Assembly to pass a bill that would make abortion illegal the minute a fetus' heartbeat could be detected--as early as six weeks in some cases, before a woman knows she's pregnant. If it passed, it would have effectively outlawed abortion in Ohio. Since the Republicans pretty much...
DailyKos (Ohio) - May 4
GENDA, the Gender Expression Non-discrimination Act, a bill to add gender variance to the list of protected statuses in the New York State Human Rights Law, was approved by the Assembly for the fifth time on Monday, gaining bipartisan support. This is an important and overdue protection of human rights. The experience of transgender individuals, and the discrimination they face, ar...
DailyKos (Ohio) - May 4
Remember: President Barack Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama will be in Columbus, Ohio, at the Schottenstein Center tomorrow, Saturday, May 5th. The Schottenstein Center is on the corner of Lane Avenue and Olentangy River Road, on the campus of The Ohio State University. The doors open at 10:30am . Be there!!!!! You can also watch online starting around noon-12:30pm at: http://www.ba...
Ohio15th District - May 4
Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, was bragging about how he had some lapel pins made in preparation for the Olympics. The pin said, "We Stand United." That is a very nice thought, however, Romney outsourced the production of the pin to China (see Think Progress ). ThinkProgress : . ..Outsourcing has been a latent issue in the campaign, and just yesterday the Obama campaign relea...
Stubbon Liberal - May 3
A rash of new polling out today shows more good news for Mitt Romney than bad news. Quinnipiac has a big improvement for the GOP nominee in the key battleground states of Florida and Ohio, with Romney even moving into an incremental advantage in the Sunshine State. Having said that, though, it still remains awfully difficult to see where, given current numbers, Mitt Romney cobbles together...
DailyKos (Ohio) - May 3
John Kasich conned his constituents last summer when he maneuvered to get his drastic state budget passed at the same time Ohioans were busy working to repeal another extreme initiative - Senate Bill 5. “I just know the reforms in this budget were dramatic reforms that Ohioans hadn’t seen in probably 100 years. So probably people's focus was somewhere else. I think there’s only so much...
Franklin County Democratic Party - May 3 - 3 clicks
Don't forget : President Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama will be in Columbus , Ohio, on Saturday , May 5th at the Schottenstein Center ( Lane and Olentangy River Rd. ). The doors open at 10:30 am , but the program will start either late morning or early afternoon. Tickets are not necessary and the event is free. If you are a college student in central Ohio, be...
Ohio15th District - May 3
After thumbing its nose for a year at public records requests by the Ohio Democratic Party for the resumes of 62 employees hired by treasurer Josh Mandel since his election, his spokesperson has doubled down on duplicity and arrogance. He's claiming the office — which dumped thousands of pages of unrequested records while claiming it had fulfilled the request — doesn't have those particular resum...
Ohio Daily Blog - May 3
Maybe you've started to think about getting back into campaign mode, or maybe you've never been involved in a campaign but you've realized how essential it is to reelect President Obama. Here's a chance for you to plug into the campaign and hear the President live in person — an experience any politically engaged Democratic will long remember. President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will...
Ohio Daily Blog - May 2
I hope that you've heard the good news: President Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama will be in Columbus , Ohio, on Saturday , May 5th at the Schottenstein Center ( Lane and Olentangy River Rd. ). The doors open at 10:30am, but the program will start either late morning or early afternoon. Tickets are not necessary and the event is free. If you've been to one of these rallies, you know...
Ohio15th District - May 2
Republican candidate and continually absent Ohio Treasurer, Josh Mandel, continues to run more ads about boots. Unfortunately, Josh Mandel hasn't talked about what happened after the Marines. What jobs has he held out side of government? How was he able to hire so many friends, fraternity connected people, school buddies, and campaign workers for his office as Ohio Treasurer?&n...
Stubbon Liberal - May 2
The Justice Department has declined to reopen the investigation into the shootings at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, despite a new analysis recently completely of an enhanced copy of the only complete audio recording of the events of that day. According to Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez: "There are insurmountable legal and evidentiary barriers to bringing a second federal case in...
DailyKos (Ohio) - May 2
http://www.advocate.com/politics/marriage-equality/2012/05/0 There's a group called the "Ohio Campaign to Protect Marriage" that's got its undies in a bunch about the fact that attorney general Mike DeWine approved the summary ballot language for Freedom to Marry Ohio to go ahead and start collecting the signatures to place the repeal of the "Defense of Marriage" act and the ap...
Ohio Daily Blog - May 1
Even though the Republicans continue to deny that there is a war on women, the attacks continue. The GOP cannot dispute the reality of their continued efforts to restrict a woman's access to birth control, family planning clinics, mammograms, yearly pap smears, and access to abortion, even if a woman is a victim or incest or rape. Shame on the GOP. Republicans have shown their disdain for ...
Stubbon Liberal - May 1
Democratic Underground had a link to this song performed by the South Florida Raging Grannies. The lyrics and background story are posted at Democratic Underground . Here is the video from YouTube : Great job, ladies! ...
Stubbon Liberal - Apr 30
Mitt Romney and the Republicans hope that you have amnesia and that you won't remember his statement in 2007. Luckily, New York Magazine has the quote from Reuters : During the 2008 campaign, President Obama made clear his willingness to unilaterally go after Al Qaeda in sovereign Pakistani territory if necessary. Obama's opponents, including Hillary Clinton and John McCain , ca...
Stubbon Liberal - Apr 30
In a victory of sorts, WMMS in Cleveland said earlier today that it has taken disciplinary action against morning show co-host Dominic Dieter for his disgusting advice to a father who thought his daughter might be a lesbian: "You should get one of your friends to screw your daughter straight." From the looks of it, Dieter was suspended at least for this morning's edition of "Rover's...
DailyKos (Ohio) - Apr 30
Paul Krugman sums up Mitt Romney's advice to students in the NY Times : ....Let’s start with some advice Mitt Romney gave to college students during an appearance last week. After denouncing President Obama’s “divisiveness,” the candidate told his audience, “Take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business...
Stubbon Liberal - Apr 30
On Friday morning, Dominic Dieter, co-host of "Rover's Morning Glory" on WMMS in Cleveland (and syndicated on at least one other station, WZNE in Rochester, New York), suggested that a man "cure" his daughter of being lesbian by having someone "screw (her) straight." But you wouldn't know about if you got your news from Cleveland's mainstream media. A quick check for any sort of...
DailyKos (Ohio) - Apr 30
>>>>>Mitt Romney was involved in a town hall meeting in March. Romney said the following: Raw Story : Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday told a high school senior not to expect any help from the government for college tuition unless he joined the military. At a town hall-style campaign event in Mahoning Valley, Ohio, a student who was hoping to...
Stubbon Liberal - Apr 29
[This diary may have special significance since Occupy Wall Street broke on the scene last fall. It deals with a similar explosion of struggle, now nearly forgotten, that found hundreds of American campuses occupied, in part or entirely, by rebelling students who were not only protesting but experimenting with new ways of structuring society. I originally posted it at Fire on the Mounta...
DailyKos (Ohio) - Apr 29
By now, many of you have learned that Dominic Dieter, co-host of "Rover's Morning Glory" on WMMS in Cleveland, told a father to have his lesbian daughter raped until she goes straight . We can all agree that Dieter's suggestion is grossly offensive and encourages outright criminal activity. It turns out that Dieter not only may have broken the law himself, but put WMMS' license in i...
DailyKos (Ohio) - Apr 29
No, I'm not exaggerating. As reported by Towleroad , a Cleveland radio personality--Dominic Dieter of WMMS 100.7's show Rover's Morning Glory --told the father of a possibly lesbian girl to have his daughter raped by a man until she's straight. The comment came after he received an e-mail from a father who had found his teenage daughter kissing another girl. Dieter decided to dispense his ad...
DailyKos (Ohio) - Apr 28
Once again Republican Mitt Romney demonstrated his complete ignorance about lives of Americans, and college students. In a speech at a private, expensive, small university, Otterbein, Romney told students that they should ".....borrow money from your parents...." YouTube (Think Progress) What a genius! I'm sure that students never thought of that! With news that the R...
Stubbon Liberal - Apr 27
Candidates and officeholders become the face of the party that they represent. From this platform, they have the opportunity to advance the values of their party through their messages to voters. Each asks for votes and stumps to GOTV. The party base will tend to vote the ticket when they turn out. The 2010 mid-term election demonstrated that the base must be energized, though, and that i...
Franklin County Democratic Party - Apr 27
Last night, long-time City Councilwoman Paulette “Cookie” Morganstern submitted a letter of resignation. The Chagrin Solon Sun just published the news here. Morganstern has served on council for more than 26 years. She cited as the reason for her resignation her intention to spend more time in Arizona, where she and her husband, Stanley, own a [...]...
Writes Like She Talks - Apr 26
Sen. John McCain told American women that the " war on women " was just their imagination. Really? Bloomberg : Ohio lawmakers are considering a budget provision like one that caused five of six Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas to lose funding and, the group says, left poor women without access to preventive health care. Republicans who control the Legislature am...
Stubbon Liberal - Apr 26
As in "Throw's Out". That's right, the Boy Scouts of America are saying "No Gay - No Way" to Cub Scouts' Cruz [Tyrrell] mother Jennifer Tyrrell ( I assume the child's last name ). Their logic is absurd, being that Jennifer Tyrrell ( one of Cruz's parents ) spent a year as an openly known gay Den mother of the Cub Scout's. Young Cub Scout Cruz does not like what is happening a...
DailyKos (Ohio) - Apr 26
Critiques of Rasmussen polling from the left have become something of a time-honored tradition, particularly here at Daily Kos. Today, though, it is not just a matter of them being on an island. It is a matter of them showing two politicians at equal strength in a state where, perhaps unsurprisingly, no other pollster has found them garnering the same level of support since early February....
DailyKos (Ohio) - Apr 25
This is the SMART ALEC who's controlling the GOP: S ecretly shapes public policy in many states where Republican legislators are in the majority. M odels bills that promote pro-business ideology are created by this corporate backed group. A nti-public interest and anti-union views are implied in much of its model legislation. R etains a non-profit status, even thou...
Franklin County Democratic Party - Apr 25
Women in Ohio that are tired of the elected Republicans and their concern for each woman's uterus, should breath a short sigh of relief today. Dispatch : Ohio House Republicans yesterday backed off an effort to block Planned Parenthood from getting federal family-planning funds — at least for the moment..... .....The controversial Planned Parenthood measure would have created a ...
Stubbon Liberal - Apr 25
The Republicans got all excited when they discovered that President Obama admitted that he ate dog as a child while living in Indonesia. This is the GOP way of countering the Mitt Romney dog on the car roof fact. Here is the difference between the two events---- 1. President Obama was a child . 2. Mitt Romney was an adult , husband, and father when he pu...
Stubbon Liberal - Apr 24
At my age, there just are not that many things about which I can say I’m still a virgin. And now, I’ve given it up for TED. So I thought I’d overshare for a bit, given that the sold-out audience was limited to about 700 folks at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium. That [...]...
Writes Like She Talks - Apr 24
"In the 2004 presidential election, Averbeck worked closely with the late Michael Connell, the CEO of New Media Communications. Connell was Karl Rove's IT guru before his untimely death in a suspicious plane crash. As the FreePress.org has previously reported, then-Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell contracted with Averbeck to provide back-up computer services to report Ohio's official e...
Fraudbuster Bob - Apr 22
"The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on." ~Warren Buffett The Buffett Rule, named after American investor Warren Buffett, is simply about everyone paying their fair share in...
Franklin County Democratic Party - Apr 21
I'd like to thank the House of Rasmussen for giving me the catalyst for today's Wrap analysis. They're not the first to exhibit this odd phenomenon, as of late. But theirs might be one of the most clear examples of it. You see, this morning, Rasmussen's daily tracker put Mitt Romney ahead of Barack Obama by a single point. Later in the day, however, they dropped a new poll in Ohio showing ...
DailyKos (Ohio) - Apr 20
Perhaps you've heard of this law moving through the Tennessee legislature which specifically bans teachers from telling their students that yes, homosexuality exists in nature, and that includes (OMG!!!!) in human beings. You haven't heard about it? Well let the good people at LGBTQ Nation explain what the Republican controlled legislature in Tennessee is spending wasting its val...
DailyKos (Ohio) - Apr 20
It’s happened again. For roughly the fifth time in the three decades that we’ve been at our current Clintonville address, a young couple buys or rents and moves in. Sometimes newlyweds, sometimes they've just moved to Columbus. They fix up the house, do yardwork, and so forth (one couple put in chickens). Within a year or two, a baby arrives. Sometimes there are more babies in following years. ...
Franklin County Democratic Party - Apr 20 - 2 clicks
Another day, another serving of conflicting data on the presidential election. Having a double-digit point spread between presidential polls has been the norm, as of late, so today's offerings won't disappoint. While there are some interesting bits of data downballot, it was a demographic approach to the question of the balance of power in November that merits the most attention today. T...
DailyKos (Ohio) - Apr 19
It was difficult for me to focus on this evening’s work session in City Council because less than an hour before the meeting began, I learned that Juvenile Court Judge Peter Sikora had died earlier in the day. You can read what has been posted so far here. I moved to Cleveland for graduate school [...]...
Writes Like She Talks - Apr 18
By Marc Erich Wolf, Edited by Jim Luce Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Chrisanne Gordon is building a new army to fight a new war – and that is the war on Traumatic Brain Injury ( TBI ) which hundreds of thousands of U.S. Veterans and hundreds of thousands of more global soldiers are grappling with. She started by producing a documentary film – and continues through her new non-profit, Re...
DailyKos (Ohio) - Apr 18
Bob interviews Jim Miller, Executive Director of Brave New Foundation, producers of “The Koch Brothers Exposed” movie and Robert Krane of the local Occupy Columbus. Listen and call in this Wednesday, April 18 7 - 8 PM Call 877-932-9766...
Fraudbuster Bob - Apr 18
