Sorry, Charlie! ... Luken loses race he wasn't running in
From left, Democratic congressional candidate Charlie Wilson, Charlie the Tuna, and former Cincinnati Mayor Charlie Luken. (Photo credits: Ohio Senate, Starkist Tuna, Cincinnati Enquirer)In the Ohio 6th Congressional District, a petition snafu forced Democrat Charlie Wilson to mount a write-in campaign in last week's primary. Wilson got 66.4 percent of the vote -- nothing short of astounding for a write-in candidate. But apparently, some voters had trouble with the name.
According to a story in the semiweekly Athens News, former Cincinnati Mayor Charlie Luken inexplicably received a handful of votes, coming in behind an unknown Charlie Smith in the write-in balloting. Alas, because Luken did not declare his eligibility as a write-in candidate, the votes were not included in the official count.
"While I was at first advised that I finished third, a recount confirms that I really finished fourth behind my old nemesis, Charlie the Tuna," quipped Luken, now an attorney and lobbyist who splits his time between Columbus and Cincinnati. "How embarrassing!"
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at 5:41 PM, May 08, 2006 
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Post a Comment*Say what you want about Luken's tenure as mayor, he is one funny sob sometimes. I loved it when he said Wallmart could track a pair of socks better that the railroad could track a tanker full of styrene.
Speaking of the styrene tanker mess, Charlie Luken and city officials were fully involved in trying to get it settled, but Schmidt attempted to take credit for solving the problem. Did she really do anything in this regard?
Why didn't Bob McEwen run in that district rather than the 2nd? I don't get it. Isn't that more the region he used to represent?
Charlie Luken or Charlie the Tuna is preferable to the stiff who's actually running for the democRATS! Charlie Wilson is so incompetent he couldn't even manage to get his name on the primary ballot. He had to run as a write-in candidate when he was the frontrunner in the primary race! Voters are not going to send this clueless clown to Congress in November.
Bob McEwen's old district [before he lost to Strickland, anyway] will represent a pickup in the House for the Republicans. Why didn't Bob wait and run for this seat? It's basically the same district he represented in Congress, isn't it? [Yes, I realize the Ohio legislature re-districted all of the congressional districts after the 2000 census.] Maybe some of the leftover McEwen diehards on this blog could answer that one.
Also getting votes: Charlie Taft, Charlie Winburn, Charie Chaplin, Charlie Hustle, Charlie Sheen, Charlie Rose, Charlie Parker, Charlie's Angels, the Charlie Daniels Band, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and an eponymous perfume sold by Revlon in drug stores in 1977.
Jessica Simpson would be a better reporter than you guys! Don't worry about giving any real coverage of elections or anything.
The only thing you cover well is Phil Heimlichs ass.
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