DeWine gets Bush, Giuliani, McCain aid
Sen. Mike DeWine’s re-election campaign is getting some more help from President Bush, who already headlined a fundraiser for the Cedarville Republican at an Indian Hill home Feb. 23.This time, the president will hold court at a private home in Powell, Ohio. The June 30 dinner reception costs $2,100 to attend and $10,000 to take a photo with Bush.
Soon thereafter, DeWine will host former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani at a fundraiser in Cleveland. The July 10 event costs $1,000 to attend and $1,500 for a photo with the courageous former mayor and possible 2008 presidential candidate.
DeWine already hosted Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., another possible 2008 presidential candidate, at a June 11 fundraiser that cost between $1,000 and $2,100 to attend.
DeWine spokesman Brian Seitchik declined to say how much money was raised at the McCain event.
DeWine faces Democratic Rep. Sherrod Brown of northern Ohio in the November election.
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Post a Comment*From Malia Rulon's dispatch:
"This time, the president will hold court at a private home in ....etc"
Very well said. George the Second's visits are very much like "holding court," aren't they?
I hope the Enquirer is somehow able to get one of the courtiers attending to report on events for the rest of us.
How is it that in the last 230 years we've managed to regress from overthrowing the rule of George III only to wind up with George II?
..."Guiliani...courageous former mayor"?
How about " philandering former mayor" or "Pro-choice/pro-abortion former mayor"?
"These will be private events. The campaign won't be trotting any of these people in front of the public."
So where is the snappy little comment about Bush's visit being private? I'm sure that Ohio is split on its opinion of Hillary Clinton, but I have a feeling that Bush is probably polling a little bit worse than she is right now. Why doesn't DeWine take Bush out in public with him?
This just published on Saturday, June 24, 2006 by the Los Angeles Times
"Big Brother" Bush and Connecting the Data Dots
The Total Information Awareness program was killed in 2003, but its spawn present bigger threats to privacy.
by Jonathan Turley
The Disclosure this week of a secret databank operation tracking international financial transactions has caused renewed concerns about civil liberties in the United States. But this program is just the latest in a series of secret surveillance programs, databanks and domestic operations justified as part of the war on terror.
Disclosed individually over the course of the last year, they have become almost routine. Yet, when considered collectively, they present a far more troubling picture, and one that should be vaguely familiar.
Civil liberty-minded citizens may recall the president's plan to create the Total Information Awareness program, a massive databank with the ability to follow citizens in real time by their check-card purchases, bank transactions, medical bills and other electronic means. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, was assigned this task, but after its work was made public, Congress put a stop to it in September 2003 as a danger to privacy and civil liberties.
However, when Congress disbanded the Total Information Awareness program, it did not prohibit further research on such databanks, or even the use of individual databanks.
And, according to a recent study by the National Journal, the Bush administration used that loophole to break the program into smaller parts, transferring some parts to the National Security Agency, classifying the work and renaming parts of it as the Research Development and Experimental Collaboration program.
It was long suspected that Total Information Awareness survived, and the disclosure this week of another massive databank operation has only reinforced that fear. The spawn of DARPA seem to be turning up in secret programs spread throughout agencies.
The administration learned that it could not create a network of databanks in one comprehensive system, but it could achieve the same results by creating smaller systems that could be easily daisy-chained at a later date into the same kind of massive computer bank that Congress thought it had shut down. It is DARPA, albeit with assembly required for the ultimate user.
Consider some of the recent disclosures:
• A domestic surveillance program operated without warrants involving thousands of calls that are isolated by computers at the NSA.
• A massive databank that contains information on hundreds of millions of telephone calls of Americans that is described as the world's largest database.
• Access to information in a massive databank that carries 12.7 million messages each day on international financial transactions.
• Use of massive private databanks with access to an array of information on citizens, including at least 199 data-mining projects.
• Quiet support for a national registered-traveler program in which citizens voluntarily submit private information and subject themselves to background checks for faster passage through airport security. (The information would then be housed in a computer system accessible to the government.)
These computer databanks and programs are technically separate but collectively could exceed the dimensions of the DARPA program killed in 2003. Most of these systems have certain common characteristics, including the absence of congressional approval. Indeed, the recently disclosed financial transaction program was created by the Bush administration as an emergency program, but it has continued for years.
Although the administration has refused to involve the courts in such programs, it actually contracted out the role of oversight — according to the New York Times, it hired a private auditing firm to make sure that the monitoring of financial transactions was not being misused. Such outsourcing of civil liberty protections is hardly what the framers foresaw when they created a system of checks and balances.
Most of these programs are designed to look for suspicious conduct from everyday transactions. By combining information, the government uses "link analysis" to find something suspicious among otherwise innocent-looking transactions. It also is a technique that necessarily exposes innocent citizens to constant forms of surveillance or monitoring — the very danger of DARPA's Total Information Awareness program that Congress wanted to avoid.
It now appears that the administration has achieved by stealth what it could not achieve by persuasion in Congress: the creation of a computer network that could follow millions of citizens to reveal their movements and transactions.
It is all part of this administration's insatiable desire for information. With regard to its own conduct and information, the administration has fought against the notion of transparency — from refusing to disclose meetings with lobbyists, to denying Congress information needed for oversight, to threatening journalists with prosecution for revealing secret programs such as the NSA domestic surveillance program.
Yet, when it comes to citizens, the administration demands total transparency to allow it to monitor everyday transactions and conduct.
It is perhaps the greatest danger that can face a free society: a government cloaked in secrecy with total information on its citizens.
For most of our history, one of the greatest protections for civil liberties has been the practical inability of the government to surveil a large number of citizens at one time. In the last couple of decades, those technological barriers have fallen away.
In the meantime, the Supreme Court has removed legal barriers to the government's acquisition of personal information by allowing it to obtain the records of banks, telephone companies and other businesses without a warrant. This combination of legal and technological changes has laid the foundation for a fishbowl society in which citizens can be objects of continual surveillance.
Americans have long been defined by our privacy values. We have fiercely defended what Justice Louis Brandeis called "our right to be left alone." It is only in the assurance of privacy that free thoughts and free exercise of rights can be truly exercised. Such privacy evaporates with doubt; it is why the Constitution seeks to avoid the chilling effect of uncertainty in government searches and seizures.
Yet, the problem has been that these programs have been revealed and analyzed in isolation. Each insular program has been defended in insular terms. It is just domestic telephone numbers or just international transactions. Citizens have become accustomed to a steady stream of secret programs and new forms of government monitoring. It is something that our fiercely independent ancestors would have never imagined.
Privacy is dying in America — not with a fight but a yawn.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor at George Washington University.
© 2006 Los Angeles Times
I told you George II is upholding that deal daddy made while puking at the dinner table !
Antidote, Please. My country for my life !
I swear to you on my sons life !!
CHENEY - SATAN 2008
"Courageous" is over the line. It is not an objectively factual statement. It's not like he put on a helmet and ran into the ruins of the towers himself, to rescue a few undocumented Dominican cleaning ladies. You could have gotten away with "resolute" or "resilient", since he did go to a lot of funerals, or not pushed your luck and gone with "popular".
Weiser--Malia Rulon actually reported on a real issue today. Are you going to repimand her?
Doesn't she know from your days with the DC-bureau that coverage of politics is only supposed to be about money raised and oddsmaking, as oppossed to reporting on canddiates' stands on issues?
I'm much more interested in the numbers of a recent Zogby poll which shows DeWine trailing Brown 34 - 46 percent. While I would have much preferred Hackett, it appears many Ohioans are beginning to realize the country and the state are headed in the wrong direction.
The same poll shows Blackwell trailing Strickland 44 - 49 percent, MOE +/- 3.6 points.
Good point, Lincoln Kennedy...
Rudey Giuliani is the most overrated mayor ever. Getting rich off the backs of NYers and Homeland Security along with his womanizer buddy Bernie Kerik who used 9-11 donations for his West Side loveshack. Read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Kerik#Nomination_as_Secretary_of_Homeland_Security
Remember what Rudey was doing the month after 9-11? He and his homewrecking second wife were given front row Yankees box seats at the World Series as rescue crews continued to dig round-the-clock through Ground Zero rubble.
This event is supposed to raise $2 million, one million going to DeWine and the rest to the Ohio Republican Party. This is not just a small yuppity fundraiser, it's the largest event that will be held this year. I'd like to see Dems be able to raise $1 million for Brown while being able to put another in the bank for the ODP. They couldn't do it because their party is just that pitiful.
Running a flip flopping, non-church going "Minister" for Governer. Running a man who has been reprimanded by the Supreme Court and had ethics violations for Attorney General. A no name, no action and definitely no real plan appointed Judge for Secretary of State (that can't raise money). And we all know Mary Taylor will win the Auditor's race.
Democrats must be foolish to think the environment is really that bad for Republicans. They get all high and mighty on these stupid blogs that the same people write on and think they're going to take over Ohio. The only way you're going to take over Ohio and this nation is to present real ideas, that reach mainstream America, and stop going negative on whatever the opposing party thinks. You can't win elections by saying the other side is bad when they have a clear agenda set forward. I suggest Democrats get one soon enough.
Another wRong wing nut that doesn't know schmidt !
If you think that this nation is all about money you need to look to Florida and Harris !
Harris lost because AMERICANS are sick of being sick and tired of the culture of corruption.
The wRong wing in Ohio must think since they were caught stealing elections, now they can just buy it !
NOT !
wRong wing nuts say good bye to your robber barren days, the citizens are rising up and this November there will be a voter revolution and your coke head misleader will face reality.
Your same Ol' rhetoric is fruitless !
Your money focus has resulted in the selling of your soul !
Burn in Hell Satan !
Start hanging with that southgate, michigan bush pioneer who has the right answer for the wRong wing nuts !
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