Bush boosts Blackwell
President Bush may not be riding high in the polls, but he can still sell tickets to Republican fundraisers like the Dixie Chicks can sell CDs.
So little wonder that Ken Blackwell's gubernatorial campaign was anxious to have the president in Ohio - not for a big public rally, but for a private fundraising event.
Looks like they've gotten their wish. Bush comes to the Cleveland suburb of Kirtland Hills on Aug. 2 for a pricey Blackwell fundraiser at a private.
It will cost $1,000 to get in the door ($1,500 per couple) and $10,000 will buy a photo with the president - and not one of those cardboard cut-outs, either. The real thing. Only 10 grand. No line-jumping, please.
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Buckwheat blackwell expects taxpayers to finance his campaign. Asks for a free ride !!
Candidate pushing plan to lease Turnpike rode it for free
JULIE CARR SMYTH
Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio - On a trip last week promoting the moneymaking potential of the Ohio Turnpike, gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell paid no tolls.
The State Highway Patrol, which drove Blackwell on the two-city tour July 6, asked for and got permission to travel the road for free, Turnpike records show. Two staffers who accompanied Blackwell in their own vehicles paid the $3.70 it cost to ride from Cleveland to Toledo.
Blackwell, the Republican secretary of state, has proposed leasing the 241-mile toll road, which he says will raise $4 billion to $6 billion he pledges to pour into a fund to promote economic development.
The request for "nonrevenue status" along the toll road came from the Highway Patrol, state documents show. Blackwell campaign spokesman Carlo LoParo said the campaign had no control over the transaction.
"The Highway Patrol is the Turnpike police force. They ride on the Turnpike gratis," LoParo said. "Their activities are not known by the campaign, and there is no reimbursement mechanism that I know of by which we could have reimbursed them for that toll. We let the Highway Patrol do their job, don't ask questions and try not to get in their way."
Lt. Rick Zwayer, a spokesman for the patrol, confirmed that Blackwell was transported by the Columbus-based Executive Protection Unit that day. He said the nonrevenue status was required for security purposes.
Gary Cawley, a Turnpike superintendent of toll operations in the vicinity of the Blackwell events, said the status allows troopers not assigned to Turnpike duties more leeway for such movements as entries, exits and allowable U-turns.
U.S. Rep. Ted Strickland, Blackwell's Democratic rival in the governor's race, called the act small but revealing.
"All the other citizens that drove the Turnpike that day - I assume, except for under these very circumspect conditions - paid their toll," he said. "I think little things reflect whether we consider ourselves to be in a special class or maybe have some kind of elite status."
LoParo said the Turnpike is a bloated bureaucracy with a history of corruption, and accused Turnpike officials of alerting media about Blackwell's toll-free trip.
Turnpike Executive Director Gary Suhadolnik wrote Blackwell an angry letter on the day of his event warning against future use of the roadway for campaign events.
"The Toll Plazas are utilized by authorized Commission personnel for administrative purposes exclusively, not for the purpose of engaging in public debate," wrote Suhadolnik, a Strongsville Republican who spent 18 years in the state Senate.
i like oreos dipped in a cold glass of milk. you can dunk them or you can twist them and lick the creamy white center. OREO OREO OREO OREO OREO OREO, I like oreo cookies, on the turnpike, with a glass of cold milk, and an entourage (sic?), all paid for by taxpayers, mmmmm....
If you take a chunk of dark chocolate and mix it with cold, cold pure white milk, it no longer is darkee anymore !!
Don't poor it over your morning buckwheat though, it will turn sour and make you sick with diarrhea !!
Do not feed it to the elephants or it will end up being used as printing ink for the fishwrap !!
I hope Nate Livingston and Joy Holland read this blog and see how racist the democrats are. They love the black population until they won't do what they want, and then they have even worse views on the race than most republicans. They should be ashamed to call themselves democrats. They also support a methodist minister from south eastern Ohio. Has anybody ever been to south eastern Ohio? It's like the states of kentucky and indiana thrown into a mountainous coal mining world. Racism spreads rampant as does poverty, but do you really think poverty will trump the latter? Doubtful.
How about Ohio's he(L)p come from a man who has ideas and a clear plan for Ohio than a (L)ying (L)iberal hillbilly from the outlying hills of West Virginia.
How about Ohio's he(L)p come from a man who has ideas and a clear plan for Ohio than a (L)ying (L)iberal hillbilly from the outlying hills of West Virginia.
What ??
Does anyone know what the wRong wing wacko is trying to say ??
The dems on this blog emulate the republican positions to demonstrate the wRong wing nuts as:
HYPOCRITES !!
Sounds like you felt right at home !!
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