Republicans take a hike on Ken
Here's why Ohio Republican Party leaders go to such great lengths to avoid contested primaries for statewide offices, as they tried to do this spring with Ken Blackwell and Jim Petro:
Because they end up with organizations like "Republicans for Strickland.''
Ted Strickland's gubernatorial campaign will get a boost this afternoon from a group of Republicans from around the state who have decided Blackwell's hard-right politics is not to their taste.
At a Statehouse press conference this afternoon, they'll pledge their loyalty to the Democratic candidate for governor.
One of the best-known among them will be Rocky Saxbe, a high-powered Columbus lawyer and former state representative whose father, William Saxbe, was a U.S. senator from Ohio and Nixon's fourth and final attorney general.
The only Cincinnati area Republican we know of who has signed on the Strickland campaign is former Mason mayor Betty Davis.
Saxbe, who ran for Ohio attorney general in 1982 and losst, backed Petro in the primary (Petro, as a young lawyer, once worked for the elder Saxbe) .
Strickland campaign spokesman Keith Dailey says the campaign has recruited about 130 registered Republicans from around the state to spread the word to their fellow republicans.
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Post a Comment*Probably just a bunch of RINOS !!
It's because Strickland is a Republican. He supports King Coal and is raising more corporate money than Jim Crow Blackwell. Blackwell still has a chance of winning given his conflict of interest in overseeing his own election as secretary of state.
Blackwell's proven his ability to manipulate elections for his partisan slant.
It's because Strickland is a Republican. He supports King Coal and is raising more corporate money than Jim Crow Blackwell. Blackwell still has a chance of winning given his conflict of interest in overseeing his own election as secretary of state.
Blackwell's proven his ability to manipulate elections for his partisan slant.
"CLEVELAND - Television host and political activist Jeff Johnson has spent much of his career supporting Democrats.
But the Ohio native on Wednesday said he's endorsing Republican Ken Blackwell in the state's governor's race over Democrat Ted Strickland, and he's encouraging other black voters to do the same.
The secretary of state's education and economic plans and his track record of hiring minorities for key positions were deciding factors, Johnson said in an interview.
"I was going about my way as I normally would as a soldier for the left prepared to support Strickland but did not get from the campaign from an agenda standpoint what I needed to be able to do that," he said.
Strickland said Johnson, who no longer lives in Ohio, may not know Blackwell well enough. He pointed out the many Ohio black leaders such as Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson who have been critical of the Republican.
"The people who really know him and know his history in Ohio and know the positions he has taken don't seem willing to support him," Strickland said in an interview.
Johnson, who grew up in Cleveland and attended college in Toledo, said he had a two-hour discussion with Blackwell and did other research.
Johnson appears weekly on Black Entertainment Television's "Rap City," where he offers social commentary. He also stars in the cable network's show "The Jeff Johnson Chronicles," which profiles issues ranging from politics to building wealth in the black community.
He spent 2004 campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, has worked as a senior adviser for People for the American Way and as national youth adviser for the NAACP."
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/8/31/173851/873
The political corruption in Ohio is so pervasive that these guys just stroll across the aisle, high five the guy who's polling better and settle into their new life as Democrat cronies. Seriously, look at the background on these Republicans suddenly turning for Strickland, some shady mofos.
If Strickland's idea of "Turn Around Ohio" is to do a 360, then this must be what it looks like.
Screw both these crooks, I'm backing the only non-politician in this race: Bill Peirce.
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Ohio is being governed by a convicted criminal, Governor Bob Taft, with Congressman Robert Ney, key GOP fundraiser Tom Noe, and others under criminal investigation. Meanwhile, George Bush and the far-right GOP juggernaut stole the 2004 election in Ohio, while the Democratic Party proved itself incapable of mounting significant resistance.
The Democrats' "investigation," entitled "Democracy at Risk: The 2004 Election in Ohio," could well have been produced by a high school class in elementary polling. It consists almost entirely of post-election phone interviews. It says nothing about the devastating discrepancies between exit polls and the highly improbable and virtually impossible vote total that gave George W. Bush a second term. It makes no case about precinct-by-precinct illegalities including unguarded ballots, election machine tampering, an unexplained bogus Homeland Security alert, the firing of whistle-blowing election board officials, and much more.
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I wear a wooly mammoth tie, because the old elephants just don't exist. A sense of honor is a huge part of the Republican values with which I was reared. Honor in personal accountability. Honor in earning my way in the world.
There is no honor in cheating. There is no honor in pork hand-outs. There is no honor in treating the public purse like a Santa bag for oil drunk corporations, lobbyist, and their pet politicians.
People are dying in Iraq, not for freedom or for honor. Many more will die in Iran and Afghanistan if Bush and Cheney arer allowed to continue their ruinous course. Blackwell gives them whatever they want. He lacks the integrity, the honor, the conservatism to serve as a Republican.
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