SOS candidates duke it out on web sites
With a full slate of competitive statewide races, the candidates for Secretary of State have a difficult task attracting media attention. So both major party candidates have gotten creative, setting up Internet web sites to trash their respective opponents.
The Ohio Democratic Party recently activated this web site: www.truthaboutgreghartmann.com targeting the Republican running against Jennifer Brunner.
Not to be outdone, Hamilton County Clerk of Courts Greg Hartmann set up an opposition web site of his own: www.BrunnerBlunders.com, which he's plugging during a news conference in Cincinnati on Tuesday.
Hamilton County Simon Leis Jr. planned to join Hartmann at Hamilton County GOP headquarters, where they'll also discuss identity theft.
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GOP Candidate Says Blackwell Has “done damage” To Ohio Elections
Columbus, Ohio – The Republican candidate for Secretary of State finally admitted the truth about Ken Blackwell this week: he’s severely damaged Ohioans’ faith in their elections process.
According to the Columbus Dispatch this week, “Both [Greg Hartmann] and [Jennifer] Brunner have said their primary goal is to restore voter confidence in Ohio’s election system.”
“Ohio’s race for Secretary of State has come down to who can best undo the damage caused by Ken Blackwell,” said Strickland for Governor spokesman Keith Dailey. “If you can’t trust Mr. Blackwell to run our election system, how can you trust him to run our state?”
Hartmann told the Cleveland Plain Dealer yesterday that Ken Blackwell’s role as Ohio Chairman of President Bush’s campaign in 2004 and his operation of the Secretary of State’s office in a partisan manner has weakened Ohioans’ faith in their government.
After months of skirting around Blackwell’s inappropriate conduct as Secretary of State, GOP candidate Greg Hartmann told the Plain Dealer he wants to “remove partisanship from this office. That’s not the kind of impression we want for the voters, and I think Ken made a mistake on that in ’04, and I think that has done some damage to the impression of the system.”
Beyond Blackwell’s overt partisanship, Hartmann also questioned Blackwell’s competence as a manager in comments to the Plain Dealer. “Running the elections in Ohio is a huge management issue,” he said. “We have got to do a better job from the Secretary of State’s perspective in making sure the counties are on the straight and narrow in terms of poll worker training.”
Greg Hartmann on Ken Blackwell’s Record:
“‘I'm not going to chair any campaigns’...He worries about the conflict of interest of the dual roles…”—Cleveland Plain Dealer, 7/8/06
“It was a mistake…I recall thinking at the time it was a mistake.”—On Ken Blackwell’s role as chairman of George Bush’s Ohio Campaign. Youngstown Vindicator, 9/21/06.
"I think Ken Blackwell made a mistake in 2004, and I’m not afraid to say so.”--Columbus Dispatch, 9/27/06.
“What happened in Cuyahoga County, there’s a lot of blame to pass around, but some of that lies in the Secretary of State’s office. We’ve got to restore confidence in the system.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer, 9/27/06
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HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2006 !
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