Blackwell at Enquirer Editorial Board
Howard Wilkinson reports:
Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell defended himself against Democratic charges that he has been too political in his role as Ohio’s chief election officer in a meeting Tuesday with the Enquirer’s editorial board.
And the Ohio secretary of state said he doesn’t believe a report in investigative reporter Bob Woodward’s new book quoting President Bush as calling him “a nut.’’
Some Democrats were critical of Blackwell after the 2004 presidential election, saying he tried to suppress voter turnout, which they say cost John Kerry the presidential election. Ohio’s small margin for George W. Bush ended up putting him over the top.
“I’m an independent operator when it comes to doing my job,’’ Blackwell told the editorial board. “I’ve ticked off people on both sides.’’
Democratic complaints about his acting as Bush’s 2004 campaign chairman in Ohio while acting as chief elections officer are unfounded, Blackwell said, saying that three of his predecessors as secretary of state – Republican Bob Taft and Democrats Anthony Celebrezze and Sherrod Brown – also took leadership roles in their party’s presidential campaigns.
In Woodward’s new book, “State of Denial,’’ Woodward quotes a frustrated President Bush on election night 2004 as he awaits results form Ohio, calling Blackwell “a nut.’’
“I don’t believe it,’’ Blackwell said. “Why would anyone think he did say that? I’ve known him half of my adult life.’’
Blackwell was interviewed by the editorial board for the purpose of issuing its endorsement in the governor’s race. Democrat Ted Strickland is scheduled to speak to the editorial board on Oct. 18.
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Post a Comment*The Enquirer's going to look pretty stupid when they're the only paper in the state to endorse that Nut Kenny "Three Parties, No Conviction" Blackwell.
He cant' be serious! He reminds me of Richard Nixon saying "I am not a crook".
Funny, the Neocons were gung ho about Woodward in his previous 2 books but now his reporting of facts just doesn't sound as good, they attempt to discredit him.
Blackwell was used by the Bush Administration just like they used Katherine Harris and Colin Powell. Sorry Ken, there is no honor among thieves.
Looks like the Republican's days are numbered. Bush is in the low 30's, 79% of folks think the GOP attempted to cover-up the Foley Scandal and here in Ohio:
A random sample of voters in Connecticut, New Mexico, Ohio and Pennsylvania strongly express a preference for candidates who oppose policies that President Bush has sought in the name of fighting terrorism:
* Extraordinary rendition: Seven in ten would vote for a candidate who opposes "allowing government agents to capture people in foreign countries and secretly fly them to other countries, and then torture them to gather information about terrorism," over a candidate who supports it;
* Torture: More than two-thirds would vote for a candidate who opposes "the government torturing prisoners to gather information about terrorism," over a candidate who supports it;
* Military tribunals: Six in ten would vote for a candidate who opposes "putting detainees at Guantanamo military base on trial in military tribunals at which the suspects are NOT allowed to see all of the evidence against them and the government could use hearsay evidence obtained during the interrogation of other terrorist suspects" over a candidate who supports this; and
* Holding detainees without charges: Six in ten would vote for a candidate who opposes "the government holding detainees at Guantanamo military base as it has for the past five years without charging them with a crime or without access to a lawyer," over a candidate who supports this.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nellie-b/more-bad-news-for-santoru_b_31390.html
Ken Blackwell fought until the eleventh hour to disqualify provisional ballots that were cast in the wrong precinct. In Hamilton County 500 people who voted in the correct polling location but the wrong precinct had their ballots not counted. That is right, inadequately trained poll workers, long lines and crowded multiprecinct urban polling locations resulted in a very predictable cluster of disqualified provisional ballots.
Ken Blackwell is no heir to the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, Judge Nathaniel Jones or Martin Luther King.
Nearly three percent of all voters in Ohio were forced to vote provisionally -- and more than 35,000 of their ballots were ultimately rejected.
Interestingly enough, in the primary just months earlier Blackwell had no problem counting provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct when it was democrats voting for democrats and republicans voting for republicans.
Three Ohio newspapers endorse Strickland
Two other Ohio newspapers on Sunday endorsed Democrat Ted Strickland for governor, saying that while his campaign has been a bit passive, Republican Ken Blackwell is pushing ideas that are alarming.
The Columbus Dispatch and The (Toledo) Blade published editorials throwing support to Strickland, a U.S. congressman from Lisbon, over Blackwell, Ohio's secretary of state. The Plain Dealer also endorsed Strickland on Sunday.
The newspapers were critical of Blackwell's ideas to slash spending and taxes and privatize government entities such as the Ohio Turnpike, but they also assailed Strickland for a lack of vision.
The Dispatch said Strickland is better equipped to lead Ohio forward, bringing qualities of common sense and moderation to a state gripped by partisanship. The election is Nov. 7.
"Blackwell has proclaimed that he is the candidate of bold ideas. That's true. But his ideas alarm a significant portion of the electorate, including many in his own party. Boldness is not the test of leadership; sound judgment is," The Dispatch wrote.
The Blade said the state has failed to improve after 12 years of GOP rule marked by poor performance and scandal.
"there's no difference between a white snake and a black snake; they'll both bite." - Thurgood Marshall 6/28/91
Blackwell can run, but he can't hide
http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/AMENDEDCOMPLAINTagainstalldefendants.pdf
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
1. This is a civil rights action in which named Plaintiffs Willis
Brown, Paul Gregory, Miles Curtiss, Matthew Segal, HarveyWasserman, and Gloria
Kilgore, on behalf of themselves and a class of similarly situated individuals, and King
Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood Association, Ohio Voter Rights Alliance For
Democracy, the League of Young Voters/Columbus, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, and the
Columbus Coalition for the Homeless seek relief for Defendants’ violation of their
rights, privileges, and immunities secured by the Civil Rights Act of 1870 and 1871, 42
U.S.C. § 1983, 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3); The Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C § 1971(a)
& (b); Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C. § 1973(a); 42 U.S.C. §
1988a; the First, Fourth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Nineteenth and Twenty-Sixth
Amendments to the United States Constitution; Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,
42 U.S.C. § 2000d; and the Constitution and laws of the State of Ohio arising out of the
conduct of Ohio’s Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell and other named and
unnamed Defendants in connection with the November 2, 2004 presidential and
subsequent elections.
2. Specifically, on information and belief, Defendant Blackwell and
those acting in concert with him under the color of law, including but not limited to the
Ohio Republican Party; Robert T. Bennett, Chair, Cuyahoga County Board of Elections
and State Chair, Republican State Central and Executive Committee of Ohio; Matthew
M. Damschroder, Director, Franklin County Board of Elections; Samuel Hogsett,
Technician for Election Systems & Software; and Daniel Bare, former Director,
Clermont County Board of Elections, have conspired to deprive Plaintiffs of their right
to vote and have, in fact, deprived Plaintiffs of their right to vote by undermining the
bipartisan supervision of elections prescribed by Ohio law and avoiding any election
audit so as to permit the following: fraudulent votes to be cast for George W. Bush
(“Bush”) (“election fraud”); the double-counting of absentee ballots (“vote dilution”);
the suppression and/or spoiling of votes in areas that tended to vote for John Kerry
(“Kerry”) and the inflating of vote tabulations in areas that tended to vote for George
Bush (“vote suppression”); the failing to follow Ohio’s law for the proper recount of
votes (“recount fraud”); and other violations of federal and state laws.
3. The election fraud, vote dilution, vote suppression, recount fraud,
and other violations included, but were not limited to, public election officials and
private contractors who conspired with, worked together with, obtained significant aid
from, or whose conduct is otherwise chargeable to some or all the Defendants. Upon
information and belief, the Defendants engaged in, directed others to engage in, and/or
neglected to ensure the proper procedures were in place and followed so that public
election officials and private contractors committed the following acts:
A. Arranged for the use of tens of thousands ballots in high-performance
Democratic precincts that were prepunched for a third-party presidential
candidate so as to create an overvote and disqualification of such vote
when cast for Kerry.
B. Substituted blank ballots or fabricated ballots showing a vote for Bush
for ballots cast by legitimate voters for Kerry.
C. Adjusted vote tabulating machines to tabulate votes cast for Kerry as
votes cast for Bush.
D. Tabulated tens of thousands ballots cast in one precinct for Kerry as
if they were ballots cast in another precinct where, through ballot rotation
in the sequence of the presidential candidates, such votes would be
counted as having been cast for Nader, Peroutka, Badnarik, or for Bush.
E. Directed or executed the withholding of unused ballots in response to
public records requests and/or directed or executed the destruction of
unused ballots from the 2004 election in violation of federal law for the
purpose of concealing evidence of vote tampering.
F. Directed or executed breaks in the bipartisan chain of custody of the
2004 ballots in violation of Ohio law and/or directed or permitted
tampering with ballots by marking ballots on which the voter did not cast
a vote for president with a mark for Bush or by marking ballots in which
the voter cast a vote for Kerry with a vote for another presidential
candidate.
G. Directed or engaged in other illegal practices for the purpose of
recording fraudulent votes for Bush for president and/or discarding votes
for Kerry for president, including, but not limited to, the "remaking" of
ballots as cast by the voter with substitute ballots and adjusting the
substitute ballots to increase the count of votes for Bush and decrease the
number of votes for Kerry.
H. Directed or engaged in the illegal practice of selective counting
absentee ballots twice for partisan advantage.
4. The actions and inactions described above and detailed below were
undertaken pursuant to an ongoing conspiracy among some or all of the Defendants to
disenfranchise and intimidate voters in the class represented by the Plaintiffs and to
dilute their vote.
5. The actions and inactions described above and detailed below
reveal a recurring pattern of voter disenfranchisement and intimidation and vote dilution
directed at the class represented by the Plaintiffs.
6. The actions and inactions described above and detailed below were
taken pursuant to a scheme to deprive the Plaintiffs of fair and honest government and
did deprive the Plaintiffs of fair and honest government.
7. The actions and inactions described above and detailed below have
the direct and proximate effect of depriving the Plaintiffs of their voting rights, including
the right to have their votes successfully cast without intimidation, dilution, cancellation
or reversal by voting machine or ballot tampering, to produce reported results for a
presidential race opposite to that determined by the voters and to continue to produce
dishonest and/or unreliable results in other elections, including the important upcoming
November 7, 2006 election, in which contested races will determine the composition of
Ohio’s apportionment board and Ohio’s congressional representatives.
Sometimes you feel like a nut...
Sometimes you don't!
Democratic complaints about his acting as Bush’s 2004 campaign chairman in Ohio while acting as chief elections officer are unfounded, Blackwell said, saying that three of his predecessors as secretary of state – Republican Bob Taft and Democrats Anthony Celebrezze and Sherrod Brown – also took leadership roles in their party’s presidential campaigns.
Wahhh, they did it too!
I read the City Beat article where Marian Spenser referred to Blackwell as an opportunist.
http://www.citybeat.com/2006-08-16/cover.shtml
"Marian Spencer doesn't mince words. She is an African American, 86 years old and a civil rights warhorse of the 1950s and '60s in Cincinnati, fighting to integrate Cincinnati public places such as Coney Island amusement park and then its swimming pool. The battle lasted, incredibly enough, until 1961. In the mid-1980s, she served on city council, including a year as vice mayor.
"I'm 86 and I have thought about a lot of things over the years, and I don't need a lot of time to think about Ken," Spencer says at the get-go. "I've been around long enough to see all the changes in his life, and they have been so varied. I see him -- and this is very harsh -- but I see him as the ultimate opportunist. It's that word I'll give you again in capital letters -- it's OPPORTUNISM.
"This is the hand he has played. He has waffled, he has moved in ways that best served him at the time. I think he would be as opportunistic a governor as he was a councilman and secretary of state."
Curious about Marian's words I decided to do some research. I had to use microfiche. I found that Blackwell squeaked onto council in his first run by only 500 votes. But in his second run he was the 2nd highest vote getter outpolling other incumbents including the mayor and vice-mayor. According to a November 11, 1979 (B-7) article in the Enquirer, Blackwell had made public comments about the appropriateness of low-income public housing in Westwood and Northside two months before the election even though the issue had no bearing on the council election. And as you can probably imagine Blackwell polled very well in white communities on the east side and did especially well in Westwood. In fact he trounced four other candidates, including the mayor and vice-mayor.
"What bothered Blackwell's fellow Chaterites was that council was not asked to support or condemn the proposals (public housing) only to determine whether they fit the plan. That they did was not contested.
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In his victory sppech Blackwell claimed that these comments were not due to "political expediency".
He also said that, "While race was a factor in some of the resistance, it was not the only factor."
I think Marian is right.
Looks like preventing gays from forming monogamous unions doesn't put any food on the table, gosh durn it!
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Two years ago, Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell was a driving force in the triumphant campaign for a state constitutional amendment to outlaw same-sex marriage. That helped caused a surge in turnout of "values voters," who helped deliver this pivotal state to President Bush's successful reelection effort.
As the Republican candidate for governor, Blackwell has been counting on values voters to do for him this year what they did for the party in 2004. But the culture wars are being eclipsed as a voting issue by economic worries and Republican scandals that have altered the political dynamic here in striking ways. Several polls find Blackwell trailing his Democratic opponent, five-term Rep. Ted Strickland, by double digits with less than four weeks to go until the Nov. 7 midterm elections.
Republican gubernatorial candidate J. Kenneth Blackwell, facing camera, is trailing double digits in polls. (By Kevin Riddell -- Chillicothe Gazette Via Associated Press)
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The difficulty Blackwell is experiencing winning support for his socially conservative message reflects the anxiety evident this year among voters in Ohio and elsewhere, some pollsters say.
"It is harder to run on wedge issues when voters have huge concerns on their minds regarding war in Iraq, economic issues and a Congress they perceive as doing little," said Michael Bocian, a vice president at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, a Democratic polling firm in Washington.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101001437.html
BLACKWELL-IMCOMPETENCE OR INTENTIONAL MALFEASANCE YOU MAKE THE CALL:
Lucas County Board of Elections, at the time of the November 2004
election, were directly responsible for the inefficient and unorganized management of the
election process in their county. Listed below, in order of importance, are areas of grave
concern:
• Failure to maintain ballot security;
• Inability to implement and maintain a trackable system for voter ballot
reconciliation;
• Failure to prepare and develop a plan for the processing of the voluminous
amount of voter registration forms received;
• Issuance and acceptance of incorrect absentee ballot forms;
• Manipulation of the process involving the 3% recount;
• Disjointed implementation of the Directive regarding the removal of Nader and
Camejo from the ballot;
• Failure to properly issue hospital ballots in accordance with statutory
requirements;
• Failure to maintain the security of poll books during the official canvass;
• Failure to examine campaign finance reports in a timely manner;
• Failure to guard and protect public documents;
• Lack of staff election plan;
• Current administrative operations; and,
• Non-compliant areas of the administrative oversight status mandates.
http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/electionsvoter/lucas/LucasCountyInvestigationReport.pdf#search=%22OH%20SOS%20%2B%20LUCAS%20COUNTY%20INVESTIGATION%22
Review Finds Mistakes On 5,100 Absentee Ballots (OH)
Board Of Elections To Send Reprinted Ballots To Voters
POSTED: 5:24 pm EDT October 9, 2006
UPDATED: 6:20 pm EDT October 9, 2006
CLEVELAND -- There are more troubles for the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections just one month before the state votes on a new governor.
The troubles center around the absentee ballots sent out to voters. A weekend review revealed 5,100 ballots that have misprints of one form or another, NewsChannel5 reported.
The review was prompted by last week's discovery that 1,500 ballots in Ohio's 7th House District race listed the wrong party affiliations for the candidates.
Some mistakes discovered over the weekend include one candidate's name appearing smaller than his opponent's on the ballot because of its length.
http://www.newsnet5.com/politics/10037560/detail.html
11:45 PM, October 10, 2006, some anonymous individual reminded us past Secretaries of State (SOS) held campaign roles while serving as SOS.
That's true but Sherrod Brown had an excellent reputation as chief elections officer, and one hears little complaint of Taft in that position.
But in 2000 we saw a new tactic, a Secretary actively using the office to stop the counting of the vote, then certifying incomplete results. Regardless of the outcome that's no way to run a democracy.
In 2004 Citizens' Alliance for Secure Elections (CASE) warned Secretary Blackwell that clerical errors, poor poll worker training, and voting machine operation would disenfranchise an estimated 350,000 Ohio voters. He did nothing except shoot videos featuring -- guess who? -- Ken Blackwell dicussing voting.
Had he even acknowledged problems I might cut him some slack, instead he wrote an op-ed piece for both the Washinton Times and Enquirer touting his fine election administration.
Like Bush and WMD we don't even hear an "Oops," just more of the same mistakes.
This just in:
Hartmann Defends Taft corruption
October 11, 2006 – Columbus, OH – In yet another attempt to hide the real issues in the race for Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner’s opponent today defended the history of corruption and unethical behavior of the Taft administration.
Republican Secretary of State candidate Greg Hartmann, called a press conference to try once again to criticize the judicial record of Jennifer Brunner. This time he criticized a ruling where Brunner found the practices of the Ohio School Facilities Commission (OSFC) to violate Ohio law, because nearly $2 billion dollars in school construction contracts had been unilaterally approved by the OSFC’s director without commission approval.
“Greg Hartmann has now become this year’s defender of unethical and illegal activity by a corrupt Taft administration,” said Brunner. “He supports looking the other way when corrupt activity occurs. We’ve had too much of that from Republican office holders lately,” added Brunner.
After Brunner’s 2002 decision, Governor Taft ordered all school contracts ratified by the OSFC after the fact. Later, the OSFC’s director was found to have violated Ohio ethics laws in not reporting golf games paid for by school construction contractor personnel, found guilty of a misdemeanor and resigned. Governor Taft later was found guilty of the same failure to report golf games and remains as Ohio’s governor.
Despite Hartmann’s previous attempts to distance himself from Ken Blackwell and Bob Taft, his latest attack on Brunner proves he is just more of the same and that a Hartmann administration in the Secretary of State’s office will continue to undermine voters’ trust in their government.
“This latest stunt of my opponent is just one more way he is hiding his lack of experience to be Ohio’s next Secretary of State,” said Brunner. To date, the Dayton Daily News (Endorsement) and the Akron Beacon Journal (Endorsement) have endorsed Brunner for Ohio Secretary of State.
Jennifer Brunner, a former Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge, is uniquely qualified and credentialed to become Ohio’s next Secretary of State. With her service as Legislative Counsel for the Secretary of State’s Office, 13 years of election law private practice experience; including serving as a special prosecutor for election fraud, and making tough decisions as a Judge, she has clearly demonstrated her ability and desire to be Ohio’s top elections official.
Why is the man who stole Ohio campaigning with a white supremacist?
by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
October 9, 2006
J. Kenneth Blackwell, the man who stole Ohio’s 2004 presidential election, was out campaigning October 4, 2006 with a man widely viewed as one of America’s leading white supremacists. Blackwell is an African-American.
He is also the Republican nominee for governor of Ohio. As Secretary of State, he was the GOP point man for stealing the 2004 presidential vote that gave George W. Bush a second term. As co-chair of the state’s Bush-Cheney re-election campaign, Blackwell engineered a complex strategy of confusion, disenfranchisement and theft that mirrored what was done by Katherine Harris in Florida 2000. Harris was rewarded with a safe Congressional seat, and is now the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate. Polls show Blackwell trailing between 12-20 points in his gubernatorial race, but few Ohio insiders doubt his ability to steal the necessary votes, if he can get away with it. Currently, Blackwell operatives are stressing that he’s “only 12 points down” and that they believe the race will tighten significantly by Election Day.
Blackwell toured the state with Larry Pratt, author of ARMED PEOPLE VICTORIOUS, which advocates the creation of militant right-wing militias. Pratt has spoken and shared platforms in the past with Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi Aryan Nation members. He was forced to take a leave of absence from Pat Buchanan’s 1996 presidential campaign over charges of white supremacist and anti-semitic views. Pratt’s 150,000-member Gun Owners of America is proudly to the right of the National Rifle Association.
According to the Columbus Dispatch, Pratt says he couldn’t be a racist because he is campaigning with Blackwell, an African-American. Blackwell is “our kind of guy,” says Pratt, in reference to Blackwell’s support of gun owners’ rights.
Blackwell campaign spokesperson attorney Eric Seabrook, conceded on Sunday, October 8 to the Khari Enaharo show listeners on 98.9FM radio that Pratt was a white supremacist but, he stressed “it was all about the gun rights issue.”
But this is not the first time Blackwell has lined up with extreme right-wing backers boasting racist and anti-semitic roots. Earlier this year Blackwell posted on his website a picture of himself addressing the Council for National Policy. The CNP has deep “neo-fascist” and Ku Klux Klan ties according to Chip Berlet of the Boston-based Political Research Associates. In addition to right wing extremists such as Jerry Falwell, Phyllis Schlafly and Pat Robertson, the CNP embraces a broad spectrum of powerful, reactionary bigots.
Among them are members of the Ahmanson family, major funders of extremist publications and electronic voting machines. The Ahmanson’s financial and political ties are thoroughly intertwined with both ES&S and Diebold, mainstays of the electronic hardware used to steal the Ohio vote. Among their associates are Bob and Todd Urosevich, whose executive and programming work has helped shape the two voting machine companies.
Others associated with the CNP include:
* Richard Shoff, a former Ku Klux Klan leader in Indiana.
* John McGoff, an ardent supporter of the former apartheid South African regime.
* R.J. Rushdoony, the theological leader of America's "Christian Reconstruction" movement, which advocates that Christian fundamentalists take "dominion" over America by abolishing democracy and instituting Old Testament Law. Rushdoony's Reconstructionalists believe that "homosexuals . . . adulterers , blasphemers, astrologers and others will be executed," along with disobedient children.
* Reed Larson, head of anti-union National Right to Work Committee.
* Don Wildmon, TV censorship activist and accused anti-Semite.
* Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver North, Major General John K. Singlaub and other principals from the Iran-Contra Scandal.
After a public uproar, Blackwell pulled his CNP photo off his website. But he has thus far made no similar backtrack on Larry Pratt. “We’re happy to have his support,” says a campaign spokesman, reported the Dispatch.
Blackwell supporters continue to predict he will make a “last-minute surge” to win the governor’s race. Making no visible moves toward the mainstream, Blackwell may well be banking on two bottom lines in Bush-era electoral politics: loaded guns and rigged voting machines.
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Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman are co-authors, with Steve Rosenfeld, of WHAT HAPPENED IN OHIO?, just published by the New Press. Fitrakis is an independent candidate for governor of Ohio, endorsed by the Green Party.
And let's not forget Blackwellposted taxpayer's social security numbers on the SoS website.
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