Report from Blue Ash
Howard Wilkinson reports from the Blackwell/Hannity rally
About 100 Ken Blackwell supporters, and 30-40 protesters
As a warm-up for the crowd, Blackwell campaign is playing live WKRC audio of Blackwell/Hannity interview in which Blackwell declares the mainstream media hasn't asked the tough questions of Strickland.
It's drizzling.
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Post a Comment*wow a whole 100? Strickland had 1500 last night in Columbus. Either Hannity isn't much of a draw or people are turning away from Blackwell.
Howard Wilkinson ought to be ashamed of himself. I just came from there, and there were far more than 100 Blackwell supporters. I don't call someone a liar lightly, but Howard Wilkinson is lying. That is absolutely outrageous reporting.
I can tell you that I would have taken the wife and kids there in a heartbeat except for the rain. We really don't want them missing any more school due to illness.
There were way more than 100 Blackwell supporters on hand...
Nobody like Blackwell. He is arrogant and he comes off as stuck on himself.
Howard-you failed to say WHAT it was drizzling. Considering the "stars" of that show, I suspect that it wasn't rain. You may want to get disinfected. Some of that crap can make you sick.
I was there and I don't think there was even 100.
I was shocked considering this is his hometown.
I didn't attend but I drove past twice and there may have been 150 but not many more. For Howard to ballpark it at 100 is pretty accurate, actually.
Mr. Wilkinson, between you and Mr. Jon Craig's biased reporting, you would both have made good little reporters for the Mein Kampf times in Nazi Germany, or for Pravda in Soviet Russia. Craig misrepresents the issue of the present vote in 1999 and you obviously show you didn't pass math. There were about 300-350 at the blackwell event compared to about 40 strickland types who went home before the rally was over. You obviously left before the rally was over to get such a low count. You are a disgrace to basic human intelligence, as the emptyquirer itself is showing itself to be. You are not reporters, you are propagandists.
The pictures from the rally taken both from the stage and from other angles will prove you cannot count and are incorrect, and are nothing more than propagandists for the Left. As usual, you prove people like Cunningham and co. right by your obvious misrepresentations.
Listen we took over the rally. The 40 of us drowned out the Blackwell christian crowd. We are on the verge of electing our man Ted Strickland! We will finally have an ally.
oh, allright, it was 101. i would have expected a much bigger turnout from the christo fascist zombie brigades, must be rain affects them the same way sunshine effects a vampire.
"Listen we took over the rally. The 40 of us drowned out the Blackwell christian crowd. We are on the verge of electing our man Ted Strickland! We will finally have an ally."
Is that the way you operate? If someone has an opinion different than yours you drown them out. How typical
It really does not matter. Blackwell is not going to win because of who he is and what he is not. He is a most disagreeable person as are his companions. obvioulsy he is in a pnic mode and one can expect his cries to get increasingly shrill.
LET'S STICK TO THE ISSUES FOLKS! THE FACT IS THAT KEN BLACKWELL IN THE ROLE OF OH SOS WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF ELECTIONS AND THE OVERSIGHT OF 88 BOARDS OF ELECTIONS. WAS HE CAPABLE AT THIS TASK? READ FOR YOURSELF:
Blackwell, OH SOS Investigation of the Lucas County BOE ater the 2004 election:
includes the fact that REPUBLICAN VOLUNTEERS were allowed UNSUPERVISED ACCESS to UNSECURED BALLOTS prior to the election, as well as this list:
*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 ....etc.
-One-half of the ballots printed and used in the 2004 general election in Lucas county were stored in an open space on the fhird floor of the county warehouse with no security measures in place.
SOURCE: SOS Investigation on Lucas County BOE page 4
-Live ballots were delivered to polling locations a week in advance of the election. Although the ballots were retrieved, one board employee who was assigned to the warehouse informed the SOS staff that he did not believe all the ballots were successfully retrieved.
SOURCE; SOS Investigation, page 5
-Lucas County BOE failed to record or retrieve ballot stub numbers of absentee voters’ ballots as required by statute OH Revised Code 3505.23. It was reported by an elector that her mother had received not one, but three absentee voter ballots. there was no way to determine if similar incidents occurred and if so how many.
SOURCE: SOS Investigation, page 7
-October 4, 2004 was filing deadline for new voter registrations. At that point there were approximately 20,000 unprocessed voter registration applications with less than a month before the election. One mail tray containing 4,500-7,000 (estimates vary) unprocessed “Project Voter” registrations were discovered on or about October 18,2004.
SOURCE: SOS Investigation pg 10
***Of interest here is information obtained from the SOS website entitled ElectionsVoter/results 2003 and 2004 which show the # of registered voters number change from ‘03-’04 was 11,947 in Lucas County: reg voters 2003 in Lucas=288,190 ; registered voter in 2004=300,137.
-In late September or early October an employee of the Ohio Republican Party contacted Sam Thurber (*involved with politician wife Maggie Thurber in Noe scandal.) wanting to inspect and have copies made of all recently returned voter registrations, Ohio Republican Party offered to furnish volunteers to assist with copying postcards. No one at the Lucas County BOE can confirm that anyone was assigned to supervise Republican volunteers. On their second day of copying, a BOE employee, Jennifer Bernath, Democratic Booth Official) saw republican party volunteers peeling off the yellow return stickers applied by the post office. (Violation of RC 149.43 (B) (I) , and agruably a violation of 149.351.
SOURCE: SOS Investigation, pgs 18-19
-The Swanton 3 poll book turned up missing and has never been recovered.
SOURCE: SOS Investigation pg 16
http://www.sos.state.oh.us:80/sos/ElectionsVoter/OhioElections.aspx?Section=1008
IF KEN BLACKWELL CAN NOT HANDLE THE TASK OF ADMINISTRERING 88 BOARDS OF ELECTIONS, WHY SHOULD OHIOANS TRUST HIM TO RUN THE ENTIRE STATE?
Far be it from me to stick up for HW (whose intials I've said over the years stand for Hates W, Hackett's Wonderful, Hateful Writer, etc) but he filed the report a few minutes before 6 pm. Which means he started writing it a few minutes before that.
Although I was not at the rally, I've lived in Cincinnati long enough to know that the rush-hour commute takes twice as long as usual when the forecast even calls for rain, let alone actually raining.
What time did the rally actually start?
So, to make a long story short, although I've heard the 300-400 figure from multiple indpendent sources, Howard's estimate may not have been too far off at the time it was written.
There were at least 300 Blackwell supporters and probably 40 ignorant, intolerant hypocrites.
According to these hypocrites, Dennis Hastert must step down for knowing and not acting. Strickland is free to do as he pleases when faced with the same situation – oh wait, this isn’t the same situation. Strickland vacationed alone in Italy with the pervert. No such parallel with the Hastert/Foley story.
Strickland is a homosexual, not that there’s anything wrong with that, right?
KEN BLACKWELL AND GOP DIRTY TRICKS MAKE REPUBLICANS LOOK FOOLISH TO THE WORLD:
Republicans aren't going after their Democratic challengers much on Iraq, or the war on terror, or nuclear proliferation. Instead, members of President Bush's party are accusing their adversaries of being apologists for gay sex between adults and children.
In Ohio, the Republican candidate for governor, Kenneth Blackwell, went on a tear against his Democratic challenger, Ted Strickland, in their concluding televised debate this week, accusing him of cosying up to an eccentric group called the North American Man Boy Love Association, or Nambla, and associating himself with a man convicted of exposing himself to young children.
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In California, a struggling Republican congressman called John Doolittle has argued that since his opponent, Charlie Brown, is a member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and since the ACLU has in the past defended Nambla's free-speech rights, he is tainted by association. "It is astounding," Mr Doolittle said in a recent press release, "that anyone could defend a group dedicated to aiding and abetting paedophiles." (Mr Doolittle failed to mention that he once acted as a character witness for a friend convicted of sexually assaulting six of his patients.)
The Nambla charge has also been thrown at Nancy Pelosi, the San Francisco congresswoman who would become the next Speaker of the House if the Democrats win a majority on 7 November and who has thus become a multi-purpose pincushion for the Republicans. The maverick right-winger and erstwhile presidential candidate Pat Buchanan told a television interviewer this week that Ms Pelosi had been on gay pride parades where Nambla members were also present and had thus been "marching with paedophiles".
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1904969.ece
Now, we have concrete proof that buckwheat is a wRong wingnut whacko !
So, why should we listen to the wRong wingnut whackos on supporter numbers ?
I was there, howie is right !
There were maybe 100 supporters !
For the sake of god, howie is a fishwrap reporter, he has nothing to gain by distorting numbers !
That would be like jon craig distorting wRong wingnut ideology !
It just doesn't happen in the always trusted fishwRap !
RIGHT ?
HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2006 !
Wow, anon, you aren't racist with the buckwheat comments are you? Gee, and I thought all you lefty whackjobs were tolerant, or is that just to people who expose themselves to kids? Hmmm? It is sad that you lefties can't read a campaign position paper or even watch the debates. Blackwell laid out his plans for medical issues and such in detail. And, he talked about it at the rally. If you lefties hadn't been the rude jerks you were, you might have heard the facts, not your own droning.
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