Blackwell reflects on his Nov. 7 loss
In his first interview with The Enquirer since his overwhelming loss to Gov.-elect Ted Strickland, Secretary of State Ken Blackwell said he doesn't think any Republican could have won last month's gubernatorial race.
Blackwell said he didn’t think he failed as much as the Republican Party failed. Even though he realizes the party elite had not supported him in his primary race against Attorney General Jim Petro, he made the conscious decision not to run against his party.
The rank and file were with him, he said today.
Blackwell said that, when the general election was over, he realized that he had raised more money than any African American candidate in the history of the country; he had raised more money than any non-incumbant gubernatorial candidate in the history of the state; and that he had 1.5 million supporters in his political base that cannot be ignored.
Blackwell was evasive about what he was going to do next except “take a deep breath and evaluate the work I can do to add value, whatever work that is.”
Read more about his interview with the Enquirer in Thursday's newspaper.
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Post a Comment*....Secretary of State Ken Blackwell said he doesn't think any Republican could have won last month's gubernatorial race....
Any wRong wingnut, that suppresses the vote, can not win !
His excuses are PATHETIC !
I bet booob taft doesn't think bushwell didn't run against his "culture of corruption" party !
I wonder why his "black like me" story, didn't sell ?
I wonder why his "sexual orientation" debate propaganda, didn't work ?
It's hard to buy, with buckwheat as pitch man !
buckwheat bushwell needs to pray for forgiveness, period !
what a phony !
i am a dead to rights progressive and would not have voted for any republican because i think its just a bad choice. having said that, i still disagree with blackwells perception that no republican could have won the gubernatorial race. if the republicans had chosen someone who was not a right wing christo-fascist they would have had a very good chance of beating strickland because ohio just isn't that blue a state.
This is why no one wants wRong wingnut whackos in power:
Suppression !
ACLU Challenges Government Attempt to Seize "Secret" Document (12/11/2006)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: media@aclu.org
Unprecedented Grand Jury Subpoena Seeks to Confiscate Document; ACLU Files Motion to Quash in New York Court Today
The American Civil Liberties Union today announced that it has asked a federal judge to quash a grand jury subpoena demanding that it turn over to the FBI "any and all copies" of a December 2005 government document in its possession.
The ACLU called the subpoena, served on November 20 by the U.S. Attorney's office in New York, a transparent attempt to intimidate government critics and suppress informed criticism and reporting.
"The government's attempt to suppress information using the grand jury process is truly chilling and is unprecedented in law and in the ACLU's history," said ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero. "This subpoena serves no legitimate investigative purpose and tramples on fundamental First Amendment rights. We recognize this maneuver for what it is: a patent attempt to intimidate and impede the work of human rights advocates like the ACLU who seek to expose government wrongdoing."
The three-and-a-half page document, issued in December 2005, is marked "Secret" and apparently is classified. The ACLU received the document, unsolicited, on October 23, 2006.
In legal papers, the ACLU said that while release of the document might be "mildly embarrassing" to the government, the ACLU's possession of it is legal and its release could in no way threaten national security. To the contrary, the ACLU said, the designation of the generally unremarkable document as "Secret" "appears to be a striking, yet typical, example of overclassification."
According to the ACLU's papers, the document concerns matters of public interest that "relate to issues of longstanding concern to the ACLU and on which the ACLU is actively engaged in ongoing public advocacy." Until the court rules on the release of the document, the ACLU has agreed not to release it or disclose its contents.
"No official secrets act has yet been signed into law, and the grand jury's subpoena power cannot be used to create one," said ACLU Legal Director Steven R. Shapiro. "The most significant thing about this case is not the content of the document but the government's unprecedented effort to suppress it."
If the government can enforce a subpoena in this way, Shapiro explained, "it could just as easily have subpoenaed the Pentagon Papers from The New York Times and Washington Post. The effect of the subpoena is no different than a prior restraint and it is equally unconstitutional."
In the landmark Pentagon Papers case, the Supreme Court said that the government cannot seek to bar newspapers from publishing classified documents - an unconstitutional legal tactic known as prior restraint - unless the information would cause "direct, immediate and irreparable harm to our Nation and its people."
As the ACLU noted in its brief, which was filed under seal on Monday and unsealed by court order today: "Many of the most important news articles of the past year (such as those concerning NSA eavesdropping, rendition of foreign prisoners of our nation to other nations, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's views on the deteriorating situation in Iraq, National Security Advisor Hadley's assessment of Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki, and the report on the Iraq insurgency's funding sources) have been based on classified documents leaked to reporters, which could not be prepared and published as they have been were the government allowed to use subpoenas to confiscate 'any and all' copies of classified documents it learns are in the hands of journalists and other public advocates and critics."
Although the subpoena refers to the Espionage Act, the ACLU has been told that it is not a target of the investigation. "The ACLU is not a target for investigation because we have done nothing wrong," said the ACLU's Romero. "It is the government that is in the wrong when it abuses its power and attempts to silence its critics."
The case is In re Grand Jury Subpoena Served on the ACLU, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York before presiding Judge Jed S. Rakoff. The ACLU is represented by Shapiro of the ACLU, Charles S. Sims and Emily Stern of Proskauer Rose LLP and Joshua L. Dratel and Erik B. Levin, of Joshua L. Dratel, P.C., all of New York.
The ACLU’s Motion to Quash is online at:
www.aclu.org/safefree/27648lgl20061211.html
The grand jury subpoena that was issued to the ACLU is at:
www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/27652lgl20061120.html
Declarations regarding facts in the case were also filed by ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero at
www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/27649lgl20061211.html
ACLU Senior Corporate Counsel Terence Dougherty at
www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/27651lgl20061211.html
and attorney Joshua Dratel. They are online at:
www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/27650lgl20061211.html
Moderates have woken up to the damage that the in your face Christianists will do if not stopped and Blackwell was foolish enough to think walking around with a bible all the time was going to get him over. Blackwell has only his foolish base chasing to blame.
Ralph Nader: Blackwell Was Nakedly Partisan
The lawyers representing consumer activist Ralph Nader in his legal odyssey to wrest a $1 damage judgment (yep, a buck) from Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell now say Blackwell handled the duties of his office with a ''politically partisan pedigree." It is a view of the outgoing Republican's operation that many political critics have voiced over the years, including Jennifer Brunner, the Democrat elected to succeed Blackwell in January.
As the state's chief election official, Blackwell kicked Nader's third party candidacy for president off the 2004 ballot. Nader filed suit in federal court last month, where state lawyers have attempted to have it dismissed on grounds that Blackwell is immune from action because he behaved as a public officer fulfilling his legal responsibilities.
But Mark R. Brown, a law professor at Capital University in Columbus, and Michael P. Cassidy, a lawyer in Independence, a Cleveland suburb, shot back Monday in a written court filing that Blackwell didn't seem to be an official concerned with conducting proceedings that were sealed air-tight against possible bias. (Southern District of Ohio, 2:06-cv-821.)
''Granted, defendant could (ital original) qualify for absolute immunity if he was engaged in a judicial function. But defendant's politically partisan pedigree makes this unlikely. For it to happen, defendant would not only have to hold an adjudicatory hearing, exceptional procedural safeguards woud have to surround that hearing to prevent partisan politics from infecting defendant's determinations,'' Brown and Cassidy said in their filing.
Blackwell contends he gave Nader the boot after a fair and open hearing conducted by an attorney in his office. Nader's lawyers weren't buying. "For all anyone knows, the staff attorney's decision was dictated by defendant,'' they said. ''Whether this happened is not the point. The point is that without independence, hearing officers suffer not only an appearance of partiality, but also a real risk of influence."
Your "Buckwheat" comment is complete crap. It is racist. It is clear from your post that if you don't like someone you not only show them no repect but you bash them. Then you go as low as to call someone who you don't like "Buckwheat". It is obvious that you are racist against those who have different views than yourself.
Your comments show how you are not enlightened. How dare you step down in the gutter with your racist insult.
You are fools all, especially the "Christianist" hater and the goofy ejaculator in bold print. J. Kenneth Blackwell lost to that total dip, Strickland, because another total (and corrupt) dip, Taft, shot the GOP in the butt, not once but several times, all fatal wounds. Blackwell would have been an excellent governor. And I can hardly wait to see Strickland demonstrate his incompetence. It should take about as long as it has for Pelosi to show hers.
You people are the most venemous human beings! Your candidates won so shut up. What else do you want? Wait, you just know how to hate. Keep on hating we will continue to turn the other cheek as Jesus asks us to do.
.....the goofy ejaculator in bold print.....
Congratulations TNP, you win the cookie !
Hate to break up the circle, JERK !
interesting, tnp still thinks denial is a river in egypt.
given the bar that the bushies have set for incompetence, its hard to see how strickland or pelosio could even dream to reach that level.
stay the course, stay the course, stay the course...
Anon 10:32 pm,
what the Democrats want is not just to win but to stomp all opposition out existence. That is why you will see criminal prosecutions at the state and county level for the next couple years.
Democrats on Capitol Hill are pushing to shut down the entire local, state, and national Republican Party as a criminal enterprise under RICO statutues and will ask for a special prosecutor.
11:11 anonymous wrote:
Democrats on Capitol Hill are pushing to shut down the entire local, state, and national Republican Party as a criminal enterprise under RICO statutues and will ask for a special prosecutor.
this seems like a reasonable strategy considering the behavior of the bush administration and their minions like ken blackwell or katherine harris. this country has never been closer to slipping into a fascist state and something needs to be done to reverse the course.
The voters in Ohio have woken up to what a "Phil Burress approved" state would look like and they did not approve. A majority of Americans believe that the Christian Right can not be trusted and do not agree with their goals. Using homophobia as their own personal Willie Horton was bound to fail as bread and butter issues rose to the fore. TNP expresses wishful thinking when he blames the GOP's Ohio losses to Taft. The reality is democratic candidates garnered 53% of the votes and that only gerrymandering saved the likes of Chabot & Schmidt. Don't believe me TNP? Look it up, the article ran just a few days ago.
He only raised all that money because he's such a whore! He disenfranchised his own race for political gain and wonders why he didn't get the black vote.
He's a traitor to his race and his country!
More on the GOP cockroaches and pay to play. Voinovich needs to go next.
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/12/15/20061215-A1-03.html
Wife of ex-treasurer received payments
Friday, December 15, 2006
Mark Niquette
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
...The payments were made to an obscure company incorporated in Florida that names as the only officer Laura Panichi, wife of Vincent Panichi, Voinovich's longtime personal accountant in Cleveland, records show...
It was at Voinovich’s urging that the bureau was brought under the control of the governor’s office in 1995, and state law also was relaxed to allow alternative investments such as Noe’s rare-coin fund...
But in records from Noe’s 1993 divorce, Noe credited his political connections with helping him land Panichi and Paul Mifsud, Voinovich’s former chief of staff, as clients for his private coin business...
During Noe’s trial, prosecutors told jurors that Noe used "friends in high places" to help land the bureau investment but didn’t present any evidence about it...
Report: Wife of former Voinovich treasurer got money from Noe
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/16246901.htm
Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio - ...Noe was convicted last month on charges that he stole from a $50 million investment in rare coins that he managed for the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation. The former GOP fundraiser was sentenced to 18 years in prison and ordered to repay the state $13.7 million...
Donald Brey, an attorney for Vincent Panichi, told the newspaper that the payments were legitimate and have been explained to investigators. He said he was told the Panichis were not the targets of the investigation.
Records show DLII Inc. was incorporated in Florida in 1993, and Laura Panichi is its only officer. Corporate filings do not reveal what the business does...
A spokesman for Voinovich told the newspaper that the Republican senator knew nothing about any payments from Noe to Laura Panichi's company.
sundays paper contains a replay or addendum to this conversation that ms. hall had with ken blackwell.
again, he sticks to his guns and blames the loss on everyone else. more incredible and downright scary is his statement, that every morning he gets up and reads the bible and then reads the new york times because he wants to know what the other side is thinking.
this illustrates perfectly why he lost. newspapers are not the tool of the devil. for him to believe this is more proof that he is an extremist who would do more bad for ohio than he would ever do good.
Anonymous at 12:09 pm, 12/17, I'm very glad to read that J. Kenneth Blackwell reads the Bible every morning. And I agree with his assessment of the NYT. He and I both know that "The Gray Lady" has become a voice for left/liberal politics, and he needs to know what his opponents are writing and thinking about.
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