Blackwell snags another appointment
Ken Blackwell, Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow at the Buckeye
Institute and visiting Senior Fellow at the Family Research Council, recently was appointed to the Club for Growth's Leadership Council.
Last weekend, the former Republican gubernatorial candidate and Ohio Secretary of State from Cincinnati, moderated and participated in a panel at the Club's 2007 Annual Winter Conference in Palm Beach, Fla. The discussion was titled: "Do free markets have an alternative to universal health care."
The Club for Growth is billed as the nation's leading advocate for pro-growth
economic policy. It promotes public policies that advance
economic growth primarily through legislative involvement, national and
state issue advocacy, research, training and educational activity.
The Club also has a political action committee which supports pro-growth candidates for
Congress, particularly in Republican primaries.
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Post a Comment*Why is this news? Who's Ken Blackwell?
I'm waiting for the day when the very Honorable Chair man of the House Judiciary, John Conyers, issues subpoenas to Blackwell and his co-horts in crime. Mr Blackwell never had the decency to respond to the letters sent him by Conyers after the '04 Election theft. Wonder if Blackwell will regret his hubris.
How things are going, Mr Blackwell won't have anyone left to pardon him. Here's hoping he looks debonair in prison orange!
SOON THE TRUTH WILL BE KNOWN ABOUT BLACKWELL AND HIS ROLE IN STEALING THE '04 ELECTION:
THE CHIEF OF THE VOTING SECTION IN THE DEPT OF JUSTICE CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION FINALLY JUMPS SHIP AND FINDS A CONSCIENCE:
Bush's long history of tilting Justice
The administration began skewing federal law enforcement before the current U.S. attorney scandal, says a former Department of Justice lawyer.
By Joseph D. Rich, JOSEPH D. RICH was chief of the voting section in the Justice Department's civil right division from 1999 to 2005. He now works for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
March 29, 2007
THE SCANDAL unfolding around the firing of eight U.S. attorneys compels the conclusion that the Bush administration has rewarded loyalty over all else. A destructive pattern of partisan political actions at the Justice Department started long before this incident, however, as those of us who worked in its civil rights division can attest.
I spent more than 35 years in the department enforcing federal civil rights laws — particularly voting rights. Before leaving in 2005, I worked for attorneys general with dramatically different political philosophies — from John Mitchell to Ed Meese to Janet Reno. Regardless of the administration, the political appointees had respect for the experience and judgment of longtime civil servants.
Under the Bush administration, however, all that changed. Over the last six years, this Justice Department has ignored the advice of its staff and skewed aspects of law enforcement in ways that clearly were intended to influence the outcome of elections.
It has notably shirked its legal responsibility to protect voting rights. From 2001 to 2006, no voting discrimination cases were brought on behalf of African American or Native American voters. U.S. attorneys were told instead to give priority to voter fraud cases, which, when coupled with the strong support for voter ID laws, indicated an intent to depress voter turnout in minority and poor communities.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rich29mar29,0,3371050.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail
Why don't we just change the name of this blog to the "Ken Blackwell's Pretend Jobs Blog?"
Since the Enquirer is so interested in telling us about the new jobs of political losers, why don't you tell everyone what further damage upon the nation the losing McEwen team is inflicting?
Why don't you tell everyone that Big Bob is back in Virginia selling Amway products again and lobbying for terrorists?
Why don't you tell everyone how his other minions have left Ohio in shame and humiliation?
Why don't you tell everyone that his campaign mangler is STILL unemployed? W
hy don't you tell us that at least one of his staffers is working for Democrats now (and was most likely a Democrat plant all along)?
Does the Enquirer have some kind of legal obligation to publish these silly press releases as if they were news items?
I only ask because I'm starting a consulting agency and PAC for corporate special interests and I would just love to have my press releases disseminated to a large audience for free.
Ken Blackwell is obviously being paid off for his work in stealing the '04 election. Why else would he get prominent jobs within the Republican hierarchy after such a devastating and embarassing defeat?
If the Enquirer wants to cover Blackwell, perhaps they can ask comments about this:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00014.htm
EXCERPT : Lisa Schwartze, executive director of the Hocking County BOE, has been charged with allowing an unmonitored manipulation of electronic memory drives before the 2004 recount could be completed. A memo purportedly written by Schwartze also directs poll workers to recount a precinct chosen deliberately by Schwartze, rather than at random, as the law demands. Two Cuyahoga County poll workers have been convicted of felonies for similar behavior, and have each been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Schwartze's offenses, however, may not stop there. According to sworn affidavits from Sherole Eaton, former Hocking County DOE assistant director, Schwartze publicly bragged of having held Republican Party fundraisers in her executive director's office, a clear illegality. Schwartze may also have organized the fundraisers while being paid by the county to do her allegedly non- partisan job as executive director.
Schwartze may also have supervised the shredding of voter registration rolls leading up to the 2004 election. Eaton's under-oath testimony strongly indicates this destruction of vital public records may also have been illegal.
Like Bennett, Schwartze has long been a high-profile associate of Blackwell's, and apparently played a key role in delivering Ohio's electoral votes to George W. Bush in 2004.
2004 Election Illegalities Rock Ohio's Hocking Co.
More Potential 2004 Election Illegalities Rock Ohio's Hocking County As Cleveland Braces For A Legal Firestorm
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
March 30, 2007
From: http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2007/2521
As the third of four members of the Cuyahoga (Cleveland) County Board of Elections resigns under pressure from Ohio's new Secretary of State, additional potential illegalities in Hocking County have resurfaced with new weight against a GOP executive director already under serious fire.
The four members of the Cuyahoga BOE have been asked to resign by Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat elected in November, 2006. Brunner has issued a stinging five-point complaint, much of which derives from the report done by U.S. Congressman John Conyers in the wake of the 2004 presidential election, and on reporting done at http://www.freepress.org/ and research by grassroots election protection activists.
The two Democratic members of the board have already resigned. On March 27, Sally D. Florkiewicz, a Republican, became the third to depart the board. Her departure leaves just Robert Bennett, the BOE chair, clinging to his position. Bennett also chairs the Ohio Republican Party, and has long been one of the state's most powerful politicians, with close ties to the White House. Many believe Bennett was the key point person, along with then-Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, in the theft of Ohio's 2004 presidential election. Karl Rove is widely believed to have personally persuaded Bennett to stay on at the Cleveland-area BOE through the election.
Bennett's position mirrors that of Tom Noe, former chair of the Lucas County (Toledo) BOE, once known as northern Ohio's "Mr. Republican." Like Bennett, Noe had close personal ties to George W. Bush and Ohio Governor Robert Taft. Taft, who left office earlier this year after his public approval ratings sank as low as 7%, pleaded no contest to four misdemeanors involving favors taken from Noe. Noe has since been convicted of a wide range of crimes ranging from illegal campaign contributions to the mishandling of state funds. He is now in prison.
Florkiewicz's resignation letter charges that "the Secretary of State has decided to use the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections to advance a partisan agenda." Bennett is saying much the same as he refuses to resign. But he now, on behalf of the board he has chaired, faces a wide range of charges involving, among other things, the mishandling of public funds that resulted in taxpayer expenditures of at least an additional $12,900,000 above original budget.
For Bennett to resign would widely be viewed as admission of guilt. But a firestorm of controversy is certain to erupt should Bennett attempt to stand up to Brunner's complaint.
The public hearing she has demanded is currently scheduled to begin April 2. However, Bennett's taxpayer-funded special counsel, Stan Chesley, has filed a motion in court to stop it. Pending the court's review, Brunner's counsel John Ferron agreed to delay the hearing for a week, according to Cliff Arnebeck who is closely monitoring the case and spoke with Ferron Thursday afternoon. "With all of these fireworks it will become more and more difficult for some of the Ohio editorial boards to maintain their position that the 2004 election was not stolen," said Arnebeck.
Meanwhile, another GOP county election official is also under intensifying fire. Lisa Schwartze, executive director of the Hocking County BOE, has been charged with allowing an unmonitored manipulation of electronic memory drives before the 2004 recount could be completed. A memo purportedly written by Schwartze also directs poll workers to recount a precinct chosen deliberately by Schwartze, rather than at random, as the law demands. Two Cuyahoga County poll workers have been convicted of felonies for similar behavior, and have each been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Schwartze's offenses, however, may not stop there. According to sworn affidavits from Sherole Eaton, former Hocking County DOE assistant director, Schwartze publicly bragged of having held Republican Party fundraisers in her executive director's office, a clear illegality. Schwartze may also have organized the fundraisers while being paid by the county to do her allegedly non- partisan job as executive director.
Schwartze may also have supervised the shredding of voter registration rolls leading up to the 2004 election. Eaton's under-oath testimony strongly indicates this destruction of vital public records may also have been illegal.
Like Bennett, Schwartze has long been a high-profile associate of Blackwell's, and apparently played a key role in delivering Ohio's electoral votes to George W. Bush in 2004. Whether she did so illegally remains to be seen.
But the fire Jennifer Brunner has set in Cleveland now seems very likely to spread to the rest of Ohio's 88 counties. Hocking's Schwartze is almost certain to join Bob Bennett among those feeling the heat.
ARE FAIR, TRANSPARENT AND VERIFIABLE ELECTIONS REALLY SO MUCH TO EXPECT IN A DEMOCRACY? WHAT BLACKWELL SET UP IN OHIO IS A MAJOR CRIME THAT ALLOWED BUSH TO CONTROL HIS DESTRUCTION OF OUR COUNTRY.
Dear Westender,
If your PAC is part of the Right-Wing Slime Machine chances are very good that you will be favorably covered in the Gannett/Enquirer Newspaper.
Fox News will probably give you free press too.
I hate to be so crass - but Blackwell is the Republican Party's token ------. They can't find another educated black man who will spew their garbage -- he's in big demand - they'll appoint him to every board, commission, etc. they can line up because they think the uneducated black man is as stupid and superficial as Blackwell.
Again, sorry to be so crass - but somebody's gotta call it like it is.
Enough about Blackwell. The public knows him for who/what he is, and decided they didn't want him. He's part of the team that dragged Ohio down for so many years. That's history now, and so is he.
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