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Wednesday, May 02, 2007

The check is most defintely not in the mail

Republicans may not be winning many elections in Ohio these days, but they are a resourceful lot.

Here in Hamilton County, they've cooked up something called the Blue Chip Youth Leadership PAC, which apparently is supposed to shovel money into the campaign accounts of GOP candidates for Cincinnati City Council this fall.

A fundraising letter went out to the GOP mailing list in March, signed by some of the leading lights of the Hamilton County Republican Party - chairman George Vincent, State Rep. Tom Brinkman Jr., Council member Leslie Ghiz, county prosecutor Joe Deters, Scott Gehring, the president of the Blue Chip Young Rpeublican Club; State Rep. Bill Seitz, and council member Chris Monzel.

The letter, in a somewhat mournful tone, reminds potential donors how "we have seen in many ways our majority in Hamilton County dwindle in the past six years," including:

- the number of Republicans on council slipping from four to two;

- the fact that a majority of Hamilton County voters supported two Democratic candidates in last year's statewide elections (neglecting, of course, to point out that one of those Democrats, Jennifer Brunner, out-polled a Hamilton County Republican in Greg Hartmann and that another Hamilton County Republican, Ken Blackwell, won the county with only 1,923 votes out of about 296,000 cast);

- and the election last year of the first Democratic majority on the Hamilton County Commission since John F. Kennedy was president.

Among the thousands who received the fundraising appeal were at least two who probably weren't too upset about that last one - John and Frances Pepper, the parents of David Pepper, whose election over Republican incumbent Phil Heimlich made that Democratic majority on the county commission possible.

Note to GOP: Time to update the mailing list.


13 Comments:

at 4:14 PM, May 02, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think this just underscores how inept the current HCRP is.

 
at 5:03 PM, May 02, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Perhaps they could all make concealed contributions with the help of:

"deters the cheater" !

PATHETIC !

HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !

 
at 5:31 PM, May 02, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Explain to me how one of the signatories of that letter (Ghiz)endorsed and supported the Democrat (Pepper) who helped bring about that Democratic majority on the County Commission that the letter complains about as being such a problem, that now requires people to send in cash to overcome.

 
at 5:49 PM, May 02, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why would people give money to a Party that is reminding them how ineffective they've been? Lame.

 
at 6:03 PM, May 02, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think the Enquirer should check who recieved money from the Pepper parents last election cycle.

 
at 7:11 PM, May 02, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Perhaps our surgically neutered bold typist would like to repetitively repeat the following quotation in a squeaky voice.

"deters the cheater"!

"deters the cheater"!

"deters the cheater"!

 
at 7:39 PM, May 02, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

This money is supposed to go to the Blue Chip Young Republicans? And Leslie Ghiz' aide is the president of the group?

Gee, who do you think all the money is going to go to???

And without the hassle of filing a campaign finance report?

 
at 8:26 PM, May 02, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mr. and Mrs. Pepper have given to candidates and causes on both sides of the aisle. Of late, Mrs. Pepper has given much more money to Democrats as her son has descended further into Democratic circles. Mr. Pepper has remained more Republican, but not exclusively so. The Peppers have given money to Steve Chabot, Mike DeWine, George Voinovich, Jean Schmidt, and Rick Lazio and their opponents John Cranley/Roxanne Qualls, Sherrod Brown, Eric Fingerhut, and Paul Hackett/Victoria Wulsin, and Hillary Clinton. The Peppers were both big fans of Rob Portman. Mrs. Pepper leaves no doubt to where she falls on the issue of abortion having given thousands of dollars to EMILY's List and Republicans for Choice.

The Peppers are rich enough to support both parties.

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?key=U8DCN&txtName=Pepper&txtState=OH&txtAll=Y&Order=N

 
at 9:35 PM, May 02, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

The funniest part is what they have left of the good ole boys' corrupt network:
DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP DETERS
G-WHIZ GHIZ
PAT DEWHINER
GREG HATE-MANN

What a pack of losers lolololol

 
at 9:34 AM, May 03, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

The letter also praises their past "leaders" that came from City Council--Heimlich, Blackwell, etc.

Wow -- impressive group.

 
at 10:01 AM, May 03, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

"....repetitively repeat the following quotation..."deters the cheater"!..."

Typical wRong wingnut whacko "folley foundling" "bold endeavors" to "delay" the truth and defend the "culture of corruption" with a weak attempt of "cheaney" "shoot the messenger" !

Perhaps, he could get some "swift boat" funding from"

"deters the cheater" !

PATHETIC !

HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !

 
at 4:25 PM, May 04, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

The liberal moonbats who post on this blog are going to be in for a rude awakening in 2008. Voters want the Republican party to return to its conservative roots. The 2006 election was a conservative crackdown, not a massive ideological shift to the left by the electorate.

If the Republican party listens to its base, you anonymous democRATS will have yet another 'stolen election' conspiracy to add to your growing collection [2000, 2004, 2008, etc.] Here endeth the lesson.

 
at 12:35 PM, May 05, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

".....moonbats who post on this blog are going to be in for a rude awakening...."

Gullible !

Typical wRong wingnut whacko buying the elephant dung propaganda !

Hey, hang in there "follower", they will find those 'WMD's" just wait and see !

Then you can circle your "moonbats" and boast "mission accomplished" ?

PATHETIC !

HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !

 
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