Strickland's popularity just shy of a record
Gov. Ted Strickland's approval rating of 68 percent is just shy of the highest rating ever recorded for a governor in the 26-year history of the Ohio Poll.
According to Eric W. Rademacher, co-director of the poll conducted by the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Cincinnati, here are the top approval ratings for an Ohio governor:
George Voinovich, 69 percent in January 1998.
Voinovich, 69 percent in October 1997.
Bob Taft, 69 percent in November 2001.
Taft, 69 percent in April 2000.
"Governor Strickland and the General Assembly are both enjoying an extended 'honeymoon' with Ohioans,'' Rademacher said today. "This may be, in part, a positive reaction to the cooperative effort that has characterized this year's budget negotiations."
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Post a Comment*While bennett claims to know what Ohio Voters want, he get's this shaft !
Oops, we mean poll !
The Dem's unite the state and country while the wRong wingnut whackos eat their own:
Evangelical Leader: "Vote for Romney is Vote for Satan"
Yikes.
Take a look at what an evangelical leader is saying about Mormon presidential candidate Mitt Romney. His name is Bill Keller, host of the Florida-based Live Prayer TV, and he writes in his daily devotional (which reaches 2.4 million people):
"If you vote for Mitt Romney, you are voting for Satan! ... Romney is an unashamed and proud member of the Mormon cult founded by a murdering polygamist pedophile named Joseph Smith nearly 200 years ago. The teachings of the Mormon cult are doctrinally and theologically in complete opposition to the Absolute Truth of God's Word. There is no common ground. If Mormonism is true, then the Christian faith is a complete lie. There has never been any question from the moment Smith's cult began that it was a work of Satan and those who follow their false teachings will die and spend eternity in hell."
I particularly like this crazy paranoid line, which betrays a deep insecurity:
"Romney getting elected president will ultimately lead millions of souls to the eternal flames of hell!"
I think it's important to condemn this sort of bigotry and ignorance. I know it's fun to watch a party with a problematic history with race relations -- and that is sometimes openly hostile to minority voters -- turn its prejudice in on its own, but liberal bloggers have an obligation to stay consistent. We would condemn this sort of nonsense if the angry reverend was attacking Muslim legislator Keith Ellison (D-MN), so we have a responsibility to condemn it when he attacks a Republican. Even if that Republican has no principles and is in the process of saying whatever he has to in order to be elected.
Man, this is fun, isn't it?
Posted by Jonathan Stein on 05/11/07 at 1:52 PM
PATHETIC !
HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !
The Repugnicant Party will be out of business by this time in 2010.
In other words, it's NOT a record, and likely will go down, not up.
The honeymoon never lasts.
Thank God that Ohio voters were smart enough to disregard the Enquirer's absurd endorsement of Ken Blackwell.
Governor Strickland is doing a great job.
Wow-doesn't really mean much when Taxin Bob Taft had a higher approval rating...
Columbus mayor's wife's work hours probed
Ex-supervisor says Frankie Coleman was not on state job all the time she claimed
Friday, May 11, 2007
Reginald Fields and Aaron Marshall
Plain Dealer Bureau
Columbus- Parking records suggest that the wife of Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman was on her state job only two-thirds of the time she claimed.
Frankie Coleman's parking records are among the documents that have been turned over to the state inspector general as part of an investigation ordered by Gov. Ted Strickland into an accusation that she claimed hours she did not work. She is an assistant manager in the Department of Development.
The records show Coleman's arrivals and departures from a state garage where she regularly parked using a state-issued pass. Those records indicate that her car was in the facility roughly 230 hours out of the 344 hours of a nine-week work period through the end of April.
Mike Brown, a spokesman for Mayor Coleman, said the mayor's wife will not comment while the state investigation continues. "There is no reason to comment on anything until the inspector general's investigation is over," said Brown.
Frankie Coleman did not return calls placed to her office phone on Thursday. She has said she worked every hour for which she was paid.
Coleman started her $70,000-a-year job on Feb. 26. Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher heads the Department of Development.
There are close political ties among Fisher, Mayor Coleman and Strickland, who are all Democrats. The Columbus mayor headed Strickland's gubernatorial transition team this year and in 1998 was Fisher's running mate when Fisher ran for governor.
The probe into Frankie Coleman's timesheets stems from an accusation made by one of Coleman's former supervisors, Glenda Williamson, who told the Columbus Dispatch this week that in March she refused to approve a timesheet Coleman sub mitted because she did not believe she had worked the full 40-hour week she claimed.
Williamson told the newspaper that Coleman typically didn't arrive until 9:30 a.m. or later and did not come to work for three days in a two-week period.
The parking records show that Coleman's parking pass was not used on March 5, March 6 and March 14 - workdays on which she claimed she was in the office from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Williamson was fired on March 16, the last day of that same two-week pay period. Fisher has said that Williamson's firing was not connected to her complaint about Coleman.
Williamson could not be reached for comment.
Starting with her first day on the job, Coleman's timesheet shows she started work at 8 a.m. But the parking garage records show that she rarely arrived before 9 a.m.
She did not use the parking pass on April 17, a day her timesheet showed she was in the office for eight hours. On four other days Coleman's car was in the garage for less than two hours.
The parking records also suggest that Coleman was rarely in the office a full day. Records show that on only 12 of the 43 days she said she worked - from Feb. 26 through April 27 - was her car parked in the garage for a total of eight hours. While there were 45 work days, she took two personal days in March.
Records showed that during that period she nearly always left during the lunch hour and often was gone for more than hour.
Kimber Perfect, the communications director for the Department of Development, declined to say how often Coleman's job duties would have taken her out of the office.
"That's really not an appropriate question for me to comment on," said Perfect.
A job description faxed by Perfect on Thursday night showed that 10 percent of Coleman's job duties could include travel throughout the state.
Keith Dailey, a spokesman for Strickland, declined to comment on the parking records. Dailey said that Coleman remains on the job during the investigation.
To reach these Plain Dealer reporters:
rfields@plaind.com
amarshal@plaind.com, 1-800-228-8272
So a more accurate headline would be: "Strickland Less Popular Than Bob Taft"
LOL LOL LOL
PATHETIC
The Enquirer reported earlier in the day that Gov Strickland, in fact, set a record for highest rating in first quarter of a new administration ever recorded -- so, what happened? did the data change or the Enquirer just change it's reporting?
Strickland is doing an impressive job.
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