Dems want Blackwell to step aside,shouldn't oversee election, they insist

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Friday, June 09, 2006
Ted Wendling
Plain Dealer Bureau

Columbus - Ohio Democrats called Thursday for Secretary of State Ken Blackwell to step aside from "overseeing his own election," proposing that someone not running for office serve as the state's elections chief.

Prominent among their recommendations: Republican Attorney General Jim Petro, whom Blackwell savaged on the campaign trail before handily defeating him in last month's GOP gubernatorial primary.

Democrats aren't suggesting Blackwell give up the office, but they do want him to turn over his voting oversight role until after the November election.

Lee Fisher, Rep. Ted Strickland's running mate in the governor's race, said Democrats are asking Blackwell to relinquish his election duties because he has been "deliberately misconstruing the intent of the law" by publishing onerous rules pertaining to voter-registration drives...

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No, vandalism and mindless cruelty against innocent animals won't advance a damn thing. Getting loud and being entirely unrelenting about the issue with statements to the press and television and radio ads-now that might change something.

Retriever. I'm just stressing the point that the time for polite negotiations has come and gone.

Where are the civic leaders to stop this Bush-licker from disenfranchising voters?...Ohio needs to revolt and overthrow him now!...

Or getting screwed by the recipients of their generosity? Creating a decade-long low-wage-worker opportunity????

Check this out: http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/0609jobs.html

Region's jobs outlook is state's gloomiest
Through 2014, the employment growth in the Dayton area will lag behind the rest of the state.

Mainly, 2nd tier service jobs, healthcare, and fast food all that's left here. Very few corporate headquarters for business pro careers or IT (most of which has been outsourced, anyhow)

diebold yet... unfucking real!!!

And if anyone for a moment thinks he won't cheat his eevr cheating butt off has a thumb stuck up their butt to try to find gold. THe worst part is how the Conservatives are backing him and explaining his cheating away as 'nothing the people will do anything about." And "Expected".

This country has been taken over by people who will do anything to retain power, even destroy the country they claim to be serving.

One would think this is such a no brainer.

There was an issue on the ballot last year and it failed. The opposition to it framed it as "you will no longer get a say, no longer get to vote for, who is in charge of elections.

I mean, they cheated for Bush, who can really believe they wouldn't cheat for everything else?

. . . only in the sense that, should BootBlackwell win, it'd be hard to try and explain how he legally overcame a seemingly insurmountable 16-point deficit in the polls.

But yes, conflict of interest obviously means NOTHING to crime bosses like Dick Cheney and shameless criminal minions like Crackwell.

This guy has no concept of the term "democracy."

it disgusts me that he's from my state, and this soiled story is centered around the word "OHIO"...
so upsetting. we need to set a date and if things are fixed by that date, march.

we need an activities calendar that shows deadlines for pressing matters, and then who we need to contact to set up organized rallies...

I'm all for picketing the sob's here, there, everywhere!




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end of story!!

someone should throw him into the slammer. Then another someone should run away with the key.

his own election.

He isn't Andy Taylor of Mayberry, North Carolina, after all. It's just ridiculous that this is even an issue. People directly involved in the outcome of something like this should step down and let a neutral party oversee things. Any idiot can see that.

about Georgia Sec'y of State Cathy Cox, who is running in the Democratic gubernatorial primary July 18?

I'd rather have a fair democracy than an unfair system for any party.

Repub and Dems have been Sec. of State in Ohio have overseen elections
for years and did it fairly so he has case law behind him.

BTW It is not a question about if he will cheat but how and by how much?

He needs to be in jail for his crimes.

Blackwell has no integrity. He cannot be trusted. Major Kudos to the Ohio Dems for bringing this issue to the public's attention.

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The dems have been sucking because they wont get tough. you wonder why we don't control any branch of government.

Lets throw bricks at his dog this guy is a scumbag!!!

Asking politely never works with Repugs.

a pug do the decent thing.

As a result, the ODP must organize Exit Polls....either hire a Research firm that is experienced in this or set up a system in-house using local University Professors, volunteers and some paid staff.

In fact, let's write the ODP Chair, Chris Redfern, and Vice-Chair, Todd Portune, and ask them to devote energies to this. OK?

Democratic Party. I take it you aren't impressed with Redfern and/or Portune?

I was glad to see Dennis White out of there....

Thanks for reminding everyone. We are lucky to have Redfern. We don't need to submarine him.

do the physical counting of ballots, The USA, freedom? this is fucking nuts!!

In ANY other profession, one would have to recuse themselves in the face of such a clear conflict. This is no different than a judge hearing a case in which he or she has a financial interest, or a referee who happens to own the team playing in the game in which he or she is officiating.

The fact that people are treating this as a debate is ludicrous.

...similar thing re: our current DINO Secretary of State Cathy "I'm in the back pocket of Diebold" Cox, who's running for Governor against our Democrat Lieutenant Governor.

I have a feeling I know what she's up to, but I hope I'm wrong.

Should she be in charge of her own election?

Did they forget to write that law?

Why isn't it illegal to run a party's campaign and oversee that election? Another law legislatures forgot to write?

WHY SHOULD ANYONE HAVE TO "ASK"???