A Tea Party favorite for the U.S. Senate in Ohio has just been indicted by a grand jury for unlawful conduct with a minor: A New Lebanon man, running for a U.S. Senate seat in Ohio, has been indicted by a Montgomery County grand jury on sex charges. Eric Deaton was indicted on one count […]
That is the rumor with the announcement of Rob Portman leaving the Bush administration: Rob Portman’s announcement Tuesday that he will resign as White House budget director puts the popular former Cincinnati-area congressman back in play as a force in Ohio politics – and as a potential statewide candidate in coming elections. For a political […]
To give you a taste of Ohio politics, here is something going on in my own backyard. I posted last September about the lockout at AK Steel, a prominent area employer. In that post I showed a picture of the new Butler County Republican headquarters, which came with a $800,000 price tag and donations from […]
Here is the lineup for next week’s visit by The Daily Show LeBron James, Borat Sagdiyev and Ohio State University political science Professor John Mueller will be guests of Jon Stewart next week, when “The Daily Show” hosts “Indecision 2006: Battlefield Ohio, The Daily Show’s Midwest Midterm Midtacular” at OSU’s Roy Bowen Theater. The Comedy […]
From the AP Ballot Issues Aim to Change Ohio Politics By JOHN McCARTHY Backers filed petitions with hundreds of thousands of signatures to put measures on the November ballot aimed at curbing the power of elected officials in the way Ohio runs its elections. The coalition of labor unions and Democrat-leaning activists is counting on […]