Blackwell has been declared the winner in the Ohio Republican Governor Primary: Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell won the GOP nomination for governor Tuesday after campaigning as the best candidate to deliver his party from a year of polical scandals. With more than half of precincts reporting, Blackwell led Attorney General Jim Petro with 55 […]
Tomorrow (Tuesday, May 2nd) there will be primaries in Indiana, North Carolina and my own state of Ohio. I will be keeping the blog up to date on the returns here in Ohio. We have a couple hot races that are gaining some national attention. First we have Jean “Full Of” Schmidt running against former […]
OHIO. Eleventh Commandment … What Eleventh Commandment? The GOP primary for Governor took a sudden nasty turn in new TV and radio spots. The ads also blast retiring Governor Bob Taft (R). Secretary of State Ken Blackwell went on this air this week with commercials attacking GOP primary rival Jim Petro for lacking integrity. Here’s […]
Yesterday the heads of the 9/11 commission were on Meet the Press and told Tim Russert that we were not prepared for another attack. This has sparked a great deal of attention from the media: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is still unprepared for another inevitable terrorist attack after not doing enough to improve […]
From Reuters Ohio gov. charged with criminal misdemeanors COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) – Prosecutors in Ohio charged Gov. Bob Taft on Wednesday with four criminal misdemeanor counts alleging violations of state ethics laws for not reporting golf games and other outings paid for by others. The charges marked the first time an Ohio governor has been […]
In a week from today, there will be a congressional election held one district to the east of me. The election will be to replace Rep. Rob Portman who was recently appointed as the US Trades Ambassador. This is a key election as it stands a good chance at tipping the political scale a little […]
There is a growing debate in Washington of the distribution of anti terrorism money to states. It seems that this has become another familiar game in our Capital. The money is now being distributed to states, not dependent upon their risk of terrorism, but their political allegiance. New Jersey, who is a top risk for […]