The Ohio GOP has been busted for illegally funneling almost $500,000 dollars into a fund for Ken Blackwell during his failed try to retain the Secretary of State office in 2006: The letter says Ohio’s Republican party collected nearly half a million dollars from a federal GOP account in October 2006. They also took in […]
I haven’t heard much on this, but it is very interesting. Last year all state offices in Ohio went to Democrats with the exception of the State Auditor. That was won by Republican Mary Taylor. Now that the Democrats have moved in, they are trying to go throw what the Republicans have done and found […]
The nasty campaign that Ken Blackwell made is not going away anytime soon and we now get more insight into who has helped this flame war: Columbus — With polls showing him so far behind that he could drag the entire Republican ticket down to defeat, Secretary of State Ken Blackwell launched an attack last […]
This is a great democracy – where your opponent can decide if your allowed to vote or not: A challenge of Democratic U.S. Rep. Ted Strickland’s residency that would keep him from voting Election Day has been sent to his rival in the governor’s race: Secretary of State Ken Blackwell. The challenge filed by Jacquelyn […]
I haven’t done a Blue Ohio Update for a few days. I have been busy posting over at Crooks and Liars, working and dealing with countless other problems. Well I feel bad for neglecting my Blue Ohio, so here we go. It looks like Joy Padgett can run to be the replacement for Bob Ney: […]
Blackwell’s attempts (some successful) at screwing with the elections in Ohio in 2004 are now costing him: Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell must pay nearly $65,000 in legal fees incurred by the Sandusky County Democratic Party when it successfully challenged one of the chief elections officer’s directives over provisional ballots in 2004. The Cincinnati-based […]
Rasmussen is now reporting that Sherrod Brown has taken the lead from Mike DeWine for the OH-Senate race: Here we go again. For the second time in three consecutive election polls of Ohio’s competitive race for U.S. Senate, the Democratic challenger has edged ahead of the Republican incumbent. Despite the seven-point edge Senator Mike DeWine […]
The Ohio GOP took action yesterday against the employee who sent out emails attacking Ted Strickland: The chairman of the Ohio Republican Party fired an employee yesterday for disseminating a disparaging e-mail about Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ted Strickland and his wife. Robert T. Bennett also issued a letter of apology to Strickland, saying the e-mail […]
No matter what, Ken Blackwell will try to do whatever it takes to steal another election in Ohio: Democrats and representatives of voter-registration groups accused Secretary of State Ken Blackwell on Monday of trying to rig this November’s election by publishing draconian new rules governing the activities of people who register voters. Testifying at a […]
This is flat out wrong and needs investigated: Millions of Social Security numbers are now in the hands of people who aren’t supposed to have them. It’s a big mistake leading straight back to one of the men running for Ohio Governor. The private records were mistakenly released by the Secretary of State’s office. Voter […]