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Tea Party Revolt Threatens to Destroy Ohio GOP

As Democrats dust themselves off from a brief playground scuffle and come back together with eyes on November, the Ohio GOP is finding themselves dealing with a whole new list of self inflicted wounds. As a way to inflate their stagnant membership, Ohio GOP candidates and officials have been all too quick to lure Tea […]

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O’Shaughnessy to Enter SoS Race Within Ten Days

We’ve got more coming soon. For now, here’s the ODP release… “Today, the Ohio Democratic Party announced that Clerk of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Maryellen O’Shaughnessy has launched her campaign for Secretary of State and will make a formal announcement within the next ten days. O’Shaughnessy’s campaign for Secretary of State is […]

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More Secretary of State Drama Coming Tomorrow

We don’t mean to tease, but this thing is getting more bizarre by the minute. We’ve been working to get the whole story (unlike some of the print dailies) and should have a bit more to share on Sunday before all hell potentially breaks loose on Monday. And would all hell breaking loose be a bad thing? Depends […]

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State of the Union : Jump in the Bump

The President tonight set forth a crisp, clear, focused direction for our nation. Too often, we as Democrats receive these types of speeches with applause and euphoria. Then we go back to normal. But if Democrats – nationally and locally – want to regain the trust voters gave us in 2008, we’ve got to start […]

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Bipartisanship Breaks Out In Ohio House: Lawmakers Aim To Scrap Income Tax On College Financial Aid

Cross posted for OhioDaily’s Bill Sloat at The Daily Bellwether Sounds like a silly quirk in the income tax rules that needed reform. Ohio is making residents who receive federal and state college-assistance grants pay incomes taxes on the money that is spent for room, board and meal plans. Books and tuition are exempt. The room […]

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Closing Thoughts II

It’s helpful to think of state Issues 2 and 3 and Cuyahoga County Issue 6 as being about the attempt to buy democracy away from the voters. They seem to be about one thing (livestock standards and food safety, casinos, government reform) but they’re really about something else: a jockey for power and/or profit. I […]

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ELECTION NIGHT Cuyahoga : Miller Zimon Hanging On, Issue 5 Well Behind

Quick glance at the early voting in Cuyahoga… Issue 5 going down in flames (or at least it appears so, but hard to tell where the votes are coming from). Issue 6 is now well ahead (a complete opposite of Issue 5. The local counts on the Issues 1, 2, and 3 show county voters […]

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It’s About the Money

While I’m still thinking over what happened last night, the thing that’s clearest to me is that the victories of state Issues 2 and 3 and Cuyahoga County Issue 6 are all about one thing: money. I don’t have exact figures in front of me right now, but the proponents so drastically out-raised the opposition […]

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Meeting David Pepper

Last night, I attended a house party to meet our state auditor candidate David Pepper, who is from Cincinnati and not known up here in Northeast Ohio. A local Democratic activist/ fundraiser invited people to meet him and get to know a little more about him. (This was not a fundraiser, although little envelopes were […]

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It Really IS That Important

It’s hard to believe we’re sitting here on a Saturday — with an enormous Democratic majority in congress — facing the possibility that an entire group of the women most in need of legal abortions won’t be able to get them with insurance they have paid for, because they are part of a public option […]

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