So Who IS Behind Traci "TJ" Johnson?
Submitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 11:06pm.
As we’ve related here, the two last-minute “mystery” candidates who filed for the Democratic U.S. Senate primary didn’t qualify for the ballot. And one of them, Traci “TJ” Johnson, isn’t going quietly. She’s tossing around all kinds of accusations against the office of secretary of state Jennifer Brunner.
Now more such attacks are being leveled by a failed Republican candidate, Steve Christopher, who was hoping to take on Mike DeWine in the Republican primary for attorney general. He’s got a group called the Ohio Liberty Council demanding investigations on his behalf. He’s got their press release posted at his website:
http://www.stevechristopher.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl...
What I found interesting is that the Ohio Liberty Council, which calls itself a “nonpartisan” group, is also in the same breath defending Johnson. (Weirdly and erroneously, their release claims, “Three Candidates for U.S. Senate, Ms. Brunner’s opponents, were disqualified by the Secretary of State.”)
So how “nonpartisan" is the Ohio Liberty Council? You can probably guess just from its name. Here’s the description appended to the press release:
”The Ohio Liberty Council is a statewide coalition of non-partisan groups in Ohio including Buckeye Firearms Association, Central Ohio 9/12 Project, Cincinnati 9/12 Project, Cincinnati Tea Party, Young Americans for Liberty-OSU, Dayton Tea Party, and the Ohio Freedom Alliance.”
So — we have a “Democratic” candidate being defended by an organization that consists of tea parties and 9/12 Project (a Glenn Beck effort) groups. Something doesn’t smell right here.
Rotten in Denmark?
Our county party chair tried to invite Johnson to our open, transparent endorsement meeting. She did not respond to emails, phone calls and did not appear. NOTE: all of the other three candidates DID make the trip.
Hmmn... she doesn't respond to an invite to appear before the party faithful in one of our state's FEW endorsement meetings where an outsider candidate might have had a chance, but then she's "SHOCKED, SHOCKED I SAY" to find out that she pulled a "Charlie Wilson" on getting enough VALID signatures.
I predicted that neither of the late comers would make the ballot.
And the whole attack on Judge Brunner is bullshit -because it's the local county BoE's who ultimately have to confirm the signatures as being actual ELIGIBLE voters. (Just as an example, if ya voted in the last 12 straight GOP partisan primaries, ya ain't eligible...)