“Does a guy who wears dog collars in pictures with Barney Frank really want to make a political issue of other men’s . . .” In Ohio?s Senate race, incumbent nut case Sherrod Brown recently complained on his website about all the outside groups running ads against him. And why not? Brown?s average polling lead on my friend Josh Mandel is roughly within the margin | Read More »
According to the vote count that leaked out, Senator Roy Blunt became Senate Republican Conference Vice Chairman with 25 votes and Senator Ron Johnson lost with 22 votes. Let me be up front that I genuinely like Roy Blunt. But I also think Senator Blunt is part of the status quo problem in Washington. My support of Ron Johnson was about Ron Johnson being a | Read More »
Hey Rick Perry, if you weren’t trying to have fun with birtherism, this would probably be a much bigger media story today. Peter Hamby over at CNN referred to it as “an incredible moment in politics.” Mitt Romney refused to endorse John Kasich’s reforms in Ohio. This is a huge freaking deal. Playing it too safe is finally biting Romney in the rear end. He’s | Read More »
Holy cow this is awesome. Ohio Treasurer and RedState endorsed Josh Mandel has out raised incumbent United States Senate Leftist Sherrod Brown. Jim DeMint’s Senate Conservatives Fund also came out recently and endorsed Josh Mandel. Sherrod Brown, whose campaign strategy consists of moving as far left as possible to become the Alan Grayson of the Senate, has got to be soiling his underwear at this | Read More »
There’s big news out of Ohio. Former Secretary of State Ken Blackwell is not going to seek the U.S. Senate nomination and now Jim DeMint’s Senate Conservatives Fund just went all in with Josh Mandel. I’d endorsed Josh a while back and think he is a superb candidate to take on Sherrod Brown, a man consistently listed as the most liberal member of the United | Read More »
I have to be honest with you. With the exception of Ted Cruz and Michael Williams in Texas and Jeff Flake in Arizona, I am not really that excited about any of the Senate races this year. There are few solid conservative rockstars out there. And yes, if you are thinking I am ignoring candidate X in your state, I’ve thought of them. They’re good. | Read More »
Good job by Mike Flynn and Big Government uncovering this absolutely horrendous court filing detailing the abuse Congressman Charlie Wilson (D-OH) inflicted on his ex-wife — much of which he admitted to doing in a deposition. Clara Wilson went so far as to use the term “extreme cruelty” to describe what Charlie Wilson put her through. Wilson admitted in his deposition to grabbing his wife | Read More »
“Ohio Democrats are attacking an organization doling out $15 million to the children of fallen or wounded soldiers just to score cheap political points.” In a political season where every Democrat is bitterly clinging by fingernails to the electoral cliff, we may have reached a new low from Ohio. Months ago a lady on the internet both Democrats and Republicans recognize is not quite playing | Read More »
This is great. Below is the screenshot of an email sent from Kellie Galan, the Vice President of the Ohio University College Democrats. Every student who brings someone to the polls to vote in the city council elections in Athens, OH gets $5.00. Nice. But is that illegal?
Congressman Zack Space’s website is here. His Congressional site is is here. There’s just one problem. According to his campaign website, Congressman Space is no longer Zack Space, but Zach Space in the disclaimer. Now, being named Erick, I get Eric with no “k”, Erik with no “c”, and Erich with an “h”, more frequently than I get my name spelled right. But then I’m | Read More »
This is great news. Today John Kasich announced his 88 County Statewide Leadership Team for his campaign for Govern……er, Recharge Ohio. Not bad for a guy just ‘flirting’ with running for Governor, eh? More: the team Kasich has put together reads like a who’s who of Ohio Republican leadership. The County Chairmen of the three most populous counties, Doug Preisse (Franklin), Alex Triantafilou(Hamilton) and Rob | Read More »
From a friend in Ohio: Brett is a bad man and should be in prison. He moved with his fundraiser wife to Florida, largely to run this business and avoid a lot of the new business taxes that he authored while serving as Chief of Staff for corrupt former speaker of the Ohio House Larry Householder. (He wrote a fascinating 109 page memo- which was | Read More »
Joel Mowbray has a must read column today about a Marine, running for office in Ohio, who is being attacked for serving in the military by his political opponent. Rep. Josh Mandel is a Republican State Legislator in Ohio. His opponent, Bob Belovich, hates both the war and the military in general. Barbara Belovich said Josh “went AWOL” by fighting in Iraq. Even Mr. Mandel’s | Read More »
The Toledo Blade gets today’s award for rigorous media adherence to Democratic talking points with this article titled “Ohio’s Brunner seeks aid from high court” with the subtitle “Rights of about 200,000 Ohio voters rest on justices’ decision.” The “aid” implies some form of relief for a wrong. That wrong would be the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which ordered Brunner to comply with federal | Read More »
At the same time federal courts in Ohio are ordering Ohio’s Secretary of State to verify the registrations of newly registered voters in Ohio, leftwing activists in Georgia are suing Georgia’s Secretary of State, Karen Handel, to stop her verifying records. As Maggie Thurber notes about the Ohio situation: The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge George C. Smith called the identification breakdown “a serious | Read More »
Here is Soren explaining what’s going on in Ohio: And now here is Jeff Ortega at the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office hanging up on a talk radio host in Cleveland who wanted to know what the Secretary of State was refusing to put safeguards in place at Ohio early voting locations. On election day the law requires Republican and Democrat poll watchers. But during | Read More »
Mary Jo Kilroy, running against Steve Stivers in OH-15, has denied being any sort of radical. In fact, when Steve Stivers attacked her for working for the Free Press, Kilroy’s campaign responded that she had won an award for “excellent journalism.” Well, let’s examine Mary Jo Kilroy and the Free Press. We’ve uncovered film of Kilroy participating in a French socialist “documentary” called “Sentimental Journey: | Read More »
In 2006, on behalf of RedState, I joined with other right of center bloggers to choose a slate of candidates worth supporting. RedState has its own slate of candidates that we have endorsed. This other slate is a larger selection of candidates chosen together by right of center bloggers. We all had the chance to nix a choice until we had a slate of candidates | Read More »
Things have turned negative in OH-15, the battle of Steve Stivers, an Iraq war veteran, against socialist Mary Jo Kilroy, running as a Democrat. Kilroy attacked Stivers for once working as a lobbyist for Bank One. Stivers responded that Kilroy ran a socialist newspaper. The Kilroy campaign shot back, claiming that Kilroy won an award for “excellent journalism” and that Stivers is lying about Kilroy’s | Read More »
Rep, Tubbs Jones of Ohio suffered a brain aneurysm yesterday and died a short time ago. Our prayers go out to her family. Tubbs Jones, 58, served as a Cuyahoga County judge and prosecutor before succeeding U.S. Rep. Louis Stokes. She has served five terms in Congress and is expected to easily win her sixth in November. (SOURCE) UPDATE: Despite press from both the local | Read More »
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