My house was one of the houses that this weasel had called on Election Day. Voter suppression efforts like this are key to EVERY Republican election strategy, so it is nice to see a scam exposed and punished from time to time (you can read the local coverage in the Sun Papers here and more …
Election 2010
From the ground up
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. As usual, voters are way ahead of professional national opinion leaders. To borrow a phrase used in the article, the Tea Party is now “less an abstraction” to the people who actually live in Tea Party districts, as opposed to the national narrative creators who don’t live in these districts. …
I thought we were winning but we may be losing
I started reading more about for-profit K-12 schools last spring because I was talking with people about teachers and unions during the Issue Two campaign. In the course of those conversations, I found that people here were very surprised to learn that nearly half of “public” charter schools in Ohio are run by for-profit entities. …
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Good news for voting enthusiasts
John Lewis is concerned, but I’m well past “troubled”
Great piece by John Lewis on voting: Since January, a majority of state legislatures have passed or considered election-law changes that, taken together, constitute the most concerted effort to restrict the right to vote since before the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The 1993 National Voter Registration Act — also known as the Motor Voter …
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Transparency is our goal, right?
As I’m sure you’re aware by now, because I complained about it constantly, I have a personal interest in the role of Fox News in getting my current governor, John Kasich, elected. The media personalities on Fox (Governor Kasich’s former co-workers) weren’t subtle when promoting candidate Kasich. Too, Rupert Murdoch is a personal friend and …
Now that he’s admitted it, and he’s the secretary of state, doesn’t he have to do something to prevent it?
Finally: The Ohio state Senate was set to consider this week what critics are calling the most restrictive voter identification law in the country. The push for restrictive voter ID measures in the Buckeye state is part of a trend of similar legislation sweeping Republican-controlled legislatures across the country. But Ohio’s measure is so restrictive …