Angel Rhodes is running for State Representative of the 22nd District of the House of Representatives against incumbent Democrat John Patrick Carney. I know this because Rhodes dropped off a flyer on my front porch apparently because I have a have a yard sign supporting passage of the Columbus Metro library levy.

In the flyer, Rhodes bashes Carney for voting "to cut 3.5 million dollars from the libraries of Franklin County, including over 2 million dollars cut directly from the Columbus Metropolitan Library." Rhodes also gushes about how she loved libraries and puppy dogs as a young girl.

Yet Rhodes' primary campaign issue is trickle-down tax and economic policies that destoyed our economy during the Bush and Taft years. You can't have it both ways Angel. State budgets must be balanced. You can't smear Democrats for lowering spending and also be all about tax cuts for rich people.

We will face tough choices in our next state budget that will require mature, adult bi-partisanship from our elected representatives. I don't know much about Angel Rhodes but she seems like someone who expects government services such as our community libraries but doesn't want to pay for them.

Either Rhodes is a free-loader or a slick politician trying to score cheap points. 

 

Saturday, Steve Stivers, a candidate for Ohio's 15th Congressional District, was personally given a copy of the Social Security Pledge. Mr. Stivers politely accepted the pledge, though he did not explain why his office refused to communicate in our earlier attempts at delivery.

On past occasions, Mr. Stivers office has twice rebuffed even a delivery of our pledge for the Candidate's review.

Mr. Stivers your constituents are waiting to hear from you. As the election grows closer, the people of the 15th District deserve to know where you stand.

On September 1, 2010, Ohio’s high risk pool program will start to cover Ohioans who have been shut out of the insurance market because of pre-existing conditions. The program is expected to help 5,500 Ohioans.

Ohio Consumers for Health Coverage Launch Build It Now! Campaign to Highlight How Reform Helps Ohioans Today, health care consumers gathered at the Statehouse to meet with legislators and to celebrate how health care reform is helping Ohioans. The“Build It Now!” campaign focuses on educating the public and building a strong foundation for the new health care system.

A Green Party Government Will Do What Democrats Won't Do
A Green Party Government does what Ohio's future requires and what the public sector cannot do-or is not doing-effectively, ethically, or not at all. It is the job of the government to promote, and, if possible, provide protection, greater democracy, more freedom, a cleaner environment, broader prosperity, better health, and the building and maintaining of public infrastructure.We picture an Ohio where people care about each other, not just themselves, and act responsibly with strength and effectiveness for each other.We want to protect Ohioans, we want them to prosper, and we want them to be treated fairly.There is no fulfillment without freedom, no freedom without opportunity, and no opportunity without prosperity.This is the principle that the Green Party of Ohio is running on in this year's election.The difference between the Green party of Ohio and the Democrats this election year is the straight fact that the Green Party of Ohio believes in equal protection and equal opportunity for all Ohioans, principles the Democrats have long abandoned.For the most vulnerable in Ohio, The Green Party has a duty to do two things: minimize their pain and maximize their gain. On good days, we do not leave anyone out. On bad days, we do not leave anyone behind.

The Green Party of Ohio does not accept a state where people of color and low-income people are always first in line for everything bad and then left to benefit last and least when it comes to anything good.

Dennis S. Spisak-Green Party of Ohio Nominee for Governor

Http://www.votespisak.org/governor/

Http://www.dennisspisak.com

for more info, contact 330-503-1407

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh5_v8gl3M

Free Press Free Film Night
Tuesday, August 24 at 7:30pm
Drexel Theater, 2254 E. Main St., Bexley
"People to People"
This is a 45-minute doocumentary film co-produced by the Cuban Film Institute and the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples. It tells the story of the USA/Cuba Friendshipments in which hundreds of caravaners from the United States and other countries have played a leading role in challenging the nearly 50-year-old USA blockade of Cuba, and in forceably demonstrating by means of their presence in Cuba, a trip they make in violation of USA law as specified by provisions for the blockade, that we are willing to be in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Cuba. The film will be followed by discussion led by Bill Lewis of the Columbus Pastors for Peace organization.

Sponsored by the Drexel Theater, the Free Press, and the Central Ohio Green Education Fund.
253-2571, truth@freepress.org

Republican Candidate Steve Stivers’ office refused to accept a pledge, in which, the signer would agree not to privatize Social Security. 

A member of the Alliance for Retired Americans and I attempted to drop off a pledge to the Republican Candidate’s campaign office.  We were let into the building and given directions to Mr. Stivers’ office.  My ARA friend stated, when greeted by the staff, that we were with ProgressOhio and were dropping off a pledge for the Candidate to sign.  A staff member immediately told us to take our camera out of the building.  I informed the office that we would go and asked if the office would accept the Social Security pledge before we left.  Mr. Stivers’ staff refused to listen. 

Acquiescing to their request we made our way to the exit.  A staff member chased us out to the door repeatedly stating that he was calling the police and asking how did we get in.  Responded truthfully, we informed him we were let in and directed to the office.  Our last effort to state our purpose while exiting the building was ignored.

This appeared in David Jones' political commentary column in today's Lake County News Herald.

"BENCHMARKS

Geauga County's Mary Jane Trapp, the Geauga County resident who serves as the 11th Appellate Court presiding judge and who is running this fall as a Democrat for the bench of a justice on the Ohio Supreme Court?

Of all such SUPCO candidates, Trapp is the only one who got an "excellent" rating and a unanimous "4" or perfect score from the Ohio Judicial Candidates Rating Coalition.

In a tough race vs. SUPCO Justice Judith Lanzinger, a Republican, the same Trapp is also endorsed by the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, Cuyahoga Criminal Defense Lawyer's Association and Norman S. Minor Bar Association.

And it's Trapp who's "highly recommended" by the Lake County Bar Association and Ohio State Bar Association."

http://www.news-herald.com/articles/2010/08/15/opinion/nh2880118.txt

Would suggest all good Progressives add appropriate comments to this article and post it on their Facebook pages along with a link to www.Judge4yourself.com, which shows while Judge Trapp received a "perfect" score of 4, her opponent, GOP Justice Judith Lanzinger received a barely passing 2.6 rating from the Ohio Judicial Candidates Rating Coalition.

From Today's Dispatch....

The director of the Ohio School Facilities Commission abused his position in an attempt to benefit labor unions, according to a report released yesterday by the office of Inspector General Thomas P. Charles.

From meeting with school officials with an allegedly profane union official in tow to reassigning a manager to address union complaints, Richard Murray wrongfully sought to land construction work for organized labor, the report says. "Murray conferred upon unions a favored status, at the expense of non-union competitors, local school districts and the (state's) own guidelines," it states.

While overseeing $2.8million in daily state spending, Murray "abused his authority by repeatedly acting as a go-between for union representatives and participating in arm-twisting sessions with local school districts," according to the report, which was written after a five-month investigation.

The administration of Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland stood by Murray yesterday, saying that the inspector general reached inaccurate conclusions and did not produce any evidence that school districts were improperly swayed to choose union labor.

The report also says that Murray, a former union official hired last fall, should not have negotiated and signed a project-labor agreement to use union labor to build schools for the deaf and blind in Columbus - a $34 million project. The agreement will result in payments that could exceed $145,000 to a union local to which Murray belongs and to the Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust, a group that Murray directed for 12 years.

The report criticized Murray for creating the appearance of impropriety.

We didn't start the fire.....it's been started by Ted and all of his corrupt cronies the little boy from Duck Run has placed into power....

And that's the way it is.....

Dennis S. Spisak-Green Party of Ohio Nominee for Governor

Http://www.votespisak.org/governor/

Http://www.dennisspisak.com

for more info, contact 330-503-1407

Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann was driven from office in May 2008 based on a report written by two lawyers in his office. Dann had asked the lawyers to investigate sexual-harassment complaints filed by two female employees against the office’s director of general services, Anthony Gutierrez.

The lawyers, executive assistant attorney general Ben Espy and senior assistant attorney general Julie Pfeiffer, collected evidence and interviewed employees, managers, and the attorney general. Then they issued a scathing report on the office.

They said Gutierrez had subjected the complainants, Vanessa Stout and Cindy Stankoski, to a hostile environment of sexual harassment in the general services section. The report indicated the women were innocent victims of boorish and lecherous behavior.

The report also suggested that Gutierrez had driven and crashed state vehicles while drunk, carried a gun in the vehicles, and frightened employees by telling them he was associated with the Mafia.

The report further claimed that administrators in the attorney general’s office had failed to properly respond when informed of Gutierrez’s alleged improper conduct. It implied they had mismanaged the office, allowed a sexually hostile environment, and tried to cover up wrongdoing. It accused Dann of showing bad judgment and blamed some of the office’s problems on cronyism.

Almost immediately after the Ohio media trumpeted those inflammatory charges across the state, Dann’s fellow Democratic state officials called for his resignation or impeachment. Then they applied strong-arm tactics and demagoguery to pressure him from office.

Specifically, Democrats in the Ohio House of Representatives introduced an impeachment resolution based on the report. The governor’s office offered jobs to Dann’s top aides to have them abandon him and urge him to resign. The Ohio Democratic Party revoked its endorsement of Dann’s 2006 campaign for attorney general and expelled him from the party.

Additionally, the legislature and governor authorized the Ohio inspector general to investigate the attorney general’s office. The inspector general’s agents ransacked the office in a raid the media described as “shock and awe.” The agents seized computers, other electronic equipment, and what the inspector general called “a lot” of documents. Dann himself was stripped of his computer, BlackBerry, and state vehicle.

By isolating Dann, smearing his character, and crippling his ability to function as attorney general, state officials coerced him to resign. Tragically, their acts were based on an internal report that turned out to be riddled with false and misleading statements.

Each of the report’s misstatements made Dann’s administration look worse – never better – than it should have. Although the authors of the report worked in Dann’s office, they seemingly wanted to destroy his career as a public official. Given the information they had to work with, they could not have written a report better calculated to achieve that result.

An accurate report would not have led to Dann’s removal from office. The following are the report’s most significant misstatements that caused that wrongheaded and unjust act.

False or Misleading Allegation No. 1: “After complaints were made by Ms. Stankoski and Ms. Stout on March 6, 2008 and March 7, 2008,” the chief of policy and administration and the chief operating officer “had the obligation to separate the complainant and Mr. Gutierrez pending the resolution of the complaints.”

The complaints were filed after Stout had been transferred from general services to another section of the attorney general’s office. She was in a different building and under a different director, and thus was already separated from Gutierrez.

But Stankoski was still working in general services, and Gutierrez continued as director of the section. The report used those circumstances to make the attorney general’s office appear to have callously and wrongfully left Stankoski in a sexually hostile environment. But that was untrue.

During the investigation, attorney Espy told the chief operating officer that “when you have sexual harassment allegations, the urgency of trying to separate the individuals is paramount.” He and his co-investigator took the same position in their report. But they had been given different information in their interview of the deputy director of human resources.

The deputy previously had about seven years’ experience as EEO director for the attorney general’s office. In that capacity, her foremost responsibility had been overseeing the office’s EEO program. Her duties had also included conducting the office’s sexual-harassment training classes and handling EEO investigations.

When the investigators asked her if an employer has a duty to separate an accuser and accused after sexual allegations have been made, she responded, “Not always. Just depends on the circumstances.” In view of her testimony, Espy’s claim about a paramount duty to separate the parties was false. He should have examined the circumstances to see if a need existed to separate them.

Under the circumstances of this case, a reasonable decision was made to not remove Gutierrez from general services. In regard to the three specific incidents of sexual harassment that Stankoski alleged, each had occurred outside of the office and over four months earlier, in September and October 2007. She didn’t file a complaint back then but instead waited until March 2008, when she got mad at Gutierrez for transferring her friend Stout out of his section.

Moreover, neither Stankoski nor Stout alleged that Gutierrez had harassed them since about the beginning of 2008. This meant that even according to the women’s allegations, Gutierrez had been behaving himself for over a month, and possibly over two months, before the complaints were filed. In fact, Stankoski indicated that Gutierrez had been leaving her alone after Stout began working in the section over three months earlier, on November 26, 2007.

When Stankoski finally did file her complaint, she told the deputy director of human resources she didn’t need to be moved because Gutierrez wasn’t bothering her at the time. Still, the deputy worked with general services to have Stankoski’s desk moved so she wouldn’t be looking at Gutierrez. But Stankoski decided that wasn’t necessary either.

Clearly, there was no “paramount” need to separate Gutierrez from Stankoski after she filed her complaint. She didn’t allege he was harassing her then. She didn’t even allege he had harassed her within at least the last month, and possibly within the last three months. Her specific allegations of harassment involved incidents that allegedly occurred away from the office and over four months earlier.

To ensure that Stankoski remained free from harassment after the complaints were filed, managers in the attorney general’s office checked with her to see if Gutierrez was bothering her. She repeatedly told them he wasn’t. Stankoski was instructed to let them know “if he even looks at you cross-eyed.” Additionally, the chief operating officer told the deputy director of human resources to do whatever was needed to make Stankoski comfortable. The chief instructed the human resources director to inform the women that they were safe in their jobs and should fear no retaliation.

Obviously, the situation was being monitored to put the women at ease and immediately protect Stankoski if there was any indication Gutierrez was mistreating her. But the need to take such action never arose.

The results of the decision to not separate Gutierrez and Stankoski proved that it was reasonable. No harm resulted. Neither Stankoski nor anyone else alleged that Gutierrez harassed an employee after the complaints were filed.

Nevertheless, the report lambasted the attorney general’s office for not immediately separating Gutierrez from Stankoski. The investigators preferred that Gutierrez be needlessly punished before his side of the story had been heard. Their position was irrational and unfair.

False or Misleading Allegation No. 2: The chief of policy and administration “failed to immediately and properly investigate allegations of harassment” after Stout and Stankoski made their complaints.

The report criticized the fact that the women’s complaints weren’t immediately referred to the attorney general’s EEO officer for an investigation. Although the office’s written policy said such complaints ‘should” (not “must”) be handled that way, the women’s complaints weren’t referred to the EEO officer until March 27, which was about 14 workdays after the women contacted the human resources section. The investigators and media portrayed this delay as evidence of a reluctance to investigate and a cover-up.

The report and media neglected to mention, however, that the women themselves were the reason the complaints weren’t immediately referred to the EEO officer. When Stout first contacted the human resources section on March 6, she was told to present her concerns to the EEO officer. But she responded, “I will not do that.” And Stankoski seemed even more opposed to having the complaints go to the EEO officer.

When the investigators asked the deputy director of human resources why the complaints weren’t immediately referred to the EEO officer, she explained that the complainants didn’t want that to happen. The women alleged that the EEO officer was too close to members of the executive staff. And Stankoski claimed to not trust her, even though she didn’t know her. The director of human resources therefore told the EEO officer that the women didn’t want her to investigate.

After Stout refused to see the EEO officer, she was told to contact the deputy director of human resources. Later that day, both the director and deputy director of human resources met with her about her issue. The director told Stout to come to her anytime. The same two managers met with Stankoski the next day.

At that point, the human resources director thought she and her deputy would be investigating the complaints. But the chief of policy and administration and the chief operating officer decided the director shouldn’t be involved in the investigation. Because she had previously made negative comments about Gutierrez, she was not considered impartial.

As for the reason she couldn’t investigate, the director explained to the investigators: “I was told that I was perceived as not neutral, that I was out to get Tony. And I understood why I could not be the one to investigate. I totally understood that.” The disqualification of the director meant her deputy was also disqualified.

With the EEO officer and the director and deputy director of human resources apparently unable to investigate, the chief of policy and administration and the chief operating officer had several meetings about how to proceed. One or more of the meetings included the first assistant attorney general, who also talked with the human resources director about the matter.

The issue at the meetings was how to properly investigate after the women had refused to see the EEO officer. But there’s nothing to indicate anyone wanted to stop an investigation from occurring. The first assistant attorney general later told the inspector general’s agents that the attorney general expressed no opposition to an investigation and directed him to “go ahead” and “do what you gotta do” to have the complaints properly investigated.

Adding to the procedural uncertainty was a dispute about whether the women’s oral complaints were sufficient or needed to be put in writing. The policies of the attorney general’s office had been changed in January 2008 to no longer require EEO complaints to be in writing. Instead, the complaints were “encouraged” to be in writing (whatever that meant). But the EEO officer subsequently learned that such complaints were required by law to be in writing, and the policy would have to be changed.

That legal issue was likely a reason the first assistant attorney general was brought into the discussions about how to proceed. Unfortunately, he was out of the office from March 21 until March 31. His absence contributed to a delay in starting the investigation.

Another factor contributing to the delay was that the women’s complaints weren’t the only issue the executive staff had to deal with. The chief operating officer said she and the chief of policy and administration had “all of these other emergencies on our plate, these other meetings out of town. . . . Did we drop everything we were doing to work on this issue? No, we didn’t. . . . He’s racing off to 40 meetings. I’m racing off to 40 meetings. And it was like this was not the only thing in our world at that point.”

Ultimately, a decision was made that the complaints needed to be in writing and referred to the EEO officer for an investigation. On March 20, the chief operating officer told the director of human resources to inform the women that they could file formal complaints with the EEO officer. That was only six workdays after the chief operating officer had learned about the complaints, and she was out of the office for two of those days.

In accordance with the chief’s instructions, the director of human resources informed Stankoski and Stout on March 20 that if they put their complaints in writing, an investigation would be launched by the EEO officer.

Probably because of their reluctance to deal with the EEO officer, Stankoski and Stout caused a further delay in the investigation’s start by not contacting the EEO officer for a week. On March 27, the women were again told they could file written complaints with the EEO officer. On that same date, the EEO officer contacted them, asked for an e-mail explanation of their issues, and set up a time to meet with them.

Nevertheless, the women continued to be in no hurry to have the EEO officer investigate. They didn’t provide her with written complaints until March 31.

Because of the complications that arose from the women’s initial refusal to see the EEO officer and their subsequent foot-dragging in contacting her, 14 workdays was not an unreasonable delay in beginning the investigation.

Further, the women almost immediately sabotaged the EEO officer’s investigation by violating her instructions about the confidentiality of EEO investigations. A few days after they met with her, details of the meeting appeared in a newspaper article. Because the EEO officer thought the women had misquoted her in the article, she felt she couldn’t be impartial and had to withdraw from the investigation. Shortly thereafter, the attorney general appointed the two attorneys to investigate the complaints.

In regard to the delay in starting the investigation, the key point is that there would have been no delay if the women themselves had not objected to meeting with the EEO officer when they first contacted the human resources section. The EEO officer would have immediately begun an investigation at that time.

But the report said nothing about the women’s initial refusal to see the EEO officer, the managers’ attempts to accommodate them by trying to find an alternative means of investigating the complaints, the women’s subsequent delays in meeting with the EEO officer, or their undermining of her investigation. Instead, the report implied that the attorney general’s office had resisted opening an investigation and tried to orchestrate a cover-up. And the media ran with that false version of events.

False or Misleading Allegation No. 3: “Gutierrez did not invite any of the male employees to socialize after hours.”

This allegation was apparently included in the report to depict Gutierrez as prowling for female employees instead of seeking social companionship generally. But the investigators had to ignore some of their findings to create that impression.

A male facilities manager in general services told them that Gutierrez “was pretty social with everyone,” not just with the women. He testified that Gutierrez had offered him “a couple of times maybe to go out and meet up or get a drink or something like that.”

As for his response to Gutierrez’s offers, the manager explained: “I had planned on going out a couple times but something else had happened or something had come up, you know. It wasn’t that I wasn’t going to do it.”

The manager’s testimony shows that the report was patently false in saying Gutierrez “did not invite any of the male employees to socialize after hours.”

Another male facilities manager in general services told the investigators about going with Gutierrez after work to watch Gutierrez’s son play baseball. He also said that after the game, they all went out for pizza. Because the manager had gone to see Gutierrez’s son play, Gutierrez was probably the one to extend the invitation.

But the investigators didn’t bother to look further into that issue before writing their report to falsely paint Gutierrez as preying on females and having no interest in socializing with male employees.

False or Misleading Allegation No. 4: The scope of the investigation included not only the sexual-harassment complaints against Gutierrez but “also was extended to any other policy violations that were uncovered as a result of or rose out of the Gutierrez investigation.”

By saying the investigation’s scope included any policy violations uncovered, and by not finding that the complainants had violated office policy, the report portrayed them as innocent of wrongdoing. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The investigation revealed that Stout had lied on her application for employment with the attorney general’s office and during her employment interview. On the application, she intentionally omitted three theft convictions in her background and falsely asserted she had graduated from high school when she actually had completed the eleventh grade and obtained a GED. During the interview, she untruthfully said she was proficient at using computer programs such as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Although Stout committed multiple frauds on the state government to obtain her job, the report said nothing about those matters, which obviously warranted her firing.

And as mentioned above, the women violated the office’s policy that requires sexual-harassment complaints to remain confidential to the extent possible. Their breach of confidentiality compromised the integrity of the EEO officer’s investigation to the extent that she had to withdraw from conducting it.

Moreover, the report said the policies of the attorney general’s office prohibit “profanity, practical and off color jokes.” The investigation revealed that Stout and Stankoski violated those policies. In the office, both used profanity and played pranks on Gutierrez. The investigators even obtained e-mails in which Stankoski sought suggestions from coworkers for practical jokes to play on him.

Also according to the report, the office’s policies state that sexual harassment can include “uninvited letters, telephone calls or materials of a sexual nature.” These policies were likely violated by the women too. Stout sent text messages that she said were “jokes and stuff,” and a coworker described as “dirty.” Gutierrez said one of Stout’s Christmastime texts was an “explicit joke” involving Santa Clause. Another coworker testified that Stankoski sent her text messages that could be “dirty in nature, or of sexual nature.”

Further, by violating such office policies, the women were acting in a manner inconsistent with being in a sexually hostile environment. They also acted in other ways that exposed their complaints to be fabricated.

As explained in detail in a previous article about the complaints, sexually harassed women do not go into their harasser’s office and shut the door behind them, socialize and have lunch with him in his office, joke with him, frequently take smoke breaks with him, flirt with him, come up with the idea of having a birthday party for him, plan and organize the party, act in a juvenile manner in his presence in the office, or shoot pool with him in a bar. Stankoski and Stout behaved in all those ways with Gutierrez.

A sexually harassed woman also does not pose for risqué photos in which she flirtatiously holds her harasser’s office-issued badge at her bosom, make a Boss’s Day card for him, refer a girlfriend for employment in his office, go out for drinks with him, accompany him to dinner, go to his apartment to drink and have pizza, or get so drunk with him that she slurs her words, gets sick, and blacks out at the apartment. Stankoski did all those things with Gutierrez.

A woman working in a sexually hostile environment also does not repeatedly visit her harasser’s apartment to drink and socialize with him, smoke cigarettes and talk for hours with him outside the apartment, throw “the F bomb” while complaining to him in his office about her treatment by a security guard, meet him at a bar to let him buy her a birthday drink, drink with him in bars on other occasions, complain to him about her boyfriend becoming jealous of her sex toy and breaking it, or invite him to party, have Bacardi, and be her “bitch” for New Year’s. Stout did all those things with Gutierrez.

No wonder one of the women’s female coworkers told the investigators the two were “partyers” and their complaints “bogus.” But her statements were left out of the report. So were the statements of a female coworker who questioned the women’s motives and indicated the two might be disgruntled employees with an ax to grind.

The report should have found that Stankoski and Stout were not only guilty of unprofessional conduct and multiple violations of office policy, but also acted in many other ways that were inconsistent with being victims of sexual harassment. Based on those findings, the report should have recommended that Stout be fired and Stankoski be at least disciplined. But the women’s wrongdoing was whitewashed to make them look like innocent victims.

False or Misleading Allegation No. 5: “Mr. Gutierrez, with the assistance of [the chief of policy and administration], caused the transfer of Ms. Stout from the General Services Section to the IT Section without a justifiable reason.”

This allegation continued the report’s nonsensical theme that the complainants were innocent victims. The attorney general’s office had every right to not only transfer Stout but fire her. As the chief operating officer told the investigators, no policy was violated by the transfer.

At about the beginning of 2008, Stout sent Gutierrez and others a text message saying “it’s Happy New Year’s, let’s party, let’s have Bacardi and you’re my bitch for New Year’s.”

Gutierrez’s wife saw the salacious invitation to her husband and was very upset by it. So was her good friend the attorney general’s wife. As a result, steps were soon taken to transfer Stout to another section, where she would be working in a different building and under a different director.

Stout confided to a coworker that she had been transferred because of the text message. Gutierrez also indicated the text message was the reason for the transfer.

But Stout changed her story when she made the sexual-harassment allegations. In an attempt to be placed back in Gutierrez’s section, she claimed she had been transferred because of refusing his alleged sexual advances.

Clearly, after Stout had invited her section’s director – who was married with children – to drink, party, and be her “bitch” for New Year’s, the attorney general’s office was justified in transferring her to a different section. The action was reasonably intended to prevent her from further disrupting the lives of the director and his family.

As an employee-at-will who had been on the job only about six weeks, Stout could have been fired on the spot for sending the inappropriate message and causing the resulting problems. At many organizations she would have been. And the two attorney investigators were aware that additional grounds for firing her were that she had lied on her employment application and during her job interview.

Nevertheless, the investigators said the attorney general’s office had no justifiable reason for merely transferring Stout, let alone firing her. This bizarre position raises serious questions about their qualifications for judging management practices.

False or Misleading Allegation No. 6: “During the course of his employment, Mr. Gutierrez repeatedly drove a state vehicle after consuming alcohol. . . . During the past year, he had at least four state vehicles assigned to him. It has been alleged that he has crashed state motor vehicles while being under the influence.”

The report implied that Gutierrez had been assigned at least four state vehicles because of repeatedly crashing them while driving drunk. But the investigators knew that wasn’t the reason he had been assigned multiple vehicles.

Probably because his section had offices in various parts of Ohio, Gutierrez was provided a state vehicle. On some occasions after work, he stopped at restaurants or bars where he consumed alcohol. He had that in common with many workers in both the public and private sectors.

Regardless of whether Gutierrez repeatedly drove a state vehicle after drinking, the relevant issue was whether he was driving under the influence. According to the report, the “Policies and Procedure Manual clearly states that when using a state vehicle, ‘Driving under the influence of alcohol . . . is prohibited.’”

The office’s policy, therefore, did not forbid driving a state vehicle after consuming alcohol but only prohibited driving under the influence. Gutierrez was never arrested or pulled over for driving a state vehicle while intoxicated.

As for Gutierrez being assigned four vehicles, the deputy director of general services explained the reasons to the investigators. In regard to the first vehicle, the deputy testified that because the attorney general’s office needed a vehicle to be its “Sunshine Law Express,” Gutierrez gave up his so that it could be used for that purpose.

The deputy also testified that after Gutierrez obtained his second vehicle, the attorney general’s organized crime investigators needed a vehicle of that nature. So Gutierrez allowed them to have his.

The deputy further related that about two weeks after Gutierrez received his third vehicle, an agent in the bureau of criminal investigations destroyed a state vehicle in an accident. Gutierrez therefore gave the bureau his as a replacement.

Gutierrez provided the investigators the same account but in shorter form. When asked why he had been assigned four vehicles, he said, “My vehicles . . . I was driving were needed for something else and I gave them up for those reasons.”

Gutierrez did cause minor damage to a state vehicle. He told the investigators that in a grocery-store parking lot, he misjudged the size of a light post’s cement foundation and scraped it. He immediately reported the damage to the chief of policy and administration. The vehicle was still drivable and continued to be used.

A few days later, an intern in Gutierrez’s section seriously damaged the same vehicle by hitting a column in a state parking lot. Only at that point did the vehicle need to be sent to a garage for repairs.

Gutierrez also allegedly backed a state vehicle into a car owned by Stout’s father, who lived with her in an apartment across the street from Gutierrez’s residence. Stout claimed that Gutierrez was intoxicated when this accident supposedly occurred, even though she didn’t witness it and thus had no way of knowing. And she apparently gave two different versions of how she learned of the alleged incident.

If the accident actually happened, it was extremely minor. Stout told the investigators that because her father’s car had only a little dent and scratch, no insurance claim was pursued. And maintenance records show that Gutierrez did not bring his car to a state garage for repairs stemming from this alleged accident. He wasn’t aware of bumping the father’s car.

Stankoski provided the only other evidence that Gutierrez damaged a state vehicle while driving drunk, but she didn’t witness the alleged incident. She claimed that one morning at work, Gutierrez told her he had gotten extremely drunk the previous evening, fallen asleep at the wheel, and awakened when his vehicle hit a guardrail. Gutierrez denied to investigators he had said those things or damaged the vehicle in that manner.

In any event, the report was highly misleading about why Gutierrez had been assigned multiple vehicles. He performed as a team player by giving up three vehicles when they were needed for other purposes in the attorney general’s office. But the report twisted those unselfish acts to falsely imply he had repeatedly crashed state vehicles while driving drunk.

False or Misleading Allegation No. 7: Gutierrez “created an atmosphere in the General Services Section that left the employees fearful by constantly reminding them of . . . his family’s involvement with the Mafia.” Besides Stankoski, “other employees also witnessed Gutierrez discuss his association with the Mafia.”

Those statements were not supported by testimony the employees of general services gave to the investigators. And there was no credible basis for concluding that Gutierrez was associated with the Mafia.

The section’s deputy director testified he could not recall Gutierrez talking about having ties to the Mafia. A facilities manager said he never heard Gutierrez talk about any mob connections. A telecommunications assistant said the same.

The fixed-asset manager never heard of Gutierrez talking about Mafia ties. As for whether the general services employees were afraid of Gutierrez, she said, “I wouldn’t say that anybody was personally afraid of Tony. . . . I can’t imagine being personally afraid of him.” When asked whether he ever made her afraid, she answered, “Absolutely not.”

A general services assistant testified she never heard Gutierrez talk about being associated with the Mafia. She also was unaware of anyone in the section being afraid of Gutierrez or nervous when he was around.

The administrative assistant didn’t describe a section in fear. She told the investigators the atmosphere in general services was “lighthearted.” She further described the office as “jovial,” “exciting,” “happy-go-lucky,” “business oriented,” and “business minded.”

The telecommunications coordinator said he didn’t have the impression that people in general services were afraid of Gutierrez. The human resources director said she didn’t sense that Stout was afraid of Gutierrez. And the attorney general’s director of travel services testified she never felt uncomfortable with Gutierrez.

Those employees would have heard if Gutierrez had been “constantly reminding” the general services personnel of “his family’s involvement with the Mafia.” And they would have understood there might be reason to fear him. But their testimony shows that the report was false regarding these matters.

When the investigators asked Gutierrez about the Mafia, he denied Stankoski’s claim that he had told her his family was associated with it. He explained that once when they were talking about their families, he mentioned there were rumors his grandfather (on his mother’s side) might have been involved with the Mafia, “but there’s nothing substantiated.”

A couple of other employees testified that Gutierrez had indicated the same to them. For example, a telecommunications assistant testified that although he had heard Gutierrez mention something about his grandfather possibly being involved with the Mafia, “I never heard him talk about himself being connected or anything.”

Stankoski and Stout were the only ones who claimed they heard Gutierrez speak about being involved with the Mafia. And Stout said she didn’t believe he really was.

Moreover, the women were very vague in making these allegations. When the investigators asked Stankoski for more information, she said “he didn’t get into details. I mean, he talked about his family history. . . .” She later told them her understanding was that “the Gutierrez name or he is associated with” the Mafia, thus indicating that even she didn’t hear him say he was personally involved with it.

It’s not surprising that Gutierrez didn’t give details to Stankoski or anyone else. Because his grandfather died when his mother was only three years old, Gutierrez never met him. And his mother likely didn’t remember interacting with him. Nor did she know whether there was truth to any Mafia rumors.

In view of the vagueness of Stankoski and Stout’s claims and the lack of corroborating evidence, what likely happened is that they twisted Gutierrez’s statements about the rumors of his grandfather’s possible ties with the mob. They used those statements to claim he had told them about “his family’s involvement with the Mafia” and his own “association with the Mafia.”

The investigators did the same in their report. And this time they not only painted a very unfair picture of Gutierrez but of the attorney general. After the report’s section about Gutierrez’s supposed ties with the Mafia, the next section was titled “Gutierrez’s Close Association with the Attorney General.” This juxtaposition led readers to infer that the attorney general might be connected to the mob through his association with Gutierrez.

What a horrible thing to imply about Ohio’s chief law-enforcement official without any credible evidence! Those false impressions played no small part in fanning the emotional flames that led politicians in Dann’s own party to denounce him, demand his resignation, support his impeachment, and seek a further investigation of his office by the inspector general.

About five months later, though, a deputy inspector general didn’t take the Mafia allegations nearly as seriously. He laughed and was practically apologetic when raising the subject with Gutierrez. The deputy apparently viewed the allegations as ludicrous, which they were. And the inspector general’s report contained no finding that Gutierrez was associated with the Mafia.

False or Misleading Allegation No. 8: There is “substantial evidence to suggest that Gutierrez transported a firearm in his state-issued vehicle(s), which he parked in the State Office Tower Parking Garage. His conduct, if proven, may have violated state laws prohibiting the transportation of a firearm onto state property.”

The report not only said Gutierrez was involved with the Mafia but implied he might be a hit man, or involved in similar nefarious activities, because he reportedly carried a gun in his state vehicle. This was not only an unfair but ridiculous portrayal.

In regard to the evidence of Gutierrez having a gun in his vehicle, the investigators didn’t describe it as “substantial” when they interviewed the chief of policy and administration after they had interviewed all the other witnesses. One of the investigating attorneys said to him: “We’ve heard reports from more than one individual that perhaps Tony Gutierrez was carrying a firearm in his state vehicle. Did you ever become aware of the possibility that he was doing this?”

A “perhaps” and “possibility” seem far below the level of substantial evidence, which is how the investigators chose to describe it in their report. The chief of policy and administration responded that he was unaware of Gutierrez having a gun in a vehicle. That was the same answer given by a telecommunications assistant who had driven Gutierrez’s state vehicle, the administrative secretary, and the attorney general.

As for the direct evidence of Gutierrez having a gun, a facilities manager said he saw a gun case in Gutierrez’s car but didn’t know whether a gun was in it. Stankoski claimed she saw a gun in his car “in a case” and put it under the seat. But it’s unclear how Stankoski could tell there was a gun in the case while the facilities manager could not.

Even if Gutierrez had a gun, there was a logical reason. The chief of policy and administration explained to the investigators that Gutierrez was acquiring a license to carry a concealed weapon.

Similarly, the fixed-asset manager testified that Gutierrez had planned to get the license. A facilities manager thought Gutierrez had either gotten the license or was working on getting it. The deputy director of human resources thought Gutierrez had obtained the license but she wasn’t sure. The telecommunications coordinator heard that Gutierrez had gone through a class and obtained a permit to carry a gun.

Gutierrez’s administrative assistant testified that she helped him fill out an application to carry a concealed weapon. She had contacted the local sheriff’s office for instructions about the application process. And Gutierrez went through the required class to obtain a license to carry a gun.

When the investigators asked the administrative assistant if Gutierrez had a work-related reason for carrying a gun, she explained that when the attorney general’s driver was unavailable, Gutierrez planned to be a back-up driver and bodyguard. Gutierrez did occasionally drive for the attorney general.

Because the attorney general had received death threats, his bodyguard probably should have been armed. In fact, both the attorney general’s regular driver and the previous attorney general’s driver carried a gun for security purposes.

But the report said almost nothing about the steps Gutierrez had taken to legally carry a gun. And it was completely silent about the job-related reason he had done so. Instead, it let readers assume his reason for having a gun was likely related to his so-called “association with the Mafia.” The investigators wrote the report this way even though they hadn’t asked Gutierrez about a gun while interviewing him.

When the actual evidence is examined instead of the unsupported and inflammatory allegations in the report, it’s not surprising that Gutierrez was never charged with violating “state laws prohibiting the transportation of a firearm onto state property.”

False or Misleading Allegation No. 9: “Cronyism has no place in the Attorney General’s Office. Individuals should be hired based on their ability to do the job and not because of friendships without regard for their qualifications.”

Those broad statements were included on the last page of the report without indicating what exactly was being referred to. But the lack of specific supporting evidence didn’t stop the media from repeatedly proclaiming that the investigation had found an attorney general’s office beset by cronyism.

Possibly the report was referring to Gutierrez being a neighbor and longtime friend of Dann. But Gutierrez had significant job qualifications, which the report didn’t mention, for being director of general services. The investigators knew he wasn’t hired “without regard for . . . qualifications.”

Concerning Gutierrez’s skills, the deputy director of general services told the investigators: “He knew what he was doing. . . . We needed somebody in our section that knew the construction, knew leases. . . . He was the perfect person . . . to be brought in to do that, because . . . that was his background. He understood it.”

The deputy also informed the investigators: “Tony was the best – one of the most knowledgeable people I know in regard to leases, facilities, . . . construction. . . . We didn’t have that before. . . . We need somebody with his expertise. He fit that very, very well. . . . Knowing the job, getting things done, he’s the man to go to, because he can get it done for you.”

Although the deputy mentioned that Gutierrez had deficiencies in regard to management practices and interpersonal relations, this wouldn’t be surprising given that Gutierrez was new to state government after working as a construction contractor for 27 years. With time, he could have improved in the areas where he had weaknesses. The potential to improve management skills is a reason the state government sends its managers to training.

Moreover, the deputy indicated that because his own management and interpersonal skills complemented Gutierrez’s deficiencies, the two worked well together. Gutierrez had the technical skills and the deputy had the people skills.

A general services assistant likewise testified that Gutierrez “did his job, and he did it right.” And a facilities manager said the attorney general “wanted to get things done. And through Tony . . . those things would get accomplished.”

If the “cronyism” charge stemmed from Gutierrez’s hiring of Stout, who at the time was a friend and neighbor, the report was wrong in claiming the hiring was done without regard for qualifications. Although Stout later proved that Gutierrez had seriously misjudged her character, her criminal background didn’t automatically disqualify her from working for the office, because she had no felonies on her record. And before she started the job, she believed she had the ability to perform the duties described at her interview.

Gutierrez said about Stout’s work while in his section: “She’s a good worker. She caught on quick what she needed to do.” After Stout was transferred to another section, the director of that section said she was a good worker, and he never received any negative reports about her work. Many jobs in state government don’t require higher education.

Additionally, the investigators had received testimony that the practice of hiring friends is widespread in Ohio’s state government. A telecommunications assistant told them that for any job with the state, “you usually got to know somebody to get in there.” He is the son of a former Republican county prosecutor and was hired under a Republican attorney general. But the investigators weren’t concerned about possible cronyism in his hiring or the hires he alluded to.

In fact, to hire friends is not necessarily a bad thing. Probably all administrations at the state and federal levels have done so. In criticizing President George W. Bush’s “blatant cronyism” in hiring unqualified friends for vital positions in the federal government, author and former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi indicated “it’s okay” to appoint friends “if they are qualified.” Bush failed to meet that standard by, for example, hiring friends who clearly didn’t have the background to competently respond to the devastation and misery caused by Hurricane Katrina.

That type hiring wasn’t done at the attorney general’s office. Contrary to what the report suggested, the investigation revealed no evidence that people were hired because of friendships “without regard for their qualifications.”

False or Misleading Allegation No. 10: “There was an active effort in the office by long time friends at the administrative level to overlook the transgressions by Mr. Gutierrez over a long period of time.”

Here was another suggestion that Dann and his administrators had allowed a sexually hostile environment by not acting after receiving reports of possible problems involving Gutierrez. This too was an unfair accusation.

In October 2007, the director of human resources received a report that Gutierrez might be inappropriately fraternizing with some female employees, including Stankoski. As a result, several managers addressed the issue with him. They included his longtime friends at the administrative level.

The director had received the information from a disgruntled employee in general services. The employee wanted transferred to another section for reasons not involving sexual harassment. In presenting her concerns to the human resources section, though, she said Gutierrez might be giving unwanted attention and making inappropriate social invitations to some female employees. But she said Gutierrez had never done those things to her.

To accommodate the dissatisfied employee, the attorney general’s office transferred her to a different section, where she was happy and had no more complaints. Also as a result of the woman’s allegations, Stankoski was asked if she wanted to file an EEO complaint against Gutierrez. But she refused and was furious with the woman for talking to the human resources section. (Stankoski and Gutierrez were still buddies at the time.)

Nevertheless, several managers confronted Gutierrez about the issue. Shortly after hearing the woman’s concerns, the human resources director told him: “Tony, I don’t know what’s going on, but let me tell you something right here and right now, you cannot take females out. You can go out as a group, but don’t ask the young ladies out to dinner, don’t ask them for drinks, don’t make inappropriate comments. It has to stop. Do you understand me? And he said, yeah, I understand. It’s not gonna happen. I said, okay, better not.”

In December 2007, the director had a second conversation with Gutierrez about the subject. She said this occurred when he “kind of brought it up again” at a chiefs’ retreat they were attending.

After hearing about the woman’s allegations, the chief of policy and administration directed the chief operating officer to look into the matter. He told the investigators he instructed her “to talk to Tony, find out what was going on, and counsel him that if, indeed, he was fraternizing outside of work with young female coworkers, that that was a problem and that he needed to stop.”

The chief operating officer was very upset upon learning of the possible problem. She went searching for Gutierrez and told him she needed to talk with him right away about something that could not wait. Then she upbraided him: “If the information that we’ve heard about you dating or trying to take out your staff is true, you need to cease and desist that immediately.”

She further informed the investigators: “I said, Tony, you don’t date or do anything with people who work in this office. . . . I was very intense with him. And he’s trying to explain. I said, don’t explain anything to me. I don’t know if this is true. . . . You do not date or take out or harass people in this office. And he said, I understand. . . . It will not happen again. I promise you.”

She didn’t reduce the reprimand to writing because there was no complaint from anyone claiming to be a victim. Afterwards, she told the chief of policy and administration and the human resources director about the reprimand.

The chief of policy and administration also spoke with Gutierrez about the rumors of drinking and possible improper fraternization with female employees. The chief said Gutierrez “swore up and down” the rumors weren’t true.

The chief responded that “regardless of the veracity, it’s a problem,” and “if there are these kind of persistent rumors . . . you need to address whatever you’re doing that may cause this kind of talk.” He further told Gutierrez that “you need to watch your behavior, not just during work hours but after work, as well.”

The chief also wanted the communications director, who was a longtime friend of Gutierrez, to talk with him about the possible problem. The chief believed that the communications director did so.

The communications director told the investigators he wasn’t involved in the counseling but understood that the chief operating officer had instructed Gutierrez on proper conduct with subordinates. Based on the information provided by the employee, the director thought the counseling was necessary.

When the attorney general heard about the issue, he too addressed it with Gutierrez. He said he “took Tony aside, and I very firmly asked him to stop drinking in Columbus and to not fraternize with office employees and suggested that he put us in a very, very bad position.”

With no complaint filed against Gutierrez at the time, probably the most that could be done was counsel him and warn him that any possible problem needed to be corrected. Certainly that was a reasonable response under the circumstances. Besides, longtime friends are more likely than others to know the steps needed to make sure a friend is not straying from the correct course.

In fact, the acts taken were apparently effective to at least some extent. When Stankoski filed her complaint against Gutierrez months later, the three specific incidents she alleged had occurred in September and early October 2007 – before Gutierrez had received the counseling and warnings from management. Until the women filed their complaints in March 2008, the human resources director had received no more reports of Gutierrez behaving improperly with female employees after management had addressed the issue with him.

Obviously, the report was false in claiming that Gutierrez’s friends in the attorney general’s office had overlooked the possible problem. No wonder that when the investigators asked the chief operating officer if policies had not been followed because of personal friendships in the office, she answered, “Absolutely not.”

Of course, the investigators left her statement out of the report too.

That’s not all, folks

In addition to the report’s false statements on major issues, it included a number of misstatements on smaller matters. All of those falsehoods appeared intended to put Dann’s office in a bad light.

For example, the report falsely portrayed the attorney general and his wife as having been rude to Stankoski during the holiday season in December 2007. The report said that when Dann and his wife were distributing cups of candy to employees as gifts, they gave one each to two employees who were with her “but did not give Stankoski a mug.”

The report omitted Stankoski’s own testimony, and the testimony of one of the coworkers, that after Dann and his wife ran out of cups when they got to Stankoski, his wife returned with a cup that she gave to her.

The report tried to make Gutierrez appear rude by saying he called his deputy director an “idiot.” That claim was based on Stankoski’s testimony. The report left out that also according to her testimony, Gutierrez made the statement in a joking manner.

In regard to Stout’s transfer from Gutierrez’s section, the report said the chief of policy and administration “claims that he believed there was an ‘operational need’” in the section she was transferred to, even though the director of that section “never expressed a need for a clerical employee.” The report thereby impugns the chief’s integrity.

But the report didn’t mention that the chief operating officer had told the chief of policy and administration that help is always needed in the section to which Stout was soon transferred. Nor did the report point out that the director of that section had no problem in productively utilizing Stout. He told the investigators “we always have plenty to do,” “I need people,” and “she can help us in various ways.” The chief was therefore entirely justified in believing an operational need existed to have another employee in the section.

The report excoriated the attorney general’s communications director for supposedly trying to get a coworker to testify falsely about whether they had driven together or separately to meet Gutierrez and Stankoski for dinner at a restaurant more than six months earlier. The report said he tried to “impede the investigation” by doing so.

The report failed to recognize, however, that the testimony was irrelevant to Stankoski’s complaint. It also failed to mention that the director testified that because he had met various people for dinner over a hundred times in the previous months, he could remember little about a dinner that had occurred over six months earlier. And the report omitted the testimony of a coworker who corroborated the director’s assertion about being unable to recall the driving arrangements for the particular dinner.

Other instances of the report’s false or misleading statements could be given. But more than sufficient examples have already been provided to show that the document was seriously flawed, extremely unfair, and not credible.

Such an inaccurate report should never have been used for introducing articles of impeachment against an elected statewide official, pressuring him to leave office, firing members of his staff, and ruining careers and reputations. Without the report’s misstatements, there would have been no basis for forcing the attorney general from office.

A convenient untruth

By being a pack of lies that put Dann’s office in a horrible light, the report enabled Ohio’s Democratic leaders to make a personnel change that some of them had apparently been wanting.

In the 2006 race for attorney general, Dann’s upset win over the establishment’s Republican candidate was not expected by anyone. After it happened, Republicans weren’t the only ones who seemed uncomfortable having a hard-charging populist and progressive as attorney general.

Whether because of Dann’s lawsuits against some of America’s largest corporations, the corporate media’s frequent attacks on him, his strong support for whistleblowers and open government, or another reason, certain Democratic leaders appeared uneasy about having Dann as attorney general. They turned out to be corporate Democrats whose governing style includes catering to well-heeled corporate interests and otherwise continuing business as usual in the state government. They surely knew that Dann’s hard-line populism could cramp their style.

At least some of those factors were likely reasons that before Dann had been in office a year, rumors were circulating around the Statehouse that he would be challenged in the 2010 Democratic primary by then-State Treasurer Richard Cordray, who refused to rule out the possibility of such a run.

Cordray is a moderate Democrat and has been on the political scene in the state’s capital, Columbus, for many years. He is much more acceptable to the Columbus corporate establishment than the upstart Dann, who is from Youngstown.

Rather than having to wait until 2010, Ohio’s Democratic leaders got their chance to dump Dann in May 2008 when the internal report was issued. And they leapt at the opportunity.

On a Sunday two days after the report came out, the Democratic governor had already lined up the statewide Democratic officeholders, along with Democratic leaders in the Ohio House and Senate, to demand Dann’s resignation or impeachment. They refused to give him the presumption of innocence that every American is entitled to. And they moved so fast that they kept any focus off whether the report was accurate.

Then they applied every available strong-arm tactic to hamstring Dann’s ability to function as attorney general and coerce him to resign without an impeachment trial. They used the internal report’s lies to justify their acts, pillory Dann and his people, and destroy reputations and careers. They had no interest in giving anyone due process of law or other constitutional rights.

The people’s elected attorney general was thereby railroaded from office after being there only 16 months. Immediately afterwards, the governor said he was “pleased” by Dann’s resignation, probably with visions of corporate campaign contributions dancing in his head.

In announcing the appointment of an interim attorney general to replace Dann, the governor said he selected her before he knew whether she was a Democrat or Republican. And although the appointee claimed to be a Democrat, a check by the media revealed she had registered as a Republican in 2006. All this was more evidence that the governor and other state Democratic leaders did not want an aggressive, pro-consumer attorney general, even though the voters had made that choice by electing Dann in 2006.

In November 2008, Cordray won a special election to serve the remainder of the term that Dann had been elected to. During the campaign, Cordray promised businesses he would be less aggressive than Dann had been as attorney general. Cordray claimed that in suing businesses, Dann “went overboard . . . in several areas.”

That position was undoubtedly music to the ears of corporate lobbyists. And Cordray took Dann’s place just like the powers-that-be had wanted. In Ohio, the moneyed interests almost always get what they want, one way or another.

The internal investigation’s lead investigator, Ben Espy, was a Columbus city councilman for 11 years, was once the Democratic candidate for mayor of Columbus, was a state senator in central Ohio for 10 years, ran unsuccessfully for the Ohio Supreme Court, and practiced law in Columbus for 30 years. This background would have enabled him to form strong ties to the Democratic and corporate establishments in Columbus.

Whether he and his partner intentionally falsified the report to enable those interests to drive Dann from office is uncertain.

The only other explanation is that the investigators were grossly incompetent in writing the report. But it’s hard to believe that two highly experienced attorneys could be so inept.

I am outraged at how the media misused the details in this poll.
Not everyone is a White Born Again Evangelical but the Cincinnati Enquirer and other media have failed to properly disclose this poll.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100629/NEWS0108/306290031/1055/NEWS/Poll-Ohioans-like-immigration-law

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Last Updated: 9:29 am | Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Poll: Ohioans like Arizona immigration law
The Enquirer • June 29, 2010

Ohio voters say 45-35 percent they would like Ohio to pass an immigration law similar to the law in Arizona, the Quinnipiac University poll finds.



Ohio voters approve 48-28 percent of Arizona's immigration law. They say 72-22 percent that immigration reform should move in the direction of stricter enforcement rather than integrating illegal immigrants into American society, according to a news release from the poll.

The new law will not lead to discrimination against Hispanics, voters say 43-40 percent. By 79-10 percent they think an economic boycott of Arizona is a bad idea.

"Ohio voters like the Arizona approach to illegal immigration so much they would like to see a similar law passed by the State Legislature," Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement.

Butler County Sheriff Rick Jones and state Rep. Courtney Combs, R-Ross Township, said they support an initiative to give Ohio police agencies similar powers as federal agents to stop and detain suspected illegal immigrants.

Ohio is among 12 to 17 states looking into such immigration bills.

From June 22 - 27, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,107 registered Ohio voters, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

http://news.cincinnati.com/comments/article/20100629/NEWS0108/306290031/Poll-Ohioans-like-Arizona-immigration-law

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June 29, 2010 - I spoke with April in Douglas Schwartz's office today, Tuesday June 29, 2010 at 4:40 p.m. April said the last category is White Born Again Evangelicals.

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35. Do you think immigration reform should primarily move in the direction of integrating illegal immigrants into American society or in the direction of stricter enforcement of laws against illegal immigration?


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Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Integrating 22% 7% 37% 23% 22% 22% 10%
Enforcement 72 87 56 73 73 70 84
DK/NA 6 6 7 4 5 7 6


TREND: Do you think immigration reform should primarily move in the direction of integrating illegal immigrants into American society or in the direction of stricter enforcement of laws against illegal immigration?


Jun 29 Dec 5
2010 2007
Integrating 22 20
Enforcement 72 71
DK/NA 6 9



36. Based on what you've heard or read, do you approve or disapprove of Arizona's new immigration law?


WtBrnAgn
Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Approve 48% 68% 29% 51% 57% 40% 60%
Disapprove 28 12 44 27 27 28 17
DK/NA 24 20 28 22 16 31 23



37. Would you want Ohio to pass a law similar to Arizona's new immigration law or not?


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Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Yes 45% 66% 24% 49% 55% 36% 55%
No 35 18 52 36 32 38 24
DK/NA 20 16 24 15 13 26 20



38. Do you think Arizona's new immigration law will or will not lead to discrimination against Hispanics?


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Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Will 40% 24% 58% 37% 36% 44% 25%
Will not 43 63 25 47 52 35 56
DK/NA 17 13 18 16 13 21 20



39. Some have suggested that Arizona should be boycotted because of its new immigration law. Do you think a boycott of Arizona is a good idea or a bad idea?


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Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Good idea 10% 3% 19% 9% 9% 11% 8%
Bad idea 79 90 68 82 84 75 84
DK/NA 10 7 13 9 7 13 9
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Now - here's the ENTIRE Quinnipiac Web Page which posts other important questions and criteria along with the above info:
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1322.xml?ReleaseID=1470
MyQMap & DirectionsDirectoryContact UsSearchINFORMATION:For AlumniFor ParentsFor News MediaPrint this pageHome> Institutes and Centers> Quinnipiac University Polling Institute> Ohio (OH)> Release DetailJune 29, 2010 - Strickland Holds Off Kasich In Tight Ohio Gov Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Voters Want Arizona-Type Immigration Law Word formatOhio Gov. Ted Strickland holds a slight 43 - 38 percent lead over Republican challenger John Kasich, statistically unchanged from 44 - 38 percent in April, and 43 - 38 percent in March, at least partly because Kasich remains unknown to half of Ohio voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Ohio voters say 45 - 35 percent they would like Ohio to pass an immigration law similar to the law in Arizona, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University poll finds. In the Governor's race, Strickland leads among Democrats 81 - 4 percent and among independents 40 - 37 percent, while Kasich leads among Republicans 81 - 6 percent. Despite Strickland's lead in the horse race, voters disapprove 54 - 33 percent of his handling of the economy and give him a 52 - 31 percent failing grade on handling the state budget. Voters say 48 - 31 percent that the Governor has not kept campaign promises. These are Strickland's lowest scores on all three questions. "Incumbents generally start a campaign with a name recognition edge and that is certainly the case in the Governor's race. Sometimes as the challenger becomes better known the race narrows. That has yet to happen in this case, although the share of voters who do not know enough about Kasich to form an opinion is at 52 percent, down from 62 percent April 29," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "Kasich still has four months until Election Day and Strickland's other numbers show his potential vulnerability, but at this point the Governor remains ahead despite the anti-incumbency wave sweeping the country." "The good news for Strickland is that he is ahead. Nevertheless, when an incumbent governor is getting less than 45 percent of the vote four months out, it should make him concerned," Brown added. Ohio voters give Strickland a split 44 - 42 percent job approval rating, down from 47 - 38 percent in April and 49 - 40 percent approval in March. They view him favorably by a 42 - 37 percent margin, with 19 percent saying they don't know enough about him to form an opinion. Kasich is viewed favorably by 28 percent, unfavorably by 19 percent with 52 percent unable to make a judgment. An indication of how Kasich's lack of visibility is hurting his candidacy is that among white, evangelical Christians, one of the most GOP-leaning groups in the electorate, his favorability is 37 - 11 percent, as 52 percent of such voters don't know enough about him to have an opinion. Ohio voters' mixed feelings about Strickland's job performance are reflected on similarly close numbers when voters are asked to compare the two candidates on key issues: Voters split on who would do a better job rebuilding the state economy, with 39 percent for Kasich and 38 percent for Strickland;Voters say 41 - 37 percent that Kasich would do a better job handling the state budget;Voters split on who they trust more to keep campaign promises, with 37 percent for Strickland and 36 percent for Kasich. Immigration Ohio voters approve 48 - 28 percent of Arizona's immigration law. They say 72 - 22 percent that immigration reform should move in the direction of stricter enforcement rather than integrating illegal immigrants into American society. The new law will not lead to discrimination against Hispanics, voters say 43 - 40 percent. And by an overwhelming 79 - 10 percent they think an economic boycott of Arizona is a bad idea. "Ohio voters like the Arizona approach to illegal immigration so much they would like to see a similar law passed by the State Legislature," said Brown. From June 22 - 27, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,107 registered Ohio voters, with a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points. The Quinnipiac University Poll, directed by Douglas Schwartz, Ph.D., conducts public opinion surveys in Florida, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Ohio and the nation as a public service and for research. For more data or RSS feed- http://www.quinnipiac.edu/polling.xml, call (203) 582-5201, or follow us on Twitter. 1. If the 2010 election for Governor were being held today and the candidates were Ted Strickland the Democrat and John Kasich the Republican, for whom would you vote? WtBrnAgn
Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Strickland 43% 6% 81% 40% 38% 47% 29%
Kasich 38 81 4 37 46 32 54
SMONE ELSE(VOL) 2 - 2 4 2 3 2
WLDN'T VOTE(VOL) 2 1 2 2 1 2 1
DK/NA 15 11 11 16 13 16 15

TREND: If the 2010 election for Governor were being held today and the candidates were Ted Strickland the Democrat and John Kasich the Republican, for whom would you vote? (Data available upon request back to Feb 2009) Jun 29 Apr 29 Mar 31 Feb 23 Nov 11 Sep 15 Jul 3
2010 2010 2010 2010 2009 2009 2009
Strickland 43 44 43 44 40 46 43
Kasich 38 38 38 39 40 36 38
SMONE ELSE(VOL) 2 1 1 1 1 2 2
WLDN'T VOTE(VOL) 2 - 1 2 1 1 1
DK/NA 15 17 17 15 18 15 16


3. Is your opinion of - Ted Strickland favorable, unfavorable or haven't you heard enough about him? WtBrnAgn
Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Favorable 42% 17% 68% 41% 39% 44% 34%
Unfavorable 37 62 10 41 41 34 49
Hvn't hrd enough 19 17 20 17 18 20 14
REFUSED 2 4 2 1 2 3 3

TREND: Is your opinion of Ted Strickland favorable, unfavorable or haven't you . heard enough about him? FAVORABLE.....
High Low
Jun 29 Apr 29 Mar 31 Feb 23 Nov 11 Feb 5 Nov 11
2010 2010 2010 2010 2009 2009 2009
Favorable 42 45 46 45 38 60 38
Unfavorable 37 32 35 36 37 19 37
Hvn't hrd enough 19 20 16 16 23 17 23
REFUSED 2 3 3 2 2 3 2


4. Is your opinion of - John Kasich favorable, unfavorable or haven't you heard enough about him? WtBrnAgn
Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Favorable 28% 53% 6% 28% 36% 22% 37%
Unfavorable 19 5 32 19 19 18 11
Hvn't hrd enough 52 40 61 52 44 59 52
REFUSED 1 2 1 1 1 2 1

TREND: Is your opinion of John Kasich favorable, unfavorable or haven't you heard enough about him? FAVORABLE.....
High Low
Jun 29 Apr 29 Mar 31 Feb 23 Nov 11 Jun 29 Dec 10
2010 2010 2010 2010 2009 2010 2008
Favorable 28 27 24 26 23 28 18
Unfavorable 19 10 10 10 7 19 8
Hvn't hrd enough 52 62 64 62 69 52 73
REFUSED 1 1 1 1 1 1 1


10. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Ted Strickland is handling his job as Governor? WtBrnAgn
Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Approve 44% 24% 66% 44% 45% 44% 37%
Disapprove 42 67 17 46 48 38 52
DK/NA 13 10 17 10 7 18 10

TREND: Do you approve or disapprove of the way Ted Strickland is handling his job as Governor? APPROVE....... DIS...
High Low High
Jun 29 Apr 29 Mar 31 Feb 23 Feb 5 Jun 29 Nov 11
2010 2010 2010 2010 2009 2010 2009
Approve 44 47 49 48 63 44 45
Disapprove 42 38 40 40 25 42 43
DK/NA 13 15 11 12 12 13 12


13. Do you approve or disapprove of the way the state legislature is handling its job? WtBrnAgn
Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Approve 33% 30% 40% 28% 32% 33% 31%
Disapprove 47 52 38 53 53 42 48
DK/NA 20 18 23 19 16 24 21

TREND: Do you approve or disapprove of the way the state legislature is handling its job? APPROVE.......
High Low
Jun 29 Apr 29 Mar 31 Feb 23 Nov 11 Dec 10 Dec 12
2010 2010 2010 2010 2009 2008 2006
Approve 33 35 34 31 33 46 25
Disapprove 47 47 46 51 47 35 55
DK/NA 20 19 20 19 20 19 20


18. In general, how satisfied are you with the way things are going in Ohio today? Are you very satisfied, somewhat satisfied, somewhat dissatisfied, or very dissatisfied? WtBrnAgn
Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Very satisfied 3% 1% 4% 4% 4% 2% 4%
Smwht satisfied 37 29 55 30 32 42 30
Smwht dissatisfied 34 40 26 34 36 32 39
Very dissatisfied 25 30 14 33 27 24 28
DK/NA - - 1 - - - -

TREND: In general, how satisfied are you with the way things are going in Ohio today? Are you very satisfied, somewhat satisfied, somewhat dissatisfied, or very dissatisfied? (*Low also 32% Mar 2009) VERY+SMWHT SAT
High Low
Jun 29 Apr 29 Mar 31 Feb 23 Nov 11 Mar 21 Feb 23
2010 2010 2010 2010 2009 2007 2010*
Very satisfied 3 3 3 2 3 5 2
Smwht satisfied 37 38 35 30 32 49 30
Smwht dissatisfied 34 30 35 36 37 28 36
Very dissatisfied 25 28 26 32 27 16 32
DK/NA - 1 1 1 1 1 1


19. Do you think that Ted Strickland has kept his campaign promises so far or not? WtBrnAgn
Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Yes 31% 16% 46% 29% 35% 28% 24%
No 48 64 29 53 48 48 57
DK/NA 21 20 24 18 18 24 18

TREND: Do you think that Ted Strickland has kept his campaign promises so far or not? YES..........
High Low
Jun 29 Apr 29 Mar 31 Feb 23 Nov 11 Aug 14 Jun 29
2010 2010 2010 2010 2009 2008 2010
Yes 31 37 36 34 32 47 31
No 48 41 41 45 43 31 48
DK/NA 21 22 24 21 25 22 21


20. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Ted Strickland is handling the economy? WtBrnAgn
Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Approve 33% 17% 54% 32% 33% 34% 26%
Disapprove 54 73 27 61 57 51 65
DK/NA 13 9 19 8 10 15 9

TREND: Do you approve or disapprove of the way Ted Strickland is handling the economy? (*Low also 33% Nov 2009, Sep 2009 & Jul 2009) APPROVE.......
High Low
Jun 29 Apr 29 Mar 31 Feb 23 Nov 11 Feb 5 Jun 29
2010 2010 2010 2010 2009 2009 2010*
Approve 33 36 35 35 33 44 33
Disapprove 54 53 52 53 52 37 54
DK/NA 13 11 13 12 15 19 13


22. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Ted Strickland is handling the state budget? WtBrnAgn
Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Approve 31% 16% 50% 31% 33% 30% 24%
Disapprove 52 70 30 57 54 51 65
DK/NA 16 14 20 12 13 19 12

TREND: Do you approve or disapprove of the way Ted Strickland is handling the state budget? APPROVE.......
High Low
Jun 29 Apr 29 Mar 31 Feb 23 Sep 15 Feb 5 Jun 29
2010 2010 2010 2010 2009 2009 2010
Approve 31 36 37 32 36 48 31
Disapprove 52 48 47 51 47 30 52
DK/NA 16 16 16 17 17 21 16


23. Regardless of how you intend to vote, who do you think would do a better job - rebuilding Ohio's economy, Ted Strickland or John Kasich? WtBrnAgn
Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Strickland 38% 11% 68% 34% 35% 40% 25%
Kasich 39 72 11 42 46 34 53
NO DIFF(VOL) 4 3 3 6 4 4 4
DK/NA 19 14 19 19 14 23 19

TREND: Regardless of how you intend to vote, who do you think would do a better job - rebuilding Ohio's economy, Ted Strickland or John Kasich? Jun 29 Apr 29 Mar 31 Feb 23 Nov 12
2010 2010 2010 2010 2009
Strickland 38 39 38 35 33
Kasich 39 41 38 41 41
NO DIFF(VOL) 4 2 2 2 -
DK/NA 19 18 22 22 27


24. Regardless of how you intend to vote, who do you think would do a better job - handling Ohio's state budget, Ted Strickland or John Kasich? WtBrnAgn
Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Strickland 37% 9% 68% 35% 34% 39% 23%
Kasich 41 75 12 42 47 37 54
NO DIFF(VOL) 3 3 3 4 3 4 6
DK/NA 18 13 17 19 16 20 17

TREND: Regardless of how you intend to vote, who do you think would do a better job - handling Ohio's state budget, Ted Strickland or John Kasich? Jun 29 Apr 29 Mar 31 Feb 23 Nov 12
2010 2010 2010 2010 2009
Strickland 37 39 38 36 34
Kasich 41 40 39 42 42
NO DIFF(VOL) 3 2 2 1 -
DK/NA 18 19 21 21 25


25. Regardless of how you intend to vote, who do you - trust more to do in office what they say they will do during the campaign, Ted Strickland or John Kasich? WtBrnAgn
Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Strickland 37% 9% 69% 33% 34% 40% 22%
Kasich 36 71 9 35 40 32 48
NO DIFF(VOL) 8 6 7 12 8 9 10
DK/NA 19 14 15 20 18 19 19

TREND: Regardless of how you intend to vote, who do you - trust more to do in office what they say they will do during the campaign, Ted Strickland or John Kasich? Jun 29 Apr 29 Mar 31 Feb 23
2010 2010 2010 2010
Strickland 37 41 40 35
Kasich 36 35 35 36
NO DIFF(VOL) 8 7 5 6
DK/NA 19 18 20 22


26. Regardless of how you intend to vote, who do you - believe most shares your values, Ted Strickland or John Kasich? WtBrnAgn
Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Strickland 39% 8% 73% 36% 35% 42% 26%
Kasich 38 75 10 37 45 33 51
NO DIFF(VOL) 4 2 3 6 4 4 5
DK/NA 19 15 14 20 16 21 19

TREND: Regardless of how you intend to vote, who do you - believe most shares your values, Ted Strickland or John Kasich? Jun 29 Apr 29 Mar 31 Feb 23
2010 2010 2010 2010
Strickland 39 42 42 40
Kasich 38 36 34 36
NO DIFF(VOL) 4 3 2 3
DK/NA 19 19 22 21


27. Currently, Democrats control the Ohio House and Republicans control the Ohio Senate. After the 2010 election would you prefer that the Democrats control both houses of the legislature, the Republicans control both houses of the legislature, or would you prefer that control is split as it is today? WtBrnAgn
Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Democrats 22% - 53% 14% 20% 24% 13%
Republicans 25 60 1 19 30 21 40
Split 49 37 43 63 47 50 42
DK/NA 4 3 3 4 4 5 5

TREND: Currently, Democrats control the Ohio House and Republicans control the Ohio Senate. After the 2010 election would you prefer that the Democrats control both houses of the legislature, the Republicans control both houses of the legislature, or would you prefer that control is split as it is today? Jun 29 Apr 29 Mar 31 Feb 23 Nov 11
2010 2010 2010 2010 2009
Democrats 22 23 24 22 19
Republicans 25 24 23 21 22
Split 49 48 50 51 52
DK/NA 4 5 4 7 6


35. Do you think immigration reform should primarily move in the direction of integrating illegal immigrants into American society or in the direction of stricter enforcement of laws against illegal immigration? WtBrnAgn
Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Integrating 22% 7% 37% 23% 22% 22% 10%
Enforcement 72 87 56 73 73 70 84
DK/NA 6 6 7 4 5 7 6

TREND: Do you think immigration reform should primarily move in the direction of integrating illegal immigrants into American society or in the direction of stricter enforcement of laws against illegal immigration? Jun 29 Dec 5
2010 2007
Integrating 22 20
Enforcement 72 71
DK/NA 6 9


36. Based on what you've heard or read, do you approve or disapprove of Arizona's new immigration law? WtBrnAgn
Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Approve 48% 68% 29% 51% 57% 40% 60%
Disapprove 28 12 44 27 27 28 17
DK/NA 24 20 28 22 16 31 23


37. Would you want Ohio to pass a law similar to Arizona's new immigration law or not? WtBrnAgn
Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Yes 45% 66% 24% 49% 55% 36% 55%
No 35 18 52 36 32 38 24
DK/NA 20 16 24 15 13 26 20


38. Do you think Arizona's new immigration law will or will not lead to discrimination against Hispanics? WtBrnAgn
Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Will 40% 24% 58% 37% 36% 44% 25%
Will not 43 63 25 47 52 35 56
DK/NA 17 13 18 16 13 21 20


39. Some have suggested that Arizona should be boycotted because of its new immigration law. Do you think a boycott of Arizona is a good idea or a bad idea? WtBrnAgn
Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Evnglcl
Good idea 10% 3% 19% 9% 9% 11% 8%
Bad idea 79 90 68 82 84 75 84
DK/NA 10 7 13 9 7 13 9
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While I don't approve of drug abuse and I don't even drink, I think the presence of the Police mobile watch tower was a bit over the top.

Did they have that at Muirfield this year?

I am so sick of the right wing postering of "we're going to control you whether you like it or not" attitude. Is this not a city that respects its populace? Does the new Chief fear the populace?

How does it look to out of towners who are visiting, would they want to put a business here? Does the police chief say, "We are running a police state here you want to join?".

Remember, big brother is watching, he REALLY is, in his 'lil white tower.. Or maybe Columbus is done growing and we need to shrink?

Peace With Freedom, is it SOOO Hard?

If you think Washington D.C. is the source of all our political problems, you're watching too much TV.

Over the past weekend, it's the Statehouse follies in Columbus that have been drawing fire from Ohio newspapers.

YOUR Ohio General Assembly has just recessed for the summer and the state's newspaper editorialists and columnists are none too happy with its performance.  When a kid in high school messes up all year and doesn't complete his homework, he faces 10 weeks of summer school.  When state legislators do the same, it's vacation time until September, a three-month recess to hit up the home folks for money, votes and campaign contributions so they can go back next January and do more of the same.

The only possible way they can screw up this cozy deal, it appears, is to vote against expanded gun rights.  Quoted in today's Dispatch, "veteran lobbyist" McKenzie Davis said only Big Pharma rivals the National Rifle Association in striking terror in solons' souls.

"Legislators don't seem to be granted the ability by the NRA to say, 'I'm pro-gun, but I think guns in bars might be a step too far' and expect to get that endorsement," he said.

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/06/13/copy/under-the-gun.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

But don't look for a quick draw on the rest of the state's unfinished legislative agenda.

Here's what some of Ohio's leading newspapers are saying about our Adios Assembly, with thanks to the the Dispatch and the America Votes Ohio News Service:

Election defeat: Lawmakers fumble at the chance to improve the way Ohio votes.
Akron Beacon-Journal Editorial
After votes were tallied in 2008, much effort was aimed at finding ways to improve Ohio elections. Jennifer Brunner, the secretary of state, pulled together panel discussions. The House and Senate passed bills addressing significant problems. In the final weeks before the legislature recessed for the summer, discussions continued, with room for compromise in time for balloting this fall. Sadly, adjournment came last week with no action. Last-minute negotiations brought together officials from legislative caucuses, Brunner's office, the League of Women Voters and the Ohio Association of Election Officials. These key players came close to an agreement that would ease access to the ballot for many voters and reduce the likelihood of confidence-sapping lawsuits in close elections.
http://www.ohio.com/editorial/opinions/95933194.html

Much work left undone
Toledo Blade Editorial
State lawmakers stuck around long enough last week to choose Ohio's official frog. They even hung in until about 4 a.m. last Friday to complete industry-friendly rules for the four casinos voters approved last November. But they couldn't find time to deal with other important issues before they took off on summer vacation.
http://toledoblade.com/article/20100609/OPINION02/6090309/-1/OPINION

Ohio lawmakers say they're ready to pick up the pace on budget work
Aaron Marshall, Cleveland Plain Dealer
Nearly a year after state lawmakers named a special work group to start looking for solutions to what could be the biggest budget crisis in Ohio's history, the group has yet to meet.
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2010/06/ohio_lawmakers_say_theyre_read.html

Proposed solutions to prison crowding problem would undo old laws
Tom Beyerlein, Dayton Daily News
Tough-on-crime laws have left prisons bursting at the seams, causing state officials and lawmakers to rethink the way justice is meted out in Ohio. Some reform proposals would undo laws that caused prison rolls to explode since the 1980s.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/crime/proposed-solutions-to-prison-crowding-problem-would-undo-old-laws-755052.html

When will Ohio stop the ripoff
Editorial, Dayton Daily News
The payday lending sharks bought themselves more time. Ohio senators went home for the summer without doing anything to stop them from ripping off people. Specifically, they didn’t vote on good controls the House has approved.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/opinion/entries/2010/06/10/editorial_when_will_ohio_stop.html?cxtype=feedbot

Redistricting reform falls victim again to drams of power

Joe Hallett, Columbus Dispatch

Lawmakers have gone home to campaign for their mostly slam-dunk re-elections, living large in a preponderance of districts drawn to ensure the party they represent can't lose.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/editorials/stories/2010/06/13/redistricting-reform-falls-victim-again-to-dreams-of-power.html?sid=101

There were complaints earlier in the legislative session that the Ohio House and Senate didn't seem to be getting anything done.

There were assurances that despite a slow start, the pace would quicken come 2010.

But unless you own a casino, you should be disappointed at the failure of Ohio lawmakers to deal with host of problems confronting the state. It's hard to believe, but compared to this bunch, Congress looks pretty good right now.

THIS IS APPROPRIATE:

https://www.safelinkwireless.com/EnrollmentPublic/home.aspx
SafeLink Wireless is a government supported program
that provides a free cell phone and airtime each
month for income-eligible customers...
LEARN MORE

VS.

THIS IS NOT APPROPRIATE:

Learn More:

https://www.safelinkwireless.com/EnrollmentPublic/benefits.aspx

"LIFELINE/SAFELINK FACT SHEET"

There is no "Obama phone" or other newly created federal program to provide free cell phones. As you may know,

this is a myth that is now circulating on the Web via email and blog sites. It has been thoroughly debunked by independent groups.
(See for example: FactCheck.org at http://www.factcheck.org/2009/10/the-obama-phone/),

which notes: "Low-income households have been eligible for discounted telephone service for more than a

decade. But the program is funded by telecom companies, not by taxes, and the president has nothing to do with it."

The federal "Lifeline" program was created during the Reagan Administration. Lifeline is a federal program

created by the Reagan era Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1984. The program was enhanced under Telecommunications Act of 1996, which was supported on a broadly bipartisan basis in Congress.

The FCC’s Low Income Program of the Universal Service Fund, which is administered by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), is designed to ensure that quality telecommunications services are available to low-income customers at just, reasonable, and affordable rates. Lifeline support reduces eligible low-income consumers' monthly charges for basic telephone service.

Thanks to SafeLink, Lifeline support is now available for wireless phones. Traditionally, the Lifeline program was only available as a discount on a consumer’s landline telephone bill.

SafeLink Wireless was created by TracFone Wireless, Inc. when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently approved the company to offer:

Lifeline -- a public assistance program that ensures telephone service is available and affordable for low-income subscribers. SafeLink Wireless applies the Universal Service Fund subsidy to an allotment of free airtime minutes and TracFone provides the wireless handset at the company’s expense. Instead of receiving a subsidized monthly telephone bill for Lifeline service, SafeLink converts the total amount of discounted service into minutes each month for one year. The cell phone offers in-demand features: voicemail, text, three-way calling, call waiting, caller ID and access to 911.

SafeLink phones are not paid for by taxpayers or the federal government. TracFone Wireless pays for the phones and also the cost of promoting its SafeLink program to make sure that eligible consumers know about the program. END QUOTATION
************

I had some technical questions that I KNEW were strongly related to the amorphous scribble on THAT page -

https://www.safelinkwireless.com/EnrollmentPublic/home.aspx

ABOUT LIFELINE

"LIFELINE/SAFELINK FACT SHEET"

There is no "Obama phone" or other newly created federal program to provide free cell phones. There is no "Obama phone" or other newly created federal program to provide free cell phones. As you may know,

this is a myth that is now circulating on the Web via email and blog sites. It has been thoroughly debunked by independent groups.
(See for example: FactCheck.org at http://www.factcheck.org/2009/10/the-obama-phone/),

which notes: "Low-income households have been eligible for discounted telephone service for more than a

decade. But the program is funded by telecom companies, not by taxes, and the president has nothing to do with it."

The federal "Lifeline" program was created during the Reagan Administration. Lifeline is a federal program

created by the Reagan era Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1984...

Tuesday, 6/8/10:

I called the FCC - Spoke with Sharon at (888) 225 - 5322 extension 3158
Sharon filed my official complaint and gave me a case number.

I called the Universal Service Administration Company (202) 772 - 4554


Conversation with BRIAN HARVEY of the
Universal Service Administration Company (aka USAC):

Wed. June 9, 2010 - Brian Harvey - Universal Service Administration Company returned my phone call from 6/8/10. I picked up his voice mail message with his phone number:

(202) 772 - 4554

Brian declined to help me technologically because that's not what he does.

I then told him that the web site page in the "Learn" "About" area is demeaning to President Obama and customers who have low incomes:
BEGIN WEB PAGE QUOTATION:

"LIFELINE/SAFELINK FACT SHEET"

"There is no "Obama phone" or other newly created federal program to provide free cell phones. As you may know..."

He also seemed to be talking AT me in a passive-aggressive way throughout most of the conversation. He appeared to resist acknowledging my complaints. He wasted time disconfirming my questions and my statements.

IT WAS AT THE END OF THE CONVERSATION THAT BRIAN HARVEY ALLUDED TO SOMETHING ABOUT THE LIFELINE LAND PHONE HAVING BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH DISCOUNTS AND STILL IS.
SAID SAFELINK WIRELESS PHONE AND SERVICE ARE FREE AS PER
WELFARE GOVERNMENT BENEFITS OR INCOME QUALIFICATIONS WITHOUT WELFARE BENEFITS.
HE SAID DISCOUNTED LIFELINE STARTED UNDER RONALD REAGAN. (LAND LINES)TONE OF BRIAN'S VOICE - DEFIANT.
The defiant attitude changed. I suspect that I caused a sudden and dramatic decline of his entrepreneurial hormones. A beaten
man, he gave me instructions to contact:

Safelink Executive Resolution Department (800) 876 - 5753:

Wed. June 9, 2010 - I called the Safelink Executive Resolution Department (800) 876 - 5753
They also handle all the aspects of Tracfone.

I spoke with an employees named Joan.

Joan answered lots of technical questions I asked her. I then explained to her that the web site pages have lots of unclear, bait'n switch language.

Joan told me clearly: that the

ONLY TIME THAT MONEY IS REQUIRED IS:
IF the customer has used up the free 68 minutes that are provided in monthly allotments for 12 months.

Joan CLEARLY told me twice that:

ANNUAL INCOME VERIFICATION IS REQUIRED TO CONTINUE FREE STATUS. THE ONLY WAY THE FREE EVERYTHING WOULD STOP WOULD BE IF I FAILED TO COMPLETE THE ANNUAL INCOME VERIFICATION.

She then told me that I should write down some info that will be very helpful to me when I have to
do the annual re-qualification by completing the "Verification" process.
She told me to call: 1-800-977-3768 and complete the following:

press 1 English press 1 apply zip code ____ yes/no press 1 or 2 based on how you want to

economically qualify. If problem, say "Help."

Phone Numbers:
For Verification and Enrollment Support: 1-800-977-3768
For Technical Support: 1-800-378-1684
Safelink Executive Resolution Department (800) 876 - 5753


Correspondence:

SafeLink Wireless
Attention: Executive Resolution Department
9700 N.W. 112th Avenue
Miami, FL 33178

MY PERSONAL ADVICE:
It is preferable to get qualified simply on income due to the fact that government welfare benefits come and go due to a variety of reasons.

UPDATE: On 6/9/10, I forgot to mention I had contacted the office of Cincinnati Bell's Vice President and General Counsel,
Christopher J. Wilson, Esq. Today, 6/10/10, I received a phone call from Susan, a manager from Customer Service who said she was returning my call on behalf of the Legal Dept. Susan understood immediately about the inappropriateness of the use of both Presidents' names.

From DaytonOS.com

The special Democratic Primary, scheduled for July 13, to choose a Democratic candidate for Ohio’s 3rd Congressional District, could provide a big break for Montgomery County Democrats.

The thirty days allotted for this Primary campaign provides a big opportunity to show democracy in action. It is a big opportunity to bring a whole new group of local Democrats into action within the local party. It is a great opportunity to set in place the ideas and infrastructure needed to mount a serious challenge to the Republican incumbent in the 3rd District, Mike Turner.

Montgomery County Democrats should think big and find ways to work cooperatively in these thirty days. I think it is a reasonable goal to set eight public meetings in various locations within the district. The point of the meetings would be to communicate what I wrote two years ago -- Mike Turner Is A Bum, For Our Democracy’s Sake, Let’s Throw The Bum Out -- and, in addition, the point of the meetings would be to provide an opportunity for Democratic candidates to make the case of how, by what method, they would make a better representative than the current office holder.

The fact is, Mike Turner would be turned out from Congress -- if our democracy had any guts. Congress, after all, has a very low approval by the public. Thoroughly partisan, Turner is a big part of the problem in Congress that people seek to change. He stays in office, because ours is a weak democracy.

The key issue of our day, I feel, is the incompetence of our democracy to actually solve problems. As a nation, we are challenged to find our way to a great future and we do not have a government that seems to find its way. We have no leadership and we have no system that seems to be providing leadership.

People want to see democracy in action and are sick of political machines and political bosses exerting control. Democracy is the issue and this special Democratic Primary is a big opportunity to bring people into the local Democratic Party, a big opportunity to energize Democrats -- via a display of active democracy.

It is active democracy, I feel, that could get citizens to drop their apathy and become energized. It is my belief that the Montgomery County Democratic Party should be all about active democracy that pushed me to speak out at the recent Montgomery County Democratic Party Reorganization Meeting. See: Proposal To Stop Democratic Primary Endorsements in Montgomery County Quashed At Reorganization Meeting.

I was disappointed that Dr. Mark MacNealy, after receiving the Democratic nomination in the May 4 primary, could not complete the race for Ohio’s 3rd Congressional District. I felt he would have made an excellent congressman. The advice I gave to him, as to how he could defeat Congressman Turner, I believe applies to any possible Democratic candidate: To Defeat Congressman Turner, Dr. MacNealy Must Emphasize His Commitment To Democracy


A commitment to democracy can be given a compelling credibility by the way candidates and the local Democratic Party use this Special Primary opportunity.

Because Dr. Mark withdrew, a special Democratic Primary to choose a candidate has been scheduled for July 13. This Thursday, June 10, at 4:00 PM is the deadline for any potential candidate to file his or her petition. To get on the ballot a candidate must file a petition with 50 verified signatures and must pay a fee of $85.

As of today, four Democrats have taken out petitions. But, so far, only David Esrati of 113 Bonner St, 45410, has actually filed. The other three 3rd Congressional District Democrats who have taken out petitions, but who, so far, have not filed, are:

• Guy Fogle, 10484 South Union Rd., Dayton, 45342;


• C. Roger Gollihugh, 4 Gunnington Ct., Springboro, 45016


• Joe Roberts, 308 E. Dorothy Lane, Dayton, 45419

A Green Party Philosophy for Ohio

The Green Party of Ohio believes in the following philosophy for Ohio, a philosophy lost on the Democrats and Republicans:

A Stronger Ohio: greater strength in our economy, our education system, our health care system, our families, our communities, and our environment.

Broad Prosperity: for all Ohioans, completely free.

Better Future: in all areas of life, economically, educationally, and environmentally.

Effective Government: eliminate waste

Mutual Responsibility: best values of families and communities. Authoritative, equal, two-way, based around caring, responsibility, and strength.

Dennis Spisak-Green Party Nominee for Ohio Governor

Http://www.votespisak.org/governor/

Http://www.dennisspisak.com

For more information, contact 330-503-1407

Green Party Progressive Directions

The Green Party of Ohio wants to move the Buckeye State in the following progressive directions in 2010:

The economy: Centered on innovation that creates good-paying jobs and provides every Ohioan a fair opportunity to prosper.

Health: Every Ohioan should have access to a state-of-the art, affordable health care system.

Education: A vibrant, well-funded, and expanding public education system with the highest standards for every child and school. We also support early childhood education.

Environment: A clean, healthy, and safe enviroment for ourselves and our children: water you can drink and air you can breathe. Polluters pay for the damage they cause.

Energy: We need to make a major investment in renewable energy for the jobs it will create, independence from Middle Eastern oil, improvements in public health, preservation of the environment, and the effort to halt global warming.

Equal Rights: We support equal rights in every area involving race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation.

Protections: We support keeping and extending protections for consumers, workers, retirees, and investors.

Dennis S. Spisak-Green Party Nominee for Ohio Governor

Http://www.votespisak.org/governor/

Http://www.dennisspisak.com

For more information, contact 330-503-1407

A Green State Government For A Better Future

A Green Party Government does what Ohio's future requires and what the public sector cannot do-or is not doing-effectively, ethically, or not at all. It is the job of the government to promote, and, if possible, provide protection, greater democracy, more freedom, a cleaner enviroment, broader prosperity, better health, and the building and maintaining of public infrastructure.

This is the principle that the Green Party of Ohio is running on in this year's election.

Dennis S. Spisak-Green Party of Ohio Nominee for Governor

Http://www.votespisak.org/governor/

Http://www.dennisspisak.com

for more info, contact 330-503-1407

Excellent report by Stephanie Warsmith of the Akron Beacon Journal. Although Provisional Ballots aren't mentioned in this article - I still view Provisional Ballots and carte blanche Absentee Voting an uncertain path to truthful elections. I would never ever vote absentee. What's really creepy in the context of business as usual is I wonder how many of these are PROVISIONAL...

http://www.ohio.com/news/94622934.html

Printer error has Summit recounting absentee ballots by hand

By Stephanie Warsmith
Beacon Journal staff writer

POSTED: 06:20 p.m. EDT, May 21, 2010

Summit County elections board employees will be working this weekend to count 8,000 absentee ballots by hand, thanks to a printer error.

The ballots were produced on a ballot-on-demand printer that incorrectly lined up the issues portion of some ballots. This meant the ovals filled in by voters were skewed, making it impossible for the optical-scan machines to read them properly.


Board employees discovered the problem Wednesday when doing remakes on ballots that had been improperly filled out by voters.

Board supervisors decided every absentee ballot should be counted by hand because they all had been printed on a ballot-on-demand printer.

''We're going to make sure every vote is counted,'' said Deputy Director Ron Koehler.

Employees must finish the count by Tuesday morning, when the board is scheduled to certify the results of the May 4 primary.

Summit County is among 35 Ohio counties that use an optical-scan voting process, in which voters fill in ovals on paper ballots, much like a multiple choice test. The ballots are then scanned into a computer and the votes are tallied.

When the ballots' problem was discovered, Koehler consulted with Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's office about how to proceed.

Kevin Kidder, a spokesman for Brunner, said the state office concurred with the board's plan to count all the absentee ballots by hand.

Kidder said the problem Summit County had is ''very uncommon'' among counties with optical scan.

''The good news is -- the votes are still there,'' he said.

Brunner thinks optical scan is preferable to the electronic voting machines used in other counties because of the paper ballots, which can be rechecked if problems occur, as in Summit County this week.

Medina, Stark and Portage are among the 53 Ohio counties with electronic or touch-screen voting.

Summit County board employees began the hand count Thursday. As of Friday afternoon, only six ballots with the oval misalignment had been discovered.

Employees are counting the ballots and comparing the results with the tallies in each precinct.

Board employees also will investigate the cause of the printer error to determine how to avoid a repeat. The Nov. 2 general election will have a much higher turnout than the primary, with major contested congressional and statewide races and state and local ballot issues.

''If it's a matter of changing procedures, we will do that,'' Koehler said. ''If it's a matter of changing software, we will do that. We'll make the necessary corrections.''

A Green Party Way of Improving Ohio

New Conditions impose new requirements upon government and those who conduct government. The Democrats and Ted Strickland will continue to operate in their fail ways of the past four years if re-elected this November. That is why we need a Green Party Governor and leadership to move Ohio forward.

We need a green government that owes to every man an avenue to work, a right to own property, and a right to health care.

We must see that purchasing power is well distributed throughout every group int his state. We need to see wages restored and unemployment aided, and farmers brought back to their level of prosperity. We need to create opportunity once more in this great state.

We must have government leadership that believes in change and progress. We must have a state government for the benefit of the many, not the benefit of the few.

Dennis S. Spisak-Green Party of Ohio Nominee for Governor

Http://www.votespisak.org/governor/

Http://www.dennisspisak.com

for more info, contact 330-503-1407

by sherry mann

“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."

Earlier this year, I was married, subsequently changed my name and moved. Shortly after our marriage and move, I registered with the Delaware County Board of Elections to update their information. Shortly thereafter, they sent me a card with my new name (Sherry L. Mann) and current address.

In getting ready to vote today, I would have thought that my updated voter's registration card (with embossed seal) along with my drivers license would have sufficed, but my husband is an attorney who specialized in election law at Ohio State University. He knew to bring other relevant documents, so in addition to my voter registration card and Ohio Driver's license we brought our electric bill (which would prove my current address) and our marriage license (to show my recent name change).

But there was a problem. Actually, according to the local board of elections, there were several.

According to a post at Poli-Tea:

voters in Ohio may be surprised by the choices afforded them on their primary and general election ballots, as six parties have qualified for ballot access this November. Back in January, John Michael Spinelli reported on the state's new ballot access regime at the Examiner, writing:

The Republican and Democratic Parties in Ohio will no longer have a lock on access to the ballot now that state election officials, making good on a court decision in the fall of 2006 that found the laws for political party formation and ballot access were unconstitutional, have enabled candidates running under the party name of Libertarian, Green, Socialist and Constitutional to join in the fun that is our representative system of government.

The good news for these outsider parties came in a state directive to all 88 county Boards of Election (BOE) that given that the General Assembly has not yet enacted a new ballot access statute following the September 6, 2006 court decision, and given the high likelihood of success on the merits of any new lawsuit to obtain ballot access, they are "hereby instructed to continue to recognize these political parties and to grant candidates of these political parties ballot access in the 2010 election cycle."

There are now four declared candidates for governor, including Green Dennis Spisak and Libertarian Ken Matesz. The most crowded race at this point appears to be the US Senate contest to replace Republican George Voinovich, who is retiring this year. Aside from the stooges of the Democratic-Republican political establishment, voters will choose from a wide array of candidates, including Eric Deaton of the Constitution Party, Socialist Party candidate Dan Labotz, and five independent candidates for the office, among them Stephen Lahanas, whose articles I have excerpted here at Poli-Tea before. (See Politics1 - Ohio, for a complete listing.)

Why is one of Ohio governor Ted Strickland's former staff members trash-talking Green Party gubernatorial candidate Dennis Spisak? According to a comment on FDL, the person in question was on Strickland's payroll when the current governor was still a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, taking roughly $60,000. Under the pseudonym of ModernEsquire, this person lied on behalf of Strickland's record as governor while falsely accusing Spisak of plagiarism, lies that were debunked by FDLer El Duderino.

Why is one of Strickland's former staffers going to blogs and lying about a competing candidate for governor? Since he has been on the governor's payroll in the past and can be presumed to gain from successfully lying about political opponents in an election year, it might behoove voters to question whether he is doing this at Strickland's behest or if he is simply doing it as a Democrat party hack trying to suck up to his bosses by trying to destroy a clean opponent.

From Robert F Kennedy Jr writing at the Huffington Post:

A central figure behind the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) claims disputing the link between vaccines and autism and other neurological disorders has disappeared after officials discovered massive fraud involving the theft of millions in taxpayer dollars. Danish police are investigating Dr. Poul Thorsen, who has vanished along with almost $2 million that he had supposedly spent on research.

Thorsen was a leading member of a Danish research group that wrote several key studies supporting CDC's claims that the MMR vaccine and mercury-laden vaccines were safe for children. Thorsen's 2003 Danish study reported a 20-fold increase in autism in Denmark after that country banned mercury based preservatives in its vaccines. His study concluded that mercury could therefore not be the culprit behind the autism epidemic.

His study has long been criticized as fraudulent since it failed to disclose that the increase was an artifact of new mandates requiring, for the first time, that autism cases be reported on the national registry. This new law and the opening of a clinic dedicated to autism treatment in Copenhagen accounted for the sudden rise in reported cases rather than, as Thorsen seemed to suggest, the removal of mercury from vaccines. Despite this obvious chicanery, CDC has long touted the study as the principal proof that mercury-laced vaccines are safe for infants and young children. Mainstream media, particularly the New York Times, has relied on this study as the basis for its public assurances that it is safe to inject young children with mercury -- a potent neurotoxin -- at concentrations hundreds of times over the U.S. safety limits.

Read the rest of the article here. 

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After years of ignoring central Ohio's 12th Congressional District, it's nice to see that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is finally willing to commit some muscle to helping Democrat Paula Brooks oust incumbent Republican Pat Tiberi.

This site has hammered Tiberi for years for his partisan flip-flopping, voting YES for every budget-busting spending spree put forth during the Bush administration only to suddenly claim to be a fiscal conservative after Obama moved into the White House.

Yet the 12th district race has remained invisible while the DCCC lavished attention on Democrats Mary Jo Kilroy in the 15th and Zack Space in the 18th.

Indeed, Brooks, currently Franklin County commissioner, is so excited (surprised?) by this sudden interest from Washington that she's announced it twice in two months:

Jan. 14, 2010: "Congressman Chris Van Hollen, Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, just called Paula to let her know that her campaign is on the list of "Top Races" nationwide!"

March 11: 2010: "Yesterday, our campaign was placed on the DCCC’s Red to Blue list. This is a selective group of campaigns deemed by the national party to be winnable in 2010."

David Robinson, who ran an aggressive campaign against Tiberi in 2008 on a shoe-string budget, sure could have used some of this love from the DCCC. And Robinson's election would have likely given Obama one more vote in the House for his programs instead of the steady drip of No, No, No, offered up by Tiberi and his party.

Robinson, by the way, is now running for state representative in Franklin County's 21st Ohio House District and has a good shot at winning. At a Wednesday night political meeting in Columbus, he vowed to run "a robust and well-organized campaign" to claim the seat for the Democrats this November. The 21st District sprawls across areas of Columbus and Worthington in northwest Franklin County.

Although this is a Franklin County race, some of us in Licking County will support Robinson just because he ran an aggressive campaign against Tiberi two years ago -- and spent a lot of time here getting to know us even though Licking is not friendly ground for Democrats.

Over the past two years, he's gained a wife (Lorraine) and a ton of political experience, although he says he's still driving that same old pick-up truck. (Hey, it worked for Scott Brown!)

Although Robinson this year is auditioning for a smaller role on the political stage, state legislative races take on a new importance this year since, following the 2010 census, it's the Ohio House which will decide how voters are grouped into the new congressional districts. Democrats have fought an uphill battle in congressional races for a decade just because a Republican-controlled legislature gerrymandered the Ohio map in favor of its party following the 2000 census.

If you want to continue to support David and help keep the Ohio House in Democratic hands, check out his web site at: http://robinsonforohio.com/

The deterioration of our politics is shown in today's coverage in the Newark Advocate of a town hall debate in Mt. Vernon joined by Congressman Zack Space's seven potential Republican challengers in this year's 18th district race.

Seven is usually a lucky number but with this bunch, the GOP appears stuck with a rather weak field at a time when Space, a two-term Democrat, has to overcome not only the conservative leanings of his sprawling, mostly rural district but also the bitter partisanship which has spilled out of the health care debate in Washington.

Space was reportedly invited to participate but wisely didn't, since he would have been cast as the pinata.  Naturally, all the GOP hopefuls argued that he (and his fellow Democrats) had to go.  But, as the Advocate reported it, their talking points were exceedingly shallow given the complexity of the issues before Congress right now.  http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20100307/NEWS01/3070337

Clutching for the Far Right, tea-party vote, all seven chimed in on a chorus of lament about big government and high taxes leading the nation to ruin.

• Newark businessman Beau Bromberg's solution was a cut in congressional pay.
• Mt. Vernon farmer and former State Ag Director Fred Dailey would cut social welfare programs.
• Thornville teacher/preacher Dave Daubenmire wants God-fearing folks to reject government aid.
• State Sen. Robert Gibbs, Lakeville, apologized for votes he made to build light rail and increase sales taxes.
• Former State Rep. Ron Hood, Ashville, declared himself "battle tested" and therefore electable.
• Dover pastor Hombre Liggett delared himself not battle tested and therefore electable.
• Ex-Zanesville Judge Jeanette Moll grabbed the flag as pro-gun, pro-life and pro-Constitution.

That's it, the face of the Republican Party in the 18th District: pro-gun, pro-life, pro-God and Constitution and opposed to any expansion (or even maintenance) of civil society through community taxation and/or government programs.

Compare these talking points to those raised by 18th District candidates in the spring of 2006, the last time there was this large a field of candidates in the district.

In April of that year, This Week - Licking County - asked each of the six candidates in the 18th for their views on the Iranian situation, health care reform and the future of Social Security.  With one exception, their answers showed serious thought by serious people.  Looking just at the health care responses:

• Space, a Dover attorney running for the first time, said reform should allow the government to negotiate with the industry to bring down Medicare costs and permit Americans to buy cheaper drugs in Canada. (Alas, neither provision is in the pending reform bill.)
• Rep. Bob Ney, the then-Republican incumbent, said legislation he introduced would extend tax credits to offset rising insurance premiums and "establish a safety net for the uninsured."  (Ney was forced to resign later that year -- and subsequently jailed - for corruption in the Abramoff scandal)
• Zanesville Republican James Harris, a financial analyst, backed tax-free private health accounts and well as importation of cheaper drugs from Canada.
• State School Board Member Jennifer Stewart, a Zanesville Democrat, would have reduced health costs by more use of generic drugs and local health care clinics as well as through government incentives to reduce patient co-pays.
• Chillicothe Mayor Joe Sulzer, a Democrat, wanted the government to negotiate lower Medicare drug prices and permit re-importation of cheaper drugs from Canada and Europe.
• Columbus property manager Ralph Applegate, a Democrat, was a tea-bagger before his time, but he at least admitted to being stumped by the problem: "I do not have an answer to that serious health-care question," he told the newspaper.  "Would you advise me, please?"

Four years later, Space is wrestling with how to vote on the Obama health care plan, Ney is out on parole and the other 2006 candidates in the district have evidently lost their ardor for serving in Congress (and who could blame them?).

Back in 2006, we were all overjoyed to be rid of Ney, whose junkets with and favors for the corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff rained shame on the GOP.  But considering the shallowness of the current Republican talking points, I have to admit a bit of Ney nostalgia is setting in.

 From the Diamondback, the Univeristy of Maryland's student newspaper:

 

 "The War on Women"

Drug war has disproportionate impact on females, SSDP panel says

With more than 2 million Americans in jail, a growing number of them women, four advocates yesterday pointed to the criminal justice system’s “prejudiced” and “insensitive” drug policy as the culprit in a panel at Stamp Student Union last night.

Since the 1990s, with the introduction of conspiracy law — which allow the government to prosecute individuals for their associations with drug offenders — the number of women in prison has skyrocketed. Women, who often are not directly involved in drug deals, are especially vulnerable to the laws, representatives from the Drug Policy Alliance, Americans for Safe Access and the Sentencing Project said.

“Women are held under the full weight of the crime, even if they haven’t seen, touched or distributed [drugs],” Drug Policy Alliance representative Jasmine Tyler said. “She answers the phone, uses the money to pay the bills, she may have went shopping.”

The panel said conspiracy laws, along with other drug policies, can result in girlfriends facing longer sentences than their drug king boyfriends, mothers losing custody of their children, low income families losing housing and welfare and a staggering amount of broken families.

“Women and youth are the new populations that are being targeted,” Tyler said. “The men are gone and the rate of women in jail is skyrocketing. This is the next population to exploit.”

Read the rest here.

By Bob Fitrakis
2.28.10

Finally! The Columbus area ministers who filed a complaint to revoke the non-profit status of the secretive “Family” are to be congratulated. “The Family,” founded in 1935, has a public agenda of promoting “prayer breakfast groups” but their real agenda has always appeared to be preying, not praying. The non-profit behind “The Family” is the Fellowship Foundation. It’s 501(c)(3) mission statement reads: “To develop and maintain an informal association of people banded together, to go out as ‘ambassadors of reconciliation’ modeling the principles of Jesus, based on loving God and loving others.”

At least they’re not hypocrites. At the notorious swinging pad known as the C Street house at 133 C Street, Washington D.C., owned by the Family, U.S. representatives and senators practice their mission of “loving others.” They rent rooms for a reported $600 per month where they stay as “short-term” guests. Most recently one of their Christian brethren, former Congressman and South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, was caught up in a highly publicized affair with an Argentinian woman. Also, last year, Congressman Chip Pickering’s wife sued him for divorce, alleging he had an affair “…while living in the well-known C Street complex in Washington D.C.” In June 2009, long-time guest at the C Street complex, Senator John Ensign, also admitted to an extra-marital affair.

In this former convent, once belonging to St. Peter’s Church, members can practice Christian love with foreign and domestic booty. Ensign’s affair was with his former campaign treasurer and the wife of his co-Chief of Staff, Doug Hampton. Although Hampton probably saw it coming, since he was a friend and fellow Family worshipper.

It looks like Big Pharma is ready to take in a lot of money...

From Aude Sapere:

As the thinking world is learning the H1N1 scare was just that, a big scare. We know now that this was a contrived plot launched by the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control to help mitigate the huge amount of money big pharma invested into this spurious vaccine, which on the front end funded weak academic research and padded a few of those Post hole Diddlers pockets.

Now it looks like the those same Post hole Diddlers want a little bit more money. At the moment they are working to make the flu vaccine mandatory for all Americans, even those between the ages of 16 to 49 years. Think about how much money the academic community and big pharma will make off of this scam when you consider there is 304,059,724 people living in the US.

This letter to the editor appeared recently in the Boston Globe.

REPRESENTATIVE STEPHEN Lynch (my congressman) writes in a Feb. 17 op-ed that the United States must preserve the rights of Afghan women by avoiding any reconciliation with the Taliban (“The price of appeasing the Taliban’’).

But the warlord-dominated regime that the United States currently supports in Kabul has brought nothing but disaster for Afghan women. Eight years after the US military intervention in Afghanistan, Afghan women still die in childbirth more than women in any other country, women’s life expectancy is one of the lowest in the world (about 42 years), and UNICEF has just announced that Afghanistan has replaced Sierra Leone as the worst place in the world for a child to be born today.

Lynch must not use Afghan women as a cover for continued US occupation of their country. He should vote to deny funds for the Afghanistan war, to bring all the troops home and end the bloodshed. Afghan women’s struggle for rights will be a long one, but it cannot be waged by our military. Let’s get out of their way.

Cole Harrison
Roslindale
The writer is the organizer of a task force on Afghanistan in association with United for Justice with Peace, a coalition of more than 100 Boston-area groups.

 

I am very excited about getting Dr. Michael Pryce on the ballot in November 2010 for United States Senate, Ohio. I have petitions to be signed. We need at least 5,000 valid signatures by May 3, 2010 Call me 330-631-5489 for information. You can also stop by Dr. Pryce's office in Kent, Ohio to sign one there. He is usually in the office Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Thank you, Cindy Lohman

Did you know that:

• Ohio received (and hopefully buried) 21.9 million tons of trash - mostly from New York and New Jersey - during 2008 while exporting only about one million tons to its neighboring states, according to the Akron Beacon-Journal.  http://www.ohio.com/news/83768352.html 

If this is Ohio's new "growth" (or gross) industry, let's be thankful that the mess is covered right now by snow.  And while we're talking about weather:

• Cleveland rates first (and Columbus 8th) in a Forbes magazine ranking of the nation's "worst winter weather cities." (AP) 

Or they're among the "best" winter weather cities if you enjoy the white stuff.

• Congressman John Murtha, D-PA, who died this week, was the first combat veteran from the Vietnam War elected to Congress.  And then he went on again to show his bravery by opposing George Bush's disastrous adventure in Iraq.
• In a complicated series of votes on Feb. 4, both Democratic congressman Zack Space and Republican congressman Pat Tiberi voted NO on increasing the federal debt limit to $13 trillion and change.  Both represent parts of Licking County.

On a related measure, Space the same day voted YES to adopt pay-as-you-go rules barring Congress from approving new spending without offsetting spending cuts or tax increases.  Tiberi voted NO on pay-as-you-go.

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/votes/?votenum=48&chamber=H&congress=1112

Let the congressmen speak for themselves:

Space: http://space.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=20&sectiontree=8,20&itemid=897

Tiberi: http://tiberi.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=169307

The Supreme Court's ruling in the Citizens' United case allows corporations to buy, blackmail or destroy politicians and elected judges with bombs of campaign advertisements. Even foreign-owned corporations can meddle in our elections.

Here's a way to demonstrate how far-reaching the ruling is. Some citizens should start a new political party. Call it the Sell-Out Party, for example. Then publicly encourage foreign-owned companies to contribute to Sell-Out candidates. Citgo is wholely-owned by Hugo Chavez' Venezuelean government. Solicit Fidel Castro to buy ads for the Sell Outs.

The Republican Party and corporate Dems are going to be benefit from paid advertisements from foreign companies. That's guaranteed. Right now, they are arranging to benefit from corporate funded advertisements for their next campaign. And, oil sheiks and bureaucrats of companies owned by the Chinese government are welcome to meddle in our elections according to the Roberts' court.

Interrogation Team Is Still Months Away; The Wall Street Journal

The head of a new elite terrorism-interrogation program said Thursday that it will take several more months to establish teams that could question high-profile suspects. The teams are part of an overhaul of counterterrorism policy and have become an issue in a partisan battle over the Obama administration's handling of the suspect in a botched Christmas Day airline bombing attempt.

The High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, or HIG, will consist of three to five teams of interrogators based in Washington and largely drawn from the ranks of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with some from the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Department.

Andrew McCabe, a veteran FBI counterterrorism investigator who is leading the new program, said in an interview that the bureau can currently cobble together an ad-hoc team of interrogators if the need arises. ...

Administration officials say the National Security Council is still reviewing operational details of how the teams will operate. Mr. McCabe and deputies from the CIA and Defense Department are seeking office space in Washington's Virginia suburbs and preparing to pick members of the interrogation teams.

Initial plans are for the teams to be used overseas only, though the administration hasn't ruled out using them in the U.S. for incidents such as the Christmas bomb plot.

"It seems absolutely foolish not to use it domestically," said Philip Heymann, a former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration and one of the chief developers of the new teams. Mr. Heymann and other members of a small government advisory board proposed the development of the teams to replace the government's reliance on CIA interrogators for terror suspects.

The recommendation was largely adopted by the White House in August. "They were moving forward, but carefully, to set up their operation," Mr. Heymann said. He added that he wasn't troubled by the time it's taking to launch the teams because he expects them to be used for years to come and it's important they be carefully assembled.

After two employees in the Ohio attorney general’s office filed sexual-harassment complaints against the office’s director of general services in March 2008, Attorney General Marc Dann assigned two top lawyers in the office to investigate. The accused director, Anthony Gutierrez, was a longtime friend and former roommate of Dann.

The investigation concluded that Gutierrez had subjected the women to “a hostile work environment” of sexual harassment. He was immediately fired. Two other managers who were also longtime friends of Dann were forced out for allegedly mishandling the complaints. Dann himself admitted to a consensual affair with his scheduler, who then resigned.

During the Ohio media’s frenzy over the story, Gov. Ted Strickland and other state Democratic officials hastily called for fellow-Democrat Dann to resign or be impeached. Democrats in the Ohio House of Representatives soon introduced an impeachment resolution.

Strickland also tried to turn Dann’s top aides against him by informing them in advance that Democratic leaders were going to demand Dann’s resignation. The aides were reportedly offered jobs to lure them away. And the Ohio Democratic Party further isolated Dann by revoking its previous endorsement of his 2006 campaign for the attorney general’s office.

Upon receiving authority to investigate by Strickland and the Ohio legislature, the state inspector general invaded and ransacked the attorney general’s office. His agents removed documents, computers, and other electronic equipment. They stripped Dann of his computer, BlackBerry, and state vehicle.

Altogether, these acts crippled Dann’s ability to function as attorney general. He was compelled to resign after being in office only 16 months, despite having been elected to a four-year term by over 2 million Ohioans. Along with ending Dann’s career as Ohio’s most populist elected statewide official in decades, the dreams of many who worked under him were dashed.

Tragically, these outcomes stemmed from a flawed investigation report and unfair media coverage of what turned out to be, on closer inspection, bogus allegations of sexual harassment. By focusing mainly on the side of the story told by the two complainants, the report and coverage fueled the extreme acts taken against Dann.

This matter shows that examining all sides of a story is essential for justice to be done in responding to sexual-harassment complaints.

The scofflaw complainants

The complaints were filed by Cindy Stankoski and Vanessa Stout, two 26-year-old employees in the general services section.

Stankoski began work in the section on August 20, 2007. Her father, who worked for the Ohio Building Authority, had approached Gutierrez about the possibility of a job for his daughter. Gutierrez helped them both by hiring her as a telecommunications assistant.

Stout’s employment in general services began on November 26, 2007. She was a single mother of two and a neighbor of Gutierrez. He helped her obtain a position as a telecommunications assistant after she told him she needed a job.

Neither Stankoski nor Stout had been to college. But their backgrounds included run-ins with the law. The inspector general’s report described Stout as having an “extensive criminal history.”

Before being hired, Stout had been convicted of retail theft three times: once each in Pittsburgh and Hermitage, Pennsylvania, and once in Niles, Ohio. That was in addition to convictions for assault, harassment, and driving under the influence. Moreover, a warrant had been issued because of her failure to appear for a DUI charge. After being hired, Stout was convicted of disorderly conduct while intoxicated, pulled over for driving with expired tags, and arrested for drug possession.

The attorney general’s chief operating officer told investigators that when she learned of Stout’s criminal past, she exclaimed, “I can’t believe we hired this woman.” She said she expressed to others in the office that “you need to fire her. . . . I’m looking at an employee that should never have been on our payroll.” The human resources director likewise told investigators that a criminal record such as Stout’s would normally disqualify an applicant from employment.

Stankoski repeatedly violated the traffic laws. She had a speeding offense in 1999, two speeding offenses in 2002, and two more in 2006. She was cited for a turn-signal violation and improper passing in 2006. And she was in a traffic accident in 2007. Based on this driving record, the human resources director told investigators she “certainly would not have recommended” Stankoski for employment.

In view of their legal problems that would have disqualified other applicants, Stankoski and Stout were given huge breaks when Gutierrez hired them for the attorney general’s office.

The three amigos

Stankoski, Stout, and Gutierrez greatly enjoyed working together in general services. That is shown by testimony their coworkers gave to investigators.

The section’s administrative secretary testified that Stankoski was comfortable being around Gutierrez and would “go in his office a lot” and “shut the door and talk.” The secretary made clear that Stankoski was the one who closed the door: “She walked in. She shut the door.” And this behavior continued at least through Christmas 2007.

Also in regard to Gutierrez’s office, the same witness testified that both Stout and Stankoski “were in and out a lot.” She said Stout would go into Gutierrez’s office, joke with him, and “close the door and have lunch in there sometimes.” She said Gutierrez and Stout had “an easy-going camaraderie,” “interacted positively,” “had a nice friendship,” and joked between them “just like they were old friends.”

Overall, the administrative secretary saw no problem between Gutierrez and the two women. Instead, the relationships were friendly and “there was teasing both ways.”

The section’s fixed-asset manager testified that Gutierrez and Stankoski joked together. She thought they were friends outside of work. She also stated that Gutierrez and the two women would have lunch in his office and frequently take smoke breaks together.

A telecommunications assistant testified that Gutierrez and Stankoski had similar personalities, were “sort of cut from the same thread,” and “seemed like they were pals.” He stated that Stankoski and Stout joked with Gutierrez in the office. He explained that “anybody would” because Gutierrez “was a likeable guy.”

The same assistant testified that neither Stankoski nor Stout expressed to him any dissatisfaction with Gutierrez when they worked together in general services. He was around the two a lot and never witnessed Gutierrez mistreat them. He mentioned being surprised the women had filed complaints.

According to the section’s deputy director, Stout and Gutierrez were buddies. He explained that “they always had a laughing relationship. . . . We all joked around, but . . . you could tell they had a good relationship.” And he never saw a change in Gutierrez’s treatment of her when she worked in the section.

One of the section’s facilities managers noted about the interaction between Gutierrez and the two women: “He joked around with them. They joked around with each other.”

Another facilities manager, whose desk was beside Stankoski’s, regularly conversed with her. Stankoski never shared with him that she was having a problem with Gutierrez. He testified that Gutierrez and Stankoski “were both kind of flirty with each other.” He said the same was true of Gutierrez and Stout. But he didn’t think Gutierrez had subjected either to harassment.

One witness was an assistant attorney general who didn’t work in general services but had dined at a restaurant with Stankoski, Gutierrez, and another employee of the attorney general’s office one evening in October 2007. She described the relationship between Stankoski and Gutierrez as “very laid back.” She said the two “were friends,” and Stankoski “was not reluctant to be near him.”

Finally, the attorney general’s communications director testified that Gutierrez and Stout, as neighbors, liked to smoke together outside their apartments.

The common theme of these coworkers was that there was a close friendship and jovial interaction between Gutierrez and the two women.

Sexual banter

As is sometimes the case with good friends, Stankoski and Stout’s relationship with Gutierrez included communication on the subject of sex. Besides their flirting with him as mentioned by coworkers, the women broached the subject in other ways.

In a discussion outside their apartments shortly before she was hired, Stout informed Gutierrez that her boyfriend had become jealous of her sex toy, which was her “battery-operated boyfriend” (or “Bob”), and broken it. According to Gutierrez, Stout had to explain to him what a Bob was, because he didn’t know. Stout testified they laughed about the boyfriend’s behavior.

A few weeks after that humorous conversation, Gutierrez bought Stout a replacement sex toy as a gag gift. When he gave it to her in his apartment in the presence of one of her girlfriends (who didn’t work at the attorney general’s office), all three laughed about it. Stout testified that when she received the gift she was laughing and said she always wanted one. She told investigators she thought her complaint about the breaking of her previous sex toy was “why he got me one.”

In regard to this matter, the inspector general’s report said it “suggests that Stout and Gutierrez had an overly familiar relationship that began long before Stout accused Gutierrez of sexual harassment, raising serious questions about the merits of Stout’s EEO complaint.”

Additionally, Stout sent text messages, which she described as “jokes and stuff,” to Gutierrez and other coworkers. A general services assistant testified that some of the jokes were “dirty.” Gutierrez described one, which Stout sent to him around Christmas 2007, as an “explicit joke” involving Santa Claus.

Stout also used profanity in the office. For instance, the administrative secretary told investigators about Stout storming into Gutierrez’s office upon arriving at work one morning. Stout proceeded to interrupt the secretary’s serious discussion with him by “throwing the F bomb.” Stout was very angry about how she had been treated by a security guard when she entered the building that morning.

In regard to Stankoski, the inspector general’s report suggests she dressed provocatively and behaved unprofessionally in the office. It goes on: “During our investigation, we found several risqué photos of Cindy Stankoski on [coworker] Mariellen Aranda's cell phone. In each, Stankoski flirtatiously sported Gutierrez's Attorney General-issued badge at her bosom.”

The fact that Stankoski possessed Gutierrez's state-issued badge is more evidence of her close relationship with him. And the pictures sent a clear message that she was willing to engage in sexually oriented behavior and communication in the office.

The same conclusion is supported by Stankoski’s willingness to send other types of messages about sex. The office’s fixed-asset manager testified that Stankoski sent her and others text messages of jokes “that could be dirty in nature, or of sexual nature.”

Stankoski used profanity in the office too. A telecommunications assistant said Stankoski cussed in the office “more than your average 25-year-old woman that works in an office.” The administrative secretary told investigators that Stankoski, like Stout, used profanity in Gutierrez’s presence.

Obviously, the women were willing to initiate and engage in sexually oriented communication with Gutierrez and other coworkers. In this atmosphere, it would not be surprising that Gutierrez, who had been a construction contractor for 27 years before joining the attorney general’s office in February 2007, used profanity in the office and made some sexually oriented comments.

But he doesn’t appear to have been worse than the two women. As a general services assistant testified, Gutierrez “said things that were inappropriate. So did they.” She described Stout and Stankoski as participants in that type of culture.

Other witnesses said Stout, in particular, “made inappropriate comments about employees.” And a telecommunications assistant said he almost complained to the human resources section about Stankoski’s inappropriate comments, including cussing at him in the office, on a particular occasion.

More partying and playing

Stankoski and Stout also liked to have other types of fun with people from the office. A general services assistant told investigators: “Cindy and Vanessa are both partyers. And when I heard that they filed [the sexual-harassment complaints], I was shocked, honestly, because they go out all the time, they hit on people, other coworkers, and other married coworkers.”

As an example, the assistant said she saw Stankoski “hitting on” a married coworker at a happy hour that some of the office’s employees had gone to after work. She said “they were kissing and hugging and rubbing parts that they shouldn’t have been.” When several people at the event asked Stankoski what she was doing, she answered that she and the married man were having fun.

Regarding Stankoski’s behavior the same evening, the assistant also testified: “She was drunk that night. And . . . when I called for my boyfriend to come pick me up, I also . . . told him to bring somebody with him to drive her home, because she was drunk and shouldn’t have been driving. And so my boyfriend called his best friend . . . and he drove all the way downtown to pick her up, and she refused to leave.”

As for Stankoski’s conduct at after-work gatherings generally, an investigator commented to one of the office’s facilities managers: “It’s my understanding that at some of these happy hours where people would get together Cindy would get extremely intoxicated. Did you ever see that?”

The manager answered: “Yeah, I’ve seen her get just a little crazy. . . . But I think that’s just kind of her personality.” He agreed she probably would become more intoxicated than the average person at a happy hour.
Similarly, the fixed-asset manager testified that Stankoski “drinks a lot” and has a reputation for doing so. She told investigators about another night when Stankoski got so drunk that “there was no way she was gonna drive.” Stankoski had to be driven to the manager’s apartment to sleep it off. In the morning, the manager drove her to her car that was still parked downtown.

Stankoski had a similar experience when she went drinking with Gutierrez after work the evening of September 10, 2007. Stankoski said she got so “trashed” that she was slurring her speech, got sick, and blacked out. She ended up passed out for the evening in Gutierrez’s apartment, where they had gone for pizza. He had to drive her downtown to her car in the morning. But she still went out for drinks with him by herself after that night.

Stout also liked to drink. The deputy director of human resources said Stout told her that, as Gutierrez’s neighbor, she often visited his apartment and “had drinks with him frequently.” Stout testified that she went to Gutierrez’s apartment “five to 10 times” after being hired. She also admitted to going out for drinks with him in the fall of 2007.

Besides drinking with Gutierrez in bars, Stankoski shot pool with him in a bar, and Stout did the same in another bar.

Moreover, Stankoski and Stout were pranksters. The administrative secretary described one of the pranks the two played on Gutierrez in the office. She said Stankoski and Stout telephoned Gutierrez throughout a workday pretending to be someone who was “going to get him.”

The secretary said the two “talked in a dark, solemn voice” and were “making short, brief statements, just to escalate fear.” By trying to make him think someone was going to “get him” and attempting to instill ever greater fear in him, the women could be described as engaging in harassment themselves. But to them it was a very funny joke.

Coworkers described other pranks involving unprofessional, juvenile, and even scatological behavior by Stankoski and Stout in the office. These acts were performed not only in front of coworkers but also involved “acting like the office is a joke” while people from the outside were there. It’s no wonder none of the witnesses described the two as class acts.

Monday – Friday happy days

Until about the end of December 2007, Stankoski and Stout appeared to be extremely pleased working in Gutierrez’s section. The section’s deputy director said Stankoski did not want to be transferred from general services “because she loved what she was doing. She loved working in our section.” Stout also enjoyed working in general services and did not want to leave.

The section’s administrative secretary said the atmosphere in the office from September to December 2007 was “lighthearted.” She further described the office as “jovial,” “exciting,” “happy-go-lucky,” “business oriented,” and “business minded.”

Additionally, the work in general services was being performed well. The attorney general’s chief operating officer e-mailed Gutierrez at the beginning of 2008: “Tony, I want to take this opportunity to Thank You and your staff for a phenomenal job this year!! . . . You guys have done an incredible job. . . . I also want you to pass along my sentiments to the rest of your staff. . . . Again, thanks for all of the improvements, agency wide, that you and the GS Team have accomplished this year!!” The attorney general likewise felt that innovative and excellent work was being performed by the section.

Stankoski was so grateful to be in this fun and productive section that she made a Boss’s Day card for Gutierrez in October. She apparently believed that buying him a card wasn’t enough. She felt impelled to add a more personal touch by going to the time and effort of making the card herself.

In December, Stankoski and Stout planned and organized Gutierrez’s birthday party. A general services assistant testified that the two came up with the idea on their own to have the party. She said they “sent an e-mail out to all of general services, the library, office services, and said, we want to do something for Tony for his birthday. If you want to pitch in $5 or whatever, we’re going to go get subs or something.”

In planning the party, Stankoski sought suggestions from coworkers for practical jokes to play on Gutierrez. On the day of the party, which turned out to be a very good day in the office, Stankoski and Stout picked up the food for it from a sub shop.

Also in December, Stankoski referred a girlfriend for employment in the same office. She obviously wanted to share the job satisfaction with someone she knew.

During these happy days in general services, few would have suspected that Stout and Stankoski were being harassed sexually or in any other way. Many people can only dream of being as delighted at work as they seemed to be.

Trouble in paradise

This blissful state of affairs was to end shortly after the beginning of 2008. And the cause was Stout’s tendency to send racy text messages to coworkers.

Stout sent Gutierrez and others a message saying “it’s Happy New Year’s, let’s party, let’s have Bacardi and you’re my bitch for New Year’s.” Unfortunately, Gutierrez’s wife saw the message. Then Bacardi hit the fan.

Although Stout later told investigators the message was a “risqué joke,” Gutierrez’s wife found it anything but funny. She demanded that Stout be reprimanded for making that offer to her husband. So Gutierrez deferred to the wishes of his own boss by writing up a reprimand, albeit in an unenthusiastic and perfunctory manner. And Stout signed it.

Nevertheless, the text message evidently caused Gutierrez’s wife and her good friend the attorney general’s wife to become very uncomfortable about Gutierrez working in the same office with a young woman who would make such offers to him and others.

Apparently as a result, steps were soon taken to have Stout transferred to another section, where she would be in a different building and under a different director. The transfer occurred on January 18, 2008. Stout confided to a telecommunications assistant that she had been transferred because of the text message.

Particularly in view of Stout’s criminal record and the fact, as shown below, that she had lied on her employment application and during her employment interview, a reprimand and transfer were mild treatment for sending her section’s director, who was married with children, an invitation to drink, party, and be her “bitch” for New Year’s. As an employee-at-will who had been on the job only about five weeks, Stout could have been fired on the spot. At many organizations, she would have been.

But the attorney general’s office kept her as an employee, although in a different section. According to the chief operating officer, who wanted to fire Stout, the reason she wasn’t terminated was that the chief of policy and administration was “just a nice guy.” Additionally, Gutierrez was nice enough to not submit the written reprimand to the human resources section, thus protecting Stout’s work record. He also helped her by telling the director of her new section that “Vanessa’s a good kid.” And the director of that section made sure Stout was treated well and provided with any support she needed.

Notwithstanding management’s kindness to Stout, she and Stankoski remained very upset about the transfer. A general services assistant said about the change in the two women: “I thought everything was fine [and] everybody was happy until Vanessa got transferred. And then . . . they were like third-graders, they couldn’t be separated. They were both in a bad mood all the time.” She also said that after the transfer, Stankoski wouldn’t talk with Gutierrez or look at him.

Probably because of Stankoski’s own flirtatious and unprofessional behavior in the office, including her willingness to send “dirty” jokes or other texts “of sexual nature,” she feared she too might be transferred, despite her immediate supervisor’s assurances that she wouldn’t be. She also must have known that if Gutierrez’s wife ever saw the risqué photos of her posing flirtatiously with his attorney general-issued badge at her bosom, she would be history in the section faster than Stout was.

Stankoski strongly didn’t want that to happen. As she said about the possibility of leaving Gutierrez’s section: “I enjoy the work that I do. I enjoy finally having a real job. I didn’t want to get transferred. What if I didn’t like my work or like the people I worked with?”

Playing the sexual-harassment card

Stout had initially been told the transfer would be for a temporary period of six to eight weeks. Possibly the transfer was at first made temporary with the hope that the wives would cool down and not be so concerned about a carousing and flirtatious party girl working with the husband of one of them, even though they knew she had already sent at least one salacious invitation to him.

Not surprisingly, any such hope was eventually given up. Stout learned in March 2008 that the transfer had been made permanent. At that point, she marched straight to the human resources section to complain.

Until then, Stout had never complained to any manager about Gutierrez’s behavior. About a month earlier, Gutierrez had met her at a bar to buy her a birthday drink, and they played some games of pool there. They also had occasionally been conversing, as friends, at other times during the initial weeks of the transfer. And when Stout first went to human resources, the persons she spoke with were unsure of the exact nature of her complaint, except they could see she was very upset about the transfer.

The deputy director of human resources told investigators about that first meeting: “I stopped writing. I stopped, because she seemed to be all over the place with just a lot of extraneous things that I didn’t think had to do with her specific issue.” Although Stout mentioned some sexual matters at the meeting, she didn’t specifically allege sexual harassment. The deputy was unable to determine from the meeting whether sexual harassment was part of the complaint, or if Stout was just angry about the transfer.

But Stout did make clear at the meeting that she wanted transferred back to Gutierrez’s section, even though he was still there and she was being treated well in her new section. The human resources director quoted Stout as saying about working in general services: “I liked it there. . . . I enjoyed my job. I liked working with Cindy, and I liked the people over there.”

It wasn’t long, though, before Stout and Stankoski decided that sexual-harassment complaints could be their tickets to not only continue working together in general services but also to obtain money and notoriety. Plus, the complaints would be a means of revenge against Gutierrez and anyone else responsible for the transfer. The women believed that those goals could be attained by claiming that Stout had been transferred, and Stankoski soon would be, because they had refused Gutierrez’s alleged sexual overtures.

So at future meetings with human resources personnel, Stout began telling stories of how Gutierrez had repeatedly asked to watch her use the sex toy he had given her four months earlier. She further said he requested “if not every day, every other day” to have sex with her. She stated he asked her to go out for drinks “daily.” And she contended he “always” would say she owed him for getting her the job.

Suddenly Stankoski too claimed to be offended by Gutierrez’s alleged behavior, which she said included telling her she owed him. She claimed he pressured her to go out for drinks and “would not take no for an answer.” She said he was “always” inappropriate in conversations with her. She stated he “always” undressed her with his eyes, constantly leered at her body, and made comments about it “a lot.” She said she believed she was being “set up for failure because I didn’t accept the sexual advances . . . he would make.”

Stankoski asserted that Gutierrez started creeping her out when she first interviewed for the job. In conversations with her, he allegedly was “biting on his lip in a very sexual, disgusting way.” She stated she’s been in an “uncomfortable environment” and it’s been “very hard” for months. She claimed to have “absolutely” felt uncomfortable being around Gutierrez.

Most serious of all, Stankoski began saying that on the night she had passed out drunk in Gutierrez’s apartment six months earlier, she woke up with him lying beside her in his underwear. She charged that while she was passed out, he had unbuttoned all three buttons on her pants. She said the first person she told about this matter was Stout, about three months after it supposedly happened. She didn’t tell anyone else until she went to the human resources section to complain.

Additionally, Stankoski said Gutierrez later told her that he knew she had woken up with her pants undone, that he had wanted to have sex with her when she was passed out, but had decided not to because it would be wrong to do that to an employee.

In effect, Stankoski was accusing Gutierrez of committing gross sexual imposition on her with intent to commit rape. She was saying he had unbuttoned her pants intending to rape her, but decided not to because she was his employee. She said he had “violated” her.

After hearing Stankoski’s allegations, the deputy director of human resources was concerned about her safety. The deputy told investigators she said to Stankoski: “Is there anything happening now? Do I need to remove you out of harm’s way? Are you being sexually harassed now? The answers to those [questions] were no, he’s not bothering me now.”

In sum, Stout and Stankoski were claiming they had believed for months that Gutierrez was a sex offender – on the level of a rapist – who had continually subjected them to a hostile environment of sexual harassment. The harassment allegedly occurred from early September 2007 until about the beginning of 2008. Gutierrez denied virtually all the allegations.

The complaints were a crock

Based on their months of previous behavior with Gutierrez, there is no way Stout and Stankoski could be telling the truth when they suddenly began saying they had believed during those same months that he was a creep, pervert, pig, harasser, and sex criminal.

Women who feel that way about a man do not go into his office and shut the door behind them, spend a lot of time socializing and having lunch with him in his office, take smoke breaks with him, flirt with him, play pranks on him, come up with the idea of having a birthday party for him, plan and organize the party, act in a juvenile manner in his presence in the office, go out for drinks with him, shoot pool with him in a bar, or send racy text messages in the office as jokes. But Stankoski and Stout behaved in all those ways with Gutierrez.

A sexually harassed woman also does not pose for risqué photos in which she flirtatiously holds her harasser’s office-issued badge at her bosom, ask coworkers to suggest practical jokes to play on him, make a Boss’s Day card for him, refer a girlfriend for employment in his office, go out to dinner with him, go to his apartment to drink and have pizza, or get so drunk with him that she slurs her words, gets sick, blacks out, and passes out at the apartment. Stankoski did all those things

A woman working in a sexually hostile environment also does not repeatedly visit her harasser’s apartment to drink and socialize with him, smoke cigarettes and talk for hours with him outside the apartment, throw “the F bomb” in complaining to him about her treatment by a security guard, meet him at a bar to let him buy her a birthday drink, tell him about her boyfriend becoming jealous of her sex toy and breaking it, or invite him to party, have Bacardi, and be her “bitch” for New Year’s. Stout did all those things.

Also unlike Stout and Stankoski, a woman in a sexually hostile environment doesn’t say she enjoys working in her harasser’s section. And she doesn’t wait to complain about sexual harassment until she gets angry at him for transferring her out of the section, as Stout did. Nor does she wait to complain until she becomes afraid she might be transferred out of his section, as Stankoski did.

All those facts in themselves would be enough to make reasonable people laugh or jeer the two partying scofflaws and their complaints right out the door. It’s inconceivable that women would behave in such ways with a man who was sexually harassing them.

But if anyone wants more proof to further seal the case against the two women, the investigation materials show that Stout and Stankoski are serial liars who have no scruples about making false statements and hurting innocent people when it’s in their interest to do so. Neither woman is credible.

Stout the liar

Stout intentionally omitted her three theft convictions from her employment application at the attorney general’s office. She also falsely asserted on the application that she had graduated from high school when in fact she had only completed the 11th grade and had a GED.

She added to the deception at her employment interview. She said she was proficient at using several computer programs such as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, but those statements were lies.

After receiving the sex toy as a gag gift from Gutierrez, Stout told her children’s father that a girlfriend had given it to her. She explained to investigators that she “lied to him because . . . he’s very jealous.”

Although Stout told a telecommunications assistant she was transferred because of the inappropriate text message, she later told investigators she believed she was transferred because of refusing Gutierrez’s alleged sexual advances.

Most significantly, a few months after filing her complaint against Gutierrez, Stout showed she was willing to intentionally make false statements about a coworker’s sexual behavior to obtain revenge.

During the internal investigation, a female coworker had testified that Stout and Stankoski’s complaints were “bogus.” Another female coworker had expressed surprise that complaints were filed. Both later claimed that Stout and Stankoski were retaliating against them in the office because of their testimony. They said the two were being rude, giving them dirty looks, creating a hostile work environment, and taunting, mocking, and laughing at them.

A method Stout used to retaliate against one of the women was to publicly accuse her of sexual impropriety. According to Stout’s version of what happened, when Stout arrived at the office one morning, she told the woman something like “we all know how you got your job.” This was done in a voice loud enough to be heard by coworkers.

Another female coworker submitted a written statement about the incident. She said she heard Stout say the woman was “sleeping with 3 people in the office.” The coworker also wrote that she then went into the accused woman’s office, and the woman was “shaking and her eyes were red.” Despite how upset the woman was, Stout referred to the investigation of both that incident and her accusers’ other allegations as “a joke.”

When Stout was asked by investigators what her statement about the woman meant, she “suggested that [the woman] had slept with someone or several people to get her job.” The investigators also wrote in their report: “During her interview Stout acknowledged that she did this to upset [the woman], and that she didn’t have firsthand knowledge of [her] sleeping with anyone to obtain a position in the office.”

There it is: Stout admitting to making unfounded charges about a coworker’s sexual behavior to obtain revenge, harass the person, and further her own objectives. Because Stout did this to a female coworker, she surely could do it to Gutierrez.

No one should take the word of such a low-life liar, harasser, and thief on anything, especially when doing so could ruin the careers and reputations of innocent people.

Stankoski the liar

Like Stout, Stankoski openly admits she’s a liar. In describing a time when Gutierrez asked her why she hadn’t returned his phone calls, she told investigators: “I lied to him and told him that I never listen to my voice mails and I just haven’t listened to them yet.”

As for why Stankoski had agreed to go out for drinks with Gutierrez, the human resources director said Stankoski’s explanation was that she “did not know if she rejected him, what would happen to her.” The director said this “was her theme” in responding to repeated questions about why she had met Gutierrez for drinks. Stankoski further claimed to investigators that she “felt that if I did refuse him, he would see to it that I get fired somehow in the future.”

Her theme was a lie, though, because she knew what would happen. After a work-related trip to Cincinnati in October 2007, Gutierrez invited Stankoski to join him and another employee of the attorney general’s office for dinner at a restaurant, but she declined. On another occasion that same month, when Gutierrez asked her by phone to meet him and some office employees for dinner at a restaurant, she initially refused. But a female assistant attorney general who was also going to be there called her back and convinced her to come.

Here’s what happened a few weeks after those two refusals: Gutierrez gave Stankoski a promotion and a raise by appointing her to a position that had opened up in the office.

Moreover, Stankoski must have known that her coworkers who declined Gutierrez’s social invitations suffered no retaliation. He simply stopped asking once he got the impression they weren’t interested. One of them told investigators she never felt pressured to accept his invitations or believed she might incur retaliation for declining.

In the EEO complaint Stankoski signed on March 31, 2008, she said her pants were unbuttoned when she woke up from her drunken stupor at Gutierrez’s apartment. A couple of weeks later, in speaking with the two attorneys who were investigating the matter, she told them the zipper on her pants “was a little down, but all the buttons were undone” when she got up. Neither in the complaint nor during the first interview did she say her pants fell down. But she said to the attorneys at the end of the interview: “I feel as if I’ve told you everything.”

At her next interview with them eight days later, however, one of them asked about the zipper: “Which one was it, slightly or halfway down?” Stankoski answered that “it was unzipped” and went on to say her pants fell down when she got up. Because the story had changed from the pants being just unbuttoned, to the zipper also being “a little down,” to the zipper being “unzipped” such that her pants fell down, Stankoski was not being truthful during at least two renditions of it.

And even if her pants were unbuttoned or unzipped, Stankoski might have done it herself and not remembered because her excessive drinking had caused her, as she indicated, to black out.

In two written statements Stankoski gave to investigators, she said that when she was at Gutierrez’s apartment, which he was then sharing with the attorney general, the attorney general’s scheduler was there in “PJs.” But Stankoski wrote in another document and also testified that the scheduler was wearing sweatpants and either a sweatshirt or T-shirt. When asked about the discrepancy, she told investigators: “I do consider sweatshirt and sweatpants as pajamas.”

That explanation was patently absurd and dishonest. The scheduler had arrived at the apartment, after Stankoski did, wearing a sweatshirt and sweatpants and carrying a laptop computer, which she worked on while there. Stankoski could see that the attire was obviously street clothes.

The investigators’ interviews with her coworkers indicate other possible lies by Stankoski. She told investigators that before she left the office to go drinking with Gutierrez on September 10, a telecommunications assistant warned her to be careful going out with Gutierrez. But he had no recollection of that and told the investigators “it’s none of my business, you know. They can do what they want. I don’t care.”

According to investigators, Stankoski claimed that her section’s deputy director told her he knew she had done nothing wrong and had been sexually harassed from day one at the office. When they asked him about those alleged statements, though, he responded, “I don’t remember that.”

The attorney general’s EEO officer testified that both Stankoski and Stout misquoted her in a newspaper article about the complaints. She indicated they falsely claimed she had told them the attorney general’s office would do anything to push the matter under the rug and keep it from becoming public.

Furthermore, a telecommunications assistant said Stankoski “can be mean” in the office. He gave an example of when she “snapped over nothing,” “went bonkers,” and was very rude. He said she was so mean on that occasion that he almost complained to the human resources section. He stated, “I thought that she crossed the line tenfold with some of the comments that she made,” including cussing at him when he had simply tried to assist her. He also said that even though he had been “100 percent nice” on that occasion, he ended up being “a hundred percent the victim” of her meanness.

He wouldn’t be the only one. The character traits of being mean and repeatedly lying could be a fertile source of false sexual-harassment allegations. That’s another reason Stankoski’s word can’t be trusted any more than her friend Stout’s can.

Injustice prevails

At one point during the internal investigation, when the chief operating officer said she had been opposed to taking punitive action against Gutierrez before his side of the story had been heard, one of the investigating attorneys lectured her: “Two sides of the story is not required when you have sexual allegations.”

He and his partner seemed to write their report in accordance with that philosophy. The report highlights the allegations of the two women. But it contains nothing about their history of repeatedly lying. Nor does it mention their tendency to initiate and engage in certain sexually oriented communication with coworkers.

Moreover, the report omits statements of coworkers whose testimony was opposed to the complaints. For instance, the report leaves out the statements of the female coworker who called the women “partyers” and their complaints “bogus.” It also omits the statements of another female coworker who said she questioned the motive of the two women. That person suggested that Stout and Stankoski may have been disgruntled employees with an ax to grind.

The report also omits the statements of the coworkers who testified that during the period of the alleged harassment, Gutierrez and the two women appeared to be close friends who frequently joked together.

Although the report lists some of the women’s acts that were inconsistent with the allegations, it downplays those acts by including them, in a brief one-paragraph section, as basically an aside and a curiosity. The report provides no explanation of how the acts could be consistent with the women being in a sexually hostile environment. That’s probably because there is none.

The Ohio media were just as bad, if not worse. The women’s lurid and prurient charges were trumpeted across the state, while evidence opposing their claims was minimized or, more often, not reported at all. One female reporter explained this behavior by saying that if the other side of the story were presented, the media might be accused of “blaming the victims.”

A male reporter apparently felt the same way. His articles were sympathetic to the women’s complaints, but he stated in private that their case “would fall apart in court.” From reading his articles, no one would have suspected his true feelings.

The one-sided investigative report and media coverage made the attorney general’s office look much worse than it should have. And the women looked much better than they were. As a result, the spineless Democratic governor panicked. On a Sunday two days after the report was issued, he and other state Democratic officials were already working frantically to pressure the attorney general to leave office.

By moving so quickly, they couldn’t have closely examined the evidence regarding the women’s allegations or thoroughly researched the legal requirements for impeachment. They were acting for purely political reasons to stanch the flow of bad publicity stemming from the one-sided report.

In pursuing that political goal, they weren’t going to let the facts, the law, the truth, or the rights of innocent parties get in their way. They denied the attorney general and others the presumption of innocence that every American is entitled to. And instead of following a valid legal process, they decided to use physical coercion and trumped-up impeachment articles to railroad a democratically elected statewide official from office.

Their demagoguery and strong-arm tactics succeeded in compelling the attorney general to resign. Besides the harm caused to him, his family, and the citizens he was representing, the lives and careers of many who worked under him were devastated. Even though most of those employees had nothing to do with the complaints, and some had gone out of their way to be nice to the two women, they ended up losing their jobs and were stained by the association of working in an office that supposedly allowed sexual harassment.

For a while, the special counsel hired by the state to defend against the women’s complaints were permitted to treat the matter as a legal rather than a political issue. According to a newspaper article published several months after the attorney general’s resignation, those lawyers apparently took a position contrary to the conclusions of the internal report. They “reportedly used copies of text messages to support their allegations that Stankoski and Stout were willing participants in some of the sexually charged activities” in the office.

Politics took over again a few months later, however. After being in office less than two weeks, Attorney General Richard Cordray, a Democrat who had won a special election to obtain the office, settled with the women by awarding them each $247,500 of taxpayers’ dollars. Cordray then quickly sent the women checks before the state Controlling Board could do its job of determining whether that expenditure of public funds should be made. As the state treasurer in May 2008, Cordray had been instrumental in helping force Dann from the attorney general’s office, which Cordray had long coveted.

Cordray and other Democratic state officials knew that if the truth about the complaints had come out at a trial, they would have looked like fools for jumping to unwarranted conclusions and using false sexual-harassment complaints to force the people’s elected attorney general from office and cause enormous harm to so many. Cordray also would have been exposed as a base political opportunist. To prevent those outcomes, state Democratic officials made sure the other side of the story was buried yet again, this time by settling with the women and preventing the Controlling Board from closely examining the matter.

Further, by awarding such a large amount, the officials tried to make the public think that there must have been serious sexual harassment committed and that the officials had been right all along to force Dann from office. Cordray even publicly apologized to and complimented the two lying scofflaws. All this was adding insult to the injuries already suffered by former workers in the attorney general’s office.

The upshot was that the complainants walked away with a huge sum of money they didn’t deserve, with some people praising them as heroes for coming forward with their stories. They left in their wake many innocent persons whose lives had been severely damaged by the women’s dishonest, selfish, heartless, and immature behavior.

And Stout learned that false sexual-harassment complaints can yield vastly more ill-gotten gains than she ever could have obtained from stealing merchandise from stores.

Conclusion

The failure to examine all sides of a story in regard to sexual-harassment complaints can cause tremendous injustice and harm. This is because some of the complaints are false and filed for ulterior motives.

In his 1997 book The End of Sanity: Social and Cultural Madness in America, Martin L. Gross writes that a sexual-harassment complaint “can provide an outlet and revenge for the frustrated, the denied, the excessively prudish. Or the motive can be a compulsive interest in large dollar court judgments, a new American payoff that rivals the lottery. And, we should not omit the thousands of willing trial lawyers salivating over the prospect of contingency fees in the millions.”

Gross also says a false sexual-harassment complaint can be “the claim of a rejected suitor, a disappointed employee, or result from the pain of an angry quarrel.” The case of the two women in the attorney general’s office could be Exhibit A supporting that position.

As is true of persons who make complaints on other subjects, sexual-harassment complainants can be liars having ulterior motives such as a money, revenge, or malice. And they can be willing to destroy innocent people to attain their goals.

Distinguishing the true from the false victims requires examining all the evidence, not just the charges that anyone could make up.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects freedom of speech based on the philosophy that if all sides of an issue are heard, the truth is likely to emerge. For similar reasons, the Constitution and justice system contain protections to ensure that all relevant evidence is considered in deciding legal issues.

If journalists and lawyers take the position that only one side of the story should be heard in regard to sexual-harassment allegations, they are violating the most fundamental principles of fairness and integrity in their professions. And why? Because they’re afraid of the screams of a small minority of irrational extremists who don’t want anyone to accept the fact that some sexual-harassment allegations are false.

To cave to the desires of those people is illogical and cowardly. And it’s a prescription for the triumph of evil and injustice.

[A Word version of this article, including 196 endnotes, can be obtained by contacting the author at JCSommer@aol.com.]

Sarah Palin is guilty of getting Joe Biden's name wrong but the Obama Administration seems to have similar problems with transparency. According to Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake, Jonathan Gruber is an employee of the Obama Administration who has received $780,000 in public money while being depicted by them as an independent authority on health care economic issues. Not surprisingly, Gruber's views support the passage of the current House and Senate health care bills which lack both a public option and substantial efforts to insure that health care is truly affordable for Americans. If the Obama Administration is demanding that we compromise on health care reform, at least, it should fulfill another campaign promise: transparency. We deserve a government which respects citizens by providing us with intelligent, open, and honest public officials. Please say it IS so!

From Guantanamo’s Head Psychologist to Wright State Dean: Why Does the Ohio Psychology Board Refuse to Investigate Larry James? Saturday, January 16 at 7:00pm 1021 E. Broad St., Columbus, side door, parking in rear. Retired Army Colonel Larry James, former senior psychologist for the interrogation consulting teams in ...Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, is a prominent Ohio-licensed psychologist.

Over the holidays, Republican congressman Pat Tiberi (12th) circulated - on the public dime - a glossy, four-page, thinly disguised campaign ad explaining why he opposes the pending healthcare plan.

"Simply put, this bill isn't the kind of healthcare reform we need," he says.  "In fact, it doesn't fix many of the current problems in our healthcare system.  I believe it only makes them worse."

The mailer includes a list of what the bill does - and doesn't do - according to Tiberi.  Fair enough, except the first examples he cites under both categories are dead wrong.

• "What It Does: Rations mammograms for women under 50 as prescribed by the Preventive Services Task Force."

Tiberi is entitled to his opinion but he should know perfectly well that the pending bill never has rationed mammograms, even this was the partisan leap taken by Republicans after the named government task force made its controversial recommendations on use of mammograms.

 “Opponents of the health care reform bills moving through Congress have seized on the new recommendations as evidence that the government is seeking to put bureaucrats between you and your doctor or that it would ration care by denying coverage for some mammograms that are now covered. There is virtually no chance that any insurers, either public or private, will deny coverage to anyone based on these recommendations. Government and industry officials have said that explicitly and, in fact, every state but Utah requires private insurers to pay for mammograms for women starting in their 40s. 

There is nothing in the reform bills that would change the current Medicare laws, which require that annual mammograms be included among the preventive services covered, an important benefit for more than a million women in their 40s who get Medicare coverage because they are disabled or suffering from end-stage kidney disease.

The only part of the reform bills that could affect mammography would only make them more accessible. Under the legislation, the secretary of health and human services might be given authority to waive Medicare co-payments for prevention services that rank highly in the opinion of this task force. Since the task force gave a low grade to screening women in their 40s, the secretary could not waive cost-sharing for them.”  (NY Times, 11/19/2009)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/opinion/20fri1.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=mammograms+Utah&st=nyt

Don't trust the Times?  How about the Wall Street Journal, whose editorial page usually reflects  the GOP line.  In its Nov. 24 editorial, the Journal suspects Democrats have rationing in mind even if it's not stated in the pending legislation.

"In any event, the distinction between cost effectiveness and clinical effectiveness will be moot if ObamaCare passes. The House bill gives the HHS task force the mandate to review "the benefits, effectiveness, appropriateness, and costs of clinical preventive services" in making its de facto insurance coverage rulings. As Mr. Reinhardt notes, "at some point soon the rising cost of American health care actually will force Americans to bring monetary costs into the analysis as well."

What's really going on here is that the left knows its designs will require political rationing of care, but it doesn't want the public to figure this out until ObamaCare passes. Then it will begin the campaign to instruct the rest of us that we must follow the guidance of Princeton professors about what medical care we can receive. Americans will simply have to accept that the price of government-run health care in the name of redistributive justice is that patients and their doctors must bow to the superior wisdom of HHS task forces."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704779704574552320222125990.html

But remember, Tiberi's mailer says mammogram rationing is dictated by the pending bill which is just untrue. The Journal editorial only speculates that's the Democrats' future goal.

• "What It Doesn't Do: Bring Down Healthcare costs."

Wrong again, Pat, at least according to this Congressional Budget Office. December 19 analysis:

"CBO and JCT estimate that the direct spending and revenue effects of enacting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act incorporating the manager’s amendment would yield a net reduction in federal deficits of $132 billion over the 2010-2019 period. Of that total amount of deficit reduction, the manager’s amendment accounts for about $2 billion, and the act as originally proposed accounts for the remaining $130 billion.

The estimate includes a projected net cost of $614 billion over 10 years for the proposed expansions in insurance coverage. That net cost itself reflects a gross total of $871 billion in subsidies provided through the exchanges, increased net outlays for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and tax credits for small employers; those costs are partly offset by $149 billion in revenues from the excise tax on high-premium insurance plans and $108 billion in net savings from other sources. Over the 2010–2019 period, the net cost of the coverage expansions would be more than offset by the combination of other spending changes that CBO estimates would save $483 billion and other provisions that JCT and CBO estimate would increase federal revenues by $264 billion. In total, the legislation would increase outlays by $366 billion and increase revenues by $498 billion between 2010 and 2019."  http://cboblog.cbo.gov/?p=446

 Again, Tiberi is entitled to his opinion but here we have a clear example of misinformation on a major bill, "prepared, published and mailed at taxpayer expense" under the guise of "official business."

"In my end, is my beginning..."


and so wrote, T.S. Eliot...

just when it looks so hopeless...oftentimes, in our personal lives as well as our nation's political life....dark horizons...can create the spiritual will to create a whoe new life, and a...new world...

Ohio needs an enema...in many places, towns and cities...

maybe all across our present poitical spectrum...


one thing is clear...it needs true participation and exchange of real ideas and real information so that the people can begin to understand what exactly is controlling this state and who are trying to keep the people in darkness and in their ignorance

"knowledge is the first principle of any lasting democracy"

James Madison thought real genuine ideas and public awareness was central to any operative democracy

If he did, then perhaps, we ought to also...

Senator Moves to Hold Up Bernanke Confirmation; The New York Times

Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont said on Wednesday that he would try to block the Senate from confirming Ben S. Bernanke to a second term as chairman of the Federal

The move is unlikely to derail Mr. Bernanke’s reappointment, but it could slow the confirmation process and give the Fed’s critics additional opportunity to press their case. As a practical matter, it means Senate Democratic leaders will have to line up 60 votes in favor of Mr. Bernanke rather than a simple majority at a time when the Federal Reserve is under increasing populist attacks from lawmakers on both the right and the left.

Mr. Sanders, an independent, is not a member of the Senate banking committee, but he has frequently accused the Federal Reserve of bailing out Wall Street firms and the banking industry at the expense of ordinary citizens. ...

The Fed chairman was appointed by President George W. Bush and took over the central bank in February 2006. Despite his Republican ties, Mr. Bernanke forged a close working relationship with President Obama and his top economic advisers during the financial crisis.

Mr. Sanders, one of the Senate’s most left-leaning lawmakers, had already said he would vote against Mr. Bernanke’s appointment. He has also sponsored a bill that would allow Congress to “audit” all of the Federal Reserve’s activities, including its core mission of steering the economy by setting interest rates.

Mr. Sanders’s bill is identical to one championed by Representative Ron Paul, Republican of Texas, which Mr. Bernanke and other top Fed officials have adamantly opposed on the grounds that it would undermine the central bank’s independence.

But in a surprising setback to the Fed, the House Financial Services Committee voted last month to approve Mr. Paul’s bill as an amendment to a broader bill on financial regulation.

Senator Sanders might be the most left leaning in the US Senate but like Ron Paul he isn't beholden to special interest and he's smart enough to smell a rat.

Climate Emails Stoke Debate

The New York Times

By KEITH JOHNSON

The scientific community is buzzing over thousands of emails and documents -- posted on the Internet last week after being hacked from a prominent climate-change research center -- that some say raise ethical questions about a group of scientists who contend humans are responsible for global warming.

The correspondence between dozens of climate-change researchers, including many in the U.S., illustrates bitter feelings among those who believe human activities cause global warming toward rivals who argue that the link between humans and climate change remains uncertain.

In all, more than 1,000 emails and more than 2,000 other documents were stolen Thursday from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University in the U.K. The identity of the hackers isn't certain, but the files were posted on a Russian file-sharing server late Thursday, and university officials confirmed over the weekend that their computer had been attacked and said the documents appeared to be genuine.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125883405294859215.html#articleTabs=article

I was browsing the Half Price Books local interest section yesterday and found The Worlds of Ohio Women, copyright 1977, for $4. An essay by Mary Jo Ginty of Cleveland Women Together caught my attention:

"The development and widespread distribution of highly effective methods of contraception and the emergence of an overwhelming national concensus in favor of birth planning options among Americans in all social, economic, and ethnic groups, is a major achievement. The legalization of the right to terminate unwanted pregnancies, simpler less traumatic methods of sterilization, and a federal program to equalize access to these services, have all created the opportunity to now move forward with decisiveness to reduce to a minimum the incidents of unintended pregnancies and births."

Well, you've come a long way from asserting yourself in cigarette ads, baby. But as far as making strides in reproductive health, Ohio women are dismal failures.

Ms. Ginty's optimistic plan to "move forward with decisiveness" to reduce unintended pregnancies has been dismissed repeatedly by our legislators. The Ohio Prevention First Act, introduced three times and stalemated in the General Assembly, seeks to accomplish that very goal.

Here we are 32 years later. Our Ohio and congressional leaders continue to pander to pro-life extremists for their own political gain. I wonder how many of them have ever visited an abortion clinic or could objectively examine the facts.

In the current health care debate, it's clear that our reproductive rights are being used as an easily-sacrificed bargaining chip. Women are not just failing to make progress, our rights are being squelched.

They have no women members -- a serious empathy vacuum. They do not pay taxes like corporations do. They have no medical expertise. They have extremist views on contraceptive use.

So why are we allowing this group to hijack democratic health care reform?

Because when the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops talks, Congress listens -- to the detriment of women's reproductive rights.

Apparently separation of church and state principles don't apply when you're talking about women.

Along with Planned Parenthood, I'm disappointed with the House's cave-in to pro-life extremists who seek to chip away at abortion rights established 36 years ago.

Over a century ago, proto-feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton recognized how religion keeps women down:

"When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that bibles, prayer-books, catechisms and encyclical letters are emanations from the brains of men, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of 'Thus sayeth the Lord.'"

As I see it, everyone can live by his or her convictions on this contentious issue. It's easy -- If you're against abortion, don't have one.

from the website "Dubya Says"
"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."

— Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
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Should a Miracle Occur and We Get Viable Democrat and Green Candidates Next Time Around,
YOU WON'T SEE ME VOTING FOR SHERROD BROWN - Unless - I Literally Wake Up Tomorrow With
Single - Payer In Effect.

On Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at noon, Moveon.org and some health professionals met with personnel in Sherrod Brown's Cincinnati office to show support for the Senator in committing to the Public Option but - he wasn't there. When Moveon.org left the office they were treated to a scene of an extensively tea-baggered Fountain Square, opposing the "Public Option."

So now, in the light of this article, I think it's entirely possible that I might be correct in my perception that Senator Brown and the Cincinnati Tea Party adherents are perhaps close to a bipartisan compromise.

How nice for them. Count me out.

Jane Schiff




http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/10/25/aide-reid-likely-to-include-public-option-in-senate-health-care-bill/



October 25, 2009
Aide: Reid likely to include public option in Senate health care bill
Posted: October 25th, 2009 05:14 PM ET

From CNN Senior Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash

...On the same program, liberal Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio said he could support a public option with the opt-out provision. Brown expressed concern about a trigger mechanism, but stopped short of calling it a deal-breaker.

"The trigger says, 'Let's give the health insurance companies another two years after they've had five decades since World War II to do things right,' " Brown said, adding, "We need the public option now. We need it in large part because it will inject competition into places where they don't have it."...

Many people think separation of church and state issues are petty. It brings to mind uprooted nativity scenes in town squares, nutty Zoroastrians, Bible-toting public school teachers and seemingly harmless public prayer sessions.

So what's wrong with a blithely Judeo-Christian government?

Plenty.

If you happen to be a person who has never worried about getting pregnant, separation of church and state issues may never concern you. However, if you are a woman seeking emergency contraception from a holier-than-thou pharmacist you might feel differently.

In the highly charged politics of reproductive rights, religion usually trumps individual rights.

As Sandhya Bathija points out in Whose Conscious Counts?  in the Americans United for Separation of Church and State newsletter, this kind of religious favoritism can logically be applied to these situtations:

• a police officer could refuse to protect a medical clinic because it conflicts with his religious beliefs;

• a nurse at a public hospital would be free to lecture an AIDS patient and his partner that God “doesn’t like the homosexual lifestyle” and they must pray for salvation;

• a city bus driver could decline to drive a bus that displays an atheist advertisement because it offends her as an evangelical Christian;

• an on-staff counselor can refuse to counsel unmarried or gay and lesbian employees on relationship issues.

Interesting article Prayer policy divides Shelby by Mary Beth Lane in the Dispatch today. Is it just me, or is anyone else disturbed by this?

"The Columbus City Council rotates opening prayers between two Catholic priests, Monsignor John Cody and the Rev. Michael Watson. Their prayers are nondenominational, generally asking for council members to be given wisdom and guidance, spokesman John Ivanic said.

"On occasion, he added, Watson ends a prayer by asking for help for the Buckeyes, the Bengals and the Browns."

Obvious question aside -- Whose side is God on when the Bengals play the Browns? -- these super-paternalistic, anti-choice leaders are making a mockery of the prayer itself.

I don't think this undemocratic expression of religion through government entities is right. It's not petty, and we shouldn't be afraid to criticize our leadership about it.

We learned months ago that Lee Fisher, the Lt. Gov. who wants to be in the U.S. Senate, abandoned the Ohio Department of Development in its time of need so he could campaign. (AWOL Lee, Part 1)

I find it almost laughable that the media doesn't give him any meaningful grief for this. Just when they were starting to, and when the automakers were laying more people off and announcing plant closings in Ohio, the governor appointed Lee to head some automotive task force that hasn't been heard from since. ( AWOL Lee, Part 2)

Well, today in the Columbus Dispatch, we learn that Fisher is also head of some new Economic growth Cabinet.

Guess what? It's a year old and barely meets.

Lee, do you do ANYTHING but raise money?

State Rep. Jay Hottinger, R-Newark, would no doubt have been a big disappointment to former State Sen. Jay Hottinger.

Seems our hometown boy, who campaigns every two years as "watchdog of the treasury," is now playing the same sort of irresponsible political games he decried as a state senator only four years ago.

Rep. Hottinger, chairman of the Ohio House Finance and Appropriations Committee, was first out of the box on Wednesday to take a partisan swing at Governor Strickland for delaying  a scheduled 4.2 percent cut in state income tax rates to plug a $851 million hole in the state budget.  According to the Dispatch,

"The political fallout was instantaneous.  Almost at the exact moment that Strickland announced his plan... state Rep. Jay Hottinger, a Newark Republican, e-mailed a statement blistering the governor for advocating a tax increase."

As it turned out, this didn't sit well with the Dispatch's normally Republican-leaning editorial board which for weeks has been calling for bipartisan cooperation between the governor and legislature to resolve the budget problem.  In its lead editorial today, headlined "Political Games," the newspaper said:

"The budget can be balanced only by cutting spending or increasing revenue. Strickland and legislators already have cut spending drastically, eliminating $2.4 billion, much of it in programs and services on which needy Ohioans depend. Balancing the budget shouldn't fall any harder on the backs of those who can least bear it.

Republicans ought to know this, and that includes Newark Rep. Jay Hottinger, who wasted no time Wednesday cranking out an e-mail blasting Strickland for his "tax increase." That's an easy charge to make, but what would Hottinger and those who agree with him do instead? What else would they cut from the budget?

They aren't saying, but that's no surprise. They're playing politics instead of being statesmen. But Ohio can't afford their gamesmanship."

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/editorials/stories/2009/10/02/taxted.ART_ART_10-02-09_A14_PMF82IL.html?sid=101

If this all sounds like familiar criticism to Hottinger, it should since he accused Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell of the same tactic back in 2005.

To quote this time from the April 29, 2005 Newark Advocate:

"Blackwell, who addressed the Newark Rotary Club Tuesday...criticized state legislators for the growth in spending in recent years.  During his remarks, Blackwell...said the budget state leaders are currently considering contains $4.2 billion in tax increases and only $1.9 billion in cuts over four years.  It's a claim with which Hottinger takes issue.

"It's a net tax cut," Hottinger said.  "The facts are we're cutting $4.2 billion.  Taxes are being raised $3.3 billion.  I would say to Mr. Blackwell, "You do the math."

(Strickland and Democrats today argue that, likewise, the governor's plan is not a tax increase since state income tax rates are just being frozen at 2008 levels and many families will still see a small net decrease in their income tax because personal exemptions are being raised.)

Hottinger, in 2005, then went on to criticize Blackwell for skewing facts "in order to score points with voters" and for his "rhetoric and recklessness with the facts."

"I think it's irresponsible of a government leader to criticize without offering solutions," Hottinger said, according to the Advocate.  "I think it is incumbent on him as a candidate for governor to spell out where we should have those cuts."

Which is kind of the same cheap shot Rep. Hottinger is being accused of today.  Again, from today's Dispatch:

"Those rapping Strickland's tax plan should offer own solution to budget crisis."

Bottom line: What a difference four years and a switch from the Senate to the House (not to mention the election of a Democrat  as governor) have made in Hottinger's view in what constitutes responsible politics. 

Sure it's all a game, but it's up to the voters to be the umpire and bench those politicians who don't behave.

When I was a Statehouse reporter three decades ago, the role of the state treasurer was pretty much what you'd expect: scoop up the tax money collected by the Department of Taxation and deposit it in "friendly" banks and investment houses.  Unless an investment went scandalously sour, the office was a backwater in state government as far as the media and the public were concerned.

Although I consider myself well informed, I didn't anticipate that much had changed when I went down to Heath last night to hear our new State Treasurer, Kevin Boyce, address Licking County Democrats.

Not what I expected.

"We've got to invest in people, not in banks," said Boyce, who took office last January when former Treasurer Richard Cordray moved over to the Ohio Attorney General's Office.  That's why Boyce is retooling his office, making it less of a counting house and more of a department of economic development.

Having been recently scolded by my daughter for hanging on to a houseful of old, energy inefficient appliances, I was especially interested in Boyce's newest innovation, called ECO-Link.  To quote from his website:

"The Energy Conservation for Ohioans (ECO-Link) program is designed to provide reduced rate financing through partnering banks for Ohioans completing “whole home” weatherization and energy efficient improvements in their homes. ECO-Link provides the powerful lending resources needed to allow homeowners to enjoy a more comfortable home, realize the saving from energy efficient products, and develop Ohio as a leader in the developing green economy."

The details are at http://www.ohiotreasurer.org/ForYou/Default.aspx?Section=ECO

But basically, Boyce directs state deposits to those banks who agree to offer lower interest rates to those consumers borrowing money for home energy conservation projects.

Similar "linked deposit" programs have been started to encourage bank lending at reasonable rates to farmers and small business persons.

Currently, Boyce said his office has $600 million in state cash invested in various economic development programs.  That, out of a total investment portfolio of more than $15 billion, is a good start but obviously there's more that could be done to make sure Ohio's bank account is working for the benefit of Ohioans - not just banks.

"Ohio needs leaders" to get the state out of its current economic doldrums, he said.

In Boyce, it looks like we've got one.

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"to vote for a write-in candidate,you must completely fill-in the box provided to the left of the words "Write-in" and write in the name of the candidate or candidates on the line provided."

Monday, September 28, 2009
I saw the story about the Butler County budget in the Cincinnati Enquirer.
I saw the story about Section 8 housing coming to Butler County on the web site of WCPO. These 2 stories are so very interesting when read together.
REPUBLICANS AND TEA - BAGGERS SHOULD BE ENTITLED TO WELFARE - NOT JUST US DEMOCRATIC AND GREEN SLACKERS! (EVEN THOUGH IN OUR FANTASIES WE TRY TO IMAGINE REPUBLICANS AND TEA -BAGGERS HAVING TO CHOOSE BETWEEN TAKING THE METRO OR NOT GETTING TO WORK. I've plenty of other daydreams with humiliation themes.
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Butler budget group: List essentials

By Amber Ellis • aellis@enquirer.com • September 17, 2009

The latest suggestion from a new Butler County budget group involves creating a list to separate the essential and non-essential services the county provides.
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Butler County Auditor Roger Reynolds, a member of the group, said the distinction is needed to understand what the county has to provide and what should be eliminated as department heads brace for more cuts. He asked commissioners to consider the idea during their Thursday morning meeting.

"It goes back to needs and wants," Commission President Don Dixon, also a member of the budget committee, said.

The board did not take any action on the recommendation. Instead, they put it under review much the same way they did earlier suggestions made by the group of elected officials and financial experts looking to help solve the county's budget woes.

Earlier ideas include forming a separate fund for debt payments, creating a draft budget and asking commissioners to put updates about the group's progress on the county's Web site.

The group formed this summer after a round of mid-year budget cuts, dozens of layoffs and other reductions.

In all, county officials trimmed more than $8 million and borrowed $5 million from cash reserves to balance this year's $91 million general fund budget.

The county finance team is still crunching numbers, but if revenue continues to drop, another $4 million to $9 million will need to be trimmed next year.

It is unclear what cuts will be made and how those will impact services.
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Section 8 Waiting List To Open In Butler Co.
Reported by: Terry Helmer
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Saturday,October 3 will be the date for anyone wishing to get on the waiting list for Butler Metropolitan Section 8 housing.

It's been five years since the waiting list was last opened back in 2004. Over 2,300 applications by low income residents were received in a six hour period back then. It's taken The Housing Authority 5 years to get all but 70 of those 2,300 persons placed with vouchers for housing.

Butler Metropolitan Housing has almost 1,000 persons currently using vouchers for housing. Barbara Brown Section 8 Manager says, "because of the economy the way it is, we expect a lot of new people that have never had assistance before."

Brown estimates as many as 5,000 people may file pre-applications on Saturday.

Besides the Section 8 housing applications, other agencies dealing with low-income based programs such as food stamps, energy assistance, and Legal Aide will be there to tell people about those services.

The application for housing vouchers will be at the New Life Vineyard Church, on Princeton Road in Hamilton. The event will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 3. The agency will hand out numbers on a first come first served basis.

Remember that old book, How to Win Friends and Influence People?

It seems like the Issue 3 people are “buying friends.’’ Last week in the Columbus Dispatch, the local tourism folks said Penn National (the thieves bankrolling this scam) offered them money for an endorsement.

Here is part of the article:

A letter this week from casino developer Penn National to Experience Columbus outlined the commitments the company would make. Senior Vice President Eric Schippers said he hoped those promises "would encourage your members to consider an endorsement" of the issue.

One group whose members already endorsed Issue 3 is the Fraternal Order of Police. How shameful -- especially when I learned that the FOP members get training money if this turkey passes.

The Toledo newspaper slapped around the FOP and here is part of what they said:

There is little doubt that crime increases in places that allow casino gambling. In New Jersey, the number of crimes within 30 miles of Atlantic City increased 100 percent after casinos opened. Here, that would mean more police will be needed, not just in Toledo but also in Delta, Cygnet, Oak Harbor, and other peaceful outlying communities as well.

The increased crime virtually assured by casinos makes recent endorsements of Issue 3 by police, including the Toledo Police Patrolman's Association, particularly troubling. Gambling, it seems, equals job security for the people pledged to “protect and serve.” Who knew that slogan emblazoned on patrol cars actually meant protecting their own jobs in a self-serving manner?

But my all time favorite was when the Plain Dealer told us that the former state GOP chairman had a fundraiser for the city's Democrat mayor. Guess what? The mayor endorsed the casino plan!

I am not a lawyer. All you lawyers out there: Is is even legal to buy these endosments?

It's good to see the usually-invisible Pat Tiberi getting some attention this week in the local media.  Since 2001, this 12th District Republican congressman has stayed in office by being the stealth candidate as far as the general public is concerned, attending efficiently to individual constituent requests while building up his re-election war chest by voting consistently to please his party bosses and campaign contributors.

With the media (and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) focused on Tiberi's more newsworthy congressional neighbors -- Democrats Mary Jo Kilroy in the 15th and Zack Space in the 18th -- this hide-and-seek tactic has worked like a charm.  All Congressman Pat has had to do every two years to punch his ticket back to Washington is lay down a few thousand yard signs and take advantage of the Democrats habit of putting forth a weak and even more obscure opponent.

But the 2010 election may be different.

Tiberi is now opposed by Democrat Paula Brooks, a popular Franklin County commissioner, and the 12th district race is now attracting more out-of-town attention.

The Dispatch today informs that MoveOn.org has targeted Tiberi this week with one of its "caught red-handed" commercials, linking the congressman's opposition to Democrat-sponsored health care reform bills to his record of hefty contributions from the health care and insurance industries.

"The 30-second spots began airing in the Columbus area last night (Thursday) and will continue for 10 days, said Alex Howe, a spokesman for Moveon.org," said the newspaper.

Moveon.org has posted the ad at: http://pol.moveon.org/redhanded_ads.html

Included is this documentation:

"Congressman Patrick Tiberi has received $682,394 throughout his career from health and insurance interests, including:

Insurance
 $601,594
 
HMOs
 $80,800
 
TOTAL
 $682,394
 

And Wednesday, in the Newark Advocate, Tiberi in a guest editorial repeated his claim that he's all for health care reform - but just doesn't like any of the ideas brought forth by President Obama or majority congressional Democrats.

Tiberi casts himself in the column once again as a hopeful but all-too-often disappointed warrior for reform, a politician who wonders why we all can't just get along.  Consider this whopper:

"I had high hopes when President Barack Obama was sworn in," he writes.  "We had just completed one of the most partisan periods I'd seen in Washington.  Obama talked about common ground, working together regardless of party and finding good solutions for all Americans....then came the stimulus package."

Now while it's true that Tiberi didn't start complaining about Obama in public until March, a month after Obama took office, it's hard to envision this loyal Republican harboring "high hopes" for the new Democratic President last February

Tiberi, it should be noted, was one of ten legislators who signed on during the 110th Congress to one of the most simplistic rants against the Democratic Party ever published by the GOP.

In a 6-page broadside entitled, The Architects of Chaos, Decline and Defeat vs. The Champions of American Freedom produced by the Republican House Policy Committee, the group said the goal of Democrats was "to reduce sovereign Americans from the masters of their destiny into the serfs of governmental dependency."

It then went on to describe the party of FDR and Truman and Kennedy as "the architects of chaos, decline and defeat."

And yet, in February 2009, after supporting this vile slander, Tiberi claims he looked forward to Obama's presidency with "high hopes."   This, after a campaign during which his party's leadership had castigating Obama for being the most liberal Democrat in the Senate.

Right.

In fact, in supporting such a document, Tiberi proved himself a partisan "tea-bagger" long before the movement erupted on the Republican Right.  Remember this every time the congressman now wrings his hands over the lack of bipartisan cooperation in Washington.

And which party today would you describe as "the architects of chaos, decline and defeat.?"

 

On this, the day after September 11th, we still remember the tragic terror attacks on our home soil. But one group remembers the national rage we felt on September 12th, 2001. They call themselves the 912ers, and their leader is Glen Beck. And their latest public demonstrations are not at tea party protests, but town hall events. They are not at every town hall protest, but when the insurance industry incited mobs quiet, you can hear the 912ers speak. “I want us to go back to the Constitution!”, “The Founding Fathers didn’t want this!”, and “I want my country back!” are their cries. My question to them is, “Do you know what that means?”

We would have to throw out the Bill of Rights. Even Hamilton objected to the Bill of Rights in the Federalists papers. Although, his argument was not against the rights themselves, but that the bill suggested they were the only rights. Further, they were not ratified until four years after the Constitution. That means no freedom of the press, assembly, speech, or religion. No right to a trial by a jury of your peers or to protect you from unlawful searches or seizures. However, the 912ers do make one exception for the Bill of Rights. The only amendment to the Constitution that the 912er’s website supports is the second (the right to bear arms).

Nader Was Right: Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama[From Truthdig]

By Chris Hedges

The American empire has not altered under Barack Obama. It kills as brutally and indiscriminately in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan as it did under George W. Bush. It steals from the U.S. treasury to enrich the corporate elite as rapaciously. It will not give us universal health care, abolish the Bush secrecy laws, end torture or “extraordinary rendition,” restore habeas corpus or halt the warrantless wiretapping and monitoring of citizens. It will not push through significant environmental reform, regulate Wall Street or end our relationship with private contractors that provide mercenary armies to fight our imperial wars and produce useless and costly weapons systems.


The sad reality is that all the well-meaning groups and individuals who challenge our permanent war economy and the doctrine of pre-emptive war, who care about sustainable energy, fight for civil liberties and want corporate malfeasance to end, were once again suckered by the Democratic Party. They were had. It is not a new story. The Democrats have been doing this to us since Bill Clinton. It is the same old merry-go-round, only with Obama branding. And if we have not learned by now that the system is broken, that as citizens we do not matter to our political elite, that we live in a corporate state where our welfare and our interests are irrelevant, we are in serious trouble. Our last hope is to step outside of the two-party system and build movements that defy the Democrats and the Republicans. If we fail to do this, we will continue to undergo a corporate coup d’etat in slow motion that will end in feudalism.

We owe Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney and the Green Party an apology. They were right. If a few million of us had had the temerity to stand behind our ideals rather than our illusions and the empty slogans peddled by the Obama campaign, we would have a platform. We forgot that social reform never comes from accommodating the power structure but from frightening it. The Liberty Party, which fought slavery, the suffragists who battled for women’s rights, the labor movement, and the civil rights movement knew that the question was not how do we get good people to rule—those attracted to power tend to be venal mediocrities—but how do we limit the damage the powerful do to us. These mass movements were the engines for social reform, the correctives to our democracy and the true protectors of the rights of citizens. We have surrendered this power. It is vital to reclaim it. Where is the foreclosure movement? Where is the robust universal health care or anti-war movement? Where is the militant movement for sustainable energy?

“Something is broken,” Nader said when I reached him at his family home in Connecticut. “We are not at the Bangladesh level in terms of passivity, but we are getting there. No one sees anything changing. There is no new political party to give people a choice. The progressive forces have no hammer. When they abandoned our campaign, they told the Democrats we have nowhere to go and will take whatever you give us. The Democrats are under no heat in the electoral arena from the left.

“There comes a point when the public imbibes the ultimatum of the plutocracy,” Nader said when asked about public apathy. “They have bought into the belief that if it protests, it will be brutalized by the police. If they have Muslim names, they will be subjected to Patriot Act treatment. This has scared the hell out of the underclass. They will be called terrorists.

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* USPS

The United States Postal Service has narrowed the number of offices facing possible closure from over 700 down to 413. But, seven of those smaller post offices still on the list are in Cincinnati and Hamilton.

The post office is struggling with a sharp decline in mail volume caused by the recession and the movement of traditional mail to the Internet. Postal officials say the agency could have a deficit as large as $7 billion this year.

Being on the list doesn't guarantee closing, but those post offices will be re-evaluated to see if it's cost effective to keep them open.

Currently, the post office has about 37,000 retail outlets across the country and Postmaster General John Potter has said he wants to keep as many open as possible.

The post offices in the Tri-State that remain on the at-risk list include: Cummingsville, the East End, Newtown, Reed Hartman Finance, Sayler Park, the Stock Yards branch, and Lindenwald in Hamilton.

More of today's stories


* Local Nun Banned From Teaching
* Christian Moerlein To Build Riverfront Restaurant
* Pharmaceutical Giant Pfizer Ordered To Pay $2.3B
* I-Team Update: Wedding Photographer Indicted
* Cincinnati City Council Honors Maestro Erich Kunzel
* Cincinnatians To Vote On Rail Service, Water Works Transfer
* Man Wanted For Holding Up Woman In Clifton Heights
* FOP Leader Lashes Out At Members Of City Council
* Suspicious Bag On Metro Delaying Afternoon Service
* Bank Asks Man With No Arms For Thumbprint
* Plastics Company To Discuss EPA Fines
* 7 Local Post Offices Remain On USPS Closing List

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I grew tired of waiting for my Food Stamp Ohio Direction Card.

Prior to calling the number below today, September 1, 2009, I received mailed information from Ohio Department of Job and Family Services saying that I would receive the card. The only thing that was emphasized was the requirement to call in to activate the card and get a PIN #.

I called 1 - 866 - 386 - 3071 from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services mail I received.

I spoke with a Customer Service Representative named Olivia in Utah.

Olivia told me that the only way to physically obtain the Ohio Direction Card is to call and request it.

She said to expect it to between 5 - 7 days.







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The Full Story Of Poster Altercation At McCaskill Event: By The Guy Who Filmed It, Peter Glickert
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August 11, 2009
By Bob Fitrakis

Give me a ticket for an aeroplane, ain’t got time to take a fast train
– since the Republicans destroyed mass transit in the U.S. and there
aren’t any fast trains – Ken Blackwell just wrote me a letter. That’s
same Blackwell we all now known as the Katherine Harris of Ohio for his
role in helping steal the 2004 election. Blackwell, billing himself as
“Former Ohio Secretary of State” and “Conservative Republican,” wrote a
letter regarding: “The One Way to Stop the Obama Machine.”

My first thought to stop the Obama “Machine” was – take cell phones
away from 18-24-year-olds. After all, the Obama political machine was
actually a decentralized cyber-force of youngsters. All of this
brilliantly captured in Danny Schechter’s recent documentary: Barack
Obama: People’s President.

Blackwell addressed me as “Dear Fellow Conservative.” This is perfectly
appropriate since I believe in the Bill of Rights, particularly the 8th
Amendment that forbids “cruel and unusual punishment.” Thus, in order
to preserve these traditional conservative values, I’d like to have a
grand jury investigate Bush and Cheney for torture and assorted crimes
against the Constitution and then prosecute them.

Blackwell began the letter by asserting that he was a “clear and
present danger” to the “Democrats.” Why? Because he “threatens
self-appointed black leaders, the Democrat Party machine, and even
Barack Obama’s grip on power.” Blackwell particularly takes offense to
the fact that Al Sharpton “…flew into the state to racially slander me
by calling me Ken Whitewell” during his ill-fated run for the
governorship of Ohio.

Right before next year's primary election, Ohio taxpayers will foot the bill for a women's summit. Unlike most other such summits across America, this one will be headed by two men -- Gov. Ted Strickland and Lt. Gov Lee Fisher.

The other co-chairs: Their wives.

Aside from sending a message that women should be defined by their choice of a mate, this tells me that the Strickland administration continues to use the limited resources of the state to prop up Lee Fisher -- his hand-picked choice to be the Democrats' nominee for the U.S. Senate.

My candidate for the nomination is Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner. Well, if Ted's wife and Lee's wife are co-chairing the summit, shouldn't Jennifer Brunner's husband be a co-chair too?

You can read all about it here:

 http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio-news/mens-names-removed-from-ohio-womens-event-flier-238178.html

Dr. Robert Fitrakis

August 7, 2009

As the axiom states: “As Ohio goes, so goes the nation.” Strange and interesting things are happening in the legendary swing state.

First, it was Fox commentator, former Congressman, and originally freshly-scrubbed Nixon youth John Kasich emerging as the likely Republican nominee for governor of the Buckeye State.

Then, former U.S. Senator Mike Dewine announced his candidacy for Ohio Attorney General on July 22. In 2006, the then-incumbent Dewine lost to Democrat U.S. Representative Sherrod Brown by 12 percentage points, although final polls throughout the state showed him losing by twice that amount.

Why would a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives – granted he was most well-known for falling asleep during the Iran-Contra hearings – and U.S. Senator, be seeking the seemingly lesser office of Ohio’s chief law enforcement officer?

First there was genocidal Erik Prince, founder of military operative Blackwater, "who views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe." (Um, you might check with the American people before pursuing that mission, Mr. Prince.)

Then we find out about The Family, a Sopranos-like Christian orgnization of Washington elitists and powerbrokers. Their connections to congressional mistresses and illegal payoffs doesn't cover half the scandal. It's not so much sexism that pervades The Family, it's the total absence of women -- except as wives, daughters, financiers and sex objects. With their powerful military connections, Family congressmen could easily get us caught up in a war. (For example, Erik Prince's personal war.) At least Tony Soprano wouldn't do that.

Ohio, thank goodness, seems relatively immune to abusive Christian power-brokering. At least I thought so until I read about Gov. Strickland's former director of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives getting thrown in jail for promoting child prostitution. -Sigh-

Suggestion for the governor: scrap the faith-based offices of state government and go with something logic-based.

 

I am sure that this behaviour by Rep. Boehner fails his constitutional duty as an elected representative of the people.

Congress should excommunicate him. We need to start a petition and the others in congress need to stand up to this!

This is wrong. For Boehner to endorse chaos during Town Hall meetings is anarchy and undemocratic.

Boehener SHOULD resign or be caste out! NOW
And don't make any excuses not to get it done.

IT IS WRONG for a representative of the people to act like this. We need to hold up a new standard and stop letting this stuff happen without notice. IT NEEDS TO STOP NOW!

5. Republican leadership is irresponsibly cheering on the thuggish crowds. Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner issued a statement applauding and promoting a video of the disruptions and looking forward to "a long, hot August for Democrats in Congress."


see first comment:
Video: DNC Takes On Birthers, Conservative Mobs In New Web Ad "Enough of the Mob"
http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/post/daveharding/Cqbq

The Sotomayor hearings have got me thinking about how 2/3rds of the Supremes will be individuals who have never given birth and have been taught that using birth control is a sin. And these people routinely make decisions that affect millions of women's reproductive systems. How insane is that? They can be neither empathetic nor impartial. Doesn't make sense.

Good thing my brain hasn't been sullied with a law degree. Remembering all those legal precedents seems to clutter up otherwise logical minds.

For example, here in Franklin County they say judges are nonpartisan. Really? If that's the case, how do judges decide which primary race to run in? To me, nonpartisan means not taking money from a political party. I can't imagine what the term means to election lawyers.

Applying legal standards to moral issues is where it gets tricky. Take blue laws for example. Not too long ago, you couldn't purchase alcohol on Sundays until after 1 p.m. Today, in a bizarre expression of progressiveness, Ohio law allows me to purchase a bottle of Merlot at Kroger beginning at 11 a.m. Gosh, how socially redeeming.

Similarly, the gambling issue has gotten convoluted here in Ohio over the years. If I am to believe all the religious and legal malarkey, we may be opening the door to gays marrying slot machines...or something like that.

My hope is that the Supreme Court realizes how ill-equipped it is to make decisions affecting the intimate lives of millions of Americans. Just a hope.

 

My comment - I wish Democrat Hamilton County Commissioner David Pepper would acknowledge and respect the metaphor involved in where homeless people choose to sleep. Long live faith - based corporations as they profit unfettered in their roles as government contractors. Just like the privatized prisons.
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http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20090714/NEWS01/307140023/
By Mark Curnutte • mcurnutte@enquirer.com • July 14, 2009

The Enquirer/Mark Curnutte
A man sleeps in the doorway of the Hamilton County Courthouse Tuesday morning on Main Street in downtown Cincinnati.

Hamilton County Commissioner David Pepper said this afternoon that the problem of homeless people sleeping on the plaza of the courthouse has grown noticeably worse and needs to come to an end.
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“It’s clearly unacceptable for it to be used this way,” Pepper told The Enquirer. “The building needs to be clean and safe and perceived that way.”

In recent weeks, the population of people sleeping on the plaza’s 22 benches and in doorways and against walls has swelled to more than 30 a night, advocates for the homeless say. The numbers this year, even adjusted for the traditional summer increase, are higher than in recent memory.

Pepper plans to involve the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department, Cincinnati Police and advocates to come up with possible solutions.

“In the big picture, it’s why we have shelters,” he said. “We should not turn a blind eye to the people in need, but we need to deal with it.”

The county facilities department cleans the plaza each weekday morning and would regardless of whether homeless people slept there. Discarded clothing, cardboard, newspapers, beverage containers and feces are deposited in a portable Dumpster. Benches and the plaza floor are cleaned with a disinfecting detergent and sprayed with a low-pressure hose, said facilities director Ralph Linne.

Streams of urine runs from the walls down the cracks of the sidewalk.

He said a group of homeless people live around the courthouse and the adjacent Hamilton County Justice Center.

“We clean because of normal usage every day,” Linne said. “A flock of pigeons can leave waste on the benches.”

Some homeless people like to sleep outside and avoid shelters, including the region’s largest, the Drop Inn Center in Over-the-Rhine.

"I think the positive is what he said about collaboration," said Josh Spring, director of the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless, when told of Pepper's comments. "We're on board. We'd much rather have collaboration than confrontation. Hopefully we can come up with some lasting solutions.
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“You have different personalities in homeless people, here and nationwide,” Spring said. “For some the shelter setting works. For others, they only stay in a shelter in the winter when it’s almost obligatory. Then, in the summer, for some people, they prefer and feel better emotionally to camp out.”

The outdoor camping group tends to sleep under bridges, along the Ohio River bank in downtown Cincinnati or at the courthouse, where they feel an additional sense of safety.

Darren Hardy, 44, an unemployed homeless man who slept on one of the plaza’s 22 benches overnight Monday, said the benches fill up fast and that other people are sleeping on flattened cardboard boxes, carpet remnants and newspapers spread out on the concrete surface.

“The police don’t mess with you up here; you hear them drive past,” said Hardy, who used his duffle bag for a pillow and loaned his jacket to a woman sleeping on the bench across from him.

The Drop Inn Center is averaging 250 people overnight this summer, compared to 200 a night last summer, said director Pat Clifford. If the center runs out of beds, it spreads sleeping mats on the floor.

“No one is turned away,” Clifford said.

The county will look into “good-cop and bad-cop” solutions, Pepper said.

“The line `we’re here because no one says we can’t be’ is not acceptable,” he said.

Before she abandons her outpost "for the the good of Alaskans," let's give a beauty queen wave goodbye to Iditarod Barbie.

I know that sounds snarky-mean, but what the hell, she made all women politicians look bad. Quitting her job -- in essence, telling Alaskans they were wrong to elect her -- was narcissistic and irresponsible.

The Republicans now wish they had nothing to do with her. It will be a long time before they trust women again. (Did they ever?)

Snow Princess's political influence across the nation has added a new dynamic to the women's movement. To compete, women have always had to perform like Ginger Rogers -- dancing backward in high heels. Since SP, we've been pushed back a little further, the heels got stiletto, and we have to prove a little harder that we're not unreliable quitters.

 

One of our most awesome rights as American cititzens is the freedom from religion. No one can force women to wear burkas or demand that we say prayers in public schools. It doesn't work that way in America, and hallelujah for that.

With that in mind, why does the news media seem to be avoiding the topic of Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor's religion? With her almost-certain appointment, six out of nine justices will be Catholics. (Could it be that many conservative pundits are Catholics as well?)

Given the extremist viewpoints of Catholics on contraception and abortion rights (and women's rights in general) and the frequency these issues come up in the Supreme Court, a two-thirds religious majority seems absurdly overrepresentative.

Catholics can preach what they want to, obviously. They can choose to take orders from a man who almost never has contact with women except for the nuns that serve as his housekeepers. They can deny patients contraceptive services in their network of hospitals.

They can forbid you from getting married in a Catholic church unless you sign a pledge promising not only that you will raise your children as Catholics, but also that you will have children. (I know this personal experience. I didn't sign their document and the priest made me give it back. This little-known Catholic ritual is really something population experts and same-sex marriage advocates should ponder.)

I'm glad a wise Latino woman will be represented on the court. It's too bad she's not also a mother -- an essential element of fully understanding abortion issues. For now, I hope the overabundance of Catholics on the court realize that they do not have jurisdiction over my uterus.

 

The Washington Post's Mouthpiece Theater honored Lee Fisher for the flap over his 1 a.m. shirtless video -- footage taken by his son, Jason, when Jason made a 2006 documentary.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/mouthpiece-theater/mouthpiece-theater-men-in-tigh.html

The shirtless clip was lifted from the documentary by GOP blogger Matt Naugle and turned into a YouTube video. Within its two short days of existence, it had been viewed more than 40,000. The Team Fisher, citing copyright violations, made YouTube take it down.

The Naugle did another video, using some of the same shirtless Lee. Team Fisher made it go away.

Then someone posted it on Blip TV. It's now gone.

Today's question is: Will Team Fisher go after the Washington Post or leave it alone?

Openers is reporting today that Lee Fisher now supports same-sex marriage. Welcome Lee. You now hold the same position as Dick Cheney, who disclosed his support for marriage equality earlier this month.

Fisher's change in tune is the latest example of how he stakes out a position, only to change it when polls show he's on the wrong side.

He was opposed to the death penalty -- then he was for it when he decided to run for attorney general.

He was for progressive taxation -- then ran for governor as a tax cutter against Bob Taft. Taft won.

He was opposed to marriage equality -- before he was for it.

So why the change?

Mr. Fisher saw Jennifer Brunner in his rear-view mirror. She is challenging him for the U.S. Senate nomination and she has supported marriage equality back when polls suggested that she was out of her mind.

Nice to have you on board, Lee, but I'm still amazed that Dick Cheney got there first!

First, I wish to commend Brian Rothenberg for a job well done in research, points made, and the responses generated to his expose on how Ohio's Veterans have been shabbily treated.

Ohio's Shame; Caring For Ohio's Veterans Shouldn't Be So Political
http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/post/brianrothenberg/C3Lk

That was over a year ago, and fellow progressives here in Ohio, I'm here to give testimony, research, and detailed reasons why little to nothing has changed in over a year.

In detail below and this Special Report will be in 4 parts with the last being about the growing number of attorneys embracing Veterans' VA Claims appeals, and the little know change in federal law that allows attorneys to represent Veterans before VA Regional Offices, and better yet in federal courts.

Robert L. Hanafin
Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired
Veterans Today News Network
Member Editorial Board of Directors

While it's only Tuesday, Ohio is clearly headed for a very bad week. On Monday, GM let us know that facilities in Parma, Mansfield and the Columbus region will be closing.

Today, we learned that NCR's 125-year relationship with Dayton will come to an end because the state of Georgia can do two things Ohio apparently cannot: Put together an attractive job-retention package and get the NCR top brass on the phone.

Here is what the Dayton Business Journal had to say today:

"As speculation grew in recent days that a move was imminent, Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland stepped in and offered NCR a $31 million incentive package to stay.

But Alison Tyrer, a spokesperson with the Georgia Department of Economic Development, said total incentives for NCR will exceed $60 million dollars."

While Georgia was crowing about what it has done, DOD director-turned-campaiger Lee Fisher has decided to whine. Here is what he said today about NCR:

“NCR is a great company, the people who work there are great people, but the top executive (Nuti) acted irresponsibly and shamefully,” Fisher told the Dayton Business Journal.

“Am I angry? You bet I’m angry.” Fisher said NCR was one of the first companies Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and he reached out to when elected in 2007.

Despite numerous overtures, the first time Strickland actually talked to Nuti was on the eve of the relocation announcement, Fisher said.

 

Given NCR's long history with Ohio, the paltry package we put forth amazes me but I am not surprised that NCR didn't take Ohio's overtures seriously. Ohio clearly is not taking the job of job creation seriously.

In three months, Ohio has had three development directors.

Fisher stepped down so he could spend his days and nights campaigning for the U.S. Senate. He turned the job over to "interim'' director Mark Barbash.

Mark Barbash stepped down so he could deal with some tax problems and he turned the job over to Interim Director II.

Is it no wonder we can't get corporate leaders on the phone? 

Taxpayer/Voters Right to Know


Our votes put Judges in their seats

Our tax dollars pay for their living

We trust these people with our lives and the lives of others

We trust them to do their jobs which includes following the rules and procedures put in place to insure fairness, justice and due process rights

Judges, Magistrates, Public Defender Lawyers, Ad Litems. These are all Officers of the Court

They are to adhere to the highest standard of ethics

They show their truest ethic in their actions When No One Is Watching

These have shown their ethic level of -1 on a scale of 1-10



www.hamiltoncountyjuvenilecourtcincinnati.com

By Bob Fitrakis

The Republican National Committee recently dropped its resolution to brand the moderate pro-corporate Democratic Party "Socialists." As the late, great Democratic Socialist leader Michael Harrington liked to tell it when he testified before a dying Senator Hubert Humphrey on the Humphrey-Hawkins Work Bill, that would theoretically guarantee every American a right to a job, Humphrey bluntly asked him "Is my bill socialism?" Harrington replied, "Senator, your bill's not half that good."

Here's why the Democratic Party is also not half that good. Obama's "Me too" bailout policy to the largest and most irresponsible banks and investment houses has nothing to do with socializing capital. Democratic Socialists believe in democratizing and socializing money matters. They favor credit unions and co-ops with democratically elected boards over large welfare checks to transnational corporations. In fact, there's little difference between Obama's approach to the big bankers and George W. Bush's.

Jennifer Brunner, who is running for the U.S. Senate, took part in an on-line Q&A this weekend at Firedoglake and some of her answers were very interesting.

A few of the highlights:


Q: My state rep Barbara Boyd said this morning that on the latest of the surveys she mails out, the top two issues by miles were jobs and health care, and nothing else was close. Do you concur that those are the top two issues for Ohioans and how will you spotlight those in your campaign? Also, what do you feel are the personal qualities you have that would make you effect in the role as a very junior senator?


A: Hi, jobs and health care are foremost issues for Ohioans and Americans, especially those in the middle class and who lack them. I have raised 3 children and cared for 3 foster children. I have personally experienced what it was like before the foster children had health care benefits to go to Kroger and get them their required immunizations or to pay cash for urgent care services, and to juggle the dozens of invoices from various provider and try to match them up to multiple insurance statements, all while trying to care for children, work and maintain a household. I have lived the live of an everyday Ohioan, and I can relate to so many people I meet. When I was a judge, people in the most impoverished circumstances stood before me. I worked to create solutions for better response of the community so that people could reach their goals or simply get through a day better. That is why I want to be in the Senate, because public service is about bettering the lives of others, using leadership to cause things to happen that empower people to be able to write their own future stories.


Q: I am a long-time Ohio resident who once supported Mary Boyle as the Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. Senate, who supported Hillary (that was a tough call for me since I LOVE Obama) in the primary and who now supports you. Why do you think it is so difficult for highly competent women to get nominated for the big jobs?

A:

Mary Boyle has been very encouraging to me in this race. It was not easy for her to run in 1998, and some in her own party (she had a primary election in which she came very close) tried to discourage people from supporting her or donating money to her, saying "she couldn't win." Some of those people were running for other offices on the ballot at the time.

I am in this race for the long haul. Politics is so often affected by the timing of other events. I know that it takes a little luck, some guidance from above, a great team, a clear head and a lot of hard work to win. I have assembled a great and dedicated team for the campaign, and I'm willing to do my part on the hard work and keeping a clear head. The rest requires some faith. This is a race I can win. By winning I can "soften the ground" for others who follow, not just women, but minorities and LGBT candidates and other progressive candidates who will represent all of us in our democratic form of government.

Republicans are enchanted by the abortion debate. As they are keenly aware, the idea of murdering babies is universally repulsive. It gets people fired up -- especially celibate holy men -- and those are the kind of influential people you want on your side. But the really great tactical thing about protesting abortion is that the boogiepersons -- slutty girls -- never, ever fight back.

I really thought we as a country were so over this debate. With Obama as the most pro-women, pro-equitable healthcare President ever, I finally feel safe. But now with prolifers converging on Notre Dame, a replacement needed on Supreme Abortion Court, and a recent Gallup Poll indicating a shift in self-labeling toward prolife (yet, at the same time, says the poll, more Americans favor legal abortions), well, someone has to speak up for the frightened and pregnant.

If we must reduce the highly personal, life-changing act of reproduction into slogans and protest signs, here are mine:

I WISH WE LIVED IN A WORLD WITHOUT RAPE, INCEST, GENETIC DISEASE, MATERNAL ILLNESS, CONTRACEPTIVE FAILURE, UNPROTECTED MOMENTS OF PASSION AND HUMAN FALLIBILITY...BUT WE DON'T

HEY CATHOLICS, WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT THE MILLIONS OF UNBORN BABIES ABORTED NATURALLY?

NO ONE IN HISTORY HAS EVER WANTED TO HAVE AN ABORTION

IF ABORTION IS ILLEGAL, WHO WILL TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR D-I-Y ABORTIONS?

THE BIBLE SAYS NOTHING ABOUT ABORTION -- CHECK IT OUT FOR YOURSELF

EITHER YOU'RE AGAINST BIG GOVERNMENT INTERFERING WITH OUR LIVES OR YOU'RE PROLIFE. PICK ONE.

And the most pertinent catch-phrase of all....IF YOU'RE AGAINST ABORTION, DON'T HAVE ONE.

 

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http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE54C0OR20090513

U.S. foreclosures jump to record high
Wed May 13, 2009 8:47am EDT
By Lynn Adler

My Comments re: ANALYZING THE LIKELIHOOD OF FORCED PROVISIONAL VOTING: SENTENCE BY SENTENCE: KEEPING IN MIND THAT:

WE MUST LEGISLATE THE END OF THE HELP AMERICA VOTE ACT
AND WE MUST LEGISLATE THE END OF THE AMERICAN PATRIOT ACT


Sentence #1 NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. foreclosure activity in April jumped 32 percent from a year ago to a record high, and should mount because temporary freezes on foreclosures ended in March, RealtyTrac said on Wednesday.
#1 = HIGH

Sentence #2 One in every 374 households with mortgages got a foreclosure filing in April, the highest monthly rate since RealtyTrac began tracking it in January 2005.
#2 = HIGH

Sentence #3 Filings were reported on 342,038 properties last month.
#3 = HIGH

Sentence #4 The abundance of distressed properties keeps pressuring home prices, thwarting a housing recovery that is critical to rejuvenating the recessionary U.S. economy.
#4 = PARTIAL CAUSE, HOWEVER - IRRELEVANT TO THE RIGHT OF EVERYONE TO CAST A "REGULAR VOTE"

Sentence #5 Most of April's filings, which included notices of default and auctions, were in early stages.
#5 = HIGH

Sentence #6 Bank repossessions, known as real-estate owned or REOs, fell on a monthly and annual basis to the lowest level since March 2008.
#6 = IRRELEVANT TO THE RIGHT OF EVERYONE TO CAST A "REGULAR VOTE"

Sentence #7 "This suggests that many lenders and servicers are beginning foreclosure proceedings on delinquent loans that had been delayed by legislative and industry moratoria," RealtyTrac chief executive James J. Saccacio said in a statement.
#7 = HIGH

Sentence #8 A temporary foreclosure freeze by major banks and government-controlled home funding companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ended before President Barack Obama's massive housing stimulus, unveiled on March 6, could take root.
#8 = HIGH

Sentence #9 "It's likely that we'll see a corresponding spike in REOs as these loans move through the foreclosure process over the next few months," Saccacio said.
#9 = HIGH

Sentence # 10 Foreclosure activity rose less than 1 percent in April from March to post the second straight monthly record.
#10 = HIGH - AND IRRELEVANT TO THE RIGHT OF EVERYONE TO CAST A "REGULAR VOTE"

Sentence #11 A dip would have been more typical following the March jump, but the moratoria caused artificial delays, RealtyTrac said.
#11 = HIGH - AND IRRELEVANT TO THE RIGHT OF EVERYONE TO CAST A "REGULAR VOTE"

Sentence #12 "It looks like the dam burst in March and continued in April," Rick Sharga, senior vice president at RealtyTrac in Irvine, California, said in an interview.
#12 = HIGH

Sentence #13 Unemployment that is at its highest rate in more than a quarter century has left many borrowers drowning in debt even as new federal housing relief starts to trickle in.
#13 = PARTIAL CAUSE, HOWEVER - IRRELEVANT TO THE RIGHT OF EVERYONE TO CAST A REGULAR VOTE

Sentence #14 Fear of losing a job is also draining consumer confidence and the willingness to commit to such a large purchase.
#14 = PARTIAL CUASE, HOWEVER - IRRELEVANT TO THE RIGHT OF EVERYONE TO CAST A REGULAR VOTE

Sentence #15 Still, housing affordability is at a record high and the deeply discounted foreclosure market accounts for more than half of home sales activity.
#15 = PARTIAL CAUSE, HOWEVER - IRRELEVANT TO THE RIGHT OF EVERYONE TO CAST A REGULAR VOTE

Sentence #16 Home prices have tumbled more than 30 percent from their 2006 peaks, based on Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller indexes.
#16 = PARTIAL CAUSE , HOWEVER - IRRELEVANT TO THE RIGHT OF EVERRYONE TO CAST A REGULAR VOTE

Sentence #17 Also luring first-time home buyers are new federal tax credits and mortgage rates at generational lows.
#17 = PARTIAL CAUSE, HOWEVER - IRRELEVANT TO THE RIGHT OF EVERYONE TO CAST A REGULAR VOTE

Sentence #18 Fixed 30-year mortgage rates averaged 4.81 percent in April, down from 5.92 percent a year earlier, Freddie Mac said.
#18 = IRRELEVANT TO THE RIGHT OF EVERYONE TO CAST A REGULAR VOTE

Sentence #19 RealtyTrac expects at least three or four months of high foreclosure activity before the wave ebbs, noting a lag of up to six months between unemployment and foreclosure.
#19 = HIGH

Sentence #20 "If we continue to see buying activity increase, if the jobs market continues to improve and if the price depreciation slows down we could start to see a pretty significant effect on foreclosure levels before the end of the year," said Sharga.
#20 = IRRELEVANT TO THE RIGHT OF EVERYONE TO CAST A REGULAR VOTE

Sentence #21 "But those are three pretty big ifs."
#21 = IRRELEVANT TO THE RIGHT OF EVERYONE TO CAST A REGULAR VOTE

RECOVERY WILL BE "VERY LOCALIZED"

Sentence #22 States where sales and prices soared most during the five-year housing boom earlier this decade remained the hardest hit.
#22 = HIGH

Sentence #23 Nevada was the state with the highest foreclosure rate even though filings fell 18 percent in April from March and bank repossessions dropped 44 percent.
#23 = HIGH

Sentence #24 With one of every 68 households with loans getting a filing, more than five times the national average, total foreclosure activity surged 111 percent from April 2008.
#24 = HIGH

Sentence #25 Florida, like Nevada, suffers from a glut of unsold and often unoccupied properties built on enormous demand from investors looking to flip the units quickly for large profits.
#25 = HIGH

Sentence #26 A 37 percent monthly foreclosure activity jump in April pushed total filings up 75 percent from a year earlier in Florida.

#26 = HIGH

Sentence #27 One in every 135 households with loans there got a filing, driven by a spike in default and auction notices even as bank repossessions fell 7 percent from March.
#27 = HIGH

Sentence #28 California had the third highest state foreclosure activity rate in April after a 10 percent drop from March, with one in every 138 housing units getting a filing.
#28 = HIGH

Sentence #29 Arizona was in fourth place, followed by Idaho, Utah, Georgia, Illinois, Colorado and Ohio.
#29 = HIGH

Sentence #30 The 10 states with the most properties getting filings accounted for more than three-quarters of the national total, RealtyTrac said.
#30 = HIGH

Sentence #31 California had the highest number of filings, followed by Florida, Nevada and Arizona.
#31 = HIGH

Sentence #32 Las Vegas had the highest foreclosure rate among metro areas with populations of at least 200,000 even though filings fell 20 percent in April from March.
#32 = HIGH

Sentence #33 One in every 56 Las Vegas households with loans got a filing in April, almost seven times the national average.
#33 = HIGH

Sentence #34 Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida and Merced, California were in second and third place.
#34 = HIGH

Sentence #35 Considering these severely effected regions, "the recovery is going to be a very localized phenomenon," said Sharga.
#35 = HIGH - AND IRRELEVANT TO THE RIGHT OF EVERYONE TO CAST A REGULAR VOTE

(Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

Unlike President Obama's outstanding first days in office, you came onto the world scene as a blubbering bag of flesh, completely dependent on your mother's care. You did nothing but cry, suck, poop, pee, burp, spit up and sleep for your first 100 days.

Your parents had to scrimp to pay for the hospital bills and diapers. You had a knack for getting sick whenever they made plans.

You were an unrelenting and demanding parasite. You never rewarded mom for all her pain and sacrifices, except with maybe a toothless smile. Your greatest accomplishment was sleeping through the night (and ironically, it still is).

Compared to the first 100 days of the Obama administration, your debut was a tyrannical welfare case.

I mention this in advance of Mothers Day as a reminder that you are nothing without your parents, and most especially mom.

Barack Obama was raised by women. He has stated outright, "I am a feminist." He has appointed many women, including Hillary Clinton, Janet Napolitano and Kathleen Sebelius, to powerful positions. He has pushed for health care reform and pay equity. The fact that his wife was at one time his boss is a remarkable footnote in his career of helping others.

Never before has the White House extended such welcoming arms to women -- not even close. Finally, our leaders are beginning to look like America. This guy gets it. I mean, just look at those daughters of his.

I couldn't be happier with the first 100 days of the Obama administration. My presidential sarcasm has just melted away. I feel included. I give Barack Obama's mother much of the credit.

 

Granville, Ohio
Denison University, Swasey Chapel  

Karl Rove spoke to a subdued, mixed crowd numbering, 2-300. Sponsored by the Campus Republicans and a group called Young Life (America?).

I did see a vanity plate in  the parking garage from New Jersey with that on it, as in YGLFAM or the like.

In a liberal  arts college, the house was very civilized. The only outbreak was when a young fellow who had several male family military members involved in several wars asked Karl why we fight for human rights and then deny them for prisoners of war.

Karl spoke on the economy, and about his mistakes in the White House (should have gone for immigration stuff first then the Social Security), with the smirk of Cheney across his lips and nukular (sic) on the tongue. It was apparent he spent a lot of time with these guys. As to the specific content of his speech, it was main stream right, though not very condescending as one might presume. There were applauses from the right on their catch phrases.

He laid the economic collapse in the lap of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac even though McCain's campaign manager once got paid to deregulate Fannie and Freddie.

One of the questioners from Change For Ohio, asked Karl about the "martial law" threat on two republican members of congress, one of whom being Imhoff, for not following the party line, but was poo pooed by Rove and denied after the petitioner claimed to have video proof.

The arguments continued from Rove, as from the right, that our national debt has not been as high as it was since WW2.

(Well personally, I would think that economic excursion got us through many years of middle class progress.)

Of course he railed the high debt and all the consequences, but such forethought was not used before invading Iraq.

He did bring up the election theft of Ohio subject and added, "What did they think I had? I did not have some magic little black box."

Well Karl maybe you didn't but perhaps Mike Connell did.

Bob Fitrakis and Cliff Arnabeck (of "The Columbus FreePress and Ohio Honest? Elections) are posing as election reformers as they go after Karl Rove, only to let 58 Ohio counties off the hook for destroying ballots. Is it better to go after a slippery puppet master OR the 58 puppets without high powered Lawyers. In Ohio the County prosecutors police the elections AND the boards of election run the election process the prosecutes attain their office by. Hm-mm sounds fishy. On South Park they would call, "Shenanigans" and the whole town would assemble for an emergency meeting. Should they "settle" or do we get justice? What's your vote? How will it be counted? What would you "settle" for?By the way...I helped get signatures for Bob F. to get on the ballot for Governor in "06" while making sure voters were allowed to vote (hopefully for J. Kerry) on "computer" voting machines. How preposterous, any computer programmer can make one thing appear on the screen, another on the hard drive and another get counted. THEN the counting software has tampering possibilities. LET ALONE J. Kerry is the liberal side of Skull and Bones. What should we do America? (or is that Amerika OR U.S. of A.) ---abbreviations are a corporate connotation--- Here is the a video on the Ohio Election Justice Campaigns (OEJC) effort to restore Democracy. Is it Dead-Locked http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5WOw1TzImgOR Denied (Newest Video on the subject) I think Paddy and Virginia need to get more sun...or else I need a better camera:) ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMpiP4FtFT8&feature=channel_pageTake Back the Planet! http://redpeacecross.com/INTEL.htmlPeace General Bruce @ Your Service (I now go by "Peace General Bruce" because where "General Bruce" used to be an easy search clue to find me and my site NOW "General Bruce" brings up the names of every US General who is named Bruce. Everybody wants to be General Bruce:) Keep on Rockin in the Free World! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eWEfnhWbow&feature=relatedDemocracy is something you do, JUST DO IT!

TEA PARTIES:

These might offer opportunities for fund-raising, the Lobby Industry and campaign funding events that seek and attract people across the political spectrum save for the Democrats. Why are suburban Republicans and a variety of other political parties from nearby counties appearing at Cincinnati Tea parties? Former Republican Senator to our U.S. Congress, Steve Chabot spoke at the first Tea Party downtown. Steve Chabot (R) lost his position as a Senator from Ohio in the U.S. Congress in November 2008. Very shortly after the loss, he announced that he's running again. Cincinnati, Ohio elected President Obama and Vice - President Joe Biden. Some areas of Hamilton County favored John McCain and Sarah Palin.

I think that alert progressive financial watchdogs should consider honing their skills to legally pursue the possibility of eliminating the Lobby Industry. I think Americans would be the better for it.

From the web site, Open Secrets:

click here />Ohio
Election cycle:


MONEY SUMMARY, 2007-2008
Category Total Rank
Total Itemized Contributions † $59,901,716 11
Total to Democrats $24,483,544 14
Percent to Democrats 40.9% 36
Total to Republicans $35,287,027 8
Percent to Republicans 58.9% 15
Individual donations ($200+)* $62,124,016 11
Soft money donations $2,500 33
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Licking County will have to pay for more than $400,000 in traffic fines that were misdirected into county coffers from 2004 to 2008.

Licking County Municipal Court Clerk Marcia Phelps says the money was erroneously forwarded to the county instead of the State Highway Patrol, the city of Newark and the local law library, which were supposed to receive the funds after a 2004 change in state law.

A programming error that went undiscovered until after Phelps took office in 2008 is responsible for the misdirection, Phelps said. Under the law, half the fines received from drivers convicted of drunken driving or driving with suspended licenses goes to the patrol. The county gets 10 percent.

Since 2004, however, the clerk's office had been depositing the money into the budgets for the county sheriff and engineer.

Commissioner Tim Bubb said that because the money was misdirected over several years, it may take just as long to pay it back. He said it was not appropriate for the money to be paid out of the county's general fund.

The commissioners recently cut $3 million from the county's budget in response to lower-than-expected sales tax revenue.

"The immediate impact is maybe a road doesn't get paved that would have," Bubb said. He acknowledged, however, while the money was being misdirected, more paving work was done than would have been otherwise possible.

Phelps said the commissioners already have paid $32,713 in misdirected funds for 10 months of 2008, which was caught late last year.

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Butler County may have to pay $500,000 in back taxes for not reporting the use of county-issued cell phones, uniforms and cars as employee benefits.
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The Internal Revenue Service has been reviewing county books from 2005 to 2007. They found, according to county officials, approximately $1.5 million in benefits that should have been reflected on employee taxes. The IRS has asked Butler County to pay a third of that amount.

Calling the policy "unfair" and a "money grabber," Commissioner Greg Jolivette said it didn't make sense to take away money from a county in need at a time when the federal government plans to spend billions to create jobs.

"I think it's wrong to go after the taxpayers, especially at a time when everybody's budget is so critical. Our budget is critical. We're laying off people," he said. "They say they want to create and retain jobs, and then they're going to turn around and take this from us?"

The audit's findings are wrapping up just weeks after the county closed a $7 million revenue shortfall, a result of drops in sales tax and other market-based returns. More than 60 people have been laid off since last year.

"Obviously, this couldn't have come at a worse time," said Commission President Don Dixon.

"But we'll have to deal with it because in reality, we should have had a plan in place. We shouldn't be here. ..."

Because of the audit, Dixon said officials are working to a adopt clear, countywide policy on the use of cell phones and other benefits.

Jolivette sent letters to several in Congress, urging them to give the county an exemption on the policy.

If that doesn't happen, Dixon said the county will be forced to pay the back taxes with money from its carryover fund.

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After some Cincinnati social service agencies that had gotten money for years learned they will get nothing from the city this year, City Council members said they have to figure out what went wrong with the system they put in place.
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"It did not work the way it was intended to work," Councilwoman Leslie Ghiz said Friday, referring to the plan council approved unanimously last June.

The system was supposed to make funding decisions more fair and target the city's approximately $2 million to fewer agencies to make a bigger impact, said Councilman Chris Bortz, who pushed for the changes with Vice Mayor David Crowley.

Bortz said it should have been clear that fewer agencies would get money.

Council members will talk about the issue Tuesday at 11 a.m. in a special meeting of the Finance Committee called Friday by Chairwoman Laketa Cole.

"It was clearly council's intention to receive recommendations on the funding, and then take action," she said in a statement. "So far, it looks like we've been cut out of the process."

She decided to have the hearing, the statement said, after being told several agencies that have been funded for years saw their money cut with less than a week's notice.

Among the agencies cut: the YWCA Battered Women's Shelter, FreestoreFoodbank, Bethany House Services and Society of St. Vincent DePaul.

All the agencies that were cut had their funding extended from the end of last year through the end of March.

Charlene Ventura, executive director of the women's shelter, said Thursday she knew the system had been changed, but didn't expect to lose the $141,000 the agency got last year. The shelter has been funded by the city since 1982.

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April 1, 2009

Chernobyl exploded and Three Mile Island missed by a whisker. They both killed people.

But thirty years after the Pennsylvania melt-down, a Soviet-style Iron Curtain has formed between the corporate media and the alternatives, with nuclear power at its center.

The Soviets denied for days that the Chernobyl accident had happened at all. America's parallel corporate media says "no one died at TMI."

Take National Public Radio's Scott Simon. On March 28, Simon smirked on air that "no one was killed or injured" at Three Mile Island, "not so much as a sprained ankle."

Except when people are fleeing them, as they did 30 years ago, radiation releases have never been linked directly to joint sprains.

But cancer, leukemia, birth defects, stillbirths, malformations, spontaneous abortions, skin lesions, hair loss, respiratory problems, sterility, nausea, cataracts, a metallic taste, premature aging, general loss of bodily function and more can be caused by radioactive emissions of the type that poured out of TMI. And all such ailments have been documented there OUTside the corporate media.

Simon and everyone else INside the corporate media missed the well-organized, well-executed press event in the statehouse at Harrisburg on March 26. Despite solid publicity from Eric Epstein and the long-standing Three Mile Island Alert, not a single corporate reporter covered presentations by nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen and University of North Carolina epidemiologist Dr. Stephen Wing.

Once a top industry executive, Gundersen has shown that the containment at Three Mile Island Unit 2 did not completely hold, and that far more radiation was released than previously believed.

Dr. Wing reports that levels of radiation-related disease significantly rose in the downwind area. Wing and three co-authors looked at statistics used in a major study by Columbia University and other sources. They concluded that---despite official denials---the numbers clearly indicate serious potential health effects.

Gundersen and Wing were neither hiding nor alone. University of Pittsburgh radiology Professor Emeritus Dr. Ernest Sternglass and health researchers Joe Mangano and Jay Gould have long since documented that public health catastrophe.

March 26, 2009

Washington, D.C. The following is an open letter from Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki:

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My name is Ric Shinseki, and I am a Veteran. For me, serving as Secretary of Veter­ans Affairs is a noble calling. It provides me the opportunity to give back to those who served with and for me during my 38 years in uniform and those on whose shoulders we all stood as we grew up in the profession of arms.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has a solemn responsibility to all of you, today and in the future, as more Veterans join our ranks and enroll to secure the benefits and services they have earned. I am fully committed to fulfilling President Obama's vision for transforming our department so that it will be well-positioned to perform this duty even better during the 21st Century. We welcome the assistance and advice of our Veterans Service Organizations, other government departments and agencies, Congress, and all VA stakeholders as we move forward, ethically and transparently, so that Veterans and citizens can understand our efforts.

Creating that vision for transforming the VA into a 21st Century organization requires a comprehensive review of our department. We approach that review understanding that Veterans are central to everything VA does. We know that results count, that the department will be mea­sured by what we do, not what we promise, and that our best days as an organization support­ing Veterans are ahead of us. We will fulfill President Lincoln's charge to care for ". . . him, who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan" by redesigning and reengineering ourselves for the future.

Transforming any institution is supremely challenging; I know this from my own experi­ence in leading large, proud, complex, and high-performing organizations through change. But the best organizations must be prepared to meet the challenging times, evolving technology and, most importantly, evolving needs of clients. Historically, organizations that are unwilling or unable to change soon find themselves irrelevant. You and your needs are not irrelevant.

Veterans are our clients, and delivering the highest quality care and services in a timely, consistent and fair manner is a VA responsibility. I take that responsibility seriously and have charged all of the department's employees for their best efforts and support every day to meet our obligations to you. Our path forward is challenging, but the President and Congress support us. They have asked us to do this well--for you. Veterans are our sole reason for existence and our number one priority--bar none. I look forward to working together with all VA employees to transform our department into an organization that reflects the change and commitment our country expects and our Veterans deserve.

Thank you and God bless our military, our Veterans, and our Nation.

Eric K. Shinseki

People died at Three Mile Island
March 24, 2009

People died---and are still dying---at Three Mile Island.

As the thirtieth anniversary of America's most infamous industrial accident approaches, we mourn the deaths that accompanied the biggest string of lies ever told in US industrial history.

As news of the accident poured into the global media, the public was assured there were no radiation releases.

That quickly proved to be false.

The public was then told the releases were controlled and done purposely to alleviate pressure on the core.

Both those assertions were false.

The public was told the releases were "insignificant."

But stack monitors were saturated and unusable, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission later told Congress it did not know---and STILL does not know---how much radiation was released at Three Mile Island, or where it went.

Using unsubstantiated estimates of how much radiation was released, the government issued average doses allegedly received by people in the region, which it assured the public were safe. But the estimates were utterly meaningless, among other things ignoring the likelihood that high doses of concentrated fallout could come down heavily on specific areas.

Official estimates said a uniform dose to all persons in the region was equivalent to a single chest x-ray. But pregnant women are no longer x-rayed because it has long been known a single dose can do catastrophic damage to an embryo or fetus in utero.

Having never worked in government, I see the forest, not the trees. From the forest perspective, it always seems to me that state legislators get involved in issues that are clearly none of their business, like dictating office procedures for gynecologists.

How many dozens of abortion-related laws has the state legislature passed? It's creepy coming from individuals who have no medical experience and do not own functioning uteruses. I wonder how many of them have ever even met a person who has had a medical condition requiring a late-term abortion. It's like passing farm bills without ever visiting the countryside.

I'm beginning to think some of our state legislators are just sex obsessed. When the story of the pee-drinking guy first came out, my husband and I joked that someone will probably try to pass a law about this particular fetish. Guess what! It happened.

Some intervention with sexual behavior is warranted, especially when it comes to the young and hormonally charged. Making it easier for teens to report dating violence is a good thing -- but the issue in that case is violence, not sex.

And, please, you cannot apply standard pornography and sex offender laws to teen sexting. Rep. Ron Maag, R-Lebanon, is correct for trying to update these laws.

My husband, who knows a lot about state government, says that the Ohio General Assembly's primary job is to create budgets. They decide who gets how much. I'm guessing that most of the state budget doesn't change dramatically from year to year.

Even the most carefully crafted state budget can be revised by line-item veto of the governor. And in Ohio, Strickland has the authority to mandate budget cuts in state agencies (which he has done twice, I believe).

Maybe our state legislators feel so powerless, they feel they have to busy themselves proposing laws that apply to so few and pander to so many.  

I would like the friends and family of Blake Haxton -- the high school senior who had both legs amputated above the knee -- to know that his future is brighter than it may seem at this juncture.

I wouldn't have believed it myself if it weren't for the miraculous recovery of my nephew, age 25, who had to have his left leg amputated at the hip joint after being hurled out his driver side window and onto the pavement.

He endured excruciating pain during his three weeks of intensive care which I'm sure has imprinted on his psyche in ways the rest of us cannot understand.

There were major setbacks in his treatment. Infection set into his arms and tendons had to be removed, leaving him without use of his hands. (He's an electrician.)

The trauma of the accident, followed by the tangle of hospital and government bureaucracy, was obviously a huge burden on my sister and her family. (As someone more removed from the situation, however, I'd have to say that the social safety net did indeed work, and that's good to know.)

My nephew had surgery to restore use to one of his hands. He has no brain damage as a result of the accident, but because rehab therapists are used to working with those kind of patients, they sometimes treat him like a child. For example, a state occupational agency gave him a booklet of career options, instructing him to circle pictures of his preferred job (man working on car, man herding sheep, etc.)

He's the same guy he used to be, although inexplicably his sandy straight hair has turned dark and curly. We tease him about converting to Judaism.

He complains about some of his former friends avoiding him now that he gets around in a power wheelchair. (As a popular student and captain of his rowing team, Haxton seems to have a strong social network.)

Some people want to be helpful to amputees and other disabled people, but they don't know how. My nephew told me about a female friend whom he had asked to open a jar of peanut butter. She then proceeded to open all the food packages in his kitchen cupboards, causing them to spoil. But she meant well.

My nephew's first attempt at getting fitted for a prosthesis was not successful. He doesn't have a stump to attach it to, so it's more complicated. He is very excited now about getting a multi-part leg which he would wear like gym shorts. He also hopes to get a Power Knee which would allow him to walk up stairs.

He's too young to remember The $6 Million Man, but now he constantly gets the Steve Austin....Better....Stronger.....Faster treatment.

All in all, for a guy who almost certainly would be dead if his car accident hadn't happened so close to a good hospital, my nephew is doing well. Because he is young, the bionics people are especially eager to work with him. He still lives independently in his own little house, and believe it or not, he is now driving again.

I'm relating my nephew's story to the family and friends of Blake Haxton -- whose athletic upper body strength can only be a plus in his recovery -- because the truly amazing thing is that my nephew's amputation happened just one year ago. One year!

I just know Blake has a long and fulfilling life ahead of him.

(Note to state legislators: these are the people you are denying medical marihuana.)

Why we need the Green Party Today!

The Green Party has never been as relevant as it is today. Millions of Americans face job loss, eviction, and lack of healthcare because of corporate greed and government negligence. Instead of offering solutions to create jobs and build a sustainable future, Democrat and Republican politicians from both parties continue with business as usual, spending our tax dollars to line the pockets of corporate CEOs.

Last fall, Congress gave insurance giant AIG $85 billion as part of the three trillion-dollar taxpayer funded corporate bailout. This week, it was revealed that AIG used some of that money for bonuses for its top executives.

Why are our tax dollars going to the corporate criminals who got us into this mess in the first place? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that AIG is a top campaign contributor to the elected officials who gave them the bailout.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, AIG has donated over $9 million to both Republican and Democrat campaigns over the last 20 years. AIG is a top contributor to Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus (D-MT) and the fourth largest contributor to Christopher Dodd (D-CT) chair of the Senate Banking Committee. As for the 2008 presidential campaign, AIG hedged their bets as usual and donated to both the Obama and McCain campaigns. In fact, Obama accepted $23,000 after AIG federal bailout funds.

In case you were wondering, Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney did not accept any money from AIG; nor did any of our other candidates and officeholders. Green officeholders will never put corporate interest above people because we will never be beholden to corporations for campaign contributions. We need a strong Green Party today, now more than ever.

Dennis Spisak
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RNC Chairman Michael Steele is taking heat from his fellow Republicans for letting it slip that, yes, he believes in a woman's right to decide if she should have an abortion or not. This heart-felt admission is all the more poignant considering Steele himself was adopted.

Ohio's own ideologue J. Kenneth Blackwell lambasted Steele for his pro-choice stance, saying Steele "needs to re-read the Bible, the U.S. Constitution, and the 2008 GOP Platform. He then needs to get to work -- or get out of the way."

In Chairman Steele's defense, I have reviewed these three documents (sort of -- I don't get paid for this, ya know) and although I am not a biblical scholar, lawyer nor politician, I don't see anything about abortion.

In fact, the Republican principle of less government interference seems to be in direct opposition to the availability of safe health care options and privacy. When pro-life state legislators and the all-Republican Ohio Supreme Court get into cahoots about prescription dosing -- well, honey, that's hardly staying out of people's personal business.

I looked up all eight entries for Abortion in Where to Find It in the Bible. I found out these Bible verses were not about abortion at all, but rather references to the word womb. I'm almost certain Jesus said nothing about abortion (I say almost certain because I'm not an ideologue and I'm willing to change my mind, given new evidence.)

In terms of the abortion issue, the biblical verse I find most relevant is John 8:7, pure red-lined Jesus:  "When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, 'If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.'"

The Constitution? (Don't ask Rush about this one -- he thinks it's the Declaration of Independence.) There's a copy in my World Almanac. I'm not seeing anything about private health care decisions, just that part prohibiting "involuntary servitude" (13th Amendment).

OK, I admit I didn't read the whole Republican platform. I just skipped to the Health Care part. Let's just pick this cherry, shall we?....

"We will not put government between patients and their health care providers."

Really, GOP? You mean like telling doctors how they should be prescribing drugs for their patients?  You're not going to do that, huh?

 

Over the weekend Ryan Sarni and I started a Facebook page for WADC. We hope friends will join and help us develop it creatively. When I last looked there were 9 friends -- and we need you too.

One WADC member told me to let people know they can't just search for the acronym, or they may get Women Against Drunk Cody. I spent a fair amount of time wondering just how mean a drunk this Cody guy is, that a band of women felt compelled to form a Facebook group to oppose him!

But the WADC I hope you will want to join is the Worthington Area Democratic Club.

As with the Tissue Issue (apparently, a hot topic these days), I will not bother researching the myriad of alcohol-related laws. Suffice it to say that blue laws are stupid and everyone intuitively knows that.

All I know is I used to have to wait until 1 p.m. on Sundays to buy my usual merlot bottle with groceries, but now I can get it at 11 a.m. Well, I'm glad Big Brother solved that moral quandary for me.

It is my lifelong goal to visit all the major national parks. (Next stop, Yellowstone. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has been there recently.) I can't accomplish my goal, of course, without visiting Utah. I drove through Salt Lake City once, and it is a strange and beautiful landscape.

But the Big Lovin' Osmondfied, theocratic nature of the place is overbearing, as exemplified by Utah's strict and somewhat sexist drinking laws. It really is enough reason to deter me from visiting that state. (For similar reasons, I'm boycotting Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota, the Coat Hanger State.) In contrast to Utah, you can buy wine in the camp store at Yosemite NP.

My youngest son turns 21 tomorrow. Congratulate me -- no felony convictions on my mom-watch! Of great concern to him was getting a horizontal license before his birthday (this is a new rite of passage thing, apparently).

Like all freshmen, my son had to take a lengthy online course about alcohol before he could be accepted into Ohio U (a liability issue, I'm thinking).

It's tough to be judgmental of young people knowing that as 18-year-old college students we legally downed many a $1.50 pitcher of 3.2 beer in the Frontier Room 30 years ago. (For that matter, we smoked kilos more weed than the kids today do.)

Don't worry, my son won't be driving on his birthday and he has lots of friends to look after him. Through natural selection, college students have finely honed retching skills.

He's been thoroughly educated about the dangers of alcohol abuse, but as I see it, that's not the main threat to his generation. Pharma abuse and an Ask-Your-Prescriber-About-X culture is. Young people are not being discouraged from popping pills. In fact, you can't watch a network newscast without seeing pharmaceutical ads repeatedly.

Of course, my kids are responsible. (Of course.) But if college authorities and the state of Utah are really concerned about saving us from ourselves, they should address Big Pharma issues too.

 

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