Ohio Newsbreak – Jess Goode, Jenn Urban, Obama Stimulus, Ohio DYS, Paul Tipps, state budget, Voinovich, Finkbeiner

• Changes in Strickland communications team – Columbus Dispatch
• First Energy appeals PUCO rate rollback – The Plain Dealer
• Voinovich to unveil plans Sunday night - The Plain Dealer
• Is this Voinovich’s last term? – The Plain Dealer
• Op-Ed, Brent Larkin: Voinovich in 2010? – The Plain Dealer
• Will Obama put light rail back on track? – Columbus Dispatch
• Juvenile facilities to close - Columbus Dispatch
• Editorial: Boehner, McConnel have shot at history – Dayton Daily News
• Ohio jobless fund to get loan – Columbus Dispatch
• Prosecutor seeks info from Cordray – Dayton Daily News
• Cordray forces 9 out of AG’s office – Columbus Dispatch
• New state treasurer, AG sworn in – Columbus Dispatch
• State Street Consultants – Columbus Dispatch
• Absentee balloting broke record – Columbus Dispatch
• State cuts take toll on little guys – Columbus Dispatch
• Harris calls for rainy day funds – Columbus Dispatch
• Cleveland mayor asks Obama for $730 million – The Plain Dealer
• Toledo city workers reject contract – Toledo Blade

Ohio Agency Director Put on Leave & Other News from the Buckeye State

Helen Jones-Kelley Coverage

• Emails get state leader in trouble – Columbus Dispatch
• Jones-Kelley on paid leave pending investigation - The Plain Dealer
• Stivers event among topics of emails under investigation - Dayton Daily News
• Governor places family services director on leave – Dayton Daily News
• Agency chief put on leave -Toledo Blade
  

Politics & Elections News

• GOP’s grip on County’s suburbs slipping – Columbus Dispatch
• Editorial: GOP must make honest appraisal of its defeat – The Plain Dealer
• Obama’s victory in Cuyahoga was overwhelming – The Plain Dealer
• Obama won – so did shirt sellers – Columbus Dispatch
• Maureen O’Connor’s huge totals may lead to something else – The Plain Dealer
• Brunner calls summit on vote –Columbus Dispatch
• Ohio GOP to work on ‘identity crisis’ – Columbus Dispatch
• Dolan out of Minority Leader race – The Plain Dealer
• The new Ohio Senate and House – Columbus Dispatch
• Timing of Cordray’s start as AG uncertain – Columbus Dispatch
• Total state approach aided Obama – Columbus Dispatch
• No Treasurer replacement yet – The Plain Dealer
• Editorial: House Democrats in charge – Akron Beacon Journal

Other News

• Jobless rate highest in 14 years – Columbus Dispatch
• Hard recovery seen for Ohio – Associated Press
• Wilmington worried about pending DHL announcement – Dayton Daily News
• Glowing review earns Gee possibly $2 million – Columbus Dispatch

Ohio Election Wrap: Day After Clips from Ohio’s Newspapers

Presidential Coverage

• Obama Sweeps to victory as first black president
  – Columbus Dispatch
  
• Obama, American voters make history
  – The Plain Dealer
  
• Win restores blacks’ faith
  – Columbus Dispatch
  
• Analysis: How Obama Won Ohio
  – Columbus Dispatch
  
• Impressive showing but no Ohio turnout record
  – The Plain Dealer
  
• Editorial: Obama presidency is break from the past
  – Canton Repository
  
• Editorial: President Obama is change to cheer
  – Dayton Daily News
  
• Editorial: Making History
  – Akron Beacon Journal
  
• Voters rejoice at Obama’s election – Cincinnati Enquirer
  

• Obama wins Ohio, Michigan – Presidency in Landslide
  – Toledo Blade
  
• ‘Joe the Plumber’ will take his politics online
  – Toledo Blade
  
• Editorial: The View Forward
  – Toledo Blade
  
• Editorial: Now time to unite behind message of hope
  – The Plain Dealer
  
• Editorial: Not the day to be cynical
  – Dayton Daily News
  
• Editorial: Election brings change to America
  – Cincinnati Enquirer
  
• Election Problems? Not in Ohio
  – Columbus Dispatch
  
• Day smoother than expected despite some glitches
  – Columbus Dispatch
  

Ohio Candidates and Issues

• Dems wrest back control of Ohio House
  – Columbus Dispatch
• Stivers, Kilroy winner likely not know for 10 days
  - Columbus Dispatch
• Boccieri to replace Regula
  – Canton Repository
• Driehaus ousts Chabot
  – Cincinnati Enquirer
• Democrats reclaim Ohio House
  – Associated Press
• Cordray rolls to big win
  – Columbus Dispatch
• Editorial:
  Payday Lenders Lose Big in Ohio – The Plain Dealer
• Montgomery County results still being counted – Dayton Daily News
• Boehner will seek return to House leadership
  – The Plain Dealer
• Dems expand majorities in Congress but Ohio races up for grabs
  – The Plain Dealer
• Husted winning State Senate seat
  – Dayton Daily News
• Dems close to regaining control of Ohio House
  – The Plain Dealer
• Fudge, LaTourette, Kucinich win – The Plain Dealer
• Casino, Payday Lenders denied
  – Columbus Dispatch
• Voters choose no on casino – The Plain Dealer
• Payday lenders defeated at polls
  – The Plain Dealer
• Ohio defeats gambling, keeps lending limits – Associated Press
• Paper ballots hold up counts in Ohio counties
  – Associated Press
• Editorial: Ohioans wisely say no to casino
  – Canton Repository

Ohio Sunday Papers – October 5, 2008

Elections & Politics News

• New Dispatch Poll: Obama lead widens – Columbus Dispatch
• Key to Ohio? Appalachia. – Cincinnati Enquirer
• Op-Ed, Joe Hallett: McCain’s MI departure makes it all the harder – Columbus Dispatch
• Endorsement: For Richard Cordray – Columbus Dispatch
• Endorsement: Cordray better choice for AG – The Plain Dealer
• Endorsement: No on Issue 6 – Columbus Dispatch
• Cordray says contract, contribution not linked – Dayton Daily News
• Many provisional ballots rejected; more help needed from poll workers – The Plain Dealer
• Many NE Ohio school districts to close on Election Day – The Plain Dealer
• Obama has Irish kin in Southern Ohio – The Plain Dealer
• Ohio’s payday lenders hope dimwits turn out on Election Day – The Plain Dealer
• Editorial: VP Debate – Expectations Fulfilled – Toledo Blade
• McCain, Obama on the issues – Dayton Daily News
• Which party will benefit from early voting in Ohio? – Dayton Daily News
• Op-Ed, Jonathan Riskind: Space goes out on a limb for bailout – Columbus Dispatch
• Casino’s effects mixed for town in Michigan – Columbus Dispatch
• Jobs, cash hard to turn down – Columbus Dispatch

Other News

• Job seekers look for flicker of hope in dim economy – Dayton Daily News
• Everything going wrong than can – Dayton Daily News
• How fast is too fast? – Columbus Dispatch

Ohio News Check – Saturday – Strickland Democrats’ Radio Response

Politics and Elections

• Strickland slams McCain’s economic policies – Bloomberg
• Dems radio address bashes McCain – Associated Press
• Ballots with missing check marks to be counted – The Plain Dealer
• Ohio early voting survives court challenge – Associated Press

• Analysis says Ohio casino figures vague – Associated Press
• State Analysis says Issue 6 language vague – Columbus Dispatch
• Hamburgers, soap can offer political lessons – Associated Press
• Op-Ed, Joe Frolik: GOP’s downs and ups – The Plain Dealer
• Cordray has cash lead in AG’s race – Columbus Dispatch
• Marc Dann: Threats forced use of campaign cash – Columbus Dispatch
• Mediation in AG Harassment case loses steam – Columbus Dispatch

Other News

• Ohio minimum wage to rise in 2009 – Toledo Blade
• Regional indicators point to slow Cleveland recovery – The Plain Dealer

Sunday Papers – Illegal Immigration, Sick Days, Ohio RNC delegates, Dispatch begins series on Illegal Immigration, Ohio AG race, Kilroy – Stivers, Tubbs Jones’ Successor

Ohio News

• Backlash: Illegal Immigrants in the Heartland – Columbus Dispatch
• Foreign Fallout – Columbus Dispatch
• Latinos flee Oklahoma – Columbus Dispatch
• Cracking Down: Proposed Legislation – Columbus Dispatch
• Kilroy, Stivers trade potshots – Columbus Dispatch
• Strickland the big winner in Sick Days issue – Columbus Dispatch
• Op-Ed, Jonathan Riskind: Ohio delegates zealous over Palin – Columbus Dispatch
• Op-Ed, Joe Hallett: Obama, Palin Dynamic Makes for Special Election – Columbus Dispatch

• 3 Ohio resignations add to spate of GOP seats at risk – Columbus Dispatch
• Well done Strickland, Fisher – Columbus Dispatch
• CAT fight – Columbus Dispatch
• Choosing Tubbs Jones successor reveals dissension in ranks – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Op-Ed, Thomas Suddes: Good sense in Ohio is back from sick leave – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Ohio AG race preview – Dayton Daily News

Ohio News Roundup – Jobs for Cambridge, Sick Days Editorials, Light to be out, Ohio AG race,

Government, Politics, Economy

• Florida company buys Cambridge mental health facility – Zanesville Times-Recorder

This deal came about with the help of the Strickland Administration through the Department of Mental Health and the Department of Administrative Services. Earlier this year, budget cuts led to 128 state employees at the facility to lose their jobs. Oglethorpe, the new owner, is scheduled to hire 200 from the Cambridge area.

• Oglethorpe buys Cambridge facility – Akron Beacon Journal
• Hocking College prez to depart at end of school year – Columbus Dispatch
• No Dem candidate for prosecutor – Columbus Dispatch
• Ohio AG fundraising gap widens – Columbus Dispatch
• Cordray gets FOP endorsement – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Cordray winning fundraising race – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Editorial: Ohio escapes the jobkillers – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Editorial: High bar for Tubbs’ successor – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Editorial: Ohioans for Healthy Families avoids a headache – Akron Beacon Journal
• First month of Keno sales below expectations – Dayton Daily News
• Ohio delegates say McCain hit home run – Dayton Daily News
• Editorial: Strickland saves Ohio from Issue 4 – Canton Repository
• Editorial: Avoiding a ballot fight – Toledo Blade

Crites ‘Million Dollar Baby’ … In His Own Mind

Reports tonight out of Columbus show GOP sacrificial lamb, G. Michael Crites, has raised an astounding $75 grand to wage his campaign for Attorney General.

The other news is that G. Michael Crites is now “Mike Crites,” friend of the common man.  From the Crites campaign:

Columbus – The following statement can be attributed in whole or in part to Mike Crites, Republican candidate for Ohio Attorney General:
“Today’s filing represents just the beginning of a groundswell of support that my campaign has received over the past few weeks. With our team now in place and operating at full capacity, we expect these numbers to grow quickly.

Political sources report that Crites’ astounding total of $75 large, included a $30k donation from the Ohio Republican Party.  That’s $30k that won’t be spent on House races.  Thanks, Mike!

Thursday A.M. Read – Sick Days, Dimora, Uninsured, Brunner, Marc Dann!, Russia v. Georgia, Rice, McCain, Energy Policy

Ohio News

• Editorial: Sick Leave Fight May Require a Power Play by Strickland – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Number of uninsured in Ohio may be higher than report shows – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Political party leaders spar over election rule – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Prominent Dems want Dimora out – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• By 2042, minorities to be majority – Columbus Dispatch
• Anniversary: Largest blackout in US history – Columbus Dispatch
• Dann had rejected favorite for Academy – Columbus Dispatch
• GOP Fear: Voting too soon – Columbus Dispatch
• GOP pushes Cordray to return money – Columbus Dispatch
• Editorial: Full Accounting on Factory Farms – Columbus Dispatch

National/International News

• Russian forces begin pullout from Gori – VOA
• Rice says Russia faces isolation – BBC
• Bush squares up to Putin – Times of London
• Russia rejects West’s call to recognize Georgian sovereignty – The Guardian
• Op-Ed, John McCain: We are all Georgian – Wall Street Journal
• Now is the key time for energy in presidential race – NY Magazine
• Insurgency’s scars mar Afghan main road – New York Times
• GOP in House at risk in NE – New York Times

Tuesday a.m. Clips – Ohio Rs: No to Romney; Ohio Highway Patrol sexiness; Dimora & Russo; Ohio AG race; War of Russian Aggression; Dimora & Russo; Payday lending; Debunking offshore drilling

Ohio News

• Ohio activists reject Romney – Columbus Dispatch
• Troopers in trouble over romances – Columbus Dispatch

It’s time for Ohio Highway Patrol to resubmit to civilian authority – racism and sexiness too much – if the Army can take orders from W, OHP can bend to Strickland, Guzman

• McClendon wrongly held by state for 18 years – Columbus Dispatch

Original prosecutors and anyone else who stood in the way of justice in these cases should be disbarred.

• Dimora – Russo probe began long ago – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Ohio AG race overview – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Opposing sides in payday lending fight over ballot language – Dayton Daily News
• Wind may hold energy and Ohio jobs – Mansfield News Journal
• Strickland: Ohio education system stuck in past – Newark Advocate
• Diebold to close Hebron plants – Newark Advocate

National/International News

• Russia orders halt to war in Georgia – Reuters
• What does Georgia want from Russia – NPR
• Russia says it has halted aggression – New York Times
• Healing wounds, Putin calls shots – New York Times
• Bayh offers risks and rewards – New York Times
• Global trail of online crime ring – New York Times
• Editorial: Russia’s War of Ambition – New York Times
• Endangered Species Act eyed – Washington Post
• Bush questions Moscow’s motives – Washington Post
• Editorial: ‘Snake Oil’ – Washington Post

Marc Dann and Cronies: The gift that keeps on giving

Just When Cuyahoga Scandal Simmers, More Dann Coverage!

• PERSPECTIVE: Feisty Ex-AG Haunts Dem Successors – Associated Press

Some recent media coverage here, here, here, and here and above has speculated about Marc Dann’s ‘political’ future.

Bubba please!

His filing of papers with the Secretary of State’s office to run again (for what?) in 2010 is about nothing more than Marc Dann buying time to figure out how to enrich himself with contributors’ money. In all, Dann spent more than $120k during his final days in office on a shopping spree at the Apple Store and trying to save his job. As further proof that Dann wasn’t “getting it” — even as the guillotine of his own stupidity was severing his political head — this ass flew in a state plane to Ohio’s major newspapers’ editorial boards on a PR campaign after admitting to buggering his scheduler.

Three out of the four Democrats elected to statewide office in 2006 are honorable public servants. Gov. Ted Strickland, Treasurer Richard Cordray, and Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner have shown integrity in office in many ways, chief among them not letting their positions go to their heads. Has there been one instance of largesse or insensitivity to the public’s trust from anyone other than Marc Dann? No.

And, he doesn’t learn. He’s still out there. He still has access to over $300k in campaign contributions – money I’m sure many contributors would like to have back. It’s going to be interesting to see how many more family vacations to San Francisco, trips to New York and Chicago, and – gag me – attorney general association conventions for which his contributors are fleeced.

Can someone stop this guy? Oh, wait – I think I hear Tom Charles.

Leo Jennings Update

There has been a mini-eruption in the Ohio blogosphere over the past couple of days over whether or not Jennings has gone to work for Progress Ohio. Apologist for the Irrelevant Ken Blackwell, NaugBlog, “broke” the story. Blogger Interrupted ran with the story and Plunderbund seemed to finish it.

But, wait … there’s more. Like a dog on a bone, Tim over at Blogger Interrupted fired two more salvos. LMAO

Oh, and then the Dispatch’s Daily Briefing weighed in with Progress Ohio saying yes, they hired him, briefly, but regretted it. The Dispatch’s entry also described Progress Ohio as a liberal think tank – yeah a think tank. Just like Brookings – right.

Ohio Sunday Papers – Paid Sick Days, Strickland, Stivers v. Kilroy, Russo and Dimora, Ohio House Races

Ohio News

• Strickland presses compromise on sick days – Dayton Daily News
• Editorial: Strickland has to derail paid sick leave initiative – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Op-Ed, Thomas Suddes: Battle over paid sick leave already nauseating – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• State coal committee too insider? – Columbus Dispatch
• Op-Ed, Joe Hallett: Others will turn Kilroy-Stivers race sour – Columbus Dispatch
• Strickland bringing home cash for Dems – Columbus Dispatch
• Op-Ed, Johnathan Riskind: Dems should ‘test-drill’ Rs on drilling – Columbus Dispatch
• Russo, Dimora have been life of the party for Cuyahoga Dems – Clevleand Plain Dealer
• Op-Ed, Dennis Willard: Paranoid politicians – Akron Beacon Journal
• Cordray has $1.9 million for AG’s race – Dayton Daily News

From the Columbus Dispatch: 20 House Races to Watch in Ohio

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Sunday Morning Papers – Marc Dann et. al. called ‘pond scum,’ by hometown paper; Strickland, Education tour, DHL, Housing, Noe, Ohio EPA

Ohio News

• City wild about Obama, Strickland – Lancaster Eagle Gazette

The above link is the headline taken from the Gazette. It cracked me up because Lancaster is one of those areas that reflexively votes Republican. It’s Central Ohio’s little slice of Orange County. Getting 100 Dems out down there is a good thing. Not sure if that city is ‘wild’ about Obama, but if the donkeys keep working hard and staying on message we may win some extra hearts and minds this year.

• Op-Ed, Dennis Willard: Governor’s 12-city tour seems sincere – Akron Beacon Journal

Seems?! Apparently the ABJ didn’t read my post on these education forums. You can here. Governor Strickland is doing something we’re apparently not used to as Americans in the Bush/Cheney era, he’s reaching out to his constituents.

• Op-Ed, Bertram DeSouza: Slow down rush to settle AG harassment cases – Youngstown Vindicator

Holy Crikey. DeSouza unloads on the Troubled Trio (Dann, Jennings, Gutierrez) by calling them “pond scum” and “pus-filled boils on this regions backside.” He basically brands Jenn Urban a gold digger. The essential point is that the next attorney general should determine how many of our tax dollars go down the drain in settlements to the alleged victims of sexual harassment under the Dann regime. He may have something there.

• Op-Ed, Thomas Suddes: Ohio’s term limits lead to unlimited trickery – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Ohio allowed more flexibility under ‘No Child Left Behind’ – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• State crisis team reacts to possible DHL layoffs – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Op-Ed, Mark Moran: 400,000 reasons to care about health care reform in Cuyahoga County –Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Editorial: Media needs to get balanced for election – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Editorial: PUCO needs to hold hearings publicly where people have access – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Pinching pennies at the Ohio State Fair – Columbus Dispatch
• Housing Rescue: Too Little, Too Late? – Columbus Dispatch (Washington Post)
• State works on Medicaid claims delays – Columbus Dispatch
• Plan to lessen smog hits brakes – Columbus Dispatch
• State to require extra ID for registering vehicles – Columbus Dispatch
• Editorial: Americans awash in debt – Columbus Dispatch
• Editorial: Recouping money in coin scandal doesn’t minimize Noe’s crime – Columbus Dispatch
• Op-Ed, Joe Hallett: Strickland Ed Forum Taught Me a Lesson: He’s Right On – Columbus Dispatch
• Op-Ed, Bill Hershey: Strickland ‘conversation’ set for Dayton – Dayton Daily News
• Ohio EPA concerned about smog rules – Associated Press (Dayton Daily News)

Saturday Morning – Sick days, Education, Strickland, Foreclosures, Ohio AG Race, Bears, Boehner

Ohio News

• Strickland seeks business-labor compromise on sick days – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Three Cleveland charter schools join forces – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Op-Ed, Aaron Marshall – Raussen, Spada jobs come with perk – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Bleak stats for black youth – Columbus Dispatch
• Bexley considers limiting protesters – Columbus Dispatch
• Foreclosure frenzy may ease in Ohio – Columbus Dispatch

• Editorial: Keep Ohio AG race on high road – Columbus Dispatch
• Ohio man charged in bear shooting – Dayton Daily News
• Union leaders fear Packard plant closing – Youngstown Vindicator
• Akron area foreclosures up 59% – Akron Beacon Journal
• Editorial: Talking with Ted – Akron Beacon Journal
• Editorial: No Marc Dann – Akron Beacon Journal
• Boehner pushing for Alaska drilling – Cincinnati Enquirer

Friday Clips – Gov. Ted Strickland, Keno, Education, Marc Dann

Strickland education forums coverage

• Editorial: Setting tone for reform – Wheeling Intelligencer
• Editorial: Answers to school funding needed soon – Newark Advocate
• Governor quizzes Akron – Akron Beacon Journal
• Local residents to attend education forum with Strickland – Urbana Daily Herald

KENO!

• Mansfield pastors voice opposition – Mansfield News Journal
• Op-Ed, Ben Mutti – Ohio citizens bound to lose if state bets on Keno – Mansfield News Journal
• Op-Ed, Joe Blundo – O’ how low can we go to raise more dough? – Columbus Dispatch

Other Ohio News

• Op-Ed, David W. Jones – O’Neill, LaTourette: Follow the $$$ – News Herald
• Op-Ed, Bertram de Souza, – Marc Dann’s selective cronyism – Youngstown Vindicator

More later …

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