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

Ohio News Update – Lots of Work for Jennifer Brunner, Marc Dann still paying piper for being unethical, More on State budget cuts, Obama and Ohio

Brunner Makes Most News 

• Republicans reject Brunner’s proposal on disputed absentee ballots – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Ohio GOP sues to block early voting – Toledo Blade
• Republicans file suit against Ohio Secy State – Dayton Daily News
• Brunner faces GOP suit; payday lending issues – Columbus Dispatch
• GOP Chief, Brunner clash over ballots – Columbus Dispatch
• Brunner may toss signatures on payday lending ballot issue – Columbus Dispatch
• State to go after former legislator – Columbus Dispatch
• Dann told to payback campaign for funds used on home – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Dann must pay campaign $40k – Columbus Dispatch
• Ash borer adds Licking County to its domain – Columbus Dispatch

• Editorial: Needless Nitpicking – Columbus Dispatch
• Federal housing program causes tension in SW Ohio – Dayton Daily News

• Local programs will feel state cuts – Dayton Daily News
• Obama’s economic focus credited with lead in Ohio poll – Dayton Daily News
• Officials monitor Scioto River for parasite – Canton Repository
• Op-Ed, David Skolnick: Reach out and touch a political spinner – Youngstown Vindicator

Wednesday Late Nite News – Strickland Releases Economic Plan, Tommi Dorris, Parole Board, GOP, Barack Obama, Tave Zelman, Karl Rove

Ohio News

• Strickland Unveils Economic Development Plan – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Strickland Releases Economic Plan – Associated Press
• Governor’s Office Unveils Plan to Give Ohio Economic Shot in the Arm – Dayton Business Journal
• Lofty Goals for Governor’s Economic Plan – Columbus Dispatch
• Obama Has Democratic Surrogates in Ohio – Associated Press
• Parole Board Rejects Prisoner’s Too-Fat-to-Die Argument – Youngstown Vindicator
• Outgoing State Schools Chief will Work for Public Broadcasting – Columbus Dispatch
• GOP Back on Track – Columbus Dispatch
• Democrat blames Dann Furor on Exit From Race – Columbus Dispatch
• Rove Reminds Ohio It’s Still Key – Columbus Dispatch
• 3 Subtly Make Case for 2010 Governor’s Race – Columbus Dispatch

Ohio News Update – Austria Plagiarizes, Boehner on Palin, OH Guard to LA, Grocery Tax No More, Dispatch RNC Coverage, Payday Lenders, Cordray

Austria accused of plagiarism in local paper – Dayton Daily News

Boehner: Palin Critics Elitist – Politico

Ohio Guard Sending 1,500 Troops to LA – Columbus Dispatch

Appeals Court throws out CAT tax for grocers – Dayton Daily News

Court Voids State Grocery Tax – Columbus Dispatch

Party is muted but Palin news isn’t – Columbus Dispatch

Cordray, Dann find little in common – Columbus Dispatch

Minnesotan fires up Ohio delegates – Columbus Dispatch

Corporate cruise able to double as storm fundraiser – Columbus Dispatch

Editorial: Lose it or pay – Columbus Dispatch

Ohio fills abandoned mines to avoid collapses – Cleveland Plain Dealer

Payday lending issue step closer to ballot – Dayton Daily News

Saturday Clips — Gustav, Palin, Tubbs Jones, Georgia and Russia, Israel and Iran

Gustav

• Gustav, more dangerous, will threaten West Bank – The Times Picayune
• Latest Gustave Public Advisory – National Hurricane Center, NWS
• Nagin urges residents, tourists to go – The Times Picayune
• Four potential scenarios for Gustav – Houston Chronicle
• McCain, Palin, Convention monitor storm — Washington Post

Ohio News

• Obama, Biden breakfast in Boardman – Youngstown Vindicator
• Mourners pay respects to Tubbs Jones – Associated Press
• Viewing brings peace, tears to Tubbs Jones fans
  -- Columbus Dispatch
• Politicians, friends pay respects to Tubbs Jones – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• AG Rogers fires Dann’s friend – Columbus Dispatch
• A ‘game changer’ – Columbus Dispatch
• Palin could draw fundie women
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  Columbus Dispatch
• McCain’s VP pick wows local crowds – Dayton Daily News

National/International

• Report: Israel will not allow nuclear Iran – Jerusalem Post
• Kremlin says South Ossetia to become part of Russia – The Times of London
• Campaigns shift as pick changes race — New York Times
• Drug violence alters the flow of life in Mexico — New York Times
• Georgia, Russia cut diplomatic ties — New York Times
• Sarah Heath Palin: An outsider who charms — New York Times

Thursday a.m. – Marc Dann and state planes, Dispatch Convention Coverage, Male Enhancement, McCain to announce in Dayton

Ohio News

• Obama, McCain planning Ohio visits at key time – Columbus Dispatch
• Historic night in Denver – Columbus Dispatch
• Analysis, Jack Torry: Obama’s speech must be meaty – Columbus Dispatch
• Race Issue looms large for unions – Columbus Dispatch
• Clinton: Dream dies hard – Columbus Dispatch
• Dann accused of misusing state planes – Columbus Dispatch
• Special election will fill Tubbs Jones seat – Columbus Dispatch
• Green Party sues to get on ballot – Columbus Dispatch
• Male Enhancement carnival barker gets 25 years – Cincinnati Enquirer

• Editorial: Settle It – Columbus Dispatch
• Editorial: Stacked Deck – Columbus Dispatch
• McCain to reveal VP choice at Dayton Rally – Cleveland Plain Dealer

Did former AG Marc Dann Scandal Redefine Impeachment?

There was a lot of debate about whether Dann’s colossal screwing up of the Ohio Attorney General’s Office rose to an impeachable offense.  I still don’t think we know about all of the shenanigans and ineptness that plagued his shortened term in office.  The Associated Press has put a long piece out on the wire reporting on some people’s view that the articles of impeachment filed against Dann created a dangerously loose precedent for impeachment.

I don’t recall that any action was ever taken regarding impeachment — how can there be a precedent? Legal opinions requested … post to comments.

You can read the AP story here.

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

Dann goes to work for Intl Union of Operating Engineers Local 18

Columbus Dispatch has the story here.

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.

Friday a.m. – Strickland: I Alone Can’t Deliver Ohio, AEP, Dann, DHL

Ohio News

• Dann spent over $100k trying to save job – Columbus Dispatch
• AEP wants to raise rates – Columbus Dispatch
• Strickland: I can’t deliver Ohio alone – PolitickerOH
• State officials’ campaign finance reports – Dayton Daily News
• Casino backers want perfect storm – The Other Paper
• DHL deal with UPS turns political – BusinessWeek
• Court backs Brunner – Columbus Dispatch

Marc Dann Still Riding Sunshine Express

“It’s a monster” Current AG Office Says of Request

Breaking news tonight out of Dann Land. Former Ohio AG Marc Dann has filed a public records request with his old office – for everything. Reported in the Youngstown Vindicator and and WFMJ TV Tuesday night, Dann wants it all. Dann’s former spokesman, Jim Gravelle (no, silly, not Leo Jennings) said of the request: “It’s a monster.”

This is just one more chapter in the bitter break-up of the frat house that Marc built. Mistakenly slipped into the request was a note meant for Jessica Utovich. It read: “I want my records back.”

This is irony upon irony. Marc Dann, crusading Senator, became known as the public records poster boy with his unceasing requests of the Taft administration. Fast forward to Dann in office and I don’t think you’ll find a single member of the Ohio media who ever felt their public records requests were treated with as much attention or alacrity as Dann expected of others. One of the classic stalling tactics used by Dann was the old – can you be more specific – that ’s a rather broad request. Now, we find Marc making the broadest request in Ohio’s recorded history.

I have a feeling that when the current interim AG, or more likely her successor delivers Marc’s junk, they’ll use this vehicle:

For real reportage:

• WFMJ
• The Vindicator

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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