Continued corruption in Ohio
Remember back in 2004, when the electronic voting machines by Diebold where shown beyond any doubt to fraudulently place votes for Bush? Remember how Ohio decided the outcome of the presidential election? Remember how the president of Diebold was caught promising to "deliver Ohio to Bush"? Well, who was in charge of Ohio elections to make sure that illegal activity didn't take place? That would be Ken Blackwell. He's not an impartial bureaucrats, he's a Republican operative that has launched his own campaign for Governor of Ohio.
Much like Kathleen Harris, Bush's campaign manager for Florida, Blackwell was a neocon taking party orders, and was placed in a position to decide the outcome of the election. Now like Harris, he wants his payback. In Ken's case, it's the governor's mansion. Besides being endowed with the GOP money and political machine, he's just simply trying to get his opponent disqualified. What basis does he have for doing this? Why, because the Republican party has put him in charge of deciding who can run for office in Ohio.
The unofficial arm of the Blackwell campaign is claiming there's something wrong with Ted Strickland's (the Democratic nominee) voter registration, which Blackwell is in charge of maintaining, and he should therefore be disqualified from running for office. Of course, not only has Blackwell been placed in charge of voter registrations, this dispute has been given to Blackwell to decide. That's right, he gets to be the police, judge and jury of whether or not anyone is allowed to oppose him in the Ohio governor's race. How's that for an outstanding display of the new Republicans' version of democracy.
Oh, and of course, just in case this ridiculous plan isn't allowed to go through, the GOP is also mounting a swiftboat campaign against Strickland, spreading false rumors about homosexuality and child molestation. The rumors are completely baseless and of course Blackwell officially denies knowledge of his party spreading these rumors. Apparently, the GOP figures if they got caught covering up the Foley crimes, perhaps people will just assume it's true of all politicians. Sad, but these are the preferred tactics of what the Republican Party has devolved into.
Much like Kathleen Harris, Bush's campaign manager for Florida, Blackwell was a neocon taking party orders, and was placed in a position to decide the outcome of the election. Now like Harris, he wants his payback. In Ken's case, it's the governor's mansion. Besides being endowed with the GOP money and political machine, he's just simply trying to get his opponent disqualified. What basis does he have for doing this? Why, because the Republican party has put him in charge of deciding who can run for office in Ohio.
The unofficial arm of the Blackwell campaign is claiming there's something wrong with Ted Strickland's (the Democratic nominee) voter registration, which Blackwell is in charge of maintaining, and he should therefore be disqualified from running for office. Of course, not only has Blackwell been placed in charge of voter registrations, this dispute has been given to Blackwell to decide. That's right, he gets to be the police, judge and jury of whether or not anyone is allowed to oppose him in the Ohio governor's race. How's that for an outstanding display of the new Republicans' version of democracy.
Oh, and of course, just in case this ridiculous plan isn't allowed to go through, the GOP is also mounting a swiftboat campaign against Strickland, spreading false rumors about homosexuality and child molestation. The rumors are completely baseless and of course Blackwell officially denies knowledge of his party spreading these rumors. Apparently, the GOP figures if they got caught covering up the Foley crimes, perhaps people will just assume it's true of all politicians. Sad, but these are the preferred tactics of what the Republican Party has devolved into.
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