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My Ohio map
I tried my best with Ohio to find a map that enhaces Democratic performance without making the map too ugly. I was not too friendly to Democratic incumbents, as some of them might have to fight harder...
View ArticleMarcy Kaptur | Solomon's choice
I’m going to fight like hell to keep Marcy Kaptur in office. More then anyone, Kaptur has stood by the poor, the working class, students, unions, and inner-city communities. She has been a powerful...
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Ohio tea party leader: Issue 2 is about defunding unions and defeating Democrats
Ohio's Blog of Mass Destruction has a great catch: an email from a tea party leader explaining the real reasons to support the state's SB 5, which strips public workers of collective bargaining...
View ArticleTuesday is the last day to register to overturn SB5 in Ohio
This is a very short diary. Voter registration in Ohio for November 8's election on Tuesday October 12, 2011. If you live in Ohio and are not registered, we need your vote to help overturn SB5, the...
View ArticleHow to Offset GOP Money? Reach Young People on Issues
My daughter is a young teacher, looking for a full time job. Thanks to state funding cuts and GOP anti tax hysteria, hundreds of teaching positions in Ohio have been eliminated, full time jobs are...
View ArticleOhio's Issue 2 backers use stolen footage to make misleading ad
This is about as brazen as it comes. The video above shows two ads in sequence. In the first, from We Are Ohio, a great-grandmother talks about how she's voting no on Issue 2 because "Issue 2 makes it...
View ArticleUpdated: Amazing gall in Ohio, stealing a Repeal SB-5 ad and converting it to...
As many of you know one of the most important issues on the ballot anywhere in the country this fall is State issue 2 in Ohio. This issue aims to repeal the union busting bill, Senate Bill 5....
View ArticleBuilding a Better Ohio's latest ad may be illegal
Many of you know that Building a Better Ohio, a group that supports John Kasich's union-busting bill, just put out an ad that splices together material from an ad opposing the bill. In the process,...
View ArticleHarrisburg PA Bankruptcy is this a Bank of US?
It's been pointed out that the 1929 Stock market crash may have started the Great Depression the true damage was inflicted by bank failures. The First bank to fail in Dec 1930 was the Bank of USA of...
View ArticleDozens of television stations pull deceptive ad supporting Ohio's Issue 2
The theft and misleading use of ad footage by anti-worker group Building a Better Ohio is making waves in Ohio. Building a Better Ohio took footage in which, over images of a little girl being carried...
View ArticleBuilding a Better Ohio's latest ad may be illegal
Many of you know that Building a Better Ohio, a group that supports John Kasich's union-busting bill, just put out an ad that splices together material from an ad opposing the bill. In the process,...
View ArticleRepublican group pulls deceptive ad on Ohio's Issue 2, but continues to...
As of this morning, 30 Ohio television stations had pulled the deceptive ad supporting the state's Issue 2, which would limit collective bargaining for public workers. The ad takes footage from an ad...
View ArticleProgressMo Shuffle at OccupyColumbus
When I decided to drive to Madison for the Progressive editorial/Wisconsin fight back conference, I decided I would stop at a couple of occupy demonstrations on the way. It took me about nine hours to...
View ArticleIf We Want 'Great Teachers,' Don't We Need To Give Them Jobs?
Even after writing the headline to this post I have to wonder, "Is this a point that even has to be made?" But in light of events in Washington, DC this week, I have to answer, "Yes." Because just as...
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Conservative zombie lies continue in effort to prop up Ohio SB-5
Here, have a damn chart (EPI) This month, a group called the Ohio Business Roundtable released another in a long line of conservative-promoted "reports" purporting to show that public workers are...
View ArticleOhio grandmother speaks out on Issue 2 ad that stole her words
We Are Ohio, the good guys in Ohio's Issue 2 fight to preserve collective bargaining rights for public workers, are out with a new ad featuring Marlene Quinn, the woman who was the subject of a...
View ArticleBREAKING: Ohio Supremes OK gerrymander referendum
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends" -Henry V OK, so let's review... Ohio state government has been hijacked by a bunch of Machiavellian neocon boobs that make the crowd in Wisconsin look like...
View ArticleOhio Fair Redistricting Map
Cross posted on my blog which has more election analysis and redistricting maps: http://racesandredistricting.blogspot.com/ I thought we should take a little break from all the Maryland maps and look...
View ArticleSudden Congresssional District Chaos in Ohio, a potentially wild at large...
Not long ago the Ohio legislature adopted a new Congressional district map for Ohio that has been widely condemned. In a roughly 50/50 state, their new map gives the GOP a clear 75/25 advantage (or...
View ArticleIt Would Be Funny If It Weren't Actually Happening
Cross-posted at Sparring With Very Serious People I know Huckabee was probably joking when he said this, but I want to flag the quote anyway. Make a list... Call them and ask them, 'Are you going to...
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