Brunner For Senate

Let’s start this campaign now. Heck, it’s already two years out. Time to get this ball rolling. Several questions remain. Will U.S. Senator George Voinovich decide to retire and leave the seat vacant for an open seat race. If that is the case and in the current atmosphere would lead probably to a GOP loss. They would be able and highly motivated to outspend us. Of course several factors would weigh in… how is the Obama Presidency doing and how is Ohio is doing under the Democratic Governor at the time. If things are well she has a good shot.

Some how it would be best if there was a way to have Voinovich win the race and then have an appointment to the post somewhere in his new term (or an early retirement and appointment). Of course I am not sure of the procedure in the case of the Senate Race… someone out there must know. Fill us in. If the GOP doesn’t play this right that will be another Ohio Senate seat that will be DeWined. If one wonders what that is… it’s when you have a moderate Republican run as a conservative and act as a moderate. This will be interesting.

believe those are the choices facing Ohio’s current Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner (pictured below…I kind of feel like Jason Bourne in “The Bourne Supremacy” paraphrasing his quote to Pamela Landy: “Get some sleep, Jen. You look tired”…I digress)

http://blog.cleveland.com/plaindealer/2008/02/medium_j_brunner0228.jpg

An operative within the GOP ranks asked that I not write this blog post, but quite frankly I know there is no way this post will have any impact whatsoever on whether she does or does not run so screw it. I guess my mentality is this: If she surrounds herself with smart people who know what they are doing then she will run either against Voinovich if he does not retire or run for the open US Senate seat if Voinovich does retire. If, on the other hand, that is not the case then she will run for re-election to Secretary of State in 2010.

Why do I say such a thing with such confidence? Because oftentimes in politics timing is everything and you only get one bite at the apple. 2010 is Brunner’s one bite. Follow my logic here. Check out the article below:

http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/ohiopolitics/entries/2008/11/11/poll_voinovich_vulnerable_in_2.html

Jen Brunner’s numbers are about as good and as high as they are going to get as Secretary of State right now. Sure there were some ups & downs, but, by and large, she had a pretty decent election this year as Secretary of State. I don’t think she will ever have this amount of goodwill and good feelings towards her again among independents come 2010, 12, etc. Her apex is now.

Look at the scenario that she runs for re-election. She had $43K on hand in her campaign account in June 08. Since it is an Apportionment Board year she will probably be able to raise more than the $1.82 million she raised for her 06 election no matter who files against her on the GOP side of the aisle, but other than a little bit of help from Strickland and Redfern she will largely have to put together the dollars by herself…at a time where, on the D side alone, she will be competing with Strickland, Cordray, Treasurer Boyce, whoever is going to beat Mary Taylor, the candidate in the US Senate seat, the Congressional delegation…and the list goes on. There are only two things that can happen at this point: she wins her seat for re-election or loses. Even if she wins the seat where does that get her? Seriously….

So, that brings us to her other opportunity:  running against Voinovich or running in the open U.S. Senate seat if Voinovich opts to retire.  She will be in the driver’s seat with Harry Reid and the DSCC because she is the best candidate for the seat.  Sure, she would have to raise some of her own money, but not a lot.  The second she committed to running the Voinovich seat would join the Mel Martinez seat in FL as the top two targeted races for the dumbocrats in 2010.  The DSCC and outside groups would dump more money in Ohio than has ever been dumped before for a U.S. Senate seat.  It would make the Brown/DeWine spending paltry in comparison.

kylesisk.typepad.com: U.S. Senator or Answer to a Question in a future version of Trivial Pursuit???.

Tags: Ohio, Political Races

Jealous McCain Staffers Trash Palin - Shameful

The only reason many of us conservatives demonstrated more than a mere faint glimmer of enthusiasm for the 2008 campaign was because of Sarah Palin. Recent attacks from McCain campaign aids to cowardly to give their names. Whether the attacks come from disgruntled sour loser types in the McCain camp or from those really pulling the strings remains a mystery for now.

What disgusts the rest of us is that these attacks come toward a candidate that drew larger crowds than McCain and energized the base more than anything else in this campaign. In fact, if it hadn’t been for the financial crisis we would be looking at the first female VP in US history.

She is a bright woman who is quite capable. More capable than the dweebs who seem to know how to mishandle the candidates and fail miserably to answer attacks by the Obama camp. She has nothing to be ashamed of and the biggest mistake was listening to the handlers who held her back from being what made her popular with regular people in the first place.

When she acted as a Maverick she was being shut down. Something that became to surface in the news.

Even as John McCain and Sarah Palin scramble to close the gap in the final days of the 2008 election, stirrings of a Palin insurgency are complicating the campaign’s already-tense internal dynamics.

Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them. Those Palin supporters, inside the campaign and out, said Palin blames her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image — even as others in McCain’s camp blame the pick of the relatively inexperienced Alaska governor, and her public performance, for McCain’s decline.

“She’s lost confidence in most of the people on the plane,” said a senior Republican who speaks to Palin, referring to her campaign jet. He said Palin had begun to “go rogue” in some of her public pronouncements and decisions.

“I think she’d like to go more rogue,” he said.

Palin allies report rising camp tension - Ben Smith - Politico.com.

Handlers need to let quality people go and stand on their principles, articulate their goals and return fire when necessary. Politicing by trying to avoide making any mistakes (hoping the other sides does) has cost the election. In the meantime those that “made” Palin are now trying to undo her before she gains anymore popularity. It may only be creating more empathy than distance… which is fine for us.

Tags: Political Races

Obama: Screw America’s Coal & Energy Needs

You poor suckers who voted for this weasel. He has given half the information and implied things he has never meant to do. Sure, we will let the industry build coal plants (think of all those coal plants needed to power those Al Gore electric cars) but watch them go bankrupt under the new gas emission taxes and regulations. New just breaks today? Is it too late for those in PA to catch wind and toss Obama to the fire along with all the campaign staffers who haven’t been honest about Obama’s energy plans.

Yesterday, Sarah Palin demanded to know why the San Francisco Chronicle sat on this story for so long. The Chronicle responded by noting that the video has been available on their website since January 17th of this year. However, the Chronicle never reported on these quotes from Obama, and these statements certainly seem noteworthy enough to include in any look at Obama’s policies on energy.

Even more oddly, they never provided a transcript of the interview, an almost automatic step for any meeting between national political candidates and the editors of a newspaper. Why didn’t the Chronicle transcribe their meeting in the nine months between then and now? Did they realize how damaging this could be to Obama’s hopes in the middle of the primaries and chose to quietly shelve the interview?

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video of Obama, coal bankruptcy.

All over the people have see this coming but ignored it, hoped for the best. Obama wanted to spread the wealth around but there won’t be any after he manages to destroy the infrastructure and energy production in this country.

RUSH: If you happen to live in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Colorado, and even parts of Indiana,  Barack Obama wants the coal industry in which you workto go bankrupt. He intends to bankrupt it. He also intends to cause skyrocketing energy prices. He made these comments earlier in the year with an editorial board meeting that was recorded, the San Francisco Chronicle. The Chronicle says they reported it. They put it on their website. The newspaper story they did on this did not comment on any of this. You get the point, though, people voting for Obama, I don’t think they care anything about it. I don’t think that the substance of who he is is relevant, otherwise he wouldn’t be above 30%. He’s a symbol of something to a lot of people, and he’s a blank slate and they are making of Obama whatever they want him to be. If he wins this, there is going to be some severe buyer’s remorse, and we see these guys in the media, they’re covering their rear end because if this guy goes far left, they don’t want any blame for it, “We didn’t know. We didn’t know who Obama was, only written two books, aspirational (sic) speeches, don’t know much about him, don’t know who his heroes are, don’t know who his mentors are, we don’t know anything about him,” after they’ve pushed him all of this time. Here is Obama, this is in January of this year in an editorial board meeting with the San Francisco Chronicle.

OBAMA: What I’ve said is that we would put a cap-and-trade system in place that is more — that is as aggressive if not more aggressive than anybody else’s out there, so if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can, it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.

RUSH: He’s gonna bankrupt ‘em, he’s got a cap-and-trade program, Algore, this is to save the planet. He’s going to bankrupt ‘em, by definition, they will bankrupt. But that’s not, by itself, the single most damaging aspect of what he said. This is.

OBAMA: When I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know, under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.

RUSH: So folks, he wants to bankrupt the coal industry. Now, I’ve never seen a presidential candidate actually admit that he wants to destroy elements of the US economy. He did, he said it, and now he wants skyrocketing gas prices. You remember when gasoline spiked up to four bucks? The only thing Obama said about it, “The only thing that bothers me is how quickly we got it up there.” But he didn’t do one damn thing to lower gasoline prices. He didn’t care that they were that high. His only stated concern was that they got up there so quickly. Here he is, same interview with the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board, January 2008.

OBAMA: Regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal-powered plants, you know, natural gas, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money, they will pass that money on to consumers. If you can’t persuade the American people that, yes, there’s going to be some increase in electricity rates on the front end, but that over the long term because of combinations of more efficient energy usage and changing lightbulbs and more efficient appliances, but also technology improving how we can produce clean energy, that the economy will benefit. If we can’t make that argument persuasively enough, you — you can — you can be Lyndon Johnson, you can be the master of Washington, you’re not gonna get that done.

RUSH: Well, it would have been nice if you’d tried to persuade us, sir. The thing is he didn’t try to persuade us about this. This has remained a stealth plan. I mean we’ve known he’s had a carbon trade plan, all the liberal Democrats were touting that. We didn’t know that by design it’s to bankrupt the coal industry, and we didn’t know that by design it is to cause electricity rates to skyrocket. Now, there’s a new prime minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, he was an environmentalist wacko when he signed on, he got elected, and then he went to this Kyoto meeting, the thing they had in Bali with all these global warming nuts, and he went to that meeting, he came back said, “I can’t do this. Our electricity rates here will be to the point people can’t afford electricity.” This is what Obama wants to do. Folks, in his distorted, perverted mind, Obama doesn’t want to just equalize the United States. It’s not just about spreading the wealth domestically. This guy has, I fear, as his number one desire to tear down the greatness of this country so that we are not better than any other nation. I think that is his aim. You go back to Madeleine Albright, we played the sound bite, a lone superpower in the world is destabilizing, we either need to get rid of ourselves as a superpower or allow another one to evolve.

Obama: I’ll Bankrupt Coal Industry; Your Energy Prices Will Skyrocket.

McCain is hitting on it and thankfully some are paying attention. I bet there are many wishing they hadn’t already voted.

In the closing hours of the 2008 presidential campaign, John McCain attacked rival Barack Obama Monday over comments made in January about the coal industry.

“We found out yesterday what Senator Obama really thinks about coal,” McCain said Monday during a campaign stop in Blountville Tennessee, which borders southern Virginia. “In a new video talking about his policies on coal, he told — guess who? — the San Francisco newspaper — and this is what he said, ‘If somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them.’ Now, how out of touch is that?”

“Now, I believe — and you know, and you do, too — that we need to control emissions,” McCain continued. “But I’m not going to let our coal industry go bankrupt. I’m not going to tell — I’m not going to let coal workers lose their jobs. And I’m not going to let energy prices increase any more for our families.”

McCain hits Obama on coal comment - U.S. Politics & Elections - Politico.com - MLive.com.

Tomorrow most of us at Conservative Culture are working hard to help the McCain-Palin ticket. Get out the vote and do what you can before it’s too late.

Tags: Libs Exposed, Political Races

Obama Removes US Flag and Safeguards

There continue to be mounting concerns about Obama and the MSM (mainstream media) continue to give Obama and the US a quick ride into a very questionable future. Many of these issues don’t appear to be significant by themselves but together they raise “red flags” all over the place (and I don’t mean communist either). Americans who love the Republic need seriously reconsider marking “Obama” on the upcoming ballot.

Two recent issues surfaced thanks to the good work of fellow bloggers who have kept a sharp eye for anything that didn’t look right. One has to do with the American Flag and the other has to do with illegal contributions to the Obama campaign in these last days.

Craig from No Quater made several donations to the Obama campaign and was able to discover that the normal safeguards for contributions have been removed making verification impossible. It means that thousands if not millions of dollars are being fradulenat given to fund the last days of the campaign. How long has this been going on? Graig begins…

I’ve read recent reports of the Obama campaign receiving donations from dubious names and foreign locales and it got me wondering: How is this possible?

I run a small internet business and when I process credit cards, I’m required to make sure the name on the card exactly matches the name of the customer making the purchase. Also, the purchaser’s address must match that of the cardholder. If these don’t match, then the payment isn’t approved. Period. So how is it possible that the Obama campaign could receive donations from fictional people and places?

I decided to do a little experiment. I went to the Obama campaign website and entered the following:

Name: John Galt

Address: 1957 Ayn Rand Lane

City: Galts Gulch

State: CO

Zip: 99999

I then checked the $15 donation box and entered my actual credit card number and expiration date. The website did not ask for the 3-digit verification code on the back of the card. Instead, I was sent to the next page which displayed:

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Tags: Libs Exposed, Political Races

Ohio Judge - Register With Park Bench Address

What happens if you happen to have several benches you travel between. How do you know which precinct one ought to vote in. Will homeless John Smith at park bench 1 also register as John L. Smith at park bench 315. This whole process is getting muddled and the blame can only fall on one woman. Her name is Brunner.

Ohio voters can use park benches as addresses - 2008/10/28 18:35 A federal judge in Ohio has ruled that counties must allow homeless voters to list park benches and other locations that aren’t buildings as their addresses.

A moment only ACORN could love. I swear…why don’t we avoid the Christmas rush and just give Ohio to Obama. I’m wondering how a voter registration card is mailed to a park bench.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/28/judge-ohio-homeless-voters- list-park-benches-addresses/

Talk Gwinnett! - Ohio voters can use park benches as addresses - Express Yourself! Forums.

And…

Judge rules Ohio homeless voters may list park benches as addresses

Oct 28, 2008

U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus also ruled that provisional ballots can’t be invalidated because of poll worker errors.

Monday’s ruling resolved the final two pieces of a settlement between the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless and Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner.

The coalition agreed to drop a constitutional challenge to Ohio’s voter identification law until after the Nov. 4 election. In return, Brunner and the coalition agreed on procedures to verify provisional ballots across all Ohio counties.

The coalition was concerned that unequal treatment of provisional ballots would disenfranchise some voters.

Let Freedom Ring | News | Judge rules Ohio homeless voters may list park benches as addresses.

Tags: Ohio, Political Races

Allen County Sheriff Disobeys Own Rule - Endorses Crish’s Opponent

It’s the last week before the election. Now Allen County Sheriff Dan Beck came out to gun down Sam Crish’s campaign with his new endorsement of Steve Hoverman.

Hoverman has made Sam Crish’s residency the only issue of the campaign and has refused to participate in any debate. A mistake he probably will greatly regret after this weeks new poll showing him down 2-1. Especially after sinking at least $40,000 of his own retirement money.

Beck had informed his officers to stay clear of the campaign. He also had indicated that he didn’t want to influence the campaign. It had for some time appeared that he had groomed Major Sam Crish for the job of top law enforcement officer in the county. An indication of some backroom dealing it appears that Sam Crish choose his own campaign people and direction. Suddenly Captain Hoverman ends up with people running his campaign closely associated with those people who ran Beck’s campaign. With rumors running wild that Beck plans on running for Mayor it seems as if Beck has plans to seize political control against the party he once belonged to.

Not surprising but this best of the water cooler local campaigns has had moments of both the bizare and unexpected. With one week to go we wonder if there is yet another twist awaiting the public.

LIMA - Sheriff Dan Beck announced Monday he’s endorsing Steve Hoverman as the man to replace him, despite his own order to sheriff employees to stay neutral in the race.

Beck gave his endorsement while again criticizing Hoverman’s opponent, Sam Crish.

“I want a sheriff who is honest,” Beck said as Hoverman stood by his side. “Steve Hoverman is the best man for the job.”

Hoverman said he has spent his entire career working to make the community safer.

“I’m more than a politician here. I wore my uniform every day when I was at work. I’m more than a suit,” he said.

In the room supporting Hoverman also were retired Shelby County Sheriff John Lenhart, Jackson Center Police Department Chief James Frye; Jackson Township Trustee Sam McClure, Harrod Mayor Shannon Rumer, and Norm Swaney and Jeff McVicker, both Harrod councilmen.

Hoverman said he has worked with all of them in the past and has a good working relationship.

Beck’s endorsement and conference with a group of people behind Hoverman comes a week after a group of retired cops and two prosecutors endorsed Crish.

Local News: Beck endorses Hoverman for sheriff | beck, hoverman, crish : LimaOhio.com.

Tags: Allen County, Ohio, Political Races

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