Republican's shift brings down wrath of the Ohio Republican party chief

[Algorem]

http://www.cleveland.com/open/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/isope/1158413598136710.xml&coll=2

Republican's shift brings down wrath of the party chief

Saturday, September 16, 2006
Ted Wendling
Plain Dealer Bureau Chief

Columbus - ...On Wednesday, the day after the prominent Republican businessman attended a Statehouse news conference with Rep. Ted Strickland to announce that he was joining "Republicans for Strickland," Ohio Republican Party Chairman Bob Bennett denounced Slane as a pig who has "bellied up to the state government trough."

He then canceled an Oct. 5 fund-raiser he had asked Slane to host, moving the event to the Columbus condo of Akron charter schools magnate David Brennan...

The basis for Bennett's pig-at-the-trough charge is that the Slane Cos. has been a subcontractor on the state's $270 million Multi- Agency Radio Communications System.

But if that qualifies Slane as a guy who has his snout in the public trough, doesn't it also make Brennan a prodigious porker in his own right? After all, Brennan's White Hat Management has collected at least $350 million in state tax dollars...


Posted on Tue, Sep. 12, 2006

GOP loyalists switch parties for Strickland

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/politics/15502958.htm

JULIE CARR SMYTH
Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A group of high-powered Republicans led by the son of a former Ohio attorney general threw their support to Democrat governor candidate Ted Strickland on Tuesday, choosing him over his GOP rival, Ken Blackwell.

"I'm an Ohioan first, and Ohio has some serious challenges going forward. We need strong, new leadership to overcome the problems the state faces," Columbus attorney Charles "Rocky" Saxbe said. "The next governor must unite, inspire and motivate all the people of the state in order to accomplish the task before us."

Saxbe, whose father William Saxbe served nine years as attorney general, was joined at the launch of Republicans for Strickland by former Ohio State University board chairman Dan Slane, a Columbus businessman, and former Mason Mayor Betty Davis, once a member of the state Republican central committee.

The three said a Strickland administration would be better equipped to solve Ohio's economic problems, more bipartisan, and more tolerant than one led by Blackwell, the secretary of state who beat Attorney General Jim Petro, the favorite of establishment Republicans, in the primary...

[rodeodance]

1. am I seeing things? Repugs supporting a Dem over Blackwell? whow!

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A group of high-powered Republicans led by the son of a former Ohio attorney general threw their support to Democrat governor candidate Ted Strickland on Tuesday, choosing him over his GOP rival, Ken Blackwell.

[VegasWolf]

3. See how the "wonderful" Bush economy is working in Ohio! nt

[TahitiNut]

2. So, when will the Ohio GOP play the "race card" against their 'turncoats'?

There are no limits to the amount of mud and shit these people are willing to wallow in. After all, isn't it obvious that Shane and the other turncoats abandon Blackwell because he's black??

Sure it is. :sarcasm:

:eyes:

[WCGreen]

4. That fucking David Brennan should be investigated now

by the IRS....

He claims he is above the political frey and pleads that he is non partisan....


So why is he hosting a fucking GOP fundraiser....

[dicknbush]

5. Just rats leaving a sinking ship trying to keep their piece of the pie...

if Strickland is really going to do something about Ohio he would probably have to distancee himself from and Repubs...but you never know maybe they are sincere at least until the election is over. We shall see and besides it would be nice to have a majority of Dme Governors but the real power is going to be in the congress. WE NEED A MAJORITY IN AT LEAST THE H.O.R and a mojority in the Sednate would be so SWWWWEEEEEEEEET> It would mean the end of the Bush crime spree!

END THE REPUBLICAN CRIME SPREE...VOTE DEMOCRATIC!

[truthisfreedom]

6. headlines "angry bush", "wrath of... chief", whatever happen to the thug

hue and cry "ANGRY DEMOCRATS SCARE OFF VOTERS?"

they're losing it, i tell ya. they're totally losing it.

[me b zola]

7. Blackwell sells his soul to the devil....

...and the devil lays a big fat turd on his head :rofl:


Ah, there there Fraudwell, it could get worse. Noe could turn evidence against you and get you a long prison sentence. :rofl:




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edited because I mixed up the names of two Ohio rethuglican criminals :spray:

[leesa]

8. Wow. What a difference 18 months makes! Of course, they are probably

right. I suspect the Blackwell trough will dry up soon.

[formercia]

9. Running a criminal enterprise from jail

has its problems.