Greg Palast to visit Ohio, takes swipes at Ken Blackwell

[MelissaB]

...snip

On Friday, the Ohio Black Republicans Association begins a two-day conference in Columbus, co-sponsored by the Ohio Republican Party. It coincides with Saturday's visit by a prominent black Democrat, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. Obama is the featured speaker at the state Democratic Party's annual dinner in Columbus.

On June 20, Greg Palast, a British reporter and bestselling author, will speak about a block away from Gov. Bob Taft's Bexley residence about his newest book, Armed Madhouse.

Palast takes several swipes at Ken Blackwell and his actions as secretary of state and co-chair of President Bush's 2004 campaign.

"What happened to the missing votes?'' Palast writes. "I'm not going to pretend this was the most difficult investigative story I've worked. We didn't need to call on Sherlock Holmes. In Ohio, the Black Stain of spoiled votes traced directly to bad punch-card machines in the ghetto.''

By Palast's tally, there were 239,127 uncounted votes in Ohio, more than the president's 118,599 vote margin over U.S. Sen. John Kerry.

Palast's 7 p.m. speech is at the Jeffrey Park Shelter House, 165 N. Parkview Ave., Bexley.


Link: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060528/NEWS01/605280427/1056

[mod mom]

1. And guess which precincts account for the majority of uncounted votes?

Also, Any DUers planning to attend this pls PM me.

[MelissaB]

2. The rich Republican precincts, right?

:hi:

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. K&R!

:kick: vote!

[CatWoman]

4. Greg is NOT a British reporter

he is more American than that turd Blackwell.

[MelissaB]

5. I noticed that, too.

Didn't he say he had to move there to get his work published?

[CatWoman]

6. yes

in that there is no "investigative" reporting done this side of the pond.

[mod mom]

8. He mainly works for the BBC and UK Guardian, although he lives in the US.

It's great to get publicity-especially from a Cincinnati paper!

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. go, greg, go

[Kurovski]

9. K&R(nt)