campaign finance

I'm Mike Turner and I am for sale, 11 Billionaires sponsor me

Turner out-raises Esrati a gazillion to one

Campaign finance reports for the first half were due on July 15th. Apparently, the Dayton Daily news no longer cares about who is buying your congressman. Hint: 79% of Republican incumbent Mike Turner’s money comes from out of state and his average donation is $1,617.61. Democratic challenger David Esrati on the other hand, has 84% Read More

Team Householder gets charged with racketeering

I don’t have time to unpack this whole thing, and it will be a while before it all starts to come into focus. I just wanted to make sure the common folks have access to the 81 page FBI indictment of the Ohio Speaker without having to sign up for anything. The shell company, Generation Read More

It’s sad when Iran has more integrity than the United States

  America needs to come to grips with its moral compass problem. Especially before the 2020 election. It’s sad when the myth of us being the “greatest nation on earth” gets one upped by Iran. But, lets face it, we have people dying because of a lack of national health care like EVERY OTHER INDUSTRIALIZED Read More

Ohio campaign finance and the A.D.A.

On Thursday, Oct 20, 2016 I made the journey to Columbus to throw myself at the mercy of the Ohio Elections Commission. The local Montgomery County Board of (S)Elections had turned me in for failure to file my 2014 annual campaign finance report. Only thing is, I didn’t run in 2014- or 2015, or collect Read More

Campaign contribution tracking, bribery and you

Citizens United threw the door open to unlimited money in politics. The Federal Elections Commission “tracking” of donations is such a joke that another site, www.opensecrets.org is the only place you can go to get actual, usable data- like, who gave to whom, from what industry, to what cause etc. However, it’s still built on Read More

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