Lee Fisher

The Montgomery County Democratic Party eats its own

Democratic Slate card 2010 PDF The Ohio “Democratic Party” is distributing a voting slate card (dummy voter card) that prominently features local party hack Vice Chairman Karl Keith on the front with Governor Ted Strickland, but entirely leaves out Strickland’s former lieutenant governor Lee Fisher who is running for the open senatorial seat vacated by Read More

Another almost meaningless election day- Vote anyway

Because running for office has become prohibitively expensive, because our two major political parties have succeeded in stifling third-party options for so long and because even our “primary” system forces us to reduce the number of choices down to a minimum- elections like this are largely pointless and about as undemocratic as they come. Independent Read More

AP Government class at Thurgood Marshall High School

“Why are you recording this” comes out about half-way through this podcast. The answer: I believe that people who run for office should be transparent- and accessible. I believe that people who want to learn about a candidate, should be able to go online and read first hand what the candidate is thinking, saying or Read More

Jennifer Brunner- another hero for the people

The people who no longer work at the GM Truck plant in Dayton can’t afford to fund a $25 million dollar campaign for a job that pays around $180K a year with a sweet health care plan and a great retirement program- nope, they are trying to keep their homes. The people that ran their Read More