At age 89, “Granny D” Doris Haddock walked across the country to protest the selling out of our elected officials. With the country now looking to have corporate America buy the next election, she won’t be here to suffer the results. “It just...
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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...
The costs of campaigns
I’ll let you in on a little secret, the real reason we don’t have campaign finance reform is not because the politicians like raising money and figuring out ways to effectively win elections. It’s because there is a huge industry that it supports,...
Democracy Really Needs a Dating App
In “Democracy Really Needs a Dating App,” David Esrati argues that America’s political system is built to exclude outsiders and waste billions on campaign theater. Drawing from his decades of firsthand experience running for office, Esrati exposes how “Boards of…
And the next Ohio Democratic Party chair will be…
Who will lead Ohio’s Democratic Party—and will it finally matter?
From insider politics and shady endorsements to two very different visions for Ohio’s future, I dug into the race for ODP Chair so you don’t have to. Here’s what Kathleen Clyde, Kyle Herman, and…
Questions for A.J. Wagner- our future mayor
Last night I let the community know about A.J. Wagner’s new Wagner for Mayor website. One of my readers has already claimed the twitter account that the Washington. D,C,. developers failed to claim, despite telling the world to follow @WagnerforMayor His...
Complete list of candidates for Congress in OH-10, Montgomery, Greene and Fayette County
In today’s Dayton Daily News we get their first and perhaps last attempt to cover the candidates. A short bio provided by the candidates, a candidate-supplied picture and answers to two questions. This is a voter’s guide– not reporting. No reporter...
The new fairness doctrine as proposed by Congressional Candidate David Esrati
I believe the first thing we need to do if we want to have the representation we deserve, is change the way we elect Congress. We have to change our auctions for office into elections. There are two parts to leveling the playing field and balancing the power of the...
How to get small business moving, Mr. Immelt?
When did Dayton become the first stop on the bullshit express? We had John McCain go rogue and introduce Sarah Palin as his secret weapon at the Nutter Center- and now, we get a junta of overpaid CEOs from big business trying to figure out how to create jobs via small...
The collective bargaining clusterduck
There is a problem with what unions have come to represent in this country. No longer are they the voice of the workers- they’ve become a cash cow for Democratic lawmakers- the same way Wall Street has done for lawmakers willing to look the other way on...
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