So far, other than the newspaper- no one has told me how to vote yet. The party machinery, so used to working a last-minute push, with “slate cards” and endorsements in hand hasn’t adjusted to this newfangled expanded voting period. And while the...
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When business and politics don’t mix
It didn’t take long before I got an email suggesting NOT to shop at the following businesses because of their support of the Tea Party. It’s this kind of partisan BS that is killing our country. However I can tell you that my company has lost business...
Special rules for a special primary- still make no sense
I’m a big believer in vote by mail. Oregon has done it for years. And now, as a “cost saving” measure the OH-3 special primary for the Democrats’ nomination for Congress is going to be held in 3 of our 4 gerrymandered counties as a vote-by-mail...
An open invitation to Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts was Dr. Mark MacNealy’s campaign manager. Sources have told me that he is running in the special election primary for the Democratic nomination for Congress in OH-3. I can find nothing about him online. [correction 5pm: he now has a facebook page and...
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...
Representation
In today’s Dayton Grassroots Daily Show (or the Greg and David show as some are calling it) we start off talking about campaign finance reform- but end up talking about the differences between a democracy and a democratic republic. Greg Hunter makes a case for...
The best politicians money can buy: money first, legislate second
I’m a failure as a candidate, because I don’t want to raise scads of money to spend with media companies like the Dayton Daily News, or their sister Channel 7. I don’t want to send attack mailings like Rhine McLin. I don’t want to engage in...
What was Esrati thinking about in 2001 for Dayton?
It occurred to me while writing about the debate, that I’d sent a punch list of ideas for Rhine to her on the eve of her taking office. I put it as a PDF link in the post about the debate. Sure, PDF’s are web accessible- but, I thought I’d bring a...
Why term limits were a really bad idea.
My father told me before the term limit legislation that we already had them, they were called “elections.” I didn’t agree- because we had already transformed “elections” into “auctions”- but that is why campaign finance...
If you want change- first thing is we have to close the store where you buy a Congressman
Remember when John McCain used to be associated with campaign finance reform instead of “Joe the plumber”? Well, if we want change, it’s not through term limits, but by placing restrictions that limit political donations to people in their districts....
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