Chris Shaw

It’s candidate night season

Last night, I went to the Dayton Unit NAACP candidates forum and filmed, so you didn’t have to go. They had all 4 candidates for Dayton City Commission (Shaw and Joseph bailed on one held last week) and half the candidates for Trotwood City Council (the incumbent Mayor and 2 challengers), and the two candidates Read More

Criminals on the ballot

Journalism 101 on investigating candidates and politicians

At the April 27, 2023 Montgomery County Democratic Party meeting, Mike Brill got all excited about his brilliant strategy to attack Republicans- from that day’s paper: While state legislators make laws, a few don’t always follow them when they’re behind the wheel. Three Ohio lawmakers racked up more than 10 traffic tickets over the past Read More

Is it still an election if nobody votes?

Yesterday, Dayton held a stupid primary to cut the number of choices from 6 to 4, because voters can’t be trusted to rank their choices from 1-6. It cost a lot of money for a whopping 5,150 or so people to vote out of about 90,000. The party must have been worried- they sent out Read More

Montgomery County Board of Elections places Esrati on May ballot, says no to Jo Love

After much deliberation, a three person BOE voted to place David Esrati on the May 2nd ballot, after he supplied enough notarized affidavit’s to bring into question the validity of the petition language and the un-chartered rules missing from the Dayton Charter. Turns out, not only are ward and precinct unnecessary, for a valid signature, Read More

The City of Dayton Gets an F in their petition process

Board of Elections to meet tomorrow morning to decide fate of 2 candidates for Dayton City Commission

There were 7 people who turned in the faultily designed Dayton City Commission petitions on March 3, 2023. On Tuesday, March 14, the Board of Elections met to validate petitions and 5 were accepted which creates a primary on May 2nd 2023 to choose 4 candidates to advance. This process could be totally eliminated and Read More

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