Joe Roberts

Quicktake on the DDN editorial board meeting

Guy Fogle looks like a politician. Joe Roberts sounds like a politician. And then, there’s me. That’s my take from the screening by the Dayton Daily News editorial board of the three candidates for the special democratic primary for OH-3 which takes place on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. The questions were softies- as if the Read More

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, and the biggest player is the mass media. Politicians buy TV ads, Read More

Esrati files for OH-3, others will follow

At approximately 2:35 p.m. on June 7, Dayton Community Activist and small business owner David Esrati filed petitions containing 98 signatures to run in the July 13th special election for the Democratic party side of the OH-3 congressional ballot. Ohio-3 is an extremely gerrymandered district including a majority of Montgomery County, the northern part of Read More

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 also gives this URL http://www.robertsforohio.com/] I am offering to post Read More

On the special election primary

A lot of confusion on the Dayton Daily News comments boards about this expensive special election primary- and it’s time to dispel some of that confusion. If only one person runs- there STILL has to be a primary. All the way up until 40 days before the November election, a primary must be held. Had Read More

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