OH-3

On who picks who.

Suppose we just stopped having primary elections, and instead, let a group of self selected leaders choose who should be the candidates? Ignore the will of the people, because the people don’t know who has the “right stuff” to be elected. We could ignore the popular vote, and put who we want in office. (Wait, Read More

Daily Kos:finally notices OH-3, gets facts wrong.

I love it when sites don’t let you comment for 24 hours after a sign up. I also love it when the writer clearly states their bias- “Jane is an old friend of mine” and he gets it wrong. Jane isn’t endorsed by all four county Democratic organizations- she’s only been endorsed by one. Daily Read More

DDN endorses Mitakides, barely

With their normal, negative bent, the Eddie Roth-less editorial board begins their “endorsement” talking about losing. Of course, they would have said the same thing about Abraham Lincoln, but no matter. They then go on to say that Turner is unbeatable. Next comes that Jane Mitakides raised impressive amounts of money last time she got Read More

It’s OK that the Montgomery County Democratic Party endorsed Jane Mitakides for Congress

As of today, the slightly behind the times party still has Richard Chema as their candidate on the site. Apparently they also sent out an e-mail saying they “Unanimously endorsed Jane Mitakides for Congress” however, since the vote of the screening committee which made the endorsement, was behind closed doors- we’ll never know if that Read More

Esrati on Unions

This is my position on unions and for a Democrat, it may be akin to political suicide if you believe the system isn’t broken. Today’s Dayton Daily News had a small item saying “Union rolls see biggest jump since 1983” that stated that union membership in the US is now 15.7 million, or 12.1% of Read More

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