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OH: DeWine takes on Democrat AG Cordray over Constitution
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:23 Written by rslcpol Monday, 30 August 2010 01:25
From the Columbus Dispatch:
Onetime legal whiz kid Richard Cordray is kind of a dummy when it comes to the state and federal constitutions, his opponent in the attorney general’s race charged today.
Cordray, the Democratic attorney general, is misinterpreting the U.S. Constitution in his refusal to challenge the federal health-care reforms and specifically the mandates on Ohio, Republican candidate Mike DeWine said. And Cordray’s criticism of Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich’s proposal to privatize the Ohio Department of Development betrays an ignorance of the Ohio Constitution, DeWine said today.
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Ohio: New PAC takes on Democrat Secretary of State Candidate
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:35 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 17 August 2010 11:10
From dispatch.com:
A new political action committee organized by veteran Republican consultant Mark Weaver has formed for the express purpose of attacking Democratic secretary of state candidate Maryellen O’Shaughnessy.
Called the TAME PAC, the group launched a web site today dedicated to, as PAC chairwoman Jeanette Moll said, pointing out why O’Shaughnessy is the “wrong choice for secretary of state.”
O’Shaughnessy, the Franklin County clerk of courts, is facing Republican Jon Husted, a state senator from Kettering. Libertarian Charles Earl also is in the race. Husted already holds a massive fundraising advantage, and support from groups like this will only widen the gap.
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Ohio Candidates Talk Redistricting
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:35 Written by rslcpol Monday, 16 August 2010 11:39
From dispatch.com:
If the candidates for governor, auditor and secretary of state live up to their words, the state Apportionment Board could take a new, politically fairer approach to drawing legislative districts next year.
Will Ohio really see the end of the hyper-partisan process, where the key goal is maximizing the number of seats the majority political party can win? Will politicians do away with districts that look like they could have been shaped by a 4-year-old?
State lawmakers failed to agree on a plan for reducing the politics involved in drawing Ohio’s legislative districts before the Aug. 4 deadline for placing a Constitutional amendment on the Nov. 2 ballot.
Regardless, if the will exists, little would stop the five-member board from taking a new approach to drawing a statewide map. The board is controlled by the party that wins at least two of three statewide offices: governor, auditor and secretary of state.
The statewide candidates are talking about change, but some are more definitive than others.
“We have a bad system that commands partisan decision-making because of the way our apportionment system works,” said Sen. Jon Husted, the Republican candidate for secretary of state, who led the charge on trying to get change on the November ballot.
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Candidates for Ohio AG Square Off
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:37 Written by rslcpol Friday, 13 August 2010 12:57
From The News-Herald:
The four candidates for Ohio attorney general appeared Thursday in Kirtland to discuss health care, crime, casinos, the economy and other issues.
Incumbent Democrat Richard Cordray, Republican Mike DeWine, Libertarian Mark Feldman, and Constitution Party member Robert Owens took part in a joint taped television interview at Lakeland Community College.
The interviews will be shown at a later date on the college’s cable channel as part of The News-Herald’s Campaign 2010.
Moderators for the 40-minute forum were Jim Collins, editor emeritus for The News-Herald and Lakeland’s executive-in-residence, and The News-Herald City Editor John Bertosa.
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OH: New Poll has Republican Mike Dewine up in AG Race
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:41 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 10 August 2010 11:55
From the Ohio Republican Party:
Republican challenger Mike DeWine holds an impressive, double-digit lead over incumbent Democrat Richard Cordray in the race for Ohio Attorney General, according to a new poll released today by the Ohio Republican Party.
DeWine leads Cordray by 12 points in the statewide sample of 600 likely voters, holding a formidable 19-point lead among critical independents. He also leads in each of Ohio’s three largest media markets – Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland. DeWine’s strength comes in part from his strong showing among base Republican voters (88% – 8%), while Cordray is losing nearly 20 percent of Democrats.
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Ohio AG Discloses Thousands of Dollars of help from Democratic Party
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:41 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 10 August 2010 10:25
From dispatchpolitics.com:
After running a campaign with virtually no expenses – and getting criticized for it – Attorney General Richard Cordray last week reported thousands of dollars worth of help from the Ohio Democratic Party.
In a complaint to the Ohio Elections Commission, Republicans accused Cordray of trying to hide campaign expenses behind the facade of the Ohio Democratic Party, which Cordray denied.
In his latest fundraising report, however, Cordray reports thousands of dollars in assistance from the Ohio Democratic Party in July, including $28,452 in payroll expenses.
The campaign of Cordray’s opponent, Republican Mike DeWine, called the disclosures “a huge shift from past practice” and speculated that it likely was the result of the allegations in the elections complaint.
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OH: Republican Lawmaker Has Hope for Compromise on Redistricting
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:45 Written by rslcpol Monday, 2 August 2010 01:47
From StowSentry:
A Republican state lawmaker and candidate for Secretary of State is still pushing for a compromise on a ballot issue to change the way Ohio draws its legislative districts.
Sen. Jon Husted, who represents a Dayton-area district, said he hasn’t “given up hope” that Republicans and Democrats will agree on a resolution before next week’s deadline.
“The phones have been lighting up with both the good government groups and others who are interested in getting this done, seeing if we can’t get a compromise proposal on the table,” Husted said July 28 during a stop at the Ohio State Fair. “We’ve got counter offers and offers out there right now and hopefully they’re going to gain some traction.”
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Republicans Look to Regain Control of Ohio House
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:52 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 27 July 2010 12:28
From toledoblade.com:
What a difference two years can make.
In 2008, with Barack Obama at the top of the ticket, everything seemed to break Democrats’ way as they added control of the Ohio House to their tightening grip on state government for the first time in 14 years.
Suburban districts that were traditionally Republican narrowly tipped the other way, prompting a confident Ohio Democratic Party to boast that long-elusive control of the Ohio Senate would be next.
But now that newfound power teeters on the edge of a knife. Four seats stand in the way of the GOP regaining the majority in the House at a time when the top of the Democratic ticket, Gov. Ted Strickland, is locked in his own battle for survival against Republican John Kasich.
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OH: AG Cordray Wanted Dann’s Job
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:07 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 18 May 2010 03:34
From the Columbus Dispatch:
Richard Cordray, ever the opportunist, smelled blood.
It was the summer of 2007 and then-Attorney General Marc Dann was just a few months into his term. But Dann was failing as Ohio’s top lawman, and press accounts were beginning to detail his blunders.
Cordray, a fellow Democrat and the state treasurer at the time, was preparing to take on Dann for his job in the 2010 Democratic primary, Dann said in an interview he granted to investigators April 27 as part of the criminal investigation of the former attorney general. Dann disclosed Cordray’s aspirations while discussing his own political operation, which got Dann into legal trouble.
Dann said he worked assiduously to lock down support from Democrats and law-enforcement officials to deter Cordray from challenging him.
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Ohio: Secretary of State Rejects Calls to Double Check Election Results
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:21 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 11 May 2010 01:41
From Cleveland.com:
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has rejected calls to double-check a portion of the May 4 primary election results.
An election law professor at Cleveland State University who proposed the audit said it is needed because the state’s voting machines are untrustworthy, and because it would dispel any notion that Brunner, who was on the ballot as a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, abused her power as the state’s elections chief.
“Auditing is one of the checks that we need on this kind of [voting] equipment,” said Candice Hoke, an election law professor at Cleveland State University. “It’s not perfect, and it’s rather foolhardy if we treat it as if it is.”
Hoke and three others who have studied and developed auditing techniques put together the audit proposal. They said it would cost about $30,000 — a fee covered by money they raised.
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