GOP hopeful: Blackwell made 'mistake'

[Judi Lynn]

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

GOP hopeful: Blackwell made 'mistake'

The candidate says there is a 'lack of leadership' in state government.
By DAVID SKOLNICK
VINDICATOR POLITICS WRITER

YOUNGSTOWN — Greg Hartmann, the Republican candidate for secretary of state, said it was a "mistake" for J. Kenneth Blackwell, who currently holds that post, to serve as a state co-chairman of the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign.

In a interview today with The Vindicator, Hartmann, Hamilton County clerk of courts, didn't want to discuss Blackwell, his party's gubernatorial nominee, and wanted to focus on Jennifer Brunner, his Democratic opponent in the Nov. 7 election.

Hartmann, of Cincinnati, said he would neither serve as a state co-chairman of a presidential campaign nor accept contributions from presidential candidates because the secretary of state oversees elections and shouldn't play politics.

Hartmann criticized Brunner for taking $40,000 from two would-be Democratic presidential candidates.
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http://www.vindy.com/content/local_regional/287081071447258.php

[Greeby]

1. Dumb Repuke, there's no mistake

:eyes:

[Mister Ed]

2. A mistake? I thought Blackwell did it on purpose. n/t

[theHandpuppet]

3. Eat this and weep, Kenny Boy

Payback's a bitch, you scumbag.

Polls have Strickland leading
BY HOWARD WILKINSON | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER

With less than seven weeks to go, Cincinnati Republican Ken Blackwell is in a worse position than any GOP candidate for governor has found himself in for 20 years, if two new independent polls give a true picture of the race.

A University of Cincinnati Ohio Poll released Wednesday had Blackwell 12 percentage points behind his Democratic opponent, while a second poll, the Rasmussen Report, had even worse news for the Blackwell campaign - it showed Democrat Ted Strickland with a 21-point lead.

"Democrats appear to be in a better position to win this year in Ohio than they have been many a year," said Eric Rademacher of UC's Institute for Policy Research, which conducts the Ohio Poll....

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060921/NEWS01/609210354

[Vinca]

7. Doesn't Kenny Boy still have the Diebold Party on his side?

Nuff said.

[liberal N proud]

4. A repuke who actually told a truth?

Does he not realize that he is part of that problem??????

[Kolesar]

5. Hartman runs from Blackwell. Blackwell runs from Taft

Democrats from lake to river are the ones getting the last laugh!

I wonder who those pres candidates funding Brunner are.

[mtnester]

11. Mike "Independent thinker" DeWine runs from Boosh

but Sherrod Brown and the DSCC call him on it...check it out
http://www.dscc.org/news/multimedia/20060919_together/

[Kolesar]

13. Thanks. I have been emailing that link to everybody I know

I am biased, but that is one of the best ads I have ever seen. No "scary voice lady" narration. Just a bunch of children singing and mocking Bush's lapdog in Ohio. :applause:

[mtnester]

14. Obviously, I have been linking away myself!

I know you know that....that said

Whoever designed this from the DSCC is brilliant..I want to shake their hand.

How clever to wrap a smackdown up in a child's song!

[HughBeaumont]

15. I mean, is it a LIE?

It's no secret that DeWonk is a Bush rubber stamp like his counterpart Grumpy George Voinovich.

And what IS with the "Scary Republican Woman" they have narrate their damned ads anyway?

[tanyev]

6. Many other state SOSs also served on Bush-Cheney reelection

campaigns. Seems like it was a well-planned and coordinated "mistake".

[sendero]

8. Missing your freeway exit..

... is a mistake. This was something altogether different.

[Supersedeas]

9. as if being responsible for elections and being co-chair for the campaign

was an 'oversight?'

Is that the same oversight that Katherine Harris made too? Hmmmmm.

[warrens]

10. "Mistake" that helps repukes

Notice how "mistakes" at grocery stores are never in your favor? Same thing with repukes. It was no MISTAKE, it was an attempt, evidently successful, to suppress voting by Dems and steal an election.

[closeupready]

12. I agree.

I still get mad when I think about it. :mad: