Conservative group and Liberal group, tell voters to stay home.....

[Joanne98]

What the Hell?

Go to polls, don't 'coast' on election
Editorials

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE ON TUESDAY
The election to replace former U.S. Rep. Rob Portman is Tuesday. Republican Jean Schmidt of Miami Township and Democrat Paul Hackett of Indian Hill are competing for the first open seat in Congress in southern Ohio in years.

Second District voters can call their county boards of elections to find out where to vote:

• Hamilton County: [phone]
• Clermont County: [phone]
• Warren County: [phone]
• Brown County: [phone]
• Adams County: [phone]
• Pike County: [phone]
• Scioto County: [phone]



Politics often makes strange bedfellows, but we're seeing some positively weird sleeping arrangements as the Ohio 2nd District congressional race reaches its final lap.

Cincinnati's conservative Citizens Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST) has teamed with Oregon's liberal Frontier PAC (a left COAST?) to air radio ads asking residents not to vote in Tuesday's special election between Democrat Paul Hackett and Republican Jean Schmidt. The ad actually tells voters to "stay home."

That's a disgraceful tactic. It sends the wrong message about how our form of democracy should work. It goes against the sense of civic responsibility that is crucial to holding our society together. And it ignores the fact that other local issues on Tuesday's ballot deserve voter input.

Actually, "teamed" isn't the term for this very-odd-couple act. "We're making a temporary deal with the devil," COAST president Jim Urling said. Some deal. COAST wasn't above taking the PAC's "evil" money to fund the ad. And as we learn from Faust, deals with the devil have a way of not being temporary.

Both groups want Schmidt to lose, but for different reasons.
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