Ohio SOS race one of the 2 most important for Dems this year

[OhioBlue]

Jennifer Brunner's (Dem candidate for Ohio SOS) husband, Rick recounts his meeting with Howard Dean in Cincinnati:

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Your correspondent was standing by the door wearing a “Mr. Jennifer Brunner” name tag, when Dr. Dean walked over and indicated that he believed the Ohio Secretary of State’s race was one of the two most important races in this country in 2006. I was talking to my friend Dan Hoffenheimer, from Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, Dan Hoffheimer, and I think Dan and I were equally shocked to hear him say that. When our candidate came over and met Dr. Dean, he immediately recognized her and repeated his remark to her as well. --

("your correspondent" refers to Rick Brunner who writes the entries for the Jennifer Brunner blog)

http://www.jenniferbrunner.com/blog / - scroll down to Apr 5 in Cincinnati

If you want to donate to one of the 2 most important races for Dems this year please click here: :)http://www.jenniferbrunner.com/contribute.asp

I've met Jennifer Brunner - she is extremely smart, full of integrity and very committed to making Ohio elections open, honest and fair. She is trying to raise $2 million for the general election. It would be great if DUers could help a little. Considering the '04 elections, this could be a great investment for the '08 elections!

(btw - she is uncontested for the Primary)

[Greeby]

1. Here's the Catch 22

How can someone who wants to end the corruption of voting get elected, when the votes are cast through that same corrupt system? :shrug:

[OhioBlue]

2. We can't let the election be close enough

for Ken Blackwell's shenanigans to work this time.

My opinion is this: we are not going to get the voting machines changed out for this election - we have to work toward where we can make a change and electing a SOS with integrity is one area that I choose to focus.

It wasn't all about the machines in '04 - it was also Blackwell using his office to campaign for Bush and Issue 1, he also disallowed voter registration application that were not on his approved weight of paper, there was also shortages of voting machines in Dem precincts, provisional ballots disallowed, misinformation or confusing / contradicting directives given to the Boards of Elections. He used his office to create enough havoc to screw with the vote even before we get to the issue of the machines.

He is term limited out and running for Gov - Personally, I'm not going to give up b/c of the machines - I still think we can win if we have enough (not just more) voters come out to vote for Jennifer Brunner.

[OhioBlue]

3. kick