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Monday, November 24, 2008
Is Blackwell back?
The Hotline and the Atlantic are reporting this morning that former Ohio secretary of state Ken Blackwell is now considering a bid for Republican National Committee chair.
Blackwell lost his bid for Ohio governor in 2006, and has been writing at Town Hall and heading up the Coalition for a Conservative Majority.
They report that if he were to be a candidate for the RNC gig, two African Americans would vie to be one of the party’s leading voices during an Obama administration.
Michael Steele, the former Maryland lieutenant governor, is also in the mix.
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Poll: Whither Bush tax cuts?
President-elect Barack Obama this morning tapped a team aimed at helping the nation recover from its current economic crisis, but wouldn’t say whether or not he plans on repealing President Bush’s tax cuts.
Obama said he planned to stick with a campaign pledge to reduce taxes for 95 percent of the population, raising them for people who earn more than $250,000 a year. But he didn’t directly answer whether he plans to let President Bush’s tax cuts expire at the end of 2010 or use legislation to repeal them before that. So how those tax cuts play into what he proposes remains unclear.
“The basic principal is that we’re going to provide tax cuts to the vast majority of the American middle class who have been struggling over the last eight years, and those who benefited disproportionately will pay a little bit more,” he said.
So we’ll kick the question over to you:
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Term limits hammer Dayton area: Should they be changed?
The Dayton area will lost most of its clout in the state legislature next year because of term limits. I did a column on Sunday, Nov. 23 in the Dayton Daily News on what’s going to happen next year but here’s the short version.
House Speaker Jon Husted, R-Kettering, and Speaker Pro Tem Kevin DeWine, R-Fairborn, both will leave the House because of term limits.
Jeff Jacobson already has resigned from the Senate where he was president pro tem, the number two job. He also was termed out.
Next year, the only Dayton area lawmaker with a major power position will be Sen. Keith Faber, R-Celina, who will be Senate majority leader, the number three spot. Faber’s district includes Darke County and parts of Auglaize and Preble counties.
Term limits restrict House members to four consecutive two-year terms and senators to two consecutive four-year terms.
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