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Monday, August 16, 2010
Actors hunt for Boehner at golf course, tanning salon
Actors dressed as Founding Fathers Ben Franklin and George Washington went hunting for U.S. Rep. John Boehner, R-West Chester, in his congressional district to ask him to support the Fair Elections Now Act.
In the tradition of the Founding Fathers, they wore wigs, long-tailed coats and stockings. In the tradition of YouTube, they made a 3-minute video out of the expedition.
They looked for Boehner at his office, strip malls, a cornfield, a putt putt course, a golf course and of course, a tanning salon. And they needled him for raising money from special interest groups to support his bid to be the next House speaker while being a hold-out on the Fair Elections Now legislation.
The Fair Elections Now Act would allow Congressional candidates to raise a minimum of $50,000 from contributions of less than $100 and then qualify for federal public financing.
You can see the video by clicking here.
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TweetOhio ranks 2nd nationally in state Supreme Court campaign spending
Ohio is at the “forefront” of states with “runaway judicial election spending,” according to a report released on Monday, Aug. 16.
Overall spending in Ohio state Supreme Court races between 2000 and 2009 totaled more than $29.8 million, ranking the state second in the nation, according to the report from the Justice at Stake Campaign, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and the National Institute on Money in State Politics.
According to the report, spending on state Supreme Court elections nationally has more than doubled in the past decade, from $83.3 million in 1990-1999 to $206.9 million in 2000-2009.
In a foreword to the report, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor warned that recent trends could erode public confidence in elected state courts:
“This crisis of confidence in the judiciary is real and growing.
“Left unaddressed, the perception that justice is for sale will undermine the rule of law that the courts are supposed to uphold.”
Ohio’s top spenders on court races during the past decade, according to the report, were:
U.S. Chamber of Commerce/Ohio affiliates, $7.6 million; Citizens for an Independent Court, $1.5 million and the Ohio Democratic Party, almost $1.3 million.
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TweetPAC formed to bash O’Shaughnessy in secretary of state race
Critics of Democrat Maryellen O’Shaughnessy on Monday, Aug. 16, launched a political action committee that criticizes O’Shaughnessy as unqualified to become secretary of state.
The “Truth About Maryellen PAC” (TAME PAC) is not connected to the campaigns of O’Shaughnessy’s opponents in the secretary of state race, including state Sen. Jon Husted, R-Kettering, the Republican candidate, said Jeanette Moll, TAME PAC chair.
Moll, a Zanesville Republican who lost a U.S. House primary, said that O’Shaughnessy, currently the Franklin County clerk of courts, has no election law experience, is beholden to unions and has shown her lack of respect for the U.S. Constitution by supporting gun control legislation and opposing the state’s concealed carry law.
Ohio “can’t afford on-the-job training” for secretary of state, the state’s chief elections officer, Moll said at a Columbus press conference.
O’Shaughnessy campaign manager Kyle McDermott said in a press release that “such attempts to misconstrue Maryellen’s strong record of service are laughable.”
“She is the best candidate to bring businesses and good paying jobs to Ohio, and she is the only candidate with the local government, administrative and small business experience to be Ohio’s next secretary of state.,” McDermott said.
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