- 8% who voted Democrat in primary previously picked Republicans
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- Like presidential race, Ohio scandal divides Democrats
The Ohio standoff between Gov. Ted Strickland and company against Attorney General Marc Dann ought to appear to followers of this year's contentious Democratic presidential primary as just more of the same.
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State lawmakers are expected to begin hearings this week on a $1.57 billion spending plan designed to boost the struggling state economy, making Ohio one of several states pursuing such a strategy in the face of a recession.
- Democrats wary of impeaching Dann
Passions that flared last Sunday among Ohio Democrats who were united against scandal-scarred Attorney General Marc Dann have slowed to a deliberative crawl, as officials in both parties consider the possible fallout of a prolonged impeachment trial.
- Inspector general tapped for Dann inquiry
Ohio lawmakers are tapping state Inspector General Tom Charles to spearhead a sweeping investigation that looks at a wide range of issues in Attorney General Marc Dann's office, including an allegation that a computer was wiped clean without authorization.
- Another worker caught in AG web
Another of Attorney General Marc Dann's employees has been suspended, accused of helping her former boss, Anthony Gutierrez, run his Youngstown construction business from his state office.
- Husted wants independent inquiry
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- McCain coming back to Ohio next week
John McCain's campaign confirmed that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee will come to Ohio for a private fund-raising event in Columbus Wednesday and a possible public appearance on Thursday.
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- Deadline today for lawmakers to act on sick-days bill
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- Batchelder examining how to oust AG Dann
During his nearly 40 years in public office, state Rep. William Batchelder often has found himself at the center of major battles. Now, the Republican from Medina, a constitutional lawyer, has been given the task of researching the process House members would use to impeach Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann.
- Ouster needs Dann's own help
The leader of Ohio's House of Representatives said Wednesday that lawmakers determining whether Attorney General Marc Dann should be impeached over a sex scandal need help from an unlikely source: the attorney general himself.
- Ohio congressional hopefuls swift to rebuke attorney general
As a sex scandal involving Ohio's attorney general becomes the butt of national jokes, Democratic congressional candidates who will face the state's voters this fall are scrambling to distance themselves from him.
- Dann seemed either oblivious or misleading
If the Ohio House ultimately tries to impeach Attorney General Marc Dann, it could come down to Dann's testimony in his office's internal investigation of sexual harassment.
- Environmentalists attack Voinovich over climate change
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- If Dann resigns, what's next?
Ohio Democrats on Tuesday took a breather, a day after working themselves into a lather behind their vow to swiftly wrest the attorney general's office from their party mate Marc Dann.
- Rules about impeaching officials in Ohio murky
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- Possible replacements for Marc Dann listed
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- No charges for Barrett over flashdrive photos
Former state Rep. Matthew Barrett lied to police about whether he knew women who appeared semi-nude on a flash drive he used during a high school government class talk, but will not face criminal charges for it, his attorney and a city official said Monday.
- Suddes: Ohio Senate's turn to resist bullying on payday issue
Ohioans should give House Speaker Jon Husted of Kettering and fellow Republican Rep. Christopher R. Widener of Springfield three cheers, even an ovation, for standing up to payday-loan gouging.
- Two say they want apology from AG
The women whose complaints triggered the sexual-harassment investigation that brought down three top officials in Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann's office are relieved that it's over.
- Willard: Ohio AG lowers bar for himself
Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann's political survival was severely weakened Friday by his own governor.
- Strickland on AG: There seems to be a double standard
Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann vows to stay in office and repair the damage caused by his affair with a staffer and a sexual-harassment investigation that concluded dramatically Friday with four people losing their jobs.
- Brunner wants to use unapproved voting devices
The secretary of state is moving forward with a plan to allow Ohio to approve new voting devices for use by eliminating the need to have the equipment also meet federal standards for accuracy, security and reliability.
- Editorial: This has to be the end for Marc Dann
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- GOP calls for Dann to resign amid scandal
Ohio Republicans are calling for Attorney General Marc Dann to resign, calling his public apology for an affair and the conduct of aides an inadequate response.
- Ohio attorney general had affair with employee
Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann said today he had an affair with an employee, and three advisers were forced out of their jobs in a scandal over sexual harassment allegations against an aide.
- Scandal explodes in AG office
Two top aides to Attorney General Marc Dann were fired today after an investigation of sexual harassment and intimidation complaints. Two other employees of Dann’s resigned Thursday in the wake of an internal probe.
- Dann gives his side, felt 'uncomfortable'
For the first time, Attorney General Marc Dann has given his version of his role into the events of Sept. 10, 2007, that spurred an investigation into sexual harassment charges against a top Dann aide, Anthony Gutierrez.
- Summit GOP still divided after vote
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- McCain rolls out health care plan in Cleveland
Presumed Republican presidential nominee John McCain continued his week-long roll-out of his health care plan this morning at the Cleveland Clinic.
- Poll: Clinton bests Obama in Ohio matchup against McCain
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- Voinovich to pursue key assignment
Sen. George Voinovich told a room full of Dayton-area leaders Wednesday that he will seek a seat on the Senate Appropriations Committee next year.
- Redfern concerned about Obama's tie to Wright
Chris Redfern, the chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, who is uncommitted, said Barack Obama’s delay in responding to Rev. Jeremiah Wright may have hurt the senator’s standing with many voters — in particular, the so-called Reagan Democrats who live in places like Toledo.
- House OKs payday lending caps
One of the nation's strictest proposed crackdowns on payday lending cleared the Ohio House on Wednesday, backed by Republicans and Democrats who believed the protection of consumers would far outweigh job losses should the industry shut down.
- Brown legislates twice as often as Voinovich
Some lawmakers go to Congress to pass bills. Some go to block bills they don't like. Regardless of their motives, Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, has sponsored nearly twice as many bills, resolutions or amendments in the U.S. Senate this term as his Republican counterpart, George Voinovich.
- AG's employee finds desk ransacked
Cindy Stankoski, who filed a sexual harassment complaint against here boss Anthony Gutierrez, returned from vacation to her job at Attorney General Marc Dann's office on Wednesday, April 30, to find her desk ransacked, said her attorney Rex Elliott.
- Dann's scheduler planned to accompany boss on overseas trip
When Alyssa Lenhoff canceled plans to accompany her husband, Attorney General Marc Dann, on an international exchange trip to Turkey last June, Dann's scheduler Jessica Utovich moved quickly to go on the trip.
- GOP decides Arshinkoff's fate tonight
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- Dann aide Gutierrez accused of hitting truck
The suspended attorney general's office manager who is already under investigation for sexual harassment and damage to two state vehicles also may have been involved in a hit-skip accident last summer while driving a state car, the office says.
- Ohio bill could lower payday loan cap to 28%
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- Police chiefs association says Dann's scheduler had planned to travel to Turkey with boss
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- Watts to Akron: Education should be on campaigns' front burner
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- McCain will be in Cleveland on Thursday
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- Husted vows to pass payday lending reform
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- AG's office considering new e-mail policy
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- Boehner's office collects $1 million in lawsuit
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- Fisher's staying where he is, Strickland says
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- Strickland, Brunner on wrong side of Indiana voter photo ID law
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- Minority businesses offered aid
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- Gov: See you after college
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- Strickland, Moyer plan summit on children
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- State taking next-of-kin info
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27 Responses for "The Big Issue in November?"
People need to wake up and understand that any change or new exploration we do wont bring us any oil for a couple of years best case. We cant just pass a bill and see prices tumble.
Alex - given that it is a traded commodity, and oen which is extremely volatile to expectations and not just results, we can absolutely expect that prices could come down simply by passing a bill saying we are going to allow drilling in ANWR. I am not advocating that, but suggesting that a commodity price won't fluctuate based on a changing future landscape is ridiculous. Are you completely unfamiliar with how the commodity and exchange markets work?
yes mike d all of these liberal metal mdigets have zero clue how things work–they just know to blame it on bush and evil republicans
That was a lot of words and a lot of rhetoric. But here is the realities: the public will blame the oilmen for the price, and since the Republicans are the oilmen, this is a winner for the Dems, no matter grandpa frames the issue.
And you can talk all you want about ANWR and more drilling, but nobody except the oilmen think that is an actual solution.
But I will agree that a windfall profits tax may not be the best approach. Instead, I think the winning solution (and one that the Dems will eventually adopt) is to QUIT SUBSIDIZING THE OIL COMPANIES!
A windfall profits tax will allow the Haneeleer Republicans to make their annoying argument about how all Dems do is raise taxes (which is not true…when they do, it has worked).
So instead, lets jam an argument back up the throats of these oil goons. Lets call them what they are: WELFARE WHORES. It worked for Ronald Reagan, so it can work for Democrats. The oil industry receives upwards of $50 BILLION A YEAR IN CORPORATE WELFARE.
The Republicans argued against that lady in the Cadillac getting a welfare check. So I am sure Hanneeler would have to be against the MOST PROFITABLE COMPANIES IN THE HISTORY OF MAN receiving WELFARE CHECKS.
So I do hope Obama drops the call for a windfall profits tax and instead calls for an end to WELFARE WHORES, or maybe WELFARE PIMPS, or maybe WELFARE KINGS (to play right off of Reagan's Welfare Queen crap).
No one but the oilmen think that is the solution … who would know better?
Yea, let's trust a group of individuals gouging the country to tell us what's best. I'm sure the oilmen also think alternative fuel research is a waste.
"McCain has a chance to get out in front here. We are experiencing higher gas prices now (and a lot of high energy prices) because of decades of restricted development of new sources of petroleum and reasons above like not building refineries."
and your bud farleigh….
"all of these liberal metal mdigets have zero clue how things work–"
If ANWR were drained dry the world's oil supply would be affected by a whopping .3% increase. That's going to really make those commodities traders go apesh*t, I reckon.
The oil prices are being rigged by billions and billions of weak dollars looking for a better return. The oil futures gambling house game is hot. The market isn't working, just like it didn't work in the Dot.com perversion.
Read what the Saudis, you know, the White House BFF's, have to say about supply. There's plenty of supply. Psychological games of manipulation on the futures markets are enriching a handful of people…just like in the Dot.com fiasco.
ANWR and more refineries are both topics for debate, but neither are playing a role in the current runup. This is greed, Wall Street style….greed is good, remember?
Also I agree with Chuck….Big Oil is a just a bunch of welfare whores. And now these whores think they can suck on the government's teat AND raise their prices at the same time. Time to teach a lesson. Obama wants to tax all oil sold over $80 a barrel. That's a good start.
If you want to blame someone….look no further than a blind, deaf,and dumb Bush administration eager to start a war overtop a sea of oil thus catalyzing the futures traders to start running oil prices up because of "uncertainties" in the middle east, etc. That's how this all began. Morons.
$4-5 a gallon gasoline will depress this country in 18-24 months.
Preach on
The above comments, especially those by "The Reverend", show that these liberal chuckleheads have no sense of economic reality. There's no debating them. It's simply going to have to smash them square in the face. And when a bunch of other countries start to pass us by they'll look around with stars in their eyes and all stunned and they'll say "Wha..wha…what happened? Wha..did the Republicans do to us? Algore, Algore, where are you? We're scared. We want to suck on your, er, a government tit some more so we'll feel good again."
You liberal maggots are sickening.
Oilmen want to find oil and know how to. If they say there's oil there and are willing to invest billions finding out, why would anyone think otherwise?
ChucKos,
You always talk about oil subsidies, so let's see some links for subsidies other than those dealing with Bio-fuel. I am not saying you are wrong, but show some proof.
Rev,
The White House has been close to the House of Saud since Truman's visit with King Saud in the late 40's. Clinton never showed them the door when he was in office, nor would Hillary or Obama.
You say that your gas prices are high because of development restrictions.
But the dollar is falling, and why? Because the demand for dollars is falling and again there is everywhere that fear of a dollar collapse.
I really like the "NO" map.
Four Points:
(1) Profits are a cost of doing business. Each and EVERY business unable to cover its costs goes out of business, in every economic system (communist, elected socialist, capitalist). To increase oil company costs by taxing them more money will do two things: (A) drive oil company costs higher and for that reason drive gasoline prices higher; (B) create greater conflict between our 'have's versus our have-nots,' precisely what our elected socialists work daily to achieve. Hillary, Barack, Ted, Nancy and so on love internal conflict of this nature as socialists consider it the only way they for them to gain and maintain public office;
(2) The Former USSR, to include its largest state, Russia, had and continues to have huge quantities of oil for domestic use, and for export. The USSR failed economically anyway, primarily because of its failure to understand how an economy works, failure to understand the cost issue, failure to adequately cover its costs. The USSR failed because it could not - even with heavy application of rifle butt and bayonet - force socialist controls of business to work;
(3) When demand for oil exceeds supply of oil, oil prices rise - ALWAYS. Professional politicians in the USA know this relationship quite well, but many politicians (Democrats and RINOs) prefer to see the USA fail completely than see it continue to succeed without them getting to run it.: and, finally,
(4) You and I have entrusted the affairs of state to the wrong people! This Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America will not solve all of our problems, but will go a long way towards doing so: "Except for the President of the United States of America, the term in elected public office shall not exceed a combined total of ten years for any person." (T. Coyne, (6/19/98).
Respectfully,
Tom Coyne
http://www.coyne-assoc.com
They already are. Perhaps a cohesive policy on mass transit will be required as well. See linked NY Times article that reports large jumps in transit use this year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/business/10transit.html?hp
Yes, mass transit is hot and soccer is going to be the number one sport in America soon.
Dr Coyne makes good points about the USSR.
Ohio Exile makes a solid point as well - people just arent going to use PT if they dont already.
There was an interesting segment on NPR yesterday about the very recent upturn in PT in urban areas, and most of the new riders cited the cost of gas as there main reason. People are willing to and sometimes forced by necessity to change their habits, even if there is some inconvenience involved.
I take the RTA so I dont care.
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A cohesive policy on mass transit solves what? Mass transit works in Europe because there a lots of people in a small area. Mass transit works in NYC for the same reason. Mass transit doesn't work in most of the US because the population density isn't high enough for it to make sense.
Don't see the trains stopping around D-town very often.
Hollywood: How does one define mass transit as working? Does it work in Boston? Or in Washington? What about Chicago? San Francisco? Portland? The article talks about record numbers in Denver, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Miami.
You don't think Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati Could have better mass transit (Especially Columbus)? Mass transit does not come overnight. Go back 40 years in Washington DC, and one thing you'll notice (outside of it being an awful place) is that there is no metro, it is a road town. Today, almost 800,000 people a day take metro. Washington DC is a smaller city than the 3 big Ohio cities I mentioned above.
Mass Transit doesn't need to be just Subway. Maybe build train tracks that Run from Cleveland to Cincinnati via Akron, Canton, Columbus, Dayton that runs a couple of times daily. Maybe some Bus Rapid Transit would be appropriate. All that I am saying is that this country treats roads and transit as two seperate things.
Why should 100,000 people taking a train every day be any different the 100,000 people taking a road (assuming they cost the same)? At the moment, roads are built via none of the efficiency standards that are required for transit. The Federal Government alone spends almost $300 Billion over a 5 year transportation bill. It doesn't hurt till we have $3.50/gallon gas. All of a sudden that 20-30 mile commute every day is adding up real fast.
I am not saying Mass Transit is the answer to all of our problems. But dismissing a coherent policy because it may not be appropriate for certain areas doesn't seem to be a wise decision if you are at all interested in at least one of these areas below:
1. lower our dependence foreign oil
2. Improve the environment
3. Spend Less time in Traffic
4. reduce Suburban sprawl
I can come up with more if you'd like. The US has no coherent policy that ties all types of transit (roads, rails, planes) together, and we need one.
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Ohio Exile makes a lot of sense. This country needs a cohesive and comprehensive transportation policy. Mass transit in urban areas can and does work. Even is smaller areas, cities like Akron, there can be improvements.
Ph.D…..You gotta be joking.
"To increase oil company costs by taxing them more money will do two things: (A) drive oil company costs higher and for that reason drive gasoline prices higher; (B) create greater conflict between our 'have's versus our have-nots,' precisely what our elected socialists work daily to achieve."
Taxes imposed on oil companies leading to even higher costs is only a part of the equation. Gasoline prices are going higher right now WITHOUT any new taxes. I suppose that's the divine hand, invisible though it is, of the "marketplace".
There are no shortages of gasoline. No rationing. OPEC repeatedly states that there's plenty of supply. The supply/demand "principles" aren't working…..just as they aren't working in health care and didn't work during the Dot.com grand theft.
Ph.D would have us believe that "socialist" Democrats are pushing class warfare….when, in actuality, the warfare has been raging from BIG MONEY's side for 30 years. That's why working families have lost $1000 per year on average recently while the top 1% have grown exponentially richer.
Energy, health care, education are a few of the sectors of our economy needing controls. For the sake, not of the rich, but of the PEOPLE.
Price freezes are needed. Fuel cell and electric vehicles, wind and solar, higher CAFE standards, and conservation projects and programs need to be implemented.
It will take a Democratic administration to accomplish those things…..the GOP is simply too beholden to BIG ENERGY and BIG MONEY.
Last anonymous, there are public transportation options but no one wants to use them.
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