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Oct. 20th, 2006 09:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annissamazingDominic's beginning to understand the concept of "sharing." When we play with the Learn Around Playground he picks up the yellow ball, I ask "May I have the yellow ball?" and he gives it to me. I put it down the tube and we start over. This morning he fed me cheerios out of his bowl.
So Ken Blackwell is now contesting Strickland's voter registration. Apparently Strickland did not file his local taxes in his hometown. That's a pretty big "whoopsie" on Strickland's part. He did, however, pay his local taxes to the City of Columbus, where he has another home. He claims there's nothing illegal about using one address to pay taxes and another address to vote. If his registration is deemed invalid it will raise questions about his eligibility to run for governor. The county board of elections tied on their ruling to dismiss, every member voting along party lines. The tie-breaking vote belongs to the office of the Secretary of State, Ken Blackwell. The Assistant Secretary of State has called for a hearing even though the 10-day statute of limitations is well over.
The republican party appears to be getting desperate in light of the recent polls that indicate they're falling behind by double-digits. During this morning's news there was one commercial break where I saw two attack ads against Sherrod Brown. One spews something about Brown taking twelve years to pay outstanding taxes, a claim for which I can't find any verification on the internet and am beginning to believe was just made up. DeWine doesn't seem to want to back his claims up with cites. The other ad was by the same company that made the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads. How can I believe anything they have to say?
Summit County's absentee ballots have been delayed. All 22,000 of them will need to be reprinted before they can be sent out due to typographical errors on the second page. The word "fraught" was used in the article I read. Words running together and letters spaced incorrectly made the ballot "hard to read." By law, voters must be able to start voting absentee 35 days before the election, a deadline that has already been missed because the county was waiting for the Secretary of State's office to break a tie in the wording of a proposed county charter amendment that needed to be on the ballot. The printer says that the ballots will be ready to be mailed tomorrow.
UPDATE: The Beacon Journal has just confirmed that the tax claims DeWine makes are in fact made up, like I suspected. DeWine will alter the ad to remove the time frame he claims is correct, but refuses to pull the ad.
So Ken Blackwell is now contesting Strickland's voter registration. Apparently Strickland did not file his local taxes in his hometown. That's a pretty big "whoopsie" on Strickland's part. He did, however, pay his local taxes to the City of Columbus, where he has another home. He claims there's nothing illegal about using one address to pay taxes and another address to vote. If his registration is deemed invalid it will raise questions about his eligibility to run for governor. The county board of elections tied on their ruling to dismiss, every member voting along party lines. The tie-breaking vote belongs to the office of the Secretary of State, Ken Blackwell. The Assistant Secretary of State has called for a hearing even though the 10-day statute of limitations is well over.
The republican party appears to be getting desperate in light of the recent polls that indicate they're falling behind by double-digits. During this morning's news there was one commercial break where I saw two attack ads against Sherrod Brown. One spews something about Brown taking twelve years to pay outstanding taxes, a claim for which I can't find any verification on the internet and am beginning to believe was just made up. DeWine doesn't seem to want to back his claims up with cites. The other ad was by the same company that made the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads. How can I believe anything they have to say?
Summit County's absentee ballots have been delayed. All 22,000 of them will need to be reprinted before they can be sent out due to typographical errors on the second page. The word "fraught" was used in the article I read. Words running together and letters spaced incorrectly made the ballot "hard to read." By law, voters must be able to start voting absentee 35 days before the election, a deadline that has already been missed because the county was waiting for the Secretary of State's office to break a tie in the wording of a proposed county charter amendment that needed to be on the ballot. The printer says that the ballots will be ready to be mailed tomorrow.
UPDATE: The Beacon Journal has just confirmed that the tax claims DeWine makes are in fact made up, like I suspected. DeWine will alter the ad to remove the time frame he claims is correct, but refuses to pull the ad.