Archive for the ‘Election 2011’ Category
He just keeps walking
I don’t think this is catastrophic or anything, but it is a set-back and a huge pain in the ass for state election officials: A judge in Wisconsin threw a curveball Thursday evening into the recall campaign targeting Republican Gov. Scott Walker, ruling that state election officials must make a greater effort to screen out [...]
January 6, 2012
· 
Kay · 
36 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2010, Election 2011, Election 2012
I thought we were winning but we may be losing
I started reading more about for-profit K-12 schools last spring because I was talking with people about teachers and unions during the Issue Two campaign. In the course of those conversations, I found that people here were very surprised to learn that nearly half of “public” charter schools in Ohio are run by for-profit entities. [...]
November 22, 2011
· Kay · 66 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Don't Mourn, Organize, Education, Election 2010, Election 2011, Election 2012, Free Markets Solve Everything
Mitt Romney is always welcome here
We in Ohio were lectured for months by Governor Kasich and media that Kasich’s union busting law was not about unions. It was about health insurance. It was about merit pay. It was about budgets. It was about balancing the state budget. Very few in Ohio believed that, because it was obviously not true. The [...]
November 15, 2011
· Kay · 27 Comments
Posted in: Don't Mourn, Organize, Education, Election 2011, Election 2012, Enhanced Protest Techniques, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Glibertarianism, Good News For Conservatives
There’s only one Republican Party
Just wanted to clear something up: These policies, and similar ones in other states, were passed in an arrogant frenzy by a Tea Party-tide of Republicans elected in 2010. Many of them decided that they had a mandate to dismantle some of the basic protections and restrictions of government. They went too far, and weary [...]
November 10, 2011
· Kay · 41 Comments
Posted in: Election 2011
Ohio punditry
Wanted to talk about how the union-busting campaign in Ohio felt on the ground. I could have done it prior to this but I’m superstitious. For whatever reason I believe that reckless pre-election punditry on my part ensures a loss. Conservatives ran a traditional divide and conquer campaign, they ran it at thirty thousand feet, [...]
November 9, 2011
· Kay · 111 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Election 2011
Walloped
The Every Sperm is Sacred Act and the Fuck the Public Unions Act were both rejected at the polls last night in Mississippi and Ohio. Ohio is at 61-39, and even more surprising, Mississippi wasn’t close at all, currently holding at 59-41. The Maine citizen veto of the voter suppression law Kay wrote about yesterday [...]
November 9, 2011
· mistermix · 83 Comments
Posted in: Election 2011
Election Day Shenanigans are Afoot in Ohio: Robocall Tells Voters to Head to Polls TOMORROW
Same as it ever was. For all the GOP whining about voter fraud, it’s patently obvious that the only fraud being perpetrated is by Republicans against Democrats: Ohio residents are voting Tuesday on Issue 2, a ballot referendum on a controversial measure known as SB 5. The law restricts collective bargaining rights for state employees, [...]
November 8, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 57 Comments
Posted in: Election 2011
Election Day: Races to Watch [Kasich FAIL! and Uterati WIN!]
Vote or die! It’s Election Day, y’all! Time to get your civic duty on! Here are some races to keep an eye on: From Political Wire: 1) the referendum on the anti-collective-bargaining law in Ohio, where polls close at 7:30 pm ET; 2) the governor’s race in Kentucky, where all polls close at 7:00 pm [...]
November 8, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 47 Comments
Posted in: Election 2011
You’ll also want to vote on voting rights, because you’re good and decent people
Maine has a citizen veto, too, today: Question 1: People’s Veto Do you want to reject the section of Chapter 399 of the Public Laws of 2011 that requires new voters to register to vote at least two business days prior to an election? You’d want to REJECT that, I imagine. Good for Maine for [...]
November 8, 2011
· Kay · 36 Comments
Posted in: Don't Mourn, Organize, Election 2011, Enhanced Protest Techniques
Union Busting is Disgusting
These are photos of public sector and private sector union members and others here in northwest Ohio who have worked really hard the last however many months to put a citizen veto of Issue Two on the ballot. Issue Two is a ballot referendum on former Fox News personality John Kasich’s union busting law, SB [...]
November 8, 2011
· Kay · 36 Comments
Posted in: Don't Mourn, Organize, Election 2011, Enhanced Protest Techniques
Too much voting going on, apparently
Why aren’t our friends on the other side of the aisle democracy enthusiasts? County boards of election must stop early in-person voting as of 6 p.m. Friday, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted has advised, prompting Democrats to cry foul. This occurs as a number of counties are reporting higher-than-usual absentee mail-in and early in-person [...]
November 3, 2011
· Kay · 18 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Domestic Affairs, Election 2011, Election 2012, Enhanced Protest Techniques, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor
The tri-corner hat crowd write some law
I went to a local cancer survivor support group the other night to talk about the three ballot issues in Ohio. It wasn’t like that: they invited me and they also know I’m not a cancer survivor. I have some standards. We talked about the big marquee issue, Issue Two, an issue I refer to [...]
November 1, 2011
· Kay · 14 Comments
Posted in: Crazification Factor, Domestic Affairs, Election 2011, Election 2012, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
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October 26, 2011
· Kay · 42 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Election 2010, Election 2011, Election 2012, Enhanced Protest Techniques
No one knows why he went to the phone bank. Maybe he was lost?
This is really a lot of fun: @PeterHambyCNN Peter Hamby Incredible moments in politics: Romney visits OH GOP phone bank to rally troops opposing SB5 repeal, but refuses to take a position on SB5 It doesn’t matter what he says. Romney has already come out in favor of race-to-the-bottom “Right To Work”, although no one [...]
October 25, 2011
· Kay · 40 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Domestic Affairs, Don't Mourn, Organize, Election 2011, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, Romney of the Uncanny Valley
I’m sure he’s already booked on Morning Joe
Fox News personality and former governor Mike Huckabee parachuted into Ohio yesterday to kick off the campaign to support former Fox News personality and governor John Kasich. Governor Kasich has a long and profitable relationship with Fox News and Rupert Murdoch, and the news channel promoted his bid for governor, so I’m not surprised they’re [...]
October 16, 2011
· Kay · 50 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Domestic Affairs, Education, Election 2011, Fuck The Middle-Class, Getting The Band Back Together, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment
