Elections! Democrats Sweep!
Great results from yesterday's elections! A virtual Democratic sweep of state offices, and federal ones as well -- along with a cliffhanger in our Congressional district, as we wait for absentee ballots and provisional ballots to decide whether or not Mary Jo Kilroy will unseat Deborah Pryce.
We spent Election Day in various ways: Ann was a circuit rider, checking on poll watchers at five different precincts all day, while I spent the afternoon (from 1 to the polls' closing at 7:30) at a single precinct. The good news: Ted Strickland (here, celebrating with his wife, Frances) is the new governor of Ohio!
And Sherrod Brown, kissing his wife, Connie Schultz, is the new Senator, unseating Mike DeWine
while Jennifer Brunner, a smart and savvy judge, replaces the partisan Ken Blackwell as Secretary of State
and County Commissioner Dewey Stokes, defeated by Democrat Marilyn Brown, is here consoled by Congresswoman Deborah Pryce--who has a very slim lead over Mary Jo Kilroy, startling for the fourth-ranking Republican member of Congress, who ran an exceptionally dirty campaign with repeated lies and misleading statements of Kilroy's positions--then painted herself as the victim of dirty politics! We even got a mailing yesterday which said Kilroy would destroy Social Security if elected--when it was Pryce who was the point person for the failed effort to privatize Social Security last year!
These wins despite the attempts at voter suppression (which had an effect) through the new voter identification law pushed through by Republicans and enforced through vastly confusing rulings by Blackwell's office: first driver's licenses needed current addresses, then they didn't. Then they did. Then they didn't. Then you had to bring a current utility bill with your name and address. And so forth. Court challenges, conflicting rulings. All aimed at who? The elderly, students, and low income people. Truly despicable efforts, in effect reinstituting a poll tax-like suppression of those who would be likely to vote Democratic.
Despite that: almost a clean sweep, of landslide porportions. And I'm sure it was only the landslide porportions which made stealing the election impossible. Lots of reports of problems with the voting machines. OK: can we return to paper ballots now, folks?
We spent Election Day in various ways: Ann was a circuit rider, checking on poll watchers at five different precincts all day, while I spent the afternoon (from 1 to the polls' closing at 7:30) at a single precinct. The good news: Ted Strickland (here, celebrating with his wife, Frances) is the new governor of Ohio!
And Sherrod Brown, kissing his wife, Connie Schultz, is the new Senator, unseating Mike DeWine
while Jennifer Brunner, a smart and savvy judge, replaces the partisan Ken Blackwell as Secretary of State
and County Commissioner Dewey Stokes, defeated by Democrat Marilyn Brown, is here consoled by Congresswoman Deborah Pryce--who has a very slim lead over Mary Jo Kilroy, startling for the fourth-ranking Republican member of Congress, who ran an exceptionally dirty campaign with repeated lies and misleading statements of Kilroy's positions--then painted herself as the victim of dirty politics! We even got a mailing yesterday which said Kilroy would destroy Social Security if elected--when it was Pryce who was the point person for the failed effort to privatize Social Security last year!
These wins despite the attempts at voter suppression (which had an effect) through the new voter identification law pushed through by Republicans and enforced through vastly confusing rulings by Blackwell's office: first driver's licenses needed current addresses, then they didn't. Then they did. Then they didn't. Then you had to bring a current utility bill with your name and address. And so forth. Court challenges, conflicting rulings. All aimed at who? The elderly, students, and low income people. Truly despicable efforts, in effect reinstituting a poll tax-like suppression of those who would be likely to vote Democratic.
Despite that: almost a clean sweep, of landslide porportions. And I'm sure it was only the landslide porportions which made stealing the election impossible. Lots of reports of problems with the voting machines. OK: can we return to paper ballots now, folks?
posted by aim | 1:25 PM
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