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Angry Kerry supporters seek Ohio reform
Boston Glob ^ | 11/3/05 | Carrie Spencer Ghose, Associated Press Writer

Posted on 11/03/2005 7:45:50 PM PST by bitt

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The four constitutional amendments on Tuesday's ballot in Republican-dominated Ohio would expand voting by mail, limit campaign contributions and create bipartisan boards to draw districts and oversee elections -- jobs now done by politicians. The amendments were proposed by Democratic-leaning groups.

Reform Ohio Now, a coalition of union and citizens groups that backs the amendments, has raised $2 million overall in donations and services, including nearly 3,300 contributions of $500 or less from all 50 states. A third of its money, $629,750, came from People for the American Way in Washington.

Many of the donations poured in after a nationwide e-mail alert in late September from moveon.org, a liberal advocacy group that campaigned heavily against Bush.

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A mid-October poll indicated Ohio voters supported the absentee-voting and campaign-finance questions.

Ohio First, a mainly Republican group opposed to the ballot measures, has raised $2.2 million, most of it from business and professional interests. All but seven of its 170 donations were from Ohio.

David Hopcraft, spokesman for the group, said he was surprised to see so many out-of-state donations to the amendment supporters.

"The point is that they're not from Ohio," he said. "They're people who think somehow Ohioans don't have it right, and Ohioans don't share that opinion."

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: kerry; sorelosers; voterfraudrus
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1 posted on 11/03/2005 7:45:50 PM PST by bitt
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To: bitt

"Protect Ohioians from themselves" ping


2 posted on 11/03/2005 7:46:37 PM PST by bitt ("..the very obsession of your public service must be Duty, Honor, Country." Gen. Douglas MacArthur)
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To: johnny7; TomGuy; maryz; Lonesome in Massachussets; JLO; gidget7; nopardons; Kenny Bunk; GianniV; ...

LT ping ........and the Lying Traitors he almost rode in with.....


3 posted on 11/03/2005 7:47:35 PM PST by bitt ("..the very obsession of your public service must be Duty, Honor, Country." Gen. Douglas MacArthur)
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To: bitt

Kerry lost, so let's change the damn rules to stack it against Republicans next time... I hate liberals so much.


4 posted on 11/03/2005 7:48:34 PM PST by MadManDan
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To: bitt
The Dems and their running dog lackeys on the Left really don't get it. All the voting corruption in America is undertaken by Dems. Anything that cleans things up a bit is going to hurt the Dems even more.

It's gotta' be the dope ~ can't be that they are simply stupid.

5 posted on 11/03/2005 7:48:44 PM PST by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
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To: bitt

Don't you love how the Left is always still fighting the last war, or, for that matter, the third or fourth to the last war?


6 posted on 11/03/2005 7:48:47 PM PST by Uncle Vlad
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To: bitt
and create bipartisan boards to draw districts and oversee elections --

But do theses same people favor the same thing in Califoria?
I didn't think so.

7 posted on 11/03/2005 7:52:45 PM PST by Paleo Conservative (Hey hey ho ho Andy Heyward's got to go!)
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To: Paleo Conservative

They only want "reform" in places they lost.


8 posted on 11/03/2005 7:55:09 PM PST by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: All

Lifelong Independent Voter AND a Viet Nam Vet
helping the Republican Party, again,
just like on Nov 2 2004

Honorable Viet Nam Vet's
ALWAYS do what's best for their country,
including calling for the outing a of traitor
in the US Senate.

Honorable Viet Nam Vet's
do what's needed to protect President Bush
from attacks from the traitor and his followers.

There is no need to impeach Hanoi Kerry from the US Senate

He is there illegally!

WAKEUP AMERICA!

For those who "forgot" what Hanoi Kerry
did in the past read on and learn the truth.

Hanoi Kerry was still a USNR officer while he:
gave false hearsay testimony to Congress
negotiated with the enemy
helped the US lose a war
abetted in the deaths of millions
created a hostile environment for all servicemen

Why is Kerry still in the US Senate?
This is in violation of
U.S. Constitution Amendment 14 Sec 3
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.amendmentxiv.html

And the FBI has proof of his treason.

Hanoi Kerry Timeline of a traitor
includes FBI files

May 1970
Kerry and Julia traveled to Paris, France and met with Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, the Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam (PRG), the political wing of the Vietcong, and other Viet Cong and Communist Vietnamese representatives to the Paris peace talks, a trip he now calls a "fact-finding" mission.

(U.S. code 18 U.S.C. 953, declares it illegal for a U.S. citizen to go abroad and negotiate with a foreign power.)

http://www.archive-news.net/Kerry/JK_timeline.html

a) A person charged with absence without leave or missing movement in time of war,
or with any offense punishable by death,
may be tried at any time without limitation.

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ucmj.htm#*%20843.%20ART.%2043.%20STATUTE%20OF%20LIMITATIONS


9 posted on 11/03/2005 7:56:27 PM PST by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Be wary of FReepers who preach and howl : Get over it Tonk. Move On! mmmm Move On as in Fat Boy?)
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To: Paleo Conservative

I live in Ohio, I vote in Ohio (and I actually do know how to operate the machine), and they're goin down. Nobody asked me by the way. Go Buckeyes!!!!!!


10 posted on 11/03/2005 7:57:41 PM PST by pnut22
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To: All
I suggest that this these "reform" initiatives generated by the far left would have gotten nowhere had not Governor Taft and his administration squandered the GOP leadership of the state through its own corruption, tin-eared decision-making and innate ineptness.

All politics is corrupt to varying degrees; but Taft did a "Gingrich" by his overreaching and failure to anticipate the results of sustained in-house scandals. His grandfather is turning in his grave, to be sure.

By these foibles, the Buckeye GOP may very well handed the state to the Democrats on a silver platter.

The pathetic images of the two 'Pub dolts in the Senate have done nothing but exacerbate this pathetic image of the GOP in the state.

Just some thoughts.
11 posted on 11/03/2005 7:58:00 PM PST by dk/coro
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To: bitt

When RATS win elections, everything is hunky dory. When Republicans win elections ''we cheated''!


12 posted on 11/03/2005 8:06:20 PM PST by Bush gal in LA
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13 posted on 11/03/2005 8:08:08 PM PST by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
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To: dk/coro

Maybe, but I think that the Dems are just so mad that Kenneth Blackwell stood his ground. They lost and they just can't accept it.


14 posted on 11/03/2005 8:09:26 PM PST by Ohioan from Florida (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke)
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To: bitt
Isn't "Angry" and "Kerry supporters" redundant?
15 posted on 11/03/2005 8:27:54 PM PST by Sthitch
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To: MadManDan

Liberals are very much like the school children I teach.


16 posted on 11/03/2005 8:30:58 PM PST by SALChamps03
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To: bitt

The Confederates tried to reform Ohio too and were unsuccessful. I don't expect near the effort out of this bunch of limp-wristed twerps.


17 posted on 11/03/2005 8:31:23 PM PST by 308MBR (The cornbread will be no better than the lard.)
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To: bitt

I live in Ohio
I was not going to vote until I researched these amendments
Soros has funded the four amendments that are in question
I am voting NO on all four


18 posted on 11/03/2005 8:33:21 PM PST by mrmargaritaville
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To: mrmargaritaville

Good luck. I hope conservatives get out the votes and defeat these damned commies.


19 posted on 11/03/2005 8:35:43 PM PST by demkicker (I BELIEVE CONGRESSMAN WELDON!)
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To: mrmargaritaville

They target these off-year elections when the union vote won't be diluted.

Good luck.


20 posted on 11/03/2005 8:38:13 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (What, me worry?)
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