Live Thread - May 4th Primaries in Indiana, Ohio & North Carolina

KeyHouseRaces.com ^ | 4 May 2010 | Interceptpoint

[InterceptPoint]

The returns will be coming in soon from today's Primary Elections in Indiana, Ohio and North Carolina.

Here are links to the websites where the official returns will be posted by the respective Secretaries of State:

Indiana

North Carolina

Ohio

And for those paying attention to the Key House Races here are the districts that will pick their Primary winners tonight.

District		Dem Primary Winner	R-Seats	Republican Incumbent or Challengers			Links to All State Races
		Or Incumbent		Main Challenger	Challenger	Challenger
IN	2	Joe Donnelly		Jackie Walorski			Indiana
IN	8	Open D (Brad Ellsworth)		Dr. Larry Bucshon	John Snyder Jr.	John Lee Smith	Indiana
IN	9	Baron Hill		Mike Sodrel	Todd Young	Travis Hankins	Indiana
NC	8	Larry Kissell		Tim D’Annunzio	Harold Jordan	Harold Johnson	North Carolina
OH	1	Steve Driehaus		Steve Chabot			Ohio
OH	2	Dem Primary Winner	Incumbent	Jean Schmidt			Ohio
OH	13	Betty Sutton		Tom Ganley	Frank Chestney	Bill Haney	Ohio
OH	15	Mary Jo Kilroy		Steve Stivers	John Adams		Ohio
OH	16	John Boccieri		Jim Renacci	Matt Miller	H. Doyle Smith	Ohio
OH	18	Zach Space		Bob Gibbs	Jeanette Moll	Dave Daubenmire	Ohio

[MitchellC]

Interesting. How do you know all of this?

[GOP-Pat]

Interesting. How do you know all of this?

For one thing, I worked on his campaign for a while. I am one who went shopping with him...know the clothes purchased, how much they cost, etc. (along with another witness). Randall was reimbursed the same day we went shopping, for the exact amount of the clothing. You can check info on his FEC report as to how it was reported. Supposedly that was corrected about 2 weeks ago, but it was still on there the last time I looked. $661.59.

I'm one of the people he owes money to. My invoices are not on the report and they total about $24,000. Add that to the expenses he actually lists and you will get $75,000.

Although I had been gone from his campaign about 3 months, I was at a debate where his treasurer had the moonshine whiskey and he offered it to me and others, more than once.

I watched him campaign and unless there was a camera or microphone for him to use, he wasn't interested in attending functions.

You can check out his Facebook page right now and see where he's hocking a book...not once, but 5 times in one day. He was running for office and taking his book to events and selling them. People thought they were making a contribution to his campaign when they bought the book. Not so. It was for him personally. I told him he could not do that, so he quit. Now that he's been running for 9 1/2 months and has a couple of thousand follows, he's bringing the book out again. He's a career campaigner, uses the campaigns to sell his book, while he tells people he "quit his job to run for congress".

His moving around is open knowledge if you want to pay about $70 for the search.

Campaign managers (1) Melodye Aben - 1 1/2 months (2) Bill Warner 3 1/2 months (3) Paul Fitts - a couple of weeks (4) Cheryl 2-3 months and now he's on his 5th one. You can find the Treasurer's names on his FEC report.

[DBerwyn]

As published at TalkingAbooutPoitics dot com
by Carter Wrenn http://www.talkingaboutpolitics.com/
An Open Letter to Bill Randall
Dear Bill,

At your debate with Bernie Reeves, when you were asked where you stood on tax reform and said, The Fair Tax, baby, and, second thing, get rid of the IRS.

Not replace the IRS. Abolish it.

That effective piece of political theatre evoked hurrahs and cheers – but it wasn’t quite true, was it? Because the Fair Tax (or 23% national sales tax) doesn’t abolish the IRS. Instead, it replaces it with the ‘Sales Tax Bureau’ and the ‘Excise Tax Bureau’ and turns every business and state into a tax collector for the federal government. Every doctor would have to collect sales taxes on his services; if you buy a home you will have to pay a 23% sales tax to the federal government. All directed out of the Department of the Treasury in Washington.

These are questions you should have been asked at the debate but weren’t. So I am asking them now and hope you will answer. If you do I will publish your answers on Bernie Reeves’ website, on Talking About Politics and blogs across North Carolina.

Here’s the first question: Why did you tell voters your ‘Fair Tax’ plan would abolish the IRS?

To be continued…