Showing posts with label Ohio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ohio. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Ohio Senator Confronted By Constituents Over Support For Medicare And Social Security Cuts

Ohio Senator Confronted By Constituents Over Support For Medicare And Social Security Cuts: Ohio Senator Rob Portman (R) was one of a handful of Washington, D.C lawmakers and policy experts invited to participate in a panel discussion on the fiscal cliff on Tuesday morning, but his prepared remarks were temporarily derailed by about a dozen protestors who stood up, one at a time, to confront Portman over his [...]/p

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Ohio Secretary of State Reveals Plan To Further Restrict Voting

Ohio Secretary of State Reveals Plan To Further Restrict Voting: Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R), apparently not satisfied with restricting state-wide early voting hours, has now admitted he wants to reduce the number of valid IDs voters can show at the polls. A leaked audio recording of a Tea Party event in Cincinnati caught the Secretary reassuring Tea Party members that the Legislature [...]/p

Friday, September 14, 2012

Romney Campaign Approvingly Cites Statement Saying That Its Tax Plan Doesn’t Add Up

Romney Campaign Approvingly Cites Statement Saying That Its Tax Plan Doesn’t Add Up: The Romney campaign has been pushing back against a recent report by Innovation Ohio and the Center for American Progress showing that “millionaires in [Ohio] would receive an additional $87,000 in tax breaks under the tax plans of Gov. Romney and Rep. Ryan while middle-class families would pay $1,900 more in health care taxes and [...]/p

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Ohio Secretary of State Refuses To Comply With Early Voting Court Order

Ohio Secretary of State Refuses To Comply With Early Voting Court Order: Jon Husted, Republican Secretary of State in Ohio, is refusing to change his restrictive early voting schedule even after a federal court restored in-person early voting to all Ohioans during the three day period before the general election. Husted claims expanding hours before an appeals court hears his case will “only serve to confuse voters.” [...]/p

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Romney tells miners 'you've got a great boss.' That boss made them lose pay to listen to Romney.

Romney tells miners 'you've got a great boss.' That boss made them lose pay to listen to Romney.
""You've got a great boss, he runs a great operation here," Mitt Romney told a group of Ohio coal miners at a Murray Energy mine on Aug. 14, before launching into an attack on President Obama's supposed opposition to coal. That "great boss," it turns out, had made the miners' attendance at the Romney event mandatory and unpaid"

Monday, August 27, 2012

Four Ways the Ohio GOP is Already Stealing the 2012 Election | Common Dreams

Four Ways the Ohio GOP is Already Stealing the 2012 Election | Common Dreams
"Clearly the Ohio GOP is once again geared up to deny the vote---and vote count---to as many Democrats as it can.  If it succeeds, as it did in 2004, Barack Obama stands little chance of being re-elected."

Friday, August 10, 2012

Ohio Limits Early Voting Hours In Democratic Counties, Expands In Republican Counties

Ohio Limits Early Voting Hours In Democratic Counties, Expands In Republican Counties: Ohio has introduced a new tactic in their broader attempts to make it even harder for Democratic voters to get to the polls this year. Early voting stations in Ohio’s heavily Democratic counties will only be open between 8 am and 5 pm, while Republican counties have expanded their hours to allow voting on nights [...]/p

GOP war on voting curbs access in Ohio Democratic counties

Ohio has introduced a new tactic in their broader attempts to make it even harder for Democratic voters to get to the polls this year. Early voting stations in Ohio’s heavily Democratic counties will only be open between 8 am and 5 pm, while Republican counties have expanded their hours to allow voting on nights and weekends.

Blocking the vote in Ohio

"Republicans in Ohio are limiting early voting for Democratic-leaning areas, but expanding them for Republican-leaning areas."