OH: More Money Stuff (August)

[Ohioguy29]

What's going on with Joe Helle?

https://www.portclintonnewsherald.com/story/news/local/2018/08/07/joe-helle-resigns-mayor-oak-harbor/921910002/

[Ohioguy29]

Cordray is on to us.

I saw that and wondered if he'd been reading Atlas! Lol

[Ohioguy29]

That's a good ad from Cordray!

[Ohioguy29]

Man, Cordray and DeWine are both super lame

https://twitter.com/JMBorchardt/status/1036973897843990528

Other highlights:

• Cordray has smoked weed. DANK governor confirmed.
• DeWine says he hasn't read the Bible all the way through. For SHAME #christians4cordray
• Remember that article about how the candidates are "two different kinds of boring" and the writer says that DeWine is "like a grandpa on the porch going on about how much he enjoys pie?" DeWine mentions pie MULTIPLE times in this interview, like what the hell man.
• Cordray says if there's a movie about his life, he'll be played by Jack McBrayer.
  

[Ohioguy29]

Saw a Cordray sign next to a Renacci sign the other day. Not actual news, just thought it was interesting.

[Ohioguy29]

Oh boy. Bill Seitz is something else.

https://twitter.com/Claydog_15/status/1042235143287652352

[Ohioguy29]

Cordray did well and got in some sick burns, meanwhile DeWhine was yelling "RAPE KITS!" whenever he didn't have an answer to a question, also anything he didn't get done was somehow Cordray's fault.

I'd say this was Cordray's best moment:

https://youtu.be/-rV-QUb39yw?t=5m35s

Some other good ones:

https://youtu.be/-rV-QUb39yw?t=11m6s

https://youtu.be/-rV-QUb39yw?t=15m14s

https://youtu.be/-rV-QUb39yw?t=20m43s

[Ohioguy29]

Oh boy. Bill Seitz is something else.

Lolwut

Sadly he's not even the craziest legislator in southwest Ohio by far. Imo Ohio's worst legislator is John Becker, who said that the 11 year old girl who got tased by police deserved it and so do "punks" who were shot and killed by police, including Tamir Rice. He also said that Massachusetts should be expelled from the union for legalizing gay marriage back when that happened. And back in 2015, he said this in his horrible little newsletter "The Becker Report":

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YEESH. No wonder he was once voted "least compassionate" by his colleagues. Candice Keller, meanwhile, went on a white power radio show (she claimed she didn't know that) and generally says some off the chain stuff. And Niraj Antani said that kids should be allowed to bring long guns to school. Finally, we had one dude who got arrested because he passed out drunk with a loaded firearm in the McDonald's drivethru and refused to resign; he got primaried out, luckily. This is just a nutty region of Ohio. Sadly, Antani is the only one who has much of a chance of losing in November.

[Ohioguy29]

Jack Cera's opponent dropped out of the race due to "family issues," so now he is running unopposed. It's too late for Republicans to replace their guy on the ballot or mount a write in campaign for someone. Safe D->Safer D

[Ohioguy29]

What, just "family issues"? No other info as to what happened?

He had an affair. Nothing particularly juicy.

[Ohioguy29]

Nah, I think a better contrast of their personalities would be that Cordray comes off as the "adorkable" type, whereas DeWine comes off as the cranky uncle that you have to deal with every Thanksgiving.

Also accurate. Really there's a lot of ways to describe the nuances of boring.

[Ohioguy29]

Just got done watching the third debate! This one was worth the watch, unlike the second one (which was a total snoozefest, at least what I watched of it.) Link here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re7-qaQevmg

[Ohioguy29]

So where are people on Issue 1? After a lot of internal back and forth, I've decided I'll be supporting it. I ended up voting against the Drug Control legislation last Fall.

I'm planning on a yes vote. I was initially a non-hesitant yes, but then people I actually respect (aka not Mike DeWine) have mentioned the impact it could have on drug courts and that concerns me. In general I've thought about it more and I wish that there was some provision in there that would force people to seek treatment or at least strongly encourage it (there is the latter, but only for inmates.) I'm not a social libertarian, especially not on drug issues. But throwing people in jail didn't work in the '80s and it's not working now. I think this will be an improvement.

Side note, the fact that the Zuck supports this makes me want to reflexively vote no.

[Ohioguy29]

Those are the same districts I think are the best targets. However, while 3 looks great on paper, the candidate there is a disaster. We could still win just because of fundamentals though.

[Ohioguy29]

"Between September 2012 and August 2013, Attorney General Mike DeWine’s office twice declined to go after the drug manufacturers that flooded the market with addictive prescription opioids. Instead, DeWine waited to take legal action against these drug companies until May 2017—less than one month before declaring his bid for governor."

http://plunderbund.com/2018/10/15/documents-reveal-mike-dewine-declined-to-take-on-drug-companies-fueling-opioid-epidemic/

I expect we'll be seeing attack ads about this.

[Ohioguy29]

Has Aftab fallen off the face of the Earth?

This belongs in the congressional elections forum. For the record, things are pretty uneventful down here, although Trump and Chabot did a rally on Friday and Aftab did one with John Lewis yesterday.

[Ohioguy29]

Like this ad from Cordray

https://twitter.com/RM_Patterson/status/1051855114632335360

[Ohioguy29]

I’d honestly expect HD-95, which went to trump HARD to flip before the 3rd, 7th, 16th, or 23rd.

I second this. In the 3rd, Gordon dropped out due to health issues and Some Guy(tm) replaced him. I'm glad he stepped up but he doesn't have time to throw together much of a campaign. And I'm not seeing much in the 7th, 16th, or 23rd that gives me hope.

[Ohioguy29]

It's that time of the year again: time to read too much into early vote numbers and panic:

https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/columnists/2018/10/19/blue-wave-early-voting-ohio-election/stories/20181018114?abnpageversion=evoke

(Seriously though, what's up with Cuyahoga.)

[Ohioguy29]

https://twitter.com/ButlerDemocrats/status/1056137411439267841

Butler County deserves better.

[Ohioguy29]

Just phone banked for the first time, got to see that ticket splitting in action. Yes I'm voting for Aftab and Sherrod Brown, no I'm not voting for Cordray. Luckily Cordray doesn't need to win my congressional district to win statewide.

[Ohioguy29]

Just phone banked for the first time, got to see that ticket splitting in action. Yes I'm voting for Aftab and Sherrod Brown, no I'm not voting for Cordray. Luckily Cordray doesn't need to win my congressional district to win statewide.

Cordray needs every vote possible...

I'd obviously like everyone who's voting for Brown to vote for Cordray. But in practice you can't convince everyone, and Ohioans love ticket splitting.

[Ohioguy29]

Just phone banked for the first time, got to see that ticket splitting in action. Yes I'm voting for Aftab and Sherrod Brown, no I'm not voting for Cordray. Luckily Cordray doesn't need to win my congressional district to win statewide.

That's not how gubernatorial elections work. 

What do you mean? That is indeed how gubernatorial elections work. Total number of statewide votes matters. How well you do in individual congressional districts is irrelevant unless you're running for Congress.

[Ohioguy29]

Just phone banked for the first time, got to see that ticket splitting in action. Yes I'm voting for Aftab and Sherrod Brown, no I'm not voting for Cordray. Luckily Cordray doesn't need to win my congressional district to win statewide.

That's not how gubernatorial elections work. 

What do you mean? That is indeed how gubernatorial elections work. Total number of statewide votes matters. How well you do in individual congressional districts is irrelevant unless you're running for Congress.

Why are voting for DeWine???

Or are you saying you encountered Brown, DeWine, Pureval voters on the phone? I'm absolutely not surprised by the latter most.

Oh Lord, definitely the latter! I hate DeWine!

[Ohioguy29]

Steve Dettelbach talks about his Judaism and how state attorney generals can help combat hate groups:

https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/09/i_declare_my_jewishness_in_res.html