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A Midautumn’s Night Rehm: Bliss Institute’s John Green mixes it up with Christian voters
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Need something to keep you awake?
Try this. I knew that was Professor Green (very distinctive voice, like Diane).
The description:
A recent poll suggests a growing number of conservative Christians have become disillusioned with the Republican party. We’ll hear what’s mobilizing Christian voters on the right and left of the political spectrum.
Guests
Peter Sprigg, vice president for policy at the Family Research Council
Bob Edgar, general secretary, National Council of Churches, author of “Middle Church: Reclaiming The Moral Values Of The Faithful Majority From The Religious Right” (Simon and Schuster)
John Green, senior fellow in religion and American politics, Pew Forum on Religions and Public Life and director of the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:19 pm September 27th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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From the AP:
A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a 2004 directive by Ohio’s elections chief against exit polling within 100 feet of a voting place.
U.S. District Judge Michael H. Watson ruled that a verbal order by Secretary of State Ken Blackwell before the 2004 presidential election violated the press’ rights under the First Amendment.
The lawsuit was brought by five television networks – ABC, CNN, CBS, Fox News and NBC – and The Associated Press, which had formed a consortium to collect exit-polling data in Ohio and other states.
“It’s a victory for certainly all the organizations that gather information from voters on Election Day,” said attorney Susan Buckley, who represented the news organizations. “It is very important that this information continues to be available not only to the public, but to scholars and historians and the like.”
Watson ordered Blackwell to issue an explicit clarification by Oct. 15 so that exit polls can take place in this year’s election.
Watson had issued a temporary order in 2004 that allowed the news organizations to conduct exit polls that year. His ruling Tuesday means polling can continue in the future, Buckley said.
Still working on finding the opinion.
UPDATE: Okay. Well, I looked at what I could and all I saw were dismissals of the case. I couldn’t find where Watson says there’s a violation of the press rights. But then, it’s way past the time I should be allowed to blog so who knows what I’m missing.
From The Plain Dealer.
From the Akron Beacon Journal.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:46 pm September 27th, 2006 in Politics | 1 Comment
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A Midautumn’s Night Rehm: Bliss Institute’s John Green mixes it up with Christian voters
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Need something to keep you awake?
Try this. I knew that was Professor Green (very distinctive voice, like Diane).
The description:
A recent poll suggests a growing number of conservative Christians have become disillusioned with the Republican party. We’ll hear what’s mobilizing Christian voters on the right and left of the political spectrum.
Guests
Peter Sprigg, vice president for policy at the Family Research Council
Bob Edgar, general secretary, National Council of Churches, author of “Middle Church: Reclaiming The Moral Values Of The Faithful Majority From The Religious Right” (Simon and Schuster)
John Green, senior fellow in religion and American politics, Pew Forum on Religions and Public Life and director of the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:19 pm September 27th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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27
Bungle in the "Copyright Jungle"
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Excellent article in the Columbia Journalism Review by Siva Vaidhyanathan called “Copyright Jungle.” I’d urge you to sip some coffee, drink a beer or just relax and read. This piece is a must know for bloggers.
Hattip to RAWBlog‘s Peter Friedman.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:54 pm September 27th, 2006 in Politics | 2 Comments
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(Updated) U.S. District Court strikes down Blackwell ban, by verbal order, on 2004 exit polls
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From the AP:
A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a 2004 directive by Ohio’s elections chief against exit polling within 100 feet of a voting place.
U.S. District Judge Michael H. Watson ruled that a verbal order by Secretary of State Ken Blackwell before the 2004 presidential election violated the press’ rights under the First Amendment.
The lawsuit was brought by five television networks – ABC, CNN, CBS, Fox News and NBC – and The Associated Press, which had formed a consortium to collect exit-polling data in Ohio and other states.
“It’s a victory for certainly all the organizations that gather information from voters on Election Day,” said attorney Susan Buckley, who represented the news organizations. “It is very important that this information continues to be available not only to the public, but to scholars and historians and the like.”
Watson ordered Blackwell to issue an explicit clarification by Oct. 15 so that exit polls can take place in this year’s election.
Watson had issued a temporary order in 2004 that allowed the news organizations to conduct exit polls that year. His ruling Tuesday means polling can continue in the future, Buckley said.
Still working on finding the opinion.
UPDATE: Okay. Well, I looked at what I could and all I saw were dismissals of the case. I couldn’t find where Watson says there’s a violation of the press rights. But then, it’s way past the time I should be allowed to blog so who knows what I’m missing.
From The Plain Dealer.
From the Akron Beacon Journal.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:46 pm September 27th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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27
Has Cuyahoga Cty judicial candidate/C-land Muni Judge Joan Synenberg made a fatal error with Zach Reed?
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Maybe fatal to him? More possibly fatal to her if it proves to be fatal to him?
Sigh. Just like I asked in this post on 5/2/06, does no one love Zach Reed?
Certainly not Cleveland Muni Court Judge Joan Synenberg, who is running against attorney Christine Russo for a Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court judicial seat.
Today, Synenberg decided that although Cleveland City Councilman Zach Reed, “is guilty of ‘terrible, unforgivable judgment,’…[he is] not guilty of a second probation violation…there was insufficient evidence that Reed drank alcohol in the last few months,” according to a Plain Dealer article. Synenberg then “released him from probation after giving him a tongue-lashing for continuing to frequent bars while prohibited from drinking alcohol during his probation for a drunken-driving conviction.”
Hmm, when’s the last time a tongue-lashing of an adult who has already broken the law related to drunk driving and violated probation kept that adult on the straight and narrow for the rest of his life?
Synenberg was a social worker after getting a BA at CSU and before she became a lawyer, including work in the Cuyahoga County Jail. I was a licensed social worker who did field work in the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court and City Council while getting my JD/MSSA and then worked at a mental health agency for eight years.
So, if she thinks like a social worker still, even a little bit, she would not have made the decision she made in Reed’s case, given these facts:
This information about Reed’s original offense:
Reed was stopped by police in April 2005 when his car was swerving. He failed sobriety tests and registered an alcohol level of 0.28 – more than three times Ohio’s legal limit of 0.08.
He was later convicted of driving under the influence and disorderly conduct and sentenced to three days in an alcohol treatment program and a $650 fine.
This information in today’s PD account of Synenberg releasing Reed from probation:
Earlier this year, Reed told his probation officer that he had remained sober, then admitted in a May court hearing that he had consumed alcohol. Synenberg gave him 10 days in jail for that violation.
Once out, Reed continued barhopping.
One of his attorneys, George Forbes, questioned Reed’s judgment. Forbes said he and his wife were dining in the Warehouse District this summer when they saw Reed.
“What is wrong with you?” Forbes asked him. “What are you doing here?”
WOIO Channel 19 video recorded Reed recently at bars in the Warehouse District and the Flats.
Reed promised at Tuesday’s hearing that he had not consumed alcohol during those nights out. His probation officer doubted him, saying Reed previously misled her and has a “credibility problem.”
The probation officer recommended that Synenberg extend Reed’s probation six months and make him wear an electronic monitoring device and attend more alcohol abuse classes.
Synenberg reviewed the video of Reed at bars, and said while it may have appeared that he was drinking beer, she concluded he hadn’t been.
Anyone remember James Cline? Anyone remember Edele Passalacqua?
Cline blew through 11 DUIs before he killed two college students. How long can Zach Reed avoid being Cline?
Passalacqua was his assigned counsel on DUI #10 and assigned to #11. She asked to be removed as Cline’s counsel in #11, the judge refused, she didn’t show up and was fined $100. Just like Synenberg, she defended people accused of crimes. As Regina Brett writes about what Passalacqua says,
“I represent very bad people. Child molesters. Rapists. Murderers,” she said. “It’s what I do for a living.”
It’s what all criminal defense lawyers do: Protect the constitutional rights of defendants, regardless of what they think of those charged with crimes.
“My job is not to get them off for something they did,” Passalacqua said. “My job is exclusively to make sure the state of Ohio does its job.”
What we need are judges who will do theirs.
Did Synenberg do her job as judge with Reed? Does she pass this test set up by the case history of Cline and the judges who passed him down the line until he became a murderer?
Or did she identify too much with her old line of work as a criminal defense lawyer, representing people like Frank Gruttadauria?
In Passalacqua’s case, the PD endorsed her, but she lost by about 1000 votes.
In Synenberg’s case, the PD has endorsed her not once (less than a week after she entered the race in late August) but twice since she entered the race against Russo. I was confident that she can overcome the name game because of her qualifications and appeal, but now? I fear that Synenberg’s decision in Reed’s case will put her on the short end eventually, even if Reed stays clean for the next 42 days.
Very sadly, Zach Reed may wind up the best example of just how difficult it is for people to kick addictions, or even just plain old bad habits. And if he does turn out to be that example, Judge Synenberg may be made an example of as well.
I hope, hope, hope I am wrong.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:57 pm September 27th, 2006 in Politics | 4 Comments
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27
Guess those GOPpers weren’t interested in all the slots they could’ve filled. Having a city’s mayor sell out to gambling as a way to fund education kind of puts a big L on your city’s forehead. Or a D – as in desperate beyond all desperation.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:48 pm September 27th, 2006 in Politics | 12 Comments
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27
Bungle in the "Copyright Jungle"
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Excellent article in the Columbia Journalism Review by Siva Vaidhyanathan called “Copyright Jungle.” I’d urge you to sip some coffee, drink a beer or just relax and read. This piece is a must know for bloggers.
Hattip to RAWBlog‘s Peter Friedman.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:54 pm September 27th, 2006 in Politics | 2 Comments
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27
Has Cuyahoga Cty judicial candidate/C-land Muni Judge Joan Synenberg made a fatal error with Zach Reed?
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Maybe fatal to him? More possibly fatal to her if it proves to be fatal to him?
Sigh. Just like I asked in this post on 5/2/06, does no one love Zach Reed?
Certainly not Cleveland Muni Court Judge Joan Synenberg, who is running against attorney Christine Russo for a Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court judicial seat.
Today, Synenberg decided that although Cleveland City Councilman Zach Reed, “is guilty of ‘terrible, unforgivable judgment,’…[he is] not guilty of a second probation violation…there was insufficient evidence that Reed drank alcohol in the last few months,” according to a Plain Dealer article. Synenberg then “released him from probation after giving him a tongue-lashing for continuing to frequent bars while prohibited from drinking alcohol during his probation for a drunken-driving conviction.”
Hmm, when’s the last time a tongue-lashing of an adult who has already broken the law related to drunk driving and violated probation kept that adult on the straight and narrow for the rest of his life?
Synenberg was a social worker after getting a BA at CSU and before she became a lawyer, including work in the Cuyahoga County Jail. I was a licensed social worker who did field work in the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court and City Council while getting my JD/MSSA and then worked at a mental health agency for eight years.
So, if she thinks like a social worker still, even a little bit, she would not have made the decision she made in Reed’s case, given these facts:
This information about Reed’s original offense:
Reed was stopped by police in April 2005 when his car was swerving. He failed sobriety tests and registered an alcohol level of 0.28 – more than three times Ohio’s legal limit of 0.08.
He was later convicted of driving under the influence and disorderly conduct and sentenced to three days in an alcohol treatment program and a $650 fine.
This information in today’s PD account of Synenberg releasing Reed from probation:
Earlier this year, Reed told his probation officer that he had remained sober, then admitted in a May court hearing that he had consumed alcohol. Synenberg gave him 10 days in jail for that violation.
Once out, Reed continued barhopping.
One of his attorneys, George Forbes, questioned Reed’s judgment. Forbes said he and his wife were dining in the Warehouse District this summer when they saw Reed.
“What is wrong with you?” Forbes asked him. “What are you doing here?”
WOIO Channel 19 video recorded Reed recently at bars in the Warehouse District and the Flats.
Reed promised at Tuesday’s hearing that he had not consumed alcohol during those nights out. His probation officer doubted him, saying Reed previously misled her and has a “credibility problem.”
The probation officer recommended that Synenberg extend Reed’s probation six months and make him wear an electronic monitoring device and attend more alcohol abuse classes.
Synenberg reviewed the video of Reed at bars, and said while it may have appeared that he was drinking beer, she concluded he hadn’t been.
Anyone remember James Cline? Anyone remember Edele Passalacqua?
Cline blew through 11 DUIs before he killed two college students. How long can Zach Reed avoid being Cline?
Passalacqua was his assigned counsel on DUI #10 and assigned to #11. She asked to be removed as Cline’s counsel in #11, the judge refused, she didn’t show up and was fined $100. Just like Synenberg, she defended people accused of crimes. As Regina Brett writes about what Passalacqua says,
“I represent very bad people. Child molesters. Rapists. Murderers,” she said. “It’s what I do for a living.”
It’s what all criminal defense lawyers do: Protect the constitutional rights of defendants, regardless of what they think of those charged with crimes.
“My job is not to get them off for something they did,” Passalacqua said. “My job is exclusively to make sure the state of Ohio does its job.”
What we need are judges who will do theirs.
Did Synenberg do her job as judge with Reed? Does she pass this test set up by the case history of Cline and the judges who passed him down the line until he became a murderer?
Or did she identify too much with her old line of work as a criminal defense lawyer, representing people like Frank Gruttadauria?
In Passalacqua’s case, the PD endorsed her, but she lost by about 1000 votes.
In Synenberg’s case, the PD has endorsed her not once (less than a week after she entered the race in late August) but twice since she entered the race against Russo. I was confident that she can overcome the name game because of her qualifications and appeal, but now? I fear that Synenberg’s decision in Reed’s case will put her on the short end eventually, even if Reed stays clean for the next 42 days.
Very sadly, Zach Reed may wind up the best example of just how difficult it is for people to kick addictions, or even just plain old bad habits. And if he does turn out to be that example, Judge Synenberg may be made an example of as well.
I hope, hope, hope I am wrong.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:57 pm September 27th, 2006 in Politics | 4 Comments
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27
Guess those GOPpers weren’t interested in all the slots they could’ve filled. Having a city’s mayor sell out to gambling as a way to fund education kind of puts a big L on your city’s forehead. Or a D – as in desperate beyond all desperation.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:48 pm September 27th, 2006 in Politics | 11 Comments
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27
Bungle in the "Copyright Jungle"
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Excellent article in the Columbia Journalism Review by Siva Vaidhyanathan called “Copyright Jungle.” I’d urge you to sip some coffee, drink a beer or just relax and read. This piece is a must know for bloggers.
Hattip to RAWBlog‘s Peter Friedman.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:54 pm September 27th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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27
Reason #42 to VOTE NO on ISSUE 3
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Because when someone tells you to just tape that entire bag of M&Ms to your thighs rather than ingest them, you lose your interest in eating them (at least sometimes anyway).
Likewise, if we were asked to give 55% of every dollar that we’d otherwise spend on slots directly to Forest City (without the slots as a distracting middleman) et al., another 30% to Ohio’s colleges, some more to state taxes and a bit to ODADAS (I always liked saying that acronym), do ya really think you’d be forking over your money to FCE? Do ya really think you want to acknowledge your money is going to someone who already has money and is only re-investing it in opportunities that exist on the backs of those least able to carry the weight?
Proponents will say, but I get enjoyment out of playing slots. Yeah? Really? You get enjoyment out of thinking that you might win, even though you know intellectually the stakes are stacked against you, always and forever. It’s a money-making business that makes money off of your inability to visualize what you look like with M&Ms taped to your thighs.
Proponents may say that it’s their dollar and if they want to give it to Forest City then they should be allowed to.
Then write a check. It’s faster and it’s in present day dollars – much more valuable for investement purposes.
Same for the education: if the concept of Ohio Learn and Earn is so awesome, amazing and worthy of a state constitutional amendment, they why the &%#&%# aren’t each and every one of us in Ohio willing to just give that amount of money over to the Board of Regents starting now?
I’ve set up nonprofits before. I volunteer to set up a nonprofit to collect money from everyone who wants OLE because of the scholarships without Forest City getting a bigger cut than our kids. In fact, in my nonprofit, FCE won’t get a dime – it will all go to education.
Because if you signed the petition for Issue 3 thinking it was all about education, you were mistaken and misled.
But in my nonprofit, it can all go to education.
So hand over those M&Ms and go back to your regularly scheduled program, with no pay-offs to a company that has no problem letting others sell their soul to keep the company in the black.
Previous reasons to vote no on Issue 3:
Reason 43
Reason 44
Reason 45
Reason 46
Reason 47
Reason 48
Reason 49
Reason 50
Reason 51
Reason 52
Reason 53
Reason 54
Reason 55
Reason 56
Reason 57
Vote no on Issue 3.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:43 pm September 27th, 2006 in Politics | 8 Comments
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Has Cuyahoga Cty judicial candidate/C-land Muni Judge Joan Synenberg made a fatal error with Zach Reed?
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Maybe fatal to him? More possibly fatal to her if it proves to be fatal to him?
Sigh. Just like I asked in this post on 5/2/06, does no one love Zach Reed?
Certainly not Cleveland Muni Court Judge Joan Synenberg, who is running against attorney Christine Russo for a Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court judicial seat.
Today, Synenberg decided that although Cleveland City Councilman Zach Reed, “is guilty of ‘terrible, unforgivable judgment,’…[he is] not guilty of a second probation violation…there was insufficient evidence that Reed drank alcohol in the last few months,” according to a Plain Dealer article. Synenberg then “released him from probation after giving him a tongue-lashing for continuing to frequent bars while prohibited from drinking alcohol during his probation for a drunken-driving conviction.”
Hmm, when’s the last time a tongue-lashing of an adult who has already broken the law related to drunk driving and violated probation kept that adult on the straight and narrow for the rest of his life?
Synenberg was a social worker after getting a BA at CSU and before she became a lawyer, including work in the Cuyahoga County Jail. I was a licensed social worker who did field work in the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court and City Council while getting my JD/MSSA and then worked at a mental health agency for eight years.
So, if she thinks like a social worker still, even a little bit, she would not have made the decision she made in Reed’s case, given these facts:
This information about Reed’s original offense:
Reed was stopped by police in April 2005 when his car was swerving. He failed sobriety tests and registered an alcohol level of 0.28 – more than three times Ohio’s legal limit of 0.08.
He was later convicted of driving under the influence and disorderly conduct and sentenced to three days in an alcohol treatment program and a $650 fine.
This information in today’s PD account of Synenberg releasing Reed from probation:
Earlier this year, Reed told his probation officer that he had remained sober, then admitted in a May court hearing that he had consumed alcohol. Synenberg gave him 10 days in jail for that violation.
Once out, Reed continued barhopping.
One of his attorneys, George Forbes, questioned Reed’s judgment. Forbes said he and his wife were dining in the Warehouse District this summer when they saw Reed.
“What is wrong with you?” Forbes asked him. “What are you doing here?”
WOIO Channel 19 video recorded Reed recently at bars in the Warehouse District and the Flats.
Reed promised at Tuesday’s hearing that he had not consumed alcohol during those nights out. His probation officer doubted him, saying Reed previously misled her and has a “credibility problem.”
The probation officer recommended that Synenberg extend Reed’s probation six months and make him wear an electronic monitoring device and attend more alcohol abuse classes.
Synenberg reviewed the video of Reed at bars, and said while it may have appeared that he was drinking beer, she concluded he hadn’t been.
Anyone remember James Cline? Anyone remember Edele Passalacqua?
Cline blew through 11 DUIs before he killed two college students. How long can Zach Reed avoid being Cline?
Passalacqua was his assigned counsel on DUI #10 and assigned to #11. She asked to be removed as Cline’s counsel in #11, the judge refused, she didn’t show up and was fined $100. Just like Synenberg, she defended people accused of crimes. As Regina Brett writes about what Passalacqua says,
“I represent very bad people. Child molesters. Rapists. Murderers,” she said. “It’s what I do for a living.”
It’s what all criminal defense lawyers do: Protect the constitutional rights of defendants, regardless of what they think of those charged with crimes.
“My job is not to get them off for something they did,” Passalacqua said. “My job is exclusively to make sure the state of Ohio does its job.”
What we need are judges who will do theirs.
Did Synenberg do her job as judge with Reed? Does she pass this test set up by the case history of Cline and the judges who passed him down the line until he became a murderer?
Or did she identify too much with her old line of work as a criminal defense lawyer, representing people like Frank Gruttadauria?
In Passalacqua’s case, the PD endorsed her, but she lost by about 1000 votes.
In Synenberg’s case, the PD has endorsed her not once (less than a week after she entered the race in late August) but twice since she entered the race against Russo. I was confident that she can overcome the name game because of her qualifications and appeal, but now? I fear that Synenberg’s decision in Reed’s case will put her on the short end eventually, even if Reed stays clean for the next 42 days.
Very sadly, Zach Reed may wind up the best example of just how difficult it is for people to kick addictions, or even just plain old bad habits. And if he does turn out to be that example, Judge Synenberg may be made an example of as well.
I hope, hope, hope I am wrong.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:57 am September 27th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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Cleveland loses as Minneapolis-St Paul gets GOP convention
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Guess those GOPpers weren’t interested in all the slots they could’ve filled. Having a city’s mayor sell out to gambling as a way to fund education kind of puts a big L on your city’s forehead. Or a D – as in desperate beyond all desperation.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:48 am September 27th, 2006 in Politics | Comments Off
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Reason #42 to VOTE NO on ISSUE 3
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Because when someone tells you to just tape that entire bag of M&Ms to your thighs rather than ingest them, you lose your interest in eating them (at least sometimes anyway).
Likewise, if we were asked to give 55% of every dollar that we’d otherwise spend on slots directly to Forest City (without the slots as a distracting middleman) et al., another 30% to Ohio’s colleges, some more to state taxes and a bit to ODADAS (I always liked saying that acronym), do ya really think you’d be forking over your money to FCE? Do ya really think you want to acknowledge your money is going to someone who already has money and is only re-investing it in opportunities that exist on the backs of those least able to carry the weight?
Proponents will say, but I get enjoyment out of playing slots. Yeah? Really? You get enjoyment out of thinking that you might win, even though you know intellectually the stakes are stacked against you, always and forever. It’s a money-making business that makes money off of your inability to visualize what you look like with M&Ms taped to your thighs.
Proponents may say that it’s their dollar and if they want to give it to Forest City then they should be allowed to.
Then write a check. It’s faster and it’s in present day dollars – much more valuable for investement purposes.
Same for the education: if the concept of Ohio Learn and Earn is so awesome, amazing and worthy of a state constitutional amendment, they why the &%#&%# aren’t each and every one of us in Ohio willing to just give that amount of money over to the Board of Regents starting now?
I’ve set up nonprofits before. I volunteer to set up a nonprofit to collect money from everyone who wants OLE because of the scholarships without Forest City getting a bigger cut than our kids. In fact, in my nonprofit, FCE won’t get a dime – it will all go to education.
Because if you signed the petition for Issue 3 thinking it was all about education, you were mistaken and misled.
But in my nonprofit, it can all go to education.
So hand over those M&Ms and go back to your regularly scheduled program, with no pay-offs to a company that has no problem letting others sell their soul to keep the company in the black.
Previous reasons to vote no on Issue 3:
Reason 43
Reason 44
Reason 45
Reason 46
Reason 47
Reason 48
Reason 49
Reason 50
Reason 51
Reason 52
Reason 53
Reason 54
Reason 55
Reason 56
Reason 57
Vote no on Issue 3.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:43 am September 27th, 2006 in Politics | 8 Comments
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27
Reason #42 to VOTE NO on ISSUE 3
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Because when someone tells you to just tape that entire bag of M&Ms to your thighs rather than ingest them, you lose your interest in eating them (at least sometimes anyway).
Likewise, if we were asked to give 55% of every dollar that we’d otherwise spend on slots directly to Forest City (without the slots as a distracting middleman) et al., another 30% to Ohio’s colleges, some more to state taxes and a bit to ODADAS (I always liked saying that acronym), do ya really think you’d be forking over your money to FCE? Do ya really think you want to acknowledge your money is going to someone who already has money and is only re-investing it in opportunities that exist on the backs of those least able to carry the weight?
Proponents will say, but I get enjoyment out of playing slots. Yeah? Really? You get enjoyment out of thinking that you might win, even though you know intellectually the stakes are stacked against you, always and forever. It’s a money-making business that makes money off of your inability to visualize what you look like with M&Ms taped to your thighs.
Proponents may say that it’s their dollar and if they want to give it to Forest City then they should be allowed to.
Then write a check. It’s faster and it’s in present day dollars – much more valuable for investement purposes.
Same for the education: if the concept of Ohio Learn and Earn is so awesome, amazing and worthy of a state constitutional amendment, they why the &%#&%# aren’t each and every one of us in Ohio willing to just give that amount of money over to the Board of Regents starting now?
I’ve set up nonprofits before. I volunteer to set up a nonprofit to collect money from everyone who wants OLE because of the scholarships without Forest City getting a bigger cut than our kids. In fact, in my nonprofit, FCE won’t get a dime – it will all go to education.
Because if you signed the petition for Issue 3 thinking it was all about education, you were mistaken and misled.
But in my nonprofit, it can all go to education.
So hand over those M&Ms and go back to your regularly scheduled program, with no pay-offs to a company that has no problem letting others sell their soul to keep the company in the black.
Previous reasons to vote no on Issue 3:
Reason 43
Reason 44
Reason 45
Reason 46
Reason 47
Reason 48
Reason 49
Reason 50
Reason 51
Reason 52
Reason 53
Reason 54
Reason 55
Reason 56
Reason 57
Vote no on Issue 3.
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