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15
Looks like I’ll be adjusting my filter for information that comes from the Buckeye Institute from how I currently interpret its reports and statements. From the Plain Dealer OPENERS:
Blackwell, whose 2006 campaign platform included cutting taxes and expanding school choice, has joined the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions, a Columbus-based conservative think tank. He will receive a stipend under a fellowship named for former President Ronald Reagan
“He will be doing it all when it comes to disseminating our conservative viewpoint – he’ll be speaking and representing us at the national level and preparing pieces for publication,” David Hansen, president of the Buckeye Institute, said.
Hansen said he sees no downside to formalizing a relationship with Blackwell, beaten badly last November and whose positions were portrayed by critics as extreme.
”We just see it as an upside,” Hansen said. “He knows us and has been a great consumer of our issues and has a conservative vision for the state. He knows a lot of people around and he will put us on a national map.”
Um, well, I guess if you don’t want huge chunks of Ohioans to get behind anything you have to say, then that kind of attitude is exactly what you should have.
Hooboy.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:36 pm February 15th, 2007 in Politics
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The Buckeye Institute must be pretty effing desperate.
That or they have an election they want to royally screw up.
I’ll have more to say later at my place. But for now: Think Fink.
Yeah, I voted for Ken Blackwell.
His pro-life stance was key for me. Wasn’t meant to be at that time…
Paula – Thanks. That’s a pretty make or break issue for a lot of people. I would say for me, separation of church and state was really ruling him out for me, among other things. But it was his presentation of religion in his campaigning that made me feel that I would be unable to stay in Ohio if he was elected (yeah, I know, kind of dramatic, but that’s how I felt.)
Needless to say, some of Gov. Strickland’s move with religion aren’t my favorites, but I don’t anticipate the kind of exclusionary sounds and actions I felt were coming from Blackwell and his supporters.
I think they think they know exactly what they’re doing. And I respect my friend Paula’s choice here related to pro-life. But I wonder how the rest of his agenda, and the Buckeye Institute’s will appeal overall.