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If Fred Thompson is like Dick Cheney, I can start ignoring him now
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Thespis Journal favorably compares possible GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson to Vice President Dick Cheney.
That’s a pretty insurmountable problem for me.
Btw, did you read about Halliburton moving its HQ to Dubai? Nice way to keep jobs in the U.S.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:02 pm March 11th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off
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If Fred Thompson is like Dick Cheney, I can start ignoring him now
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Thespis Journal favorably compares possible GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson to Vice President Dick Cheney.
That’s a pretty insurmountable problem for me.
Btw, did you read about Halliburton moving its HQ to Dubai? Nice way to keep jobs in the U.S.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:02 pm March 11th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off
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Blackwell joins group that likes Ann Coulter’s schoolyard taunt of John Edwards as much as Coulter does
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Does this mean that Ken Blackwell won’t mind if Family Research Council employees, leaders or speakers at events use any other schoolyard taunts with which he might be more familiar? I know I didn’t like it when I got called “kike” in middle school and I sure as heck wouldn’t be affiliated in any positive way with any entity that allowed its members or affiliates or paid speakers to use it.
Here’s the announcement of his appointment.
Here’s the history of the use of “faggot” by the Family Research Council’s religious leaders last fall at an event, Value Voters Summit, that included, what a surprise, Ann Coulter.
By the way, all the leaders in the Family Research Council are white males. The only woman, also white, is in communications. That would be Charmaine Yoest. I’ve emailed Dr. Yoest via her blog to ask her opinion, as a mother of five and employee of the FRC, of Michelle Malkin and my take on Ann Coulter (that is, we don’t want our kids thinking it’s okay to use language the way Coulter did at CPAC). I look forward to her response and frankly am shocked that there’s no statement whatsoever from the Family Research Council on this issue. Of all the entities that I would imagine coming down hard on Coulter, I would think it would have been the FRC.
Oh – oops, they had Coulter speak at that event last fall where people were bandying about the word “faggot.” Guess slurs – or schoolyard taunts – are okay by them.
Hmm – so what, exactly, does their image of a family look like?
Can use schoolyard taunts? Check.
Can use slurs and say that they are schoolyard taunts? Check.
Religious folks to whom children look up can use slurs and call them schoolyard taunts, or just use schoolyard taunts? Check.
Lovely families all, I’m sure.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:53 pm March 11th, 2007 in Politics | 2 Comments
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I need another way to say Hoya Saxa! Oh, I know – We are the Champions
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Very exciting. I guess I have to keep track of the NCAA March Madness this year.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:31 pm March 11th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off
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The debate continue re: pay per post arrangements versus “authentic” blogging here in Can You Trust a Blogger’s Advice? See also this article, Blogging for dollars raises questions of online ethics.
Now – what if you parallel this debate to political bloggers and financial support from political parties, candidates, issue campaigns.
Don’t readers sometimes talk this way about the MSM re: its financial supporters and editorial decisions? So – wouldn’t it then be a fair (even if not accurate) lob at political bloggers?
Nothing? Something? Droopy eyes from daylight savings time?
H/t BFD and The Blogging Journalist.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:16 pm March 11th, 2007 in Politics | 4 Comments
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11
Eye on Eye of the Statehouse needed
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[Viewer advisory: This post contains some sarcasm. Read and react at your own peril.]
Last week I sent this waste tip to Eye on the Statehouse, but it hasn’t appeared yet nor have I received any comment beyond a form email:
I’m using this form to provide a waste spending tip.
The Ohio House and Senate decided to sue Governor Strickland over his veto of a bill. They authorized a quarter of a million dollars for themelves to pursue this lawsuit with outside counsel.
Since Eye on the Statehouse posted an implication that Attorney General Marc Dann should be careful with how much he uses and spends on outside counsel, this item about the Statehouse’s authorization for itself of a quarter of a million dollars to pursue a lawsuit with outside counsel seems to fall right into the same niche of waste you have targeted.
Please post this item as an example of waste in the Statehouse. Thank you.
Then, this morning, I read this Columbus Dispatch item about alleged waste in the former Governor Taft-run faith-based office and I sent this email to Eye on the Statehouse:
Please use this item as an example of waste:
http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/03/11/20070311-C6-00.html
It concerns the following, as stated in the Dispatch’s article:
“A contractor getting paid $3,500 a day to oversee faithbased initiatives for needy Ohio families spent some of the federal welfare money on downtown parking, big-screen televisions and a glowing report on the job it was doing, it was reported yesterday.
“Gov. Ted Strickland last week asked the state inspector general and the Department of Job and Family Services to investigate the Governor’s Office on Faithbased and Community Initiatives and its $2 million contract with We Care America, the Dayton Daily News reported.”
Specifically:
“The state set aside $22 million over two years from a surplus in federal welfare funds for a project to strengthen families in July 2005. That September, We Care America, based in Lansdowne, Va., won the contract to manage the project.
“The newspaper reviewed invoices, e-mails and other documents related to the contract, and found expenses including $15,000 to buy and install 50-inch televisions in the Columbus and Virginia offices, $125 monthly downtown parking fees and $6,000 to commission a report that said Ohio’s faith-based programs should be an example for other states.
“Krista Sisterhen, the former director of the faith-based office, said yesterday that the agency worked closely with state financial overseers.”
And finally:
“We Care was one of seven bidders for the contract. Four met the requirement to have experience in three areas: helping former inmates re-enter society, marriage counseling and providing mentors to troubled youth.
“The Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies met those requirements and submitted a bid at a lower price than We Care, but was rejected because it lacked experience developing Web sites, the newspaper said.
“We Care later was allowed to subcontract the Internet work, said Phil Cole, the Ohio Association’s executive director. “
Thank goodness Buckeye Institute is a nonpartisan entity, because this example of waste that’s being inherited but thank goodness investigated by the current administration is something that I know I, as an Ohio voter and taxpayer, want you to expose to your broader audience.
Does We Care America do some good work that needs to be done? Most likely, yes. But that doesn’t justify receiving millions of dollars for religious work: in fact, it has filed an amicus brief in support of the Bush administration’s attempt to prohibit taxpayers from challenging federal expenditures on behalf of religion (see Hein v. Freedom of Religion Foundation; the core issue being that we not destroy any further the wall between church and state, to the extent that Congress or an executive order could allow taxpayer money to be spent on building churches and or other unconstitutional uses of taxpayer money; read more here).
If you read or otherwise learn about waste, whereever you find it, I hope you’ll forward it to Eye of the Statehouse too and press them to fulfill their mission statement, or else give up their tax exempt status. From what I’ve seen, for an entity that calls itself nonpartisan, it doesn’t read or behave that way.
For example, it hasn’t mentioned Treasurer Richard Cordray’s termination of a contract with KeyCorp that will save hundreds of thousands of dollars. And it’s given no kudos to Attorney General Marc Dann’s win with a hattip to Republican and former Attorney General, Jim Petro. that was reported nationally on Marketplace.
So there are two waste tips and two “pistol of the week” entries. I’m doing all the work for you, Mr. LoParo. Aw – just kidding.
Maybe I just need to give you a little more time to demonstrate your new, nonpartisan nature?
Or not.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:46 pm March 11th, 2007 in Politics | 4 Comments
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Rating Ohio: Columbus Dispatch comparison graphic
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What a nice display to find in my aggregator this morning. I’ll need to print it out and look at it for a while before I can decide if I think it means anything and what that might be.
Taking a quick glance down the right-hand column, I’m thinking: where’s the graphic that lists all the criteria we top? In a good way (not like most sedentary people per capita)?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:34 pm March 11th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off
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11
Blackwell joins group that likes Ann Coulter’s schoolyard taunt of John Edwards as much as Coulter does
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Does this mean that Ken Blackwell won’t mind if Family Research Council employees, leaders or speakers at events use any other schoolyard taunts with which he might be more familiar? I know I didn’t like it when I got called “kike” in middle school and I sure as heck wouldn’t be affiliated in any positive way with any entity that allowed its members or affiliates or paid speakers to use it.
Here’s the announcement of his appointment.
Here’s the history of the use of “faggot” by the Family Research Council’s religious leaders last fall at an event, Value Voters Summit, that included, what a surprise, Ann Coulter.
By the way, all the leaders in the Family Research Council are white males. The only woman, also white, is in communications. That would be Charmaine Yoest. I’ve emailed Dr. Yoest via her blog to ask her opinion, as a mother of five and employee of the FRC, of Michelle Malkin and my take on Ann Coulter (that is, we don’t want our kids thinking it’s okay to use language the way Coulter did at CPAC). I look forward to her response and frankly am shocked that there’s no statement whatsoever from the Family Research Council on this issue. Of all the entities that I would imagine coming down hard on Coulter, I would think it would have been the FRC.
Oh – oops, they had Coulter speak at that event last fall where people were bandying about the word “faggot.” Guess slurs – or schoolyard taunts – are okay by them.
Hmm – so what, exactly, does their image of a family look like?
Can use schoolyard taunts? Check.
Can use slurs and say that they are schoolyard taunts? Check.
Religious folks to whom children look up can use slurs and call them schoolyard taunts, or just use schoolyard taunts? Check.
Lovely families all, I’m sure.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:53 pm March 11th, 2007 in Politics | 2 Comments
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In defense of Eric Carmen
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When I saw this Plain Dealer breaking news item, my heart sank.
I’m not a big fan, and I was never a big fan of Eric Carmen’s music. But for a few years, our kids took swim lessons at the same place and when I was arriving, he’d be leaving. He seemed like the total stay-at-home dad, carting the coats, the totes and the kids as they resisted leaving the pool. He had a resigned smile that left me thinking that he had just the right temperament to hear what the kids were saying without overreacting to their pleas not to leave, or whatever else it was they wanted.
The fact that the alleged incident happened just around the corner from my house, however, also makes me glad that it wasn’t my mailbox.
Good luck, Eric. I hope you, and everything else, gets straightened out.
Ooo – creepy – his birthday is a day before mine, and the same as my Rabbi’s I think.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:19 pm March 11th, 2007 in Politics | 6 Comments
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11
I need another way to say Hoya Saxa! Oh, I know – We are the Champions
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Very exciting. I guess I have to keep track of the NCAA March Madness this year.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:31 am March 11th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off
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The debate continue re: pay per post arrangements versus “authentic” blogging here in Can You Trust a Blogger’s Advice? See also this article, Blogging for dollars raises questions of online ethics.
Now – what if you parallel this debate to political bloggers and financial support from political parties, candidates, issue campaigns.
Don’t readers sometimes talk this way about the MSM re: its financial supporters and editorial decisions? So – wouldn’t it then be a fair (even if not accurate) lob at political bloggers?
Nothing? Something? Droopy eyes from daylight savings time?
H/t BFD and The Blogging Journalist.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:16 am March 11th, 2007 in Politics | 4 Comments
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Blackwell joins group that likes Ann Coulter’s schoolyard taunt of John Edwards as much as Coulter does
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Does this mean that Ken Blackwell won’t mind if Family Research Council employees, leaders or speakers at events use any other schoolyard taunts with which he might be more familiar? I know I didn’t like it when I got called “kike” in middle school and I sure as heck wouldn’t be affiliated in any positive way with any entity that allowed its members or affiliates or paid speakers to use it.
Here’s the announcement of his appointment.
Here’s the history of the use of “faggot” by the Family Research Council’s religious leaders last fall at an event, Value Voters Summit, that included, what a surprise, Ann Coulter.
By the way, all the leaders in the Family Research Council are white males. The only woman, also white, is in communications. That would be Charmaine Yoest. I’ve emailed Dr. Yoest via her blog to ask her opinion, as a mother of five and employee of the FRC, of Michelle Malkin and my take on Ann Coulter (that is, we don’t want our kids thinking it’s okay to use language the way Coulter did at CPAC). I look forward to her response and frankly am shocked that there’s no statement whatsoever from the Family Research Council on this issue. Of all the entities that I would imagine coming down hard on Coulter, I would think it would have been the FRC.
Oh – oops, they had Coulter speak at that event last fall where people were bandying about the word “faggot.” Guess slurs – or schoolyard taunts – are okay by them.
Hmm – so what, exactly, does their image of a family look like?
Can use schoolyard taunts? Check.
Can use slurs and say that they are schoolyard taunts? Check.
Religious folks to whom children look up can use slurs and call them schoolyard taunts, or just use schoolyard taunts? Check.
Lovely families all, I’m sure.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:53 am March 11th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off
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Eye on Eye of the Statehouse needed
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[Viewer advisory: This post contains some sarcasm. Read and react at your own peril.]
Last week I sent this waste tip to Eye on the Statehouse, but it hasn’t appeared yet nor have I received any comment beyond a form email:
I’m using this form to provide a waste spending tip.
The Ohio House and Senate decided to sue Governor Strickland over his veto of a bill. They authorized a quarter of a million dollars for themelves to pursue this lawsuit with outside counsel.
Since Eye on the Statehouse posted an implication that Attorney General Marc Dann should be careful with how much he uses and spends on outside counsel, this item about the Statehouse’s authorization for itself of a quarter of a million dollars to pursue a lawsuit with outside counsel seems to fall right into the same niche of waste you have targeted.
Please post this item as an example of waste in the Statehouse. Thank you.
Then, this morning, I read this Columbus Dispatch item about alleged waste in the former Governor Taft-run faith-based office and I sent this email to Eye on the Statehouse:
Please use this item as an example of waste:
http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/03/11/20070311-C6-00.html
It concerns the following, as stated in the Dispatch’s article:
“A contractor getting paid $3,500 a day to oversee faithbased initiatives for needy Ohio families spent some of the federal welfare money on downtown parking, big-screen televisions and a glowing report on the job it was doing, it was reported yesterday.
“Gov. Ted Strickland last week asked the state inspector general and the Department of Job and Family Services to investigate the Governor’s Office on Faithbased and Community Initiatives and its $2 million contract with We Care America, the Dayton Daily News reported.”
Specifically:
“The state set aside $22 million over two years from a surplus in federal welfare funds for a project to strengthen families in July 2005. That September, We Care America, based in Lansdowne, Va., won the contract to manage the project.
“The newspaper reviewed invoices, e-mails and other documents related to the contract, and found expenses including $15,000 to buy and install 50-inch televisions in the Columbus and Virginia offices, $125 monthly downtown parking fees and $6,000 to commission a report that said Ohio’s faith-based programs should be an example for other states.
“Krista Sisterhen, the former director of the faith-based office, said yesterday that the agency worked closely with state financial overseers.”
And finally:
“We Care was one of seven bidders for the contract. Four met the requirement to have experience in three areas: helping former inmates re-enter society, marriage counseling and providing mentors to troubled youth.
“The Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies met those requirements and submitted a bid at a lower price than We Care, but was rejected because it lacked experience developing Web sites, the newspaper said.
“We Care later was allowed to subcontract the Internet work, said Phil Cole, the Ohio Association’s executive director. “
Thank goodness Buckeye Institute is a nonpartisan entity, because this example of waste that’s being inherited but thank goodness investigated by the current administration is something that I know I, as an Ohio voter and taxpayer, want you to expose to your broader audience.
Does We Care America do some good work that needs to be done? Most likely, yes. But that doesn’t justify receiving millions of dollars for religious work: in fact, it has filed an amicus brief in support of the Bush administration’s attempt to prohibit taxpayers from challenging federal expenditures on behalf of religion (see Hein v. Freedom of Religion Foundation; the core issue being that we not destroy any further the wall between church and state, to the extent that Congress or an executive order could allow taxpayer money to be spent on building churches and or other unconstitutional uses of taxpayer money; read more here).
If you read or otherwise learn about waste, whereever you find it, I hope you’ll forward it to Eye of the Statehouse too and press them to fulfill their mission statement, or else give up their tax exempt status. From what I’ve seen, for an entity that calls itself nonpartisan, it doesn’t read or behave that way.
For example, it hasn’t mentioned Treasurer Richard Cordray’s termination of a contract with KeyCorp that will save hundreds of thousands of dollars. And it’s given no kudos to Attorney General Marc Dann’s win with a hattip to Republican and former Attorney General, Jim Petro. that was reported nationally on Marketplace.
So there are two waste tips and two “pistol of the week” entries. I’m doing all the work for you, Mr. LoParo. Aw – just kidding.
Maybe I just need to give you a little more time to demonstrate your new, nonpartisan nature?
Or not.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:46 am March 11th, 2007 in Politics | 4 Comments
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11
Rating Ohio: Columbus Dispatch comparison graphic
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What a nice display to find in my aggregator this morning. I’ll need to print it out and look at it for a while before I can decide if I think it means anything and what that might be.
Taking a quick glance down the right-hand column, I’m thinking: where’s the graphic that lists all the criteria we top? In a good way (not like most sedentary people per capita)?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:34 am March 11th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off
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I need another way to say Hoya Saxa! Oh, I know – We are the Champions
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Very exciting. I guess I have to keep track of the NCAA March Madness this year.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:31 am March 11th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off
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11
In defense of Eric Carmen
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When I saw this Plain Dealer breaking news item, my heart sank.
I’m not a big fan, and I was never a big fan of Eric Carmen’s music. But for a few years, our kids took swim lessons at the same place and when I was arriving, he’d be leaving. He seemed like the total stay-at-home dad, carting the coats, the totes and the kids as they resisted leaving the pool. He had a resigned smile that left me thinking that he had just the right temperament to hear what the kids were saying without overreacting to their pleas not to leave, or whatever else it was they wanted.
The fact that the alleged incident happened just around the corner from my house, however, also makes me glad that it wasn’t my mailbox.
Good luck, Eric. I hope you, and everything else, gets straightened out.
Ooo – creepy – his birthday is a day before mine, and the same as my Rabbi’s I think.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:19 am March 11th, 2007 in Politics | 2 Comments
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11
Apply this to political blogs and what do you get?
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The debate continue re: pay per post arrangements versus “authentic” blogging here in Can You Trust a Blogger’s Advice? See also this article, Blogging for dollars raises questions of online ethics.
Now – what if you parallel this debate to political bloggers and financial support from political parties, candidates, issue campaigns.
Don’t readers sometimes talk this way about the MSM re: its financial supporters and editorial decisions? So – wouldn’t it then be a fair (even if not accurate) lob at political bloggers?
Nothing? Something? Droopy eyes from daylight savings time?
H/t BFD and The Blogging Journalist.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:16 am March 11th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off
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Eye on Eye of the Statehouse needed
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[Viewer advisory: This post contains some sarcasm. Read and react at your own peril.]
Last week I sent this waste tip to Eye on the Statehouse, but it hasn’t appeared yet nor have I received any comment beyond a form email:
I’m using this form to provide a waste spending tip.
The Ohio House and Senate decided to sue Governor Strickland over his veto of a bill. They authorized a quarter of a million dollars for themelves to pursue this lawsuit with outside counsel.
Since Eye on the Statehouse posted an implication that Attorney General Marc Dann should be careful with how much he uses and spends on outside counsel, this item about the Statehouse’s authorization for itself of a quarter of a million dollars to pursue a lawsuit with outside counsel seems to fall right into the same niche of waste you have targeted.
Please post this item as an example of waste in the Statehouse. Thank you.
Then, this morning, I read this Columbus Dispatch item about alleged waste in the former Governor Taft-run faith-based office and I sent this email to Eye on the Statehouse:
Please use this item as an example of waste:
http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/03/11/20070311-C6-00.html
It concerns the following, as stated in the Dispatch’s article:
“A contractor getting paid $3,500 a day to oversee faithbased initiatives for needy Ohio families spent some of the federal welfare money on downtown parking, big-screen televisions and a glowing report on the job it was doing, it was reported yesterday.
“Gov. Ted Strickland last week asked the state inspector general and the Department of Job and Family Services to investigate the Governor’s Office on Faithbased and Community Initiatives and its $2 million contract with We Care America, the Dayton Daily News reported.”
Specifically:
“The state set aside $22 million over two years from a surplus in federal welfare funds for a project to strengthen families in July 2005. That September, We Care America, based in Lansdowne, Va., won the contract to manage the project.
“The newspaper reviewed invoices, e-mails and other documents related to the contract, and found expenses including $15,000 to buy and install 50-inch televisions in the Columbus and Virginia offices, $125 monthly downtown parking fees and $6,000 to commission a report that said Ohio’s faith-based programs should be an example for other states.
“Krista Sisterhen, the former director of the faith-based office, said yesterday that the agency worked closely with state financial overseers.”
And finally:
“We Care was one of seven bidders for the contract. Four met the requirement to have experience in three areas: helping former inmates re-enter society, marriage counseling and providing mentors to troubled youth.
“The Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies met those requirements and submitted a bid at a lower price than We Care, but was rejected because it lacked experience developing Web sites, the newspaper said.
“We Care later was allowed to subcontract the Internet work, said Phil Cole, the Ohio Association’s executive director. “
Thank goodness Buckeye Institute is a nonpartisan entity, because this example of waste that’s being inherited but thank goodness investigated by the current administration is something that I know I, as an Ohio voter and taxpayer, want you to expose to your broader audience.
Does We Care America do some good work that needs to be done? Most likely, yes. But that doesn’t justify receiving millions of dollars for religious work: in fact, it has filed an amicus brief in support of the Bush administration’s attempt to prohibit taxpayers from challenging federal expenditures on behalf of religion (see Hein v. Freedom of Religion Foundation; the core issue being that we not destroy any further the wall between church and state, to the extent that Congress or an executive order could allow taxpayer money to be spent on building churches and or other unconstitutional uses of taxpayer money; read more here).
If you read or otherwise learn about waste, whereever you find it, I hope you’ll forward it to Eye of the Statehouse too and press them to fulfill their mission statement, or else give up their tax exempt status. From what I’ve seen, for an entity that calls itself nonpartisan, it doesn’t read or behave that way.
For example, it hasn’t mentioned Treasurer Richard Cordray’s termination of a contract with KeyCorp that will save hundreds of thousands of dollars. And it’s given no kudos to Attorney General Marc Dann’s win with a hattip to Republican and former Attorney General, Jim Petro. that was reported nationally on Marketplace.
So there are two waste tips and two “pistol of the week” entries. I’m doing all the work for you, Mr. LoParo. Aw – just kidding.
Maybe I just need to give you a little more time to demonstrate your new, nonpartisan nature?
Or not.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:46 am March 11th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off
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11
Rating Ohio: Columbus Dispatch comparison graphic
Filed Under Politics | Comments Off
What a nice display to find in my aggregator this morning. I’ll need to print it out and look at it for a while before I can decide if I think it means anything and what that might be.
Taking a quick glance down the right-hand column, I’m thinking: where’s the graphic that lists all the criteria we top? In a good way (not like most sedentary people per capita)?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:34 am March 11th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off
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11
In defense of Eric Carmen
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When I saw this Plain Dealer breaking news item, my heart sank.
I’m not a big fan, and I was never a big fan of Eric Carmen’s music. But for a few years, our kids took swim lessons at the same place and when I was arriving, he’d be leaving. He seemed like the total stay-at-home dad, carting the coats, the totes and the kids as they resisted leaving the pool. He had a resigned smile that left me thinking that he had just the right temperament to hear what the kids were saying without overreacting to their pleas not to leave, or whatever else it was they wanted.
The fact that the alleged incident happened just around the corner from my house, however, also makes me glad that it wasn’t my mailbox.
Good luck, Eric. I hope you, and everything else, gets straightened out.
Ooo – creepy – his birthday is a day before mine, and the same as my Rabbi’s I think.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:19 am March 11th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off
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