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5

WLST WaPo’s “Choose Your Candidate” quiz results – fascinating

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I took the Democrats quiz. The results:

1. Bill Richardson -40 points

2. Chris Dodd – 29 points

3. Barack Obama – 28 points

4. Hillary Clinton – 17 points

5. John Edwards – 10 points

Richardson and Dodd being at the top of my list does not surprise me at all. Clinton being at the bottom doesn’t surprise me either. Obama being neck and neck with Dodd is very interesting. I will have to think about that, especially given this post from earlier today.

However, according to this information, no answers existed in the quiz from Joe Biden, Dennis Kucinich of Mike Gravel. So it’s not quite as fun and fascinating as we might think because I wanted to see if Biden would have a strong show.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:30 pm December 5th, 2007 in Politics | 25 Comments 

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5

WCPN Roundtable, Round 2: the chemistry must have been too good!

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Listen live tomorrow from here. Or listen later at your convenience from here.

Call in: 216-578-0903

Write in: news@wcpn.org 

Now, on a blog, I get to write a subject like that, knowing that people who know me are the primary readers here. And anyone else who finds this blog? They got here by googling “jill adult star.”

So, either they will be people who will click away when they see that there is no “jill adult star” here or they will be people who know that I am being a little silly and attention-getting-ish and a little ribbing of the fact that this week, listeners will again have the Plain Dealer’s Mark Naymik and myself to listen to, in addition to Joe Tone from the Cleveland Scene.

A few listeners who shall remain unnamed, after the last show(down)(just kidding) with Mark, myself and CoolCleveland.com‘s Thomas Mulready, reported to me that they felt letdown: they thought that I was too nice and that there were no real arguments or disagreements.

But I make no apologies and no promises. The focus isn’t on the panelists, it’s on what the listeners can benefit from hearing-and if you’re a listener, you need to call in to let us know what that is. I never sit there thinking, “how can I piss off…” Never happens, not gonna happen. Fahgeddaboutit.

Besides – if all Mark, Joe and I do is give you are opinions, how would that be any different from, let’s say, oh – a blog?

Here’s the line-up:

Reporters’ Roundtable
Aired Thursday, December 06, 2007
It’s been a banner week for candidacy announcements: Cleveland Councilman Joe Cimperman is vying for Congressman Kucinich’s seat, and Republican Bay Village Mayor Deborah Sutherland announced she’ll face off against Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Jones, a Democrat. We’ll talk about those races, plus the linked fates of maternity leave and an erstwhile candidate for auditor, Goodyear’s decision to stay in Akron, a possible end to Cleveland City Council’s troubles, and your tax dollars in action. Pull your chair up to the roundtable, Thursday at 9 a.m.

Guests: Mark Naymik, politics reporter The Plain Dealer
Joe Tone, managing editor, Cleveland Scene Magazine
Jill Miller Zimon, blogger, Writes Like She Talks

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:47 pm December 5th, 2007 in Announcements, Blogging, Media, Ohio, Politics, WCPN/SOI | Comments Off 

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5

Transcript, live-blog log of NPR Democratic Debate

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I listened to chunks of this on and off during my afternoon shlepping duties and the main thing I kept thinking was: Why isn’t Biden up there!? Why isn’t he up there in numbers, in talk, in everything? I’m telling you, just having the voice and nothing else? He did the best.

I apologize to the Obamamaniacs out there – I like Barack Obama, but he is not my pick right now.

Edwards-lovers – yeah, he’s okay.

Gravel – SCARED THE CRAP out of me.

Kucinich – same old same old. Just too on his own for me.

Dodd – I really like the guy, but he’s not going to make it.

Richardson – was he there?? I didn’t hear him once

Hillary – she sounded good, very good, but nothing new and again, I really liked Biden’s substance and presentation – he was concise, specific and intentional.

Here’s the transcript.

Here’s the live-blog – you’ll have to go down to 12/4/07 entries.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:17 pm December 5th, 2007 in Media, Politics, WH2008 | 6 Comments 

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Dec

5

Must-See PeeDee

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Go give him the traffic.  Thanks, Keith.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:03 pm December 5th, 2007 in Flip, Media | Comments Off 

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5

Med Mart? What Med Mart?

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I’m very pleased to read Monday’s Plain Dealer editorial.  Please, please, please, PD – do do the follow up you promise in the editorial:

As of today, people who buy things in Cuyahoga County have been paying extra sales tax for two solid months — money that’s supposed to pay for a convention center allied with the Medical Mart.

“What Medical Mart?” you might ask. Well, we’re asking, too — and we plan to explore that question in depth right away.

Superlawyer Fred Nance has been working with Merchandise Mart Properties Inc. on this since July — apparently in a soundproof, hermetically sealed vault.

What’s going on? Is there some kind of snag? Should we be worried? Hello?

If ever there’s a time that readers could be happy that publisher Terry Egger serves on the board of the Cleveland Clinic, it is now – wouldn’t you like him to exert a little pressure to ask that last series of questions?

Or is he restricted from doing that precisely because he is on the board?

I’m actually not sure – but it would be nice to get some answers to those questions one way or another.

This is definitely more the kind of editorial I’d like to see, though it could be even stronger by stating that the commissioners should have had a plan to show us, on a monthly basis, as those taxes roll in, what is being done – a live webcam-style something or other to help us follow this.

Because we should not forget: we never got to approve that tax increase.  The least the commissioners and other pro-Med Mart folks can do is show us what’s happening now that they’ve subjected us and all county visitors to it.

And with Bay Village Mayor Deborah Sutherland (R) challenging current Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones (D), let’s also remember that she very overtly supported that tax without voter approval, while Jones wanted the voters to decide.  More on Sutherland’s candidacy from the PD here.

Hattip King.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:49 am December 5th, 2007 in Business, Cleveland+, Elections, Government, Ohio, Politics | 7 Comments 

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5

WaPo’s “Choose Your Candidate” quiz

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I’m sure there’s a lot of these floating around. I don’t have time right now to take any of them but I think they’re kind of fun.  Always have to question who calibrates them etc. though.

Here’s the Washington Post’s most recent version.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:15 am December 5th, 2007 in Campaigning, Elections, Politics, WH2008 | 3 Comments 

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5

For the love of fear: Grendell and Bush

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First, this Plain Dealer follow up article on this PD Openers’ blog item provides more opinion about the fear engendered by State Rep. Tim Grendell’s interest in a personal sex offender radar system that would detect when someone wearing an ankle monitor could be detected in your vicinity:

…David Singleton, executive director of the Ohio Justice & Policy Center, said the system plays on fears in the community while penalizing people who have already served time in prison for their crimes.

Singleton called Offendar “utterly ridiculous and absurd.”

“What are we trying to do, make it impossible for people to get on their feet again and be productive citizens?” he said. “This is crazy, and I’m outraged by it, because it doesn’t make my daughter any safer.”

Lindsay Fello-Sharpe, of the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center, said 90 percent of sex crime victims are assaulted by a person they know or trust.

“This just plays on the great myths out there, such as the stranger-danger myth that’s not true,” said Fello-Sharpe. “It’s sending the wrong message and setting people up with a false sense of security.”

Has anyone checked to see if Grendell or anyone in his circle has stock or other interests in the company? Read more

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:31 am December 5th, 2007 in Elections, Foreign Affairs, Government, Media, Ohio, Politics, Social Issues, Statehouse | 17 Comments 

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5

PD on OH-10, and All Kucinich’s Men…and Women

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Thanks, Mark for this more thorough Plain Dealer account of what the Ohio 10th congressional district race looks like.

I’m going to chalk up yesterday to word count and, let’s imagine, classifying the story as a profile, or something, on Cleveland City Councilman Joe Cimperman, who is now in the race against Dennis Kucinich for the OH-10 congressional seat, against already declared, non-office holders Rosemary Palmer and Barbara Ferris, and expected to declare North Olmstead Mayor Tom O’Grady.

Other potential candidates, office holders and non-office holders, are here at Ohio Daily Blog.

Of course, the dynamics at play in that district are worthy of even more discussion, but I’m sure that will come through the comments at Openers (already a lot there) and other articles and editorials. Frankly, I think it’s a fascinating race.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:25 am December 5th, 2007 in Blogging, Campaigning, Cleveland+, Elections, Media, Ohio, Politics, WH2008, Women | Comments Off 

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5

Carnival of Ohio Politics #94 posted

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Thanks go to Lisa Renee of Glass City Jungle for Carnival of Ohio Politics #94.

New blood – we always thirst for new blood! So if you haven’t submitted anything before, please think about going boldly where you’ve never gone before (you’ll know what I mean when you see the theme pic for #94).

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:05 am December 5th, 2007 in Announcements, Blogging, Carnivals, Ohio, Politics | Comments Off 

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