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Ohio GOP’s “new candidates”: White male, white male-oh, & another white male


Here’s the subject line for an Ohio GOP email:

New Chairman, New Candidates for 2010

First red flag that there will be nothing new in the included Ohio GOPTV video?

This past week also saw the announcement from Senator George Voinovich that he will retire at the end of his term in 2010 and the entrance of former Congressman and U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman into the U.S. Senate race.

Eh. Okay – I’ll humor myself, I thought – maybe, maybe there’ll be something that actually meets the definition of “new” in there.  Check it out for yourself first:

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Could anything look less new?

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John McClelland – not new

Kevin DeWine – not new

Bob Bennett – not new

George Voinovich – not new

Rob Portman – not new

And just for fun, I’ve added in two other not new names that keep being mentioned as new:

Jon Husted – not new

Kevin Coughlin – not new

More fun still, try to play a one of these things is not like the other game with the folks pictured (which is why, if you figured it out, I didn’t put the photos in order of how I list the people).  One has black hair. Two are retiring.  One is in court trying to figure out where he really lives.  Eh – nothing really remarkable when it comes to standing out in a voter’s mind as someone you want to vote for.

For a communications director, seems like McClelland needs to check out a dictionary:

Definitions of “new” on the Web:

  • not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered; “a new law”; “new cars”; “a new …
  • fresh: original and of a kind not seen before; “the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem”
  • raw: lacking training or experience; “the new men were eager to fight”; “raw recruits”
  • having no previous example or precedent or parallel; “a time of unexampled prosperity”
  • new(a): other than the former one(s); different; “they now have a new leaders”; “my new car is four years old but has only 15,000 miles on it”; “ready to take a new direction”
  • unaffected by use or exposure; “it looks like new”
  • newfangled: (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new; “newfangled ideas”; “she buys all these new-fangled machines and never uses them”
  • in use after medieval times; “New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties”
  • Modern: used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; “Modern English”; “New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew”
  • (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; “new potatoes”; “young corn”
  • newly: very recently; “they are newly married”; “newly raised objections”; “a newly arranged hairdo”; “grass new washed by the rain”; “a freshly cleaned floor”; “we are fresh out of tomatoes”
  • unfamiliar; “new experiences”; “experiences new to him”; “errors of someone new to the job”

Now, an Ohio Democrat, winning the senate seat that Voinovich is vacating. That would be new. And a woman Dem winning – that would be newer still.

However, as most regular readers of WLST know, I harbor a desire to see Ohio State Auditor Mary Taylor totally mess with these so-called leaders in the Ohio GOP and round up supporters and commitments and go for that nomination, because that would be new too.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:35 pm January 17th, 2009 in Campaigning, Democrats, Elections, Gender, Government, Mary Taylor, Ohio, Politics, Republicans, Sexism, Voting, Women, conservatives, leadership 

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7 Responses to “Ohio GOP’s “new candidates”: White male, white male-oh, & another white male”

  1. 1 Eric on January 17th, 2009 3:49 pm

    Since we’re pimping posts yours reminded me of this:

    http://www.plunderbund.com/2006/07/19/new-blackwell-staff-game-find-diversity/

  2. 2 Jill Miller Zimon on January 17th, 2009 4:05 pm

    Oh that’s good, Eric! I do remember that post. Amazing how not new the GOP’s idea of new is.

  3. 3 Sandy Theis on January 17th, 2009 6:25 pm

    The GOP is treating Mary Taylor just like it treated Betty Montgomery. It has underestimated and under-appreciated both.

  4. 4 anastasia p on January 17th, 2009 6:37 pm

    Well, I’m not sure how “new” Mary Taylor would be. So far, she seems like the same old, same old to me as far as the GOP goes (nasty, ultra-right, running on unimportant issues and smears, potential corruption and conflict-of-interest isses). Seriously, the GOP had a MORE diverse a ticket in 2006, especially when it comes to women, where a full HALF their ticket was women, compared to only two on ours, which featured four white men, to their two. it’s not sex and race that make things new, but fresher, better ideas. If the GOP ran Mary Taylor cynically, because they think a woman’s name on the ballot will help get her elected, but she’s still flogging abortion and gay marriage, then no, I am not anymore interested than I would have been in electing a crackpot like Sandy O’Brien treasurer, also running on abortion and gay marriage, but demonstrating an almost total ignorance of the financial issues key in running the treasurer’s office.

  5. 5 Jason Rowsey on January 18th, 2009 12:30 am

    Let’s be fair and bipartisan. Sherrod Brown is awfully white. But all joking aside, it would be nice to see more diversity in both parties.

  6. 6 Where are the women in Ohio GOP’s promise for new candidates in 2010? : Writes Like She Talks on January 14th, 2010 1:02 pm

    [...] to the level of statewide office?  Will women surface to replace Matt Dolan or Mark Waggoner? The Ohio GOP said there’s be new faces in 2010 – but that seems to be only by the strictest of [...]

  7. 7 Now GOP women complaining re: lack of GOP female pols? Still too little too late : Writes Like She Talks on February 3rd, 2010 10:31 am

    [...] all the talk about the Ohio GOP’s new faces, new names, where are they?  Yeah – no where.  No minorities, few women.  Even the insurgents appear [...]

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