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VIDEO: Brunner and Fisher in Hamilton County last Wednesday night

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I’ll watch tomorrow.  See them all here.  An interview with Jennifer Brunner:

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:52 pm January 24th, 2010 in Jennifer Brunner, lee fisher, Ohio, Politics, senate | Comments Off 

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24

From a woman who knows how to get things done, from a state whose Senate is majority…female

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New Hampshire. Gotta love it. Dump the men in Congress and let the female legislators get health care done.

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Hattip Progress Ohio.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:55 pm January 24th, 2010 in Gender, Health Care, leadership, Politics, Social Issues, Women | Comments Off 

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24

Corporations Are A Legal Fiction, And Now So Is Political Speech

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Fiction. As in, not real. Which is pretty much what the United States Supreme Court has just done with our fundamental right to freedom of speech where political speech is involved.  As in, made it not real.

From SCOTUSblog on this point of being a legal fiction:

Justice Stevens, writing for the dissenters, turned Chief Justice John Marshall’s celebrated comment in the Dartmouth College case — in a ruling that actually favored the corporate form — into a belittling comment: “A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.  Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it.” [emphasis added]

I’ll tell you who can make a lot of money off of Citizens United: the first law school textbook publisher who comes out with the text needed for law schools, since they will have to change their corporate law curriculums to explain the Sybil-like personalities of the previously all-fiction personhood of corporations.

Ugh. Don’t get me started. Too late. Some reading to do for more on this SCOTUS decision: Read more

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:24 pm January 24th, 2010 in Business, Campaigning, Courts, democracy, Ethics, Government, Law, Politics, Tech, Voting | 4 Comments 

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Kasich-Taylor: What on Earth Am I Missing?

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Brent Larkin says the 2010 governor’s race is John Kasich and Mary Taylor’s to lose. This editorial in the Youngstown Vindicator says Kasich’s income tax elimination gimmick will be bought as an idea worth embracing by voters (to his credit, Larkin slams it, thank goodness).

I don’t get it. At all. I think Kasich presents horribly, says very little of substance and doesn’t talk about anything other than the tax elimination program (and leaves out all the details of how he’ll accomplish balancing the budget as the state loses up to $12 billion in revenue by the end of the phase out).

Do you even want to know that when I typed in “Kasich Taylor” in order to get to their campaign website, nothing comes up even remotely related to such a thing until a fourth entry on the second page of results and then it goes to their blog? Read more

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:50 am January 24th, 2010 in Campaigning, Elections, Mary Taylor, Media, Ohio, Politics, Republicans, Taxes, Tech, Ted Strickland, Voting | 3 Comments 

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