Print This Post Print This Post

Apr

30

Where I stand: Brunner v. Fisher in Ohio’s US Senate race

Filed Under Democrats, Elections, Jennifer Brunner, lee fisher, Ohio, Politics, rob portman, senate | 5 Comments

Early on, I didn’t believe Jennifer Brunner wanted to run for U.S. Senate.

Early on, I felt sadness creep in because 1) I was wrong in not believing that she wanted to run for the U.S. Senate and 2) I really loved her as Secretary of State.

But early on, when I learned that becoming Ohio’s junior U.S. Senator was what she wanted to do, I never, not once, not for a single second, hesitated to support her as the best candidate and as someone who would serve Ohioans with distinction as a U.S. Senator.  I will be voting for Jennifer Brunner in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate race on May 4, next Tuesday. Read more

Bookmark and Share

By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:24 pm April 30th, 2010 in Democrats, Elections, Jennifer Brunner, lee fisher, Ohio, Politics, rob portman, senate | 5 Comments 

Print This Post Print This Post

Apr

30

Alice Miller & Plain Dealer Page of Violence*

Filed Under Civil Rights, Crime, Culture, Education, Ethics, Health Care, Illness, intolerance, Law, leadership, Mental health, Parenting, peace, Sexism, Social Issues, Women, Youth | 1 Comment

Take a look at the Plain Dealer’s Metro section today, page B3.  Here are the headlines:

North Ridgeville teen guilty of killing of sex abuser

Brooklyn ex-mayor pleads not guilty in 2008 case [charges involve assaulting a woman at City Hall while the ex-mayor was drunk]

Couple: Boy found beaten, tied to table

Crash: Community staggered by teenagers’ deaths [car crash involving 3 teens including one - who crashed into a car pulling out of  a driveway - who has admitted driving with a broken speedometer on a classic Mustang]

Then read this obituary of Alice Miller and this account of her work at Alice Miller, Child Abuse and Mistreatment. It’s not just what makes it to B3.

What are people thinking?

Devastating. Just absolutely tears rolling down my cheeks red with anger devastating.

We have failed to inculcate that there were laws to protect animals before there were laws to protect kids and that being a parent involves undertaking the single most grave responsibility there is in this life: raising another human being.

*TO BE CLEAR: It’s not the PD’s fault that people are committing these acts.  Yes, they choose the news we end up reading, but “but for” people being behind these acts, there wouldn’t be any of this to report.  Frankly, if I thought it would keep one person from hurting another and protect one person from being hurt, I’d tell the PD to fill an entire day’s edition full of these stories until people rid themselves of every tool of anger, rage, intolerance and lack of a conscience.  If we don’t trust that we can make an argument with words to persuade others, I refuse to accept that using violence will reach any preferable result.

Bookmark and Share

By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:26 am April 30th, 2010 in Civil Rights, Crime, Culture, Education, Ethics, Health Care, Illness, intolerance, Law, leadership, Mental health, Parenting, peace, Sexism, Social Issues, Women, Youth | 1 Comment 

"));