Dave Yost doing his job?

I like Dave Yost.  However, I was pretty disappointed in him by bowing to the ORP in not proceeding in running for the Attorney General position.  The ORP was looking for a place for Mike DeWine to land and talked Dave into running for State Auditor instead.  I wonder if they are now rethinking that move.

I have a few thoughts on this matter.

Here's a link to one of many stories on this subject:

1. Why do we have a "jobs Ohio"?  Just because it's Kasich's idea doesn't mean it's a good idea.  The government doesn't belong in the job creation business.  It's an oxymoron.  Government, by nature, kills businesses, either directly (killing coal jobs, for example) or indirectly (taxation).  The government, if they really want to create private sector jobs just needs to cut taxes and regulations and get out of the way, and jobs will happen. 
2. Why is "jobs ohio" giving back public money?  This seems weird.  Why give the money back?
3. Why is "jobs ohio", along with Kasich and Speaker Batchelder fighting this audit?  I can understand fighting an audit that is not authorized.  Give us some details why you don't want this audit?  Might be a very legit reason.  It just seems strange that a GOP Governor and GOP Speaker would fight a GOP Auditor about auditing an organization that receives dollars from taxpayers and just returned some of it once this audit commenced.
4. I wouldn't want audited just to be audited either.  Since the Auditor is adamant about it, why not latch on and want to prove to folks that all is cool?
5. As much as I can't stand the ORP (pretend to be conservatives in primary season, then once elected, govern like Jimmy Carter), Dave Yost might be just saving them from themselves before they have another Coingate/Noe moment.
6. Sounds to me like Yost is doing his job.............like it or not.

Spineless DeWine

While I'm not a fan of Romney, DeWine's reasoning for switching to supporting Santorum is sad.

He feels that Santorum has a better chance of beating the Muslim in Chief.

What happened to supporting someone because you feel they are more aligned with yourself?
What happened to loyalty?

From what I can see, neither of the Ohio GOP's DeWines are trustworthy.

Story here.

You mean, just like the GOP did with Mike DeWine?

Below is part of the latest "press release" by Kevin DeWine.

(Columbus) - Ohio Republican Party Chairman Kevin DeWine issued the following statement today regarding Eric Brown's announced candidacy for Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court:

"It's doubtful anyone would be talking about Eric Brown as a candidate for the top seat on the state's highest court if his name wasn't Brown. Democrats love to play the name game with Ohio elections by running candidates who sound familiar but are wholly unqualified for the job. Ohioans are smarter than that.

It's like the pot calling the kettle black.

I am so sick of the ORP and their choosing candidates for us before we can choose our own in the primary.

The local parties are too in-bred with the ORP to be a local voice. Most of the chairs of the local parties are more interested in getting jobs with winning GOP candidates than to be the voice of their own local conservative parties. We end up with a bunch of liberal RINOs that make no one happy. Remember Taft?

The ORP has abandoned conservatives. Want proof? Look what they did to Ken Blackwell. They completely abandoned him, I think they were ashamed that we actually voted for a conservative in the primary. Looks like they're not making that mistake again! They'd rather have Ted Strickland than a true conservative.

Now they want to force anti-gun Mike DeWine down our throats. Unbelievable!

OK, I've agreed with Redfern twice recently.....

First he asks for Athens County democrat chair, Susan Gwinn, to resign. Which, of course, she should have, and did.

Second, he says what we've been saying all along about Dave Yost and Mike DeWine:

Dispatch story here

"Ohio Democratic Chairman Chris Redfern said Yost was "strong-armed" out of the attorney general's race.

"Yost clearly wanted to be attorney general but was forced to play second fiddle to Kevin DeWine's second cousin and the second choice of the Republican base," Redfern said."

What they've done is allow the dems to keep the Attorney General office for another four years. This office could have been won by Yost.

Yost is the one that fits the Attorney General role. DeWine fits a Methodist minister role....in their new liberal teachings.

As detailed in these posts here.

Cordray should be re-elected as Attorney General as he is more conservative then DeWine!

These back room deals and schemes are what has turned folks away from the ORP. Taylor should have ran for Auditor again.....especially since it's very important for the gerrymandering that our 2 parties do after the census.

I am now convinced (I know, I must be a little slow) that the GOP is afraid of their own voters. They'd rather hand pick their candidates before the primary than let their conservative base pick it for them. The conservatives will abandon them again if they keep it up. The difference now is, their base has a place to go.

Amen, Brother. Who cares what the ORP thinks?

Couldn't have said it any better, though I've tried a few times myself, here and here.

I do believe the ORP would rather lose than support a conservative. Well, I know it's true. If it were not true, they'd be talking to DeWine to remove his name from the AG race, not Yost.

If DeWine wins the primary, conservatives are going to support the more conservative candidate in the general, regardless of party, which would be Cordray.

Jeanette Moll is right again

Below is a recent note to Jeanette's email subscribers.

Apparently I don't have to even think anymore on who to vote for in primaries. Whoever the RNC / ORP support....well, I'll usually support the other...as both organizations have a tendency to push who they "think" can win, not who is the more conservative.

Previous post on Moll / Gibbs.

Dave Yost and Jeanette Moll are both unembarrassed conservatives. Mike DeWine is only a Republican when campaigning. I have no idea about Bob Gibbs.

Makes you wonder sometimes if the ORP / RNC are run by closet democrats.


RECENT LIMITATIONS ON MAMMOGRAMS PROVIDE GLIMPSE INTO THE NEXT STEP FOR ZACK SPACE'S GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE PROGRAM

The Titanic is steaming ahead and the iceberg is in sight. Will we ignore the warning signs and pretend the collision won't do much damage?

The Titanic in this case is the $1.3 trillion government health care program passed this month with the support of our liberal Democrat congressman, Zack Space. Space's program will increase the role of the federal government in your day-to-day life. The iceberg is the massive power transferred to bureaucrats who will eventually determine what medical services we can get. Like the tip of an iceberg, Space's program doesn't look scary at first glance, but the danger runs far.

This week, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, which included no cancer specialists, issued a report recommending that long-time guidelines for breast cancer screening be reversed. They said most women under 50 shouldn't have a mammogram, thus eliminating the use of the best tool we have to detect breast cancer in its beginning stages. The panel then told women age 50 to 74 to only get mammograms every other year, instead of every year. The panel also determined that there's no cost benefit for elderly women to have mammograms at all.

The cruel irony of this heartless decision being announced this week was made clear by the passing of Stefanie Spielman. Stefanie raged a courageous battle against breast cancer for more than a decade, while raising awareness and millions of dollars for research to find a cure. Sadly, Stefanie left her husband, Ohio State football standout Chris Spielman, to raise their four children alone.

Like most Ohioans, my own life has been touch by the struggles and losses caused by breast cancer. I'm thankful that my aunt is a survivor but have also experienced the devastating loss of one of my best friends and another aunt.

What's most troubling about the federal panel's recommendations is that they are based mainly on cost saving. This is a harbinger of things to come, given Zack Space's support of the controversial legislation that will invite federal bureaucrats to use similar cost-saving measures to affect your family's health care.

Zack Space and his liberal Democrat cohorts in Washington say they want to provide more health coverage to millions of Americans, a worthy goal if only there were money available to pay for it. Because the federal government doesn't have that money, panels like the one reducing mammograms will undoubtedly try to cut costs by limiting other medical procedures.

Congresswoman Candice Miller of Michigan noted that when cost is considered, the question becomes "why have all these mammograms because it is very costly, they could test 2,000 women and only one is positive. I guess it doesn't matter. If you're the one, it matters." Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee went further, pointing out "This is how rationing begins...and this is where we start getting a bureaucrat between you and your physician."

James Thrall, a Harvard medical professor and chairman of the American College of Radiology said, "I fear we are entering an era of deliberate decisions where we choose to trade people's lives for money."

And if you don't think the Zack Space government health program will lead to a complete government takeover of healthcare, you need only to recall the promise made by Zack Space's friend and ally, Barack Obama. Speaking to the labor union AFL-CIO in 2003, Mr. Obama said "I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program ... a single-payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. And that's what I'd like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, and we have to take back the House."

Now that Zack Space and Barack Obama have their Democrat majorities in place, they can finally achieve Mr. Obama's government run health care. The only thing standing in their way is us -- you and me. We cannot afford for medical decisions to be treated as merely a matter of dollars. We must turn the ship around.

As always, you can learn more about my campaign, and you can donate, at www.MollForCongress.org

Dave Yost, the conservative AG candidate

Meigs democrats and Cordray

Pomeroy Daily Sentinel story below.

A couple of thoughts.

1. So Cordray is pro-death penalty as well as pro-gun? Yet the Ohio GOP wants us to support Mike DeWine for the Republican Attorney General nominee over Dave Yost? This makes absolutely no sense. Cordray is no raving lunatic typical democrat. Mike DeWine and his anti-gun voting record will have no chance against Cordray. And, well, why would republicans vote for a pretend republican that sounds like Ronald Reagan when he's campaigning, but votes like Ted Kennedy when we was in Washington? The Ohio GOP must think we can't remember when DeWine was our Senator. Dave Yost is the only choice for the GOP nomination. If we're voting in a GOP primary, I suspect that people will vote for the real GOP member, not the fake.
2. Remember when Debbie Phillips was running for the 92nd district and every other word out of her mouth was "Ted Strickland" this or that? Why doesn't she remind everyone that she and Ted are tied at the hip now? Could it be she doesn't want to have the same fate he will have at the polls in 2010?
   

BTW, this is another story / example of the media just taking the dems talking points and making a story out of it...passing it off as news. However, it's hard to blame poor Brian Reed.....he's the reporter and photographer for most of the stories in the Sentinel. If he's like most Meigs countians, he'd rather be doing almost anything than sitting through a democrat dinner.


Cordray keynotes Kennedy Day dinner; A.G. back from Supreme Court arguments in Spizak case

by Brian J. Reed

slideshow

MIDDLEPORT — Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, just back from arguing a Cuyahoga County murder case before the U.S. Supreme Court, addressed Meigs County Democrats Saturday at the party’s annual Kennedy Day Dinner.

State Rep. Debbie Phillips, D-Athens, introduced Cordray. Party Chairman Henry Hunter served as master of ceremonies at the Riverbend Arts Council.

Cordray appeared before the Supreme Court panel on Oct. 14, to argue that the death sentence of a man convicted in a Cleveland triple murder should be reinstated. It was Cordray’s first time before the U.S. high court as Ohio’s lead attorney, but not the first in his career. He argued five other cases before his election to state office.

Frank Spizak, described by the Associated Press as a flamboyant neo-Nazi, was convicted of murdering three men at Cleveland State University 25 years ago.

Cordray told justices during oral arguments that Spisak had a fair trial and deserves death and urged the high court to reverse a federal appeals court ruling that found Spisak's trial lawyer was ineffective and that his jury received faulty sentencing instructions.

The Attorney General used his experience last week as an example of the work he does as Ohio’s top legal official. His office oversees the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, and he also discussed the close relationship between state and local law enforcement, training programs and undercover investigations.

Cordray also promoted the AG’s office’s consumer protection services, and the toll-free number consumers can call if they feel they have been subject to consumer fraud: (800) 282-0515.

In her remarks prior to introducing the Attorney General, Rep. Phillips focused on signs of economic recovery in the region, but also acknowledged the impatience of some that the economy has not recovered sooner.

She noted that all three districts will receive extra state funding and stimulus money, and that recent legislation relating to school funding has placed Ohio’s public schools “on track to being constitutional.”

Phillips noted that the final phases of the Nelsonville Bypass, which got under construction last week, are the largest state transportation project funded by federal stimulus funds, and noted recent permit approvals for the American Municipal Power plant to be built in Meigs County is another sign of economic progress.

Hunter pointed to a reduction in home foreclosure rates and a recent boost in the stock market, and commended President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders for their work in advancing the cause of universal health care.

Is the Ohio GOP going to blow another one?

Are they going to force Mike DeWine on us? Especially when we have a great candidate in Dave Yost?

Yes, the same Mike DeWine that is anti-gun. Do the establishment GOP think we are so stupid that we can't read the American Rifleman and see that the NRA will endorse Richard Cordray....especially if running against DeWine? Is the establishment GOP dumb enough to think that we'll just vote for DeWine because he's a Republican (RINO)? I believe they are and I don't think we will.

If it's DeWine vs. Cordray, Cordray wins......unless it's 1994 all over again. I just don't see pro-gun voters voting for a pretend Repbulican when they have a pro-gun candidate to vote for.

All of this is why it's important that Dave Yost raises money. The GOP in Columbus wants Dave out and Mike in. Yes, it's a wonder they win any elections.

Dave Yost is pro-gun, pro-life and pro-death penalty. Sounds like a great attorney general candidate to me!

Dave is having a fund-raiser in Athens here's the invitation. If you can't make it, you can donate to a conservative candidate in Dave Yost. See below.

Dear Friends,

We sense a growing enthusiasm that our Republican Party is poised for a strong comeback in next year’s elections. People like the idea of a "Fresh Start" statewide ticket, and we fully expect Dave Yost to be part of it.

Dave Yost is in his third term as Prosecutor in Delaware County, just north of Columbus. In the race for Attorney General, Dave has already visited over 70 counties this year.

Dave’s campaign is about returning the Attorney General’s office back to the basics of law and order. The race for Ohio’s top law enforcement job is all about justice for Ohio families. As a working prosecutor, Dave’s record demonstrates that he knows how to get the job done.

Please join us as we welcome Dave on October 13^th to our home. Details are as follows:

Hosts

Richard & Karen Vedder

Hon. Jill Thompson

Pete Couladis

K Robert Toy, Esq.

Stephen D. Kane

Hon. Larry Payne

Dinner Menu:

Mini Barbecue Sandwiches

Creamy Buttermilk Coleslaw

Spicy Stewed Beans

Assorted Dessert Delicacies

Libations

7464 Ridgeview Circle
Athens, OH 43074

5:30 -7:00 pm

Suggested donation of $35.00 per person made payable to Dave Yost for Attorney General.

Please Contact David Smith to RSVP at 614-623-0419 or Smith@daveyost.com by Friday October 9^th at 6:00 pm.

We should all be proud of Dave Yost and the strong campaign he is waging to restore responsible, Republican leadership to this important statewide office.

Respectfully,

Karen & Rich Vedder

Paid for by Yost for Attorney General William Curlis, Treasurer
865 Macon Avenue, Columbus OH 43206

Dave Yost

Anti-gun Brady campaign endorsed Mike Dewine in 2006

Remember this?

Friday, June 23, 2006

In its first Senatorial endorsement of the year, The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence this week endorsed anti-gun Senator Mike DeWine (R-Ohio).

Dave Yost is the right choice of Ohio Attorney General. Pro-Life AND Pro-Gun!

Mike DeWine to run for Ohio AG. Not a dream, it's a nightmare!

Here's a blog post explaining. I couldn't agree more.

Interesting outside analysis of Ohio's GOP chances next year

Will Ohio Lead the GOP Comeback?

One note, while Mike DeWine has name ID, that is not necessarily a good thing in the GOP primary. His poor gun voting record will not help him.

Dave Yost would be a much better pick for Attorney General.