In Ohio Yet Another Corrupt Republican Bites the Dust!

Not long ago I was chided for targeting Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio. I considered him a target while the person who chided me said he was unassailable, too hard to defeat.

Well, once again events prove that no politician is safe if they are corrupt. Bob Ney is going down. And if we play our cards right, we can win big in Ohio this year because of Republican corruption.

I keep saying that even in districts where Republicans seem safe, the corruption issue can be huge. No one seemed safer in their corrupt complacency than Tom DeLay (TX), Randy Cunningham (CA) and Bob Ney (OH). DeLay is dropping out in disgrace, Cunningham is in jail and now I am happy to report that Bob Ney is following in DeLay's footsteps. Bob Ney, who I have included in some of my Ohio diaries, will drop out in disgrace in November. From BBC News:

A leading US Republican lawmaker facing corruption allegations has said he will not run for re-election in November.

Ohio congressman Bob Ney said he would stand down from the seat he has held for 12 years because of his family.

But the Democrats, who put the focus on Mr Ney as part of their election effort to paint the Republicans as corrupt, said he had been forced out.

Prosecutors say Mr Ney took gifts and trips at the expense of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. He denies it...

This is why I am hammering away at the corruption issue and why I ask all of you to write the media as often as possible to talk about corruption. By exposing these scum and by keeping the media from ignoring Republican corruption, we are helping to bring down the most corrupt of the bastards who think they can loot America for their own gain.

But remember, the fight isn't over. Ney isn't the only corrupt politician from Ohio. Rep. Mike Oxley and Governor Bob Taft are at least as corrupt as Ney. There's GOP fundraiser Tom Noe. We have to keep reminding the media of how corrupt the Republicans are not just in Ohio, but also in Texas (Tom DeLay), California (Randy Cunningham and John Doolittle), New York (Fossella and Sweeny), Wisconsin (Mark Green), and Florida (Katherine Harris) just to name a handful of the most corrupt Republicans.

I also ask that you help reform the very corrupt Ohio. We need honest people to replace corrupt Republicans as Governor, Secretary of State and Attorney General as well as to replace the corrupt Ney and Oxley. So please, take this opportunity to support honest Democrats in Ohio and help defeat the most corrupt of Democrats.


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corruption

good cause. i will do it. but...if i saw a Democrat that was corrupt, i would have to expose that, too. i am a liberal that basically as little faith in either party. however, i know which is the better choice, though i still feel angry that my vote is never really a vote of support.

anyway, that is not the point fo your blog. :)i have heard that Ohio is super corrupt, i am checking out your link now. excellent work and goals.


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Agreed

If you check out my blog you will see I also address Democratic corruption. In fact, in local politics that is exactly what I do. The Brooklyn Dem machine is corrupt as hell and I am fighting against that machine.

But there is a HUGE difference between the parties right now. The corruption and cronyism of the Rep. party is enormous. And they tend to defend their most corrupt members. That of the Dems is more isolated and rather than defend it often Dems themselves fight it. Here in Brooklyn it was a Dem who went after and convicted the former head of the corrupt Dem machine.


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