Brunner for Ohio Secretary of State

[Algorem]

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061026/OPINION02/610260304/-1/OPINION


THE Nov. 7 election gives Ohio voters the opportunity to return the Secretary of State's office to the purpose for which it exists: conducting fair elections free of the partisan shenanigans that have become common during the reign of Ken Blackwell.

This vital change can best be carried out with the election of Jennifer Brunner, a former judge who has more than two decades of experience with election law and the proper conduct of elections...

The same cannot be said for her Republican opponent, Greg Hartmann, the clerk of courts in Hamilton County, whose only association with elections is in the same hotly partisan cauldron of Cincinnati that produced Mr. Blackwell, now the GOP candidate for governor...

Before Ken Blackwell took over as Secretary of State in 1999, Ohio had a national reputation for fair elections. Eight years later, that reputation is in shambles...





Clinton speaks passionately for Democratic candidates

...The former president also urged the election of other Ohio Democrats, noting he especially wanted Jennifer Brunner to win the race for secretary of state "to make sure we count the votes," a poke at J. Kenneth Blackwell, current Republican secretary of state and gubernatorial candidate...

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/election/election.php?story=221588

[Eric J in MN]

1. It's important to the 2008 presidential election...

...to have decent Ohio Secretary of State.

In a poll of Russ Feingold's Progressive Patriots on which Secretary of State candidate they should support, I voted for Jennifer Brunner.

She won the poll, and she is now featured as Progressive Patriot:
http://www.progressivepatriotsfund.com/candidates/