Why the Ohio Attorney General race matters: honest elections

[mojogeorgo]

If you've been following my posts for the past few months, at Howard-Empowered People and elsewhere, you may have noticed that I keep posting about some guy named Subodh Chandra. But I'm guessing that a lot of you have not really tuned in to those posts. I can't say that I blame you--there have been any number of national events that I haven't really bothered to read up on until the attention they received on blogs reached a certain critical mass.

The primary election in Ohio will be on May 2--less than two weeks away. I know that Paul Hackett's candidacy--even the one for Senate before he withdrew back in February--drew national attention and support. As this election nears, I have been trying to find a way to make the case that this election is of *national* importance. With all that people have on their plates--with all the very important issues we need to care about--how, I wondered, was I going to get people to take notice? And actually give a rat's



--er, hindquarters about this election and this candidate. This morning, thanks to some audio that I had not yet transcribed from a Subodh Chandra event I attended earlier this month, I hit upon the answer. It has to do with the Attorney General's role in ensuring clean and honest elections.

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http://howardempowered.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-ohio-attorney-general-race-matters.html

[acmavm]

1. An honest election in Ohio is pivotal to a chance for a dem to take the

Presidency in 2008. New York, California, Florida, and Ohio. You can lose one, but not two.

And we didn't lose two in 2004. Ohio was fixed. Your 2006 election is of vital importance to this country, and some of us understand that.

[EFerrari]

2. The SoS and AG races are the most important races this

time around, imho.

Good for you for repeating the message. :hi: