Any good news in Ohio?

[FatSlob]

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[AngryOldDem]

1. It's stopped raining....

That's about the best I can do today. Sorry.

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[Kukesa]

21. Our park levy passed.

Maybe we can meet in the park and cry together. I'm still a mess.

[cmd]

2. Our local candidates did well

Everyone we expected to win did. We have an organized base to work from in the next cycle. Life goes one, make lemonade.

[AngryOldDem]

3. We won a county commission seat and some judgeships

But despite a surge from Jane Mitakides early, Mike Turner got re-elected handily to the 3rd District.

Glad to hear things went well for you.

[Philostopher]

4. How did Capizzi do?

I saw his sign in a lot of Republicans' yards. Which county commissioner won?

[AngryOldDem]

5. Capizzi won; Lieberman won

Capizzi was leading by a margin of 56% over Murphy -- Dayton Daily News Website is not updated so I'm going to call this race for Capizzi. Debbie Lieberman was beating Peggy Lehner 51-48.

A lot of people are not happy with the efficiency of Murphy's office. He's trying to make improvements, but from what I've heard they are too little too late and patience has run out.

[Philostopher]

6. Well, that's something, I guess!

I was really pulling for Debbie Lieberman, but I was afraid she didn't get the word out enough. I like Tony Capizzi, too -- we met him when he was running a few years back, he's really on top of things.

Onward and ... well, not exactly upward yet, but ... onward, I guess.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

13. Debbie Lieberman won? Cool! Great news!

Didnt hear that. Thats real good news!

[Toucano]

18. That's it.

We keep the network together and keep our visibility up.

We get a press release or a letter to the editor in the pug rag EVERY week.

We DO SOMETHING instead of NOTHING, which is what was done before Ohio was pegged as a battleground.

People just need a little time to adjust right now.

[Kolesar]

7. We took one or two state rep seats in Lake county

63rd is very close, about 50 votes. Both were GOP

[daisygirl]

8. In case I wasn't crushed enough already

The morning paper reported that Dan Dodd (dem) won over Ron Hood for Householder's old seat. I was about to post that as good news here, but now I'm seeing online that Hood won. Wasn't all that excited about Dodd - when I first heard his ads I thought he was a republican - but at least he would've been one more democratic seat in the state house of representatives...

[actappan]

9. They're Leaving?

The only good news I can come up with is that all the GOPers are leaving. Well, not all obviously, but Port Columbus (where I'm writing this) is full of the smarmy bastards, buying each other rounds, wearing their "Don't Mess With Texas" t-shirts, Bush/Cheney paraphenalia, and whatnot.

They changed all the TV's in the Bar to FOX. I left.

We fought hard here. We lost. I'm gonna go get drunk and fly home now.

[AngryOldDem]

10. Thanks for everything.

:hug:

[Kukesa]

25. Please add my thanks for all your efforts. n/t

[Ms. Toad]

11. 9th district court of appeals now has a democrat on it

Carla Moore beat Edna Boyle (appointed to complete the term of retired Judge William Baird). Now 4-1 rather than 5-0.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

12. Yes! Cincinnait REPEALED its anti-gay charter amendment.

In all honesty I did NOT see this coming given the deteriorating situation for gay rights in this state and country.

But for some reason Cincy decided discrimination was a bad deal....

[AngryOldDem]

14. Too bad the rest of the state didn't follow suit on Issue 1

What are your thoughts on that?

I know the mother of a gay teen -- they both had the courage to include their names on an ad in the paper last week against Issue 1. I spoke with her today and she asked a very pointed question: "Where do we go? What do we do?"

Hate and intolerance = morals and values.

Just don't get it.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

19. my thoughts on issue 1...it affects me personally...

as I have a partner, and we have medical powers of attorney over each other (he has AIDS, so this could become a real issue in the future).

Its unclear about the implications of this on my powers of attorney...some say it might void them, others maybe not.

In any case I was not suprised and expected this. Similar issues passed all around the country, so its not an Ohio-specific thing.

In some ways homophobia is the antisemtism of the America. Im not suggesting that the GOP or consevatives are "Nazis", but there are similaritys between both forms of prejudice, and they both can be deployed for political purposes. Given how deep homophobia runs in our society its more suprisng to me when pro-gay things win then when things like Issue 1 win...I expect things like Issue 1 to be sucessfull.

So, yeah, disappointed, but not crushed too much as I was expecting it.

[AngryOldDem]

22. For what it's worth....

...there are a lot of us with friends and relatives who are gay, and we are in your corner and will fight the fight with you.

And you are much more tactful than I in your hesitancy to call these tactics Nazism. The parallels are just too close.

Bush, cynical bastard that he is, used marriage as just one more wedge issue to get votes. Makes me sick.

[cmd]

23. I stand behind you, too

My dear cousin died years ago in the first wave of AIDS. I was always proud to stand with him. He was one of the kindest people I knew.

[semillama]

15. our zoo levy passed

in fact, all our Franklin County levies passed (i think).

And that righteous hag Arlene Shoemaker was defeated!

unfortunately, that other righteous hag, Joy Padgett, was not.

but hey! the Columbus Zoo is gonna get even better.

[cmd]

24. Let's hear it for the animals!

I love the zoo.

[kitchen girl]

17. Democrats won all the Franklin County races.

Franklin County is Democrat controlled for the first time in 20 years - a huge improvement over the time when we couldn't even find a Democrat to run for mayor. Also, Kerry won Franklin County by a good margin. We're a small oasis in a state of right-wing insanity, it seems.

On the bad side, Terry Anderson was defeated down in Athens County, and the gay marriage ban passed.

[BQueen]

20. Great performance by underdog & Some for next House race

Ben Konop (28 year old attorney who moved back to the area to run) managed to get more than 41% of the vote against evil fund-raising powerhouse Mike Oxley.

Konop won Allen County (Lima) outright 52-48% and did very well in other urban areas -- not bad elsewhere. Campaign on a shoestring, because nobody thought he had a shot. Oxley ran a non-stop barrage of varied slickly produced commercials (couldn't give as much of his warchest to others). Oxley only took 65% or so in his "home" county.

That seat is ripe for the taking next time with a bit of money.