....The state party-endorsed candidate, Mr. Husted, recently mailed GOP voters a not-so-subtle mailer that uses the word "conservative" to describe himself no less than 11 times.
You know a candidate is in trouble when he makes an obvious effort to self identify his political leanings.
Several posts ago (March 30, 2010), I pointed out that Husted had used his campaign funds to pay his traffic tickets. According to a source with knowledge of election finance law, a candidate is forbidden to use campaign funds to for paying speeding tickets or traffic fines. This is a violation of Ohio finance law.
My post from March 30, 2010---
...According to the Ohio Secretary of State's website on campaign finance, Jon Husted, the Republican candidate for Secretary of State, used his campaign funds to pay his ($25) parking ticket on 10/16/2009 to the City of Columbus. He did pay another ticket ($100) to the Heath Photo Enforcement Program for another traffic violation on 8/29/09....
I guess someone should file a complaint with the Ohio elections commission.
* The Dispatch had coverage of a huge rally to cheer on the passage of the new health care law. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy were thanked for their votes for the new legislation.
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>>> The Dayton Daily News has info on more militia groups in Ohio:If the United States government collapses, Michael Craft and his Unorganized Militia of Champaign County are ready....
.... The Southern Poverty Law Center last month placed Craft’s militia and 12 other Ohio groups on the same list of militias as the Michigan-based Hutaree, nine members of which were arrested last weekend on charges they plotted to kill police, then set off bombs at the funeral, as part of an uprising against the government....