Writes Like She Talks had a post in 2009 in which Republican Josh Mandel marched in an anti-abortion protest in Cleveland. The story was carried in the Plain Dealer which had Josh Mandel involved in the march to protest a bill to promote a woman's right to choose. Mandel marched because he was against it. The Plain Dealer article reminds the reader that Sen. Sherrod Brown "....supports a woman's right to choose..."
There you have it! If you want Republicans to continue to restrict your access to birth control, cut off funding for Planned Parenthood, and get into your privacy, you can vote for Mandel.
However, if you want to retain your personal freedom and privacy regarding your reproductive organs, have health care for your gynecological needs, and keep Planned Parenthood operating, we need to re-elect Sen. Sherrod Brown. Sen. Sherrod Brown will have my vote because he respects me as a woman and my civil rights.
Thank you, Writes Like She Talks, for reminding us of Mandel's statements and actions against our reproductive freedom.
* The big spotlight continues to be on the people hired by Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel for his office. With accusations of cronyism, charges of unqualified personnel filling positions in the treasurer's office, Ohioans are worried that their tax money is being used to pay salaries for Josh Mandel's friends. Now even Huffington Post has taken notice of the refusal by Mandel to release the resumes of his hires.
HuffingtonPost:
Democrats have filed their seventh request for Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel to release the resumes of 60 top appointees, a request his office has alternatively denied, refused to answer or released the entire state payroll as an answer.
Ohio Democrats have been pressing Mandel, the Republican nominee running against Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, about the backgrounds of staffers he hired at the state treasurer's office since his 2010 election. Mandel had accused former Treasurer Kevin Boyce, a Democrat, of hiring political cronies during the 2010 race and has come under fire in recent weeks after similar accusations.
"Josh Mandel repeatedly slammed his opponent for alleged cronyism during the campaign and promised to operate his office differently if elected," Ohio Democratic Party spokesman Andrew Zucker told HuffPost. "So after his swearing in, we sought to hold him accountable for his own words during his own campaign."
If you'd like to see the list of Mandel's people, visit this link: OHDems and check over the names. If you know anything about this group that the Dayton Daily News called, “young, relatively inexperienced” campaign staffers..., send an email to the researcher on the OHDems news page.
>>>> Republican Josh Mandel is bringing in some big shots to talk for him and raise money. One of the Republicans coming to Ohio is NJ Gov. Chris Christie. Christie has been in the news lately because of some recent accusations.
Salon:
Whoops, turns out Chris Christie was just lying about everything when he canceled that train tunnel project in 2010....
The New York Times has the details of the report today, and in classic Times fashion it is repeatedly calling Christie a liar without using the word. Instead, Christie “exaggerated” and “misstated” his rationales for canceling the project.
The report by the Government Accountability Office, to be released this week, found that while Mr. Christie said that state transportation officials had revised cost estimates for the tunnel to at least $11 billion and potentially more than $14 billion, the range of estimates had in fact remained unchanged in the two years before he announced in 2010 that he was shutting down the project. And state transportation officials, the report says, had said the cost would be no more than $10 billion.
Mr. Christie also misstated New Jersey’s share of the costs: he said the state would pay 70 percent of the project; the report found that New Jersey was paying 14.4 percent. And while the governor said that an agreement with the federal government would require the state to pay all cost overruns, the report found that there was no final agreement, and that the federal government had made several offers to share those costs.
What else do you expect from a Republican?