Thursday, May 03, 2012

Get Involved


*** Don't forgetPresident Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama will be in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday, May 5th at the Schottenstein Center  (Lane and Olentangy River Rd.). The doors open at 10:30 am, but the program will start either late morning or early afternoon. Tickets are not necessary and the event is free.

If you are a college student in central Ohio, be sure to check out these organizations:   OSU Dems  http://twitter.com/#!/osudems    College Democrats at Ohio State


You can also check out all the national chapters of College Democrats at the website: http://collegedems.com/

My own political activism started when I was just a college student.

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A new Quinnipiac Poll shows the presidential race tightening in Ohio:

...The gender gap widens in the Ohio presidential race as women back Obama 50 - 37 percent while men back Romney 48 - 38 percent.

Ohio voters split 48 - 47 percent in their approval of Obama and split 47 - 48 percent on whether he deserves to be reelected.....


 In one Quinnipiac question concerning the their opinion of the Republican Party, we have this tidbit:

4. Is your opinion of the Republican Party favorable, unfavorable or haven't you heard enough about it?
                     FL     OH     PA



Favorable            42%    37%    35%
Unfavorable          45     47     51
Hvn't hrd enough      9     12     10
REFUSED               4      4      5
 
 
On the other side, we see poll takers have a slightly more favorable view of the Democratic Party with the Favorable at 43% (FL), 42% (OH), and 45% (PA).

I wonder if the Republican Party's anti-woman agenda has something to do with it. We must make sure that everyone that is registered is able to vote. As an Ohio voter, I'm sure that the unfavorable view of the Republican Party here has been influenced by the antics of Kasich, the SB5 debacle, and the cronyism scandal with Josh Mandel at the Ohio Treasury.

Speaking of the continuing scandal at Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel's office, there seems to be some missing resumes?????  Really?

Toledo Blade:

A spokesman for Republican Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel on Wednesday said his office doesn't have resumes for 34 of its employees, a little over a year after the Democratic Party said it asked for the employee resumes....

....Seth Unger, press secretary for Mr. Mandel, told The Blade Wednesday that the treasurer's office doesn't possess the documents that had been requested....

...Andrew Zucker, a spokesman for the party, said the Mandel office has released to them thousands of documents that were not requested, but only 28 of the 62 resumes it had asked for.

Missing among the final group of resumes are several Mandel campaign workers who were hired into high-paying appointed positions and then left to work on Mr. Mandel's Senate campaign.....

How convenient!  I guess if you are going to hire your buddies for some political job, pay them way above their education and work experience, you'd better make sure that their resumes have conveniently disappeared!

>>>> I just can't get enough of this video from Late Night With Jimmy Fallon:
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I just don't get why Boehner and the Republicans call the rate increase on college loans a non-issue.  It is an important issue for millions of college students and their parents!