Comments on: Bob McEwen’s Unholy Alliances–The R-Rated Whistleblower, Part 3 http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/04/30/bob-mcewens-unholy-alliances-the-r-rated-whistleblower-part-3/ The Business End of the Blogosphere Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:38:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: TBlumer http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/04/30/bob-mcewens-unholy-alliances-the-r-rated-whistleblower-part-3/#comment-8597 TBlumer Tue, 02 May 2006 02:49:54 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=2003#comment-8597 #6 Shark, I delayed clearing your comment because I knew I would not have time to comment, and your comment didn't deserve to be posted without an immediate reponse accompanying it. Follow me closely here: - Voting in Ohio when you don't have a residence of your own and you use the residence of someone else as your address is illegal. I spoke to the Highland BOE (have you?), and they said that their governing criterion, with guidance from the SOS at the time, was answering the question "where do they go at night to sleep?" The answer was NOT Mrs. Lyle's house. - If you know that a candidate voted illegally for several years (with his wife and two of his kids no less) until the BOE caught on to him, you know that he committed those illegals acts for at least a few years. - The fact that the statute of lims has passed doesn't change the fact that the acts of voting without a valid Ohio residential address were illegal acts at the time. - There has been nothing from Mr. McEwen even resembling a responsive defense in this matter. IF you believe in the sanctity of the voting process, and IF you know beyond reasonable doubt that your guy violated its sanctity several times, and you still vote for him, you are making a morally bankrupt choice. If you don't care about these things, I don't know what to say. I do. #6 Shark, I delayed clearing your comment because I knew I would not have time to comment, and your comment didn’t deserve to be posted without an immediate reponse accompanying it.

Follow me closely here:
- Voting in Ohio when you don’t have a residence of your own and you use the residence of someone else as your address is illegal. I spoke to the Highland BOE (have you?), and they said that their governing criterion, with guidance from the SOS at the time, was answering the question “where do they go at night to sleep?” The answer was NOT Mrs. Lyle’s house.
- If you know that a candidate voted illegally for several years (with his wife and two of his kids no less) until the BOE caught on to him, you know that he committed those illegals acts for at least a few years.
- The fact that the statute of lims has passed doesn’t change the fact that the acts of voting without a valid Ohio residential address were illegal acts at the time.
- There has been nothing from Mr. McEwen even resembling a responsive defense in this matter.

IF you believe in the sanctity of the voting process, and IF you know beyond reasonable doubt that your guy violated its sanctity several times, and you still vote for him, you are making a morally bankrupt choice.

If you don’t care about these things, I don’t know what to say. I do.

]]> By: Lawshark http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/04/30/bob-mcewens-unholy-alliances-the-r-rated-whistleblower-part-3/#comment-8537 Lawshark Mon, 01 May 2006 18:46:33 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=2003#comment-8537 Tom, If it makes you feel better about my verbiage, I have no problem replacing "far more rude" with "immensely more rude"...The Blower can be very funny...but he's certainly a "bit" over the top with his language...I clearly said the tone was very different. However...wasn't it you who said that a vote for McEwen is not "morally defensible" or somesuch? I'd say the substance of such a charge is not particularly different in kind than the Blower's charges...he just says it with off-color language. Tom,

If it makes you feel better about my verbiage, I have no problem replacing “far more rude” with “immensely more rude”…The Blower can be very funny…but he’s certainly a “bit” over the top with his language…I clearly said the tone was very different.

However…wasn’t it you who said that a vote for McEwen is not “morally defensible” or somesuch? I’d say the substance of such a charge is not particularly different in kind than the Blower’s charges…he just says it with off-color language.

]]> By: Starship Trooper http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/04/30/bob-mcewens-unholy-alliances-the-r-rated-whistleblower-part-3/#comment-8471 Starship Trooper Mon, 01 May 2006 15:04:31 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=2003#comment-8471 Ah, that infamous local political pornographer who hates everyone in the whole world except Tom Brinkman and temporarily Bob McEwen. Thank you, Biz, for highlighting Jim Schifrin's hand-in-glove association with Bob McEwen throughout this campaign. I don't think I know of a better example in public life of a talented, knowledgable person who squanders his considerable skills in the most puerile, sophomoric manner, lampooning, ridiculing, demeaning, insulting and attempting to embarrass others. The man has no shame, and he revels in it. He's the Scurrilous Sultan of Scatology. It takes an overweening hubris to write the derisive drivel he churns out day after day. But his glaring lack of self-respect must be an oppressive burden for him to bear. He seems to be the kind of person who constantly seeks to build himself up by tearing others down. If his work weren't so repugnant, I'd feel sorry for him. And I know for certain that there are many others in the Greater Cincinnati area who feel as I do about the Scurrilous Sultan of Scatology, Jim Schifrin. Ah, that infamous local political pornographer who hates everyone in the whole world except Tom Brinkman and temporarily Bob McEwen. Thank you, Biz, for highlighting Jim Schifrin’s hand-in-glove association with Bob McEwen throughout this campaign. I don’t think I know of a better example in public life of a talented, knowledgable person who squanders his considerable skills in the most puerile, sophomoric manner, lampooning, ridiculing, demeaning, insulting and attempting to embarrass others. The man has no shame, and he revels in it. He’s the Scurrilous Sultan of Scatology. It takes an overweening hubris to write the derisive drivel he churns out day after day. But his glaring lack of self-respect must be an oppressive burden for him to bear. He seems to be the kind of person who constantly seeks to build himself up by tearing others down. If his work weren’t so repugnant, I’d feel sorry for him. And I know for certain that there are many others in the Greater Cincinnati area who feel as I do about the Scurrilous Sultan of Scatology, Jim Schifrin.

]]> By: TBlumer http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/04/30/bob-mcewens-unholy-alliances-the-r-rated-whistleblower-part-3/#comment-8461 TBlumer Mon, 01 May 2006 14:30:56 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=2003#comment-8461 #3, The difference in tone is night and day, and if you can't see that, you're willfully blind in one eye and refuse to see out of the other. I do not hate Bob McEwen, but I do despise his candidacy. The same cannot be said of the other side's feelings about or treatment of Schmidt. #3, The difference in tone is night and day, and if you can’t see that, you’re willfully blind in one eye and refuse to see out of the other. I do not hate Bob McEwen, but I do despise his candidacy. The same cannot be said of the other side’s feelings about or treatment of Schmidt.

]]> By: Lawshark http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/04/30/bob-mcewens-unholy-alliances-the-r-rated-whistleblower-part-3/#comment-8460 Lawshark Mon, 01 May 2006 14:22:32 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=2003#comment-8460 Tom, while the Blower is certainly far more rude in language concerning Schmidt, I definitely do not find the accusations he makes any different in substance than the often hyperbolic accounts you provide in regard to McEwen. Your own words could be fairly applied to your position. You could rewrite the following passage from part 1 as follows: "You, see the (Bizzyblogger) really, really, REALLY doesn’t like (Bob McEwen). I would say he hates (him), but hate is too mild a word. Whatever it is that drives the cadre of (McEwen)-bashers bananas, the (Bizzyblogger) has multiplied by 10." Tom, while the Blower is certainly far more rude in language concerning Schmidt, I definitely do not find the accusations he makes any different in substance than the often hyperbolic accounts you provide in regard to McEwen.

Your own words could be fairly applied to your position. You could rewrite the following passage from part 1 as follows:

“You, see the (Bizzyblogger) really, really, REALLY doesn’t like (Bob McEwen). I would say he hates (him), but hate is too mild a word. Whatever it is that drives the cadre of (McEwen)-bashers bananas, the (Bizzyblogger) has multiplied by 10.”

]]> By: TBlumer http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/04/30/bob-mcewens-unholy-alliances-the-r-rated-whistleblower-part-3/#comment-8416 TBlumer Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:04:15 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=2003#comment-8416 #1, I am so NOT surprised. #1, I am so NOT surprised.

]]> By: Anon http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/04/30/bob-mcewens-unholy-alliances-the-r-rated-whistleblower-part-3/#comment-8415 Anon Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:54:11 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=2003#comment-8415 Bob road to his Jack Kemp fundraiser with Shifrin (the Whistleblower). What a great group of Christian folks... Bob also told the Union Twp. Central Committee that he did not know who COAST was, nor did he take any money from them. Liar, Liar. Bob road to his Jack Kemp fundraiser with Shifrin (the Whistleblower). What a great group of Christian folks…

Bob also told the Union Twp. Central Committee that he did not know who COAST was, nor did he take any money from them.

Liar, Liar.

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