Dealbreakers: Current List

As a reminder, a BizzyBlog Dealbreaker is “something that completely justifies a person not voting for you, regardless of your party or your stands on the issues.”

Once any Dealbreaker is in place, discussion of where the candidate involved stands on “the issues” is over. The candidate is unacceptable by the standards of any reasonable voter, PERIOD. The choices are then limited to those candidates who remain.

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Official Dealbreakers of the current campaign season:

• Ted Strickland Dealbreaker #1 — Voter Deception over the fact that he has been living outside of his district.

• Ted Strickland Dealbreaker #2 — Financially Shortchanging His District by not living inside it.

• Sherrod Brown Dealbreaker #1 — No-show Sherrod’s absence from roll call votes and key committee and subcommittee hearings.

• Sherrod Brown Dealbreaker #2 — Late payment of taxes (19 months), and then only under legal threat (Brown can’t even remember the taxes he’s pushed on us, so “of course” he won’t remember the taxes he owes).

• Charlie Wilson Dealbreaker (OH 6th District Congress Candidate) — living outside his district, refusing to move into it, and thereby financially shortchanging it.

• (added 9:20 PM on Oct. 26; thanks to commenter Jason) Paul Gillmor Dealbreaker (OH 5th District Congressional Incumbent) — living outside his district, and financially shortchanging it in the process; his opponent’s Wiki entry says “(Robin) Weirauch insists that as a Congresswoman she would be far more accessible than Gillmor who does not actually live in the district, in fact, he does live a considerable drive from the district in the Columbus suburb of Dublin, Ohio and Gillmor openly admits it.” I have no reason to doubt that information. The “justification” is that Gillmor’s wife has a job in Columbus. Nice try, Paul, but no sale. When it comes to residency, a Dealbreaker is a Dealbreaker, even when you’re up-front about it. To accommodate the Strickland deception on residency, I may need a “MegaDealbreaker” category. :–> (Note: My response to a comment at another post on October 14 that named Gillmor and departing Rep. Mike Oxley as living outside of their districts addressed Oxley, but neglected to look into or respond to Gillmor’s status; I apologize for not doing that.)

• Vic Wulsin Dealbreaker — ??? (coming soon)

In previous campaigns, before the Dealbreaker name was officially coined, these situations qualified under Dealbreaker standards:

• Bob McEwen Dealbreakers (May-June 2005, Ohio Second District Congressional GOP Special Primary campaign) — One month of “official” residency in the District; Undisclosed business associations; Calling himself a congressman when actually a former congressman.

• Paul Hackett Dealbreaker (July-August 2005, Ohio Second District Congressional Special Election campaign) — TV ads posing as a supporter of George Bush while in reality holding a strongly antiwar position and calling the Commander in Chief, among other things, a “son of a b…..”

• Bob McEwen Dealbreakers (April-May 2006, Ohio Second District Congressional Primary campaign) — Continuing to call himself a congressman on his web site; Discovery of illegal voting in Highland County from approximately 1997 - 2002; Voting using someone else’s address; Continued undisclosed business associations; Posing as a Christian conservative while accepting the active campaign and financial support of an R-Rated (and sometimes worse) publisher and his political/legal acquaintances.

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