Dealbreakers: Updated 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 Congressional Candidate) — living outside his district, refusing to move into it, and thereby financially shortchanging it.

• Paul Gillmor Dealbreaker (OH 5th District Congressional Incumbent) — living outside his district, and financially shortchanging it in the process; his opponent’s Wiki entry is the source, and the fact that Gillmor lives outside the district is not in dispute.

• Vic Wulsin Dealbreaker 1 (OH 6th District Congressional Candidate) — Serious Breach of Medical Ethics, apparent endorsement of, and supporting continuation of, CDC-discredited “Malariotherapy” experiments.

• Vic Wulsin Dealbreaker 2 — Failure to Disclose Endorsements of major national feminist organizations.

• UPDATE: I’ve been tipped off to another congressperson who feels it’s beneath their dignity to live in the district they supposedly represent. I just need to button down some details, and will add that person when that occurs. It may also be another example of moving out while not informing voters. This ended up being a false lead. I learned this on about Nov. 4, and am just now (Nov. 12) updating.

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.