SOBer Thoughts (091307)
A-Team Ohio takes note of a Cleveland Plain Dealer story about how Cuyahoga County’s Board of Elections wants to move the Buckeye State’s 2008 primary from March to May because it’s worried about its ability to handle a high-turnout election so soon.
Putting aside for the moment my belief that all national primaries should really take place in September (that’s two months, NOT 14 months, before the general election), isn’t all the fury over Ken Blackwell, Southwestern Ohio, and the “stolen” 2004 election more than a little hysterical in light of how heavily Democratic Cuyahoga has admitted that it STILL won’t have its act together almost 3-1/2 years later? Oh, and I haven’t seen any reports of votes cast in the names of dead people downstate as has been proven to have occurred in Cuyahoga. Last time I checked, Hamilton, Clermont, Butler, and Warren Counties don’t have 200,000 more registered voters on the rolls than there are adults in the entire county. Cuyahoga did, as of last year.
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Al Gore has announced that he will endorse someone for president. Ben Keeler wonders whose aspirations Gore will thereby ruin.
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Patrick Poole (HT NixGuy) has a devastating piece on Ahmad Al-Akhras, CAIR, and his/their relationship to a 1999 incident the 9/11 commission considered a dry run for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America has more background. The Columbus Dispatch doesn’t, perhaps because, as Poole notes, “Ahmad Al-Akhras is one of Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman’s closest advisors.”
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Matt at RAB has a great catch on the Associated Press’s knee-jerk use of the term “consumer advocate” to describe those who support an Ohio ballot initiative that would open up the litigation floodgates.
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Taxman Blog has the latest on the Dartmouth Board of Trustees controversy; yours truly noted the situation last week (3rd item at link). Tactical hint The schools powers-that-be borrowed a gambit FDR attempted against the Supreme Court in the late 1930s. The underlying article indicates that whether the school can do what they wish is open to a very legitimate dispute:
The current debate hinges on parsing the 1891 agreement. Some believe the alumni were promised five seats (half of the existing 10 at the time — Ed.), regardless of the board’s size; others believe they were promised half the revolving seats not matter what. They fear a board expansion that would dilute the alumni voice.
Also note the oh-so-predictable whining about a “conservative cabal.”
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Godspeed to Justin at Right on the Right and everyone else attending the Gathering of Eagles in Washington this weekend.
