I hear there will be no Black Governor because of that very reason.
The Conservative majority that elected the current encumbent will never vote in a Black Man.
Better a Democrat than a black man.
My money is not on Blackwell… the scandal is deep-- He’s the sacrificial sheep.
Huh?
No, I think that being a Conservative is virtually the only way that a black man could become governor. No, wait, hold on a second. Collin Powell was black. That’s right, conservatives did hate him.
Never mind, you’re right, a black man has no chance.
I keep to the populist Ohio, queer bunch, not what you’d expect. You will be able to smoke in Ohio in 2007 and still have a white Governor. Excuse my hyperbole, but this is my ear to the track.
Ken Blackwell would have had an excellent chance if he hadn’t been associated with various scandals, like Coingate. I don’t believe race will have anything much to do with whether he gets elected or not. (Incidentally, the mayor of Ohio’s largest city is black).
Not from Ohio, are you?
I am only assuming the no-nonsense delivery of what I’ve heard. Personally, I find it repugnnt but these are real sentiments. I don’t judge, I try to listen…but my anger with the stupidity of it all grows.
Yes, we should vote in a man who has been hip deep in various scandals, who was in charge of the Ohio Bush reelection campaign while Secretary of State, and who does not see any conflict of interest in being in charge of the election he is trying to win to become Governor. None of that matters, we should vote for him because then Ohio will get a black governor.
Sorry, I would rather see if we can get someone that might possibly have some integrity, regardless of what color his skin is. Not likely, since they are all politicians, but better the devil we don’t know than the one we do.
Yeah, Blackwell’s problems don’t have a lot to do with his race. They have to do with the company he keeps.
I’m sure devilsknew is a very nice and intelligent person, but I’m not understanding a thing s/he has said. I mean, I got something about a black candidate and some outrage, and queer populists, but…huh?
I would hope. But I don’t believe voters always vote for ethics. I believe voters vote for cynical reasons. Voting in like, regardless of wrong. I would hope that some see the ideas rather than the image, but I am not hopeful. People are more superficial than they have ever been. It is a time of image over substance and the Politics of this Country reflect in this New Millenia’s “Fruited Plain Propaganda”. The harvest is sour and we reap our leaders’ fruit under strange skies.
Would you like to try posting sober? Do you know anything about Blackwell besides the color of his skin? What “very reason” are you claiming?
This guy is the scariest candidate for governor since James Rhodes, (maybe scarier because Rhodes was enough of a politician to not do anything egregiously stupid once he got done turning the National Guard loose with rifles on college campuses).
Blackwell was the highest elected official in Ohio to actively promote the gay-bashing amendment to Ohio’s constitution (which was so sloppily written that it penalized several groups of people who were not gay, as well).
He actively champions teaching “Intelligent Design” in the classroom.
Ohio has been under a judicial order to make school funding more equitable across the state for twelve years. (The utter failure of the legislature to address this is NOT Blackwell’s fault.) His “solution” is to claim that he will order the schools to spend 65% of their budgets “in the classroom,” but he refuses to tell anyone what that means. He then claims that he is going to “reform” Ohio education with charter schools, even though the one example of charter schools available to Ohio–those of the Cleveland district–have notoriously provided no better eduaction at a higher cost than the failed Cleveland public School system. (Not to mention that the impetus for the judicial decision was the poverty of the Appalachian districts in Southeast Ohio that could not possibly be helped by a charter school system.)
He has claimed that he will spend more money on schools from the General Fund at the same time he is proposing a ~50% rollback of Ohio taxes that he claims will make the state more efficient.
He makes a big deal about “transparency,” yet his own office has often been off-limits to reporters and he has bitterly fought calls to reveal his finances (which included owning stock in Diebold–an interesting event considering he ruled that their chief competitor was ineligible to bid in Ohio to supply voting machines).
I really doubt that anyone in Ohio cares what color Ken might be, but a lot of us seriously fear for the health of the state if he is elected.
He also called his opponent’s religious convictions in to question. His opponent is a Methodist minister.
Next to maybe Phil Heimlich and Bill Seitz, he’s the scariest politician in the state.
I like Ken Blackwell, and intend to vote for him.
So you won’t vote for someone just because they keep company with black people? That’s pretty racist, dude. 
and don’t forget his ill-concieved plan to lease the Ohio turnpike to a private company.
As a republican, I gave Blackwell a fair chance to prove himself deserving of my vote, he is found wanting. I’m leaning well towards Strickland.
Blackwell is a loon who supports Grover Nordquist’s policies that strip all funding from state governments. Blackwell originally had a plan to cap all state spending that was so radical that he had to disclaim it before the primary because even the other Republicans thought it went too far. When a candidate supports a plan that too crazy even for the other crazies in his own party, he’s no good.
Oops. Forgot to link.
…and I thought I’d have to choose!
Well that’s a relief. If you were only pretending to find it repugnant, we’d have to get some fake sentiments. I think.
I have no mouth and I must scream. The pumpkins aren’t ripe yet. Tell me the countersign and I’ll tell you where your microfilm is.
“Strange skies” indeed. If you were any more oblique you’d be obtuse.
Still, it’ll be interesting to see what results from the districts in the central part of the state continuing to pursue their efforts toward drug legalization.