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Thursday, September 30, 2004

Blackwell - Fucking Asshole

Yesterday was a disgusting day for the state of Ohio. Yesterday Ohio Secretary of State, J. Kenneth Blackwell ordered Ralph Nader off the Ohio ballot. This was a foolish and ridiculous move by Blackwell, a Republican who plans to run for Ohio Governor in 2006. By denying Nader a place in politics, Blackwell is both circumventing the democracy that our country was founded upon and shooting himself in the foot. But he isn't stopping there! This week he has also unilaterally limited voter registration in Ohio, making him the number one asshole in the state. I’ll get to that later.

Our country was designed as a democracy where all citizens would have fair representation in government. As the framers intended it, our representative government would consist of anyone popularly voted to represent a majority of citizens. This is true from the President all the way down to city councils. However, Mr. Blackwell as well as several shithead Democrats have gone against our equal-opportunity election system, taking arms against Mr. Nader.

Not only is Nader not given a chance to debate tonight, he is tangled in litigation in most states in which he is trying to run. Democrats across the country have sued Nader for election fraud. They claim he is using illegal means to collect ballot-access signatures.

A good friend of mine and Nader supporter, John Broz, was one of the grassroots signature-collectors for Nader. I observed him and his colleagues carefully collect signatures and register voters. Broz and his counterparts were of honest intentions and worked for Nader pro-bono. Absolutely no laws or election restrictions were violated on my watch. John is now being sued by the Democratic Party.

The Democrats, having "carefully reviewed" all 14,000 submitted signatures have had all but 3,708 thrown out based on their own unsubstantiated claims. These claims have no merit and are categorically false. The Democrats and Blackwell know this and just hope nobody catches on until after the election. I signed for Nader, my signature better be counted. These almost 4,000 signatures are still considerably below the 5,000 necessary to be on Ohio's Presidential ballot. Therefore, the Democrats have Nader locked out of the election by overpowering him with their legal muscle and millions of corporate dollars.

The Democrats are making nothing but mistakes! They are wasting their time on Nader, as he is not going to beat them in the election; a certain President Bush is! The Democrats are being anything but democratic by preventing Nader from running for president. Regardless of his chances, the man has worked hard to be on the ballot, and he has followed the rules, let him run! I have a message for the Democrats of Ohio: Nader is not a threat to Kerry, he will not beat Kerry. George Bush is a threat to Kerry, and at the rate the Democrats are fucking up, he will beat Kerry. If the Democrats had put all the time, money, and effort into a successful campaign strategy instead of this Nader hunt, they might be able to beat Bush, but I fear it’s too late now. I am getting off topic though, on to Blackwell.

Mr. Blackwell doesn’t stop there; he sent a notice to all Ohio election boards to disregard certain election registration forms. Blackwell claims that forms printed on paper thinner than a postcard might be damaged by mail machines. His instructions were to throw away any voter registration cards that did not meet the thickness requirements. Talk about undemocratic! This man is disenfranchising thousands of new voters because of the thickness of a piece of paper. How would you feel if you went to the polls to find that you lost the right to vote because the paper you signed up on wasn’t thick enough? I wonder what Mr. Blackwell is thinking!

So on one hand Mr. Blackwell is helping the Democrats’ chances of winning the election by removing Nader from Ohio’s ballot. On the other, he is helping Republicans the same way Jeb Bush helped his brother. By cutting out thousands of new (mostly liberal) voters. The idiot Blackwell is helping out ol’ GWB too. So whose side is he on? No one’s!

Blackwell is kicking himself in the balls. He is helping and hurting both sides simultaneously. This is not a way to make friends. So where do we stand? Nader, a man who (unlike Blackwell) is truly for the people, is eliminated from competition in Ohio. Nader’s name will be removed from all ballots in Ohio. Acording to the Columbus Dispatch, all absentee voters will be notified that a vote for Nader will not be counted (very democratic). And thousands of voters may be turned away on Nov. 2 as Blackwell has done his best to manipulate the voting system.

I urge everyone to write Blackwell a nasty letter as I intend to do. Tell him what democracy means to you, and give him hell for his dirty tricks. Whatever you do, don’t vote for him in two years! His contact information is below:

J. Kenneth Blackwell
Ohio Secretary of State
180 E. Broad St. 16th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215
1-877-767-6446

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