Wednesday
Jan262005
Wednesday, January 26, 2005 at 07:06PM
- Uncle Tom Puppetician Served as Bush Campaign Co-Chair for Ohio
Ohio's
Republican Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell boasted of helping
"deliver" Ohio for President Bush and said he was "truly pleased" to
announce Bush had won Ohio even before all of the state's votes had
been counted in his own fundraising letter. The letter, which was
received by a Butler County resident Dec. 31, is a plea to support
Blackwell's campaign for governor. The resident has asked to remain
anonymous. In apparent disregard for his nonpartisan role as Ohio's
chief election official, the Republican Secretary and chairman of
Bush's Ohio reelection campaign slammed Senator Kerry as a "disaster"
who would have reaped "terrible" and "horrible" results on both Ohio
and the United States. Further, Blackwell's use of the word "deliver"
finds striking resonance with another controversial fundraising letter
sent by the CEO of voting machine manufacturer Diebold Walden O'Dell in
the summer of 2003 when he said he was "committed to helping Ohio
deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." Blackwell's
campaign office confirmed that they that sent the letter but offered no
further comment. "Without your enthusiasm, generous support and vote,
I'm afraid the President would have lost," Blackwell wrote, "And an
unapologetic liberal Democrat named John Kerry would have won."
"Thankfully," he adds, "you and I stopped that disaster from
happening." Blackwell also noted that he was "truly pleased" to
announce President Bush the victor in Ohio even before all the votes
had been counted. Even in
the wake of a House Judiciary Committee investigation by Democrats into
voting irregularities in Ohio, Blackwell goes so far as to say that he
was proud to prevent voting fraud. [more]
- See the letter and the envelope [more]
- Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth
Blackwell: "there's no reason to prolong the election. 'Jesse
Jackson can complain, grand stand, whine, stamp his feet all he wants,'
said Blackwell spokesman Carlo LoParo. 'It's not going to change the
results of Ohio's election or how voters cast their ballots on Nov.
2.'" The AP 1/4/2004
