Happy Labor Day!

How about story on William Peirce for Governor?

Hello there.

I am requesting that you do an in depth story on William Peirce. Is it just me? Or is the mainstream media mind manipulation machine up to it's old tricks again? Never a mention of the one REAL candidate we have on the ticket for Governor this year. All we ever hear is Strickland this, Blackwell that. Blah-blah-blah! They have held many "staged events" (my words), though they like to refer to these events as "debates" for the people of Ohio. If they were REAL DEBATES, they would include ALL candidates. Mind you, I do not agree witth everything the Libertarian party is all about. But when it comes to the Republicrats and that other party I like to refer to as the Demopublicans, I have to look for another choice. Anywhere! Because the (er-hem) two main parties have become one, and are instrumental in selling our country to the highest bidder, and slowly pushing the USA into the New World Order One World Government system. Where in the end we will all end up being microchipped and counted as nothing more than the slaves to the system that we have allowed ourselves to become. I could go on and on here.

Coshocton County complaint

Editor's note: The following is a criminal complaint filed in Coshocton County by Tim Kettler, Green Party candidate for Secretary of State and the man who oversaw the recount in Coshocton. Note the complaint is very similar to allegations that led to criminal indictments in Cuyahoga County.

View the complaint as a PDF

The cablization of network news

On Tuesday, September 5th, at least three things will change.  Congress will finish vacationing and return to its long and difficult task of destroying the world; many of us will welcome our Congress Members back to Washington with a giant protest camp called Camp Democracy; and Network News will officially go Cable with Katie Couric playing the role of Edward R. Murrow.

That's right, Katie will be "anchor" and "managing editor" of CBS Evening "News".  And she's already hard at work.  "It's very exciting," she says, "because you're benefiting from all the terrific people and systems already in place, yet hopefully creating something different and fresh.  Whether you're talking about the music and saying 'Can the trumpets be a little brighter?' or figuring out the sets and the graphics, it's a lot of fun."

What the fortuneteller's parrot told me

Soon we will launch the last phase of the midterm elections. Hopes will flare up. Though the numbers are dwindling, some people go through their whole adult lives thinking that the next Democrat to hunker down in the Oval Office is going to straighten out the mess, fight for the ordinary folk, and face down the rich and powerful.

I got off the plane in New York in 1972 at the age of 31 with one big advantage over these naive souls. I'd already spent 20 years seeing the same hopes invested in whatever Labor Party candidate was on the way to 10 Downing Street.

By the time I reached my prep school at the age of 9, the first post-war Labor government was already slipping from power.

Back in the summer of 1945, if any party was ever given a mandate, it was surely Labor, propelled into office by the millions who had spent the war years awakened by unusual circumstance -- a familiar effect of war -- to fresh awareness of the barely inconceivable incompetence and arrogance of the British upper classes and memories of the pre-war Depression when the Conservatives ruled the roost. With one voice they said,

Saving the ballot evidence from Ohio 2004

This weekend was to be "D-Day" in Ohio. It marked the September 2 deadline after which federal law allows the destruction of ballots from the 2004 election.

It didn't happen, at least on a statewide basis. But the fight to preserve that vital evidence is far from over.

Republican election officials here have been chomping at the bit to shred, burn or otherwise destroy the ballots and other related materials from the dubious vote count that gave George W. Bush a second term. Yet, in several rural southwest Republican-dominated counties, you have to trip over boxes of ballots and election material from earlier elections dating back as far as 1977 in order to see the stickers "Destroy on 9/3/06" on the 2004 ballot boxes.

J. Kenneth Blackwell, the Republican Secretary of State, is running for governor. His dual role as administrator of the election and state co-chair of the Bush-Cheney campaign has raised deep-seated embarrassment and ire throughout the Buckeye State.

High five

Clergy for Blackwell troubling

COLUMBUS, OHIO -- We Believe was troubled to learn that a group is being formed known as "Clergy for Blackwell" - troubled but not surprised. Spokesclergy for the group noted repeatedly that they are speaking "as persons, as individuals," that being a minister "doesn't take away my right as a private citizen." One might well ask - if one is asserting one's individual rights, why wave the clergy flag?

We Believe that individuals do have a right to support political candidates of their choice. Yet We Believe that clergy have a higher obligation to work for the values transmitted for centuries through diverse religious traditions. One might well ask, "What Would Jesus Do? What Would Moses Do? What Would Muhammad Do?" Would they support Kenneth Blackwell? Would they endorse candidates at all? Or would they demand of all candidates that they address the issues that are critical to God's people? Issues like poverty, jobs, access to health care, living wage, adequate housing.

That is the conversation that We Believe has been promoting in our community. We Believe has sought to meet with the gubernatorial

New York Times article about saving Ohio's ballots

The destruction of the ballots from the 2004 presidential election in Ohio makes the front page of the New York Times. The Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism/Free Press investigations of the 2004 presidential election ballots makes front page news in the New York Times.

Ohio to Delay Destruction of Presidential Ballots

Click here to find out more about the Save the Ballots campaign: Save the Ballots

Call Bob Fitrakis, 614-374-2380 or Cliff Arnebeck, 614-224-8771, or Harvey Wasserman, 614-738-3646 for information about the Ohio investigations of the ballots and the pending federal lawsuit.

More information about New Press book by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman: What Happened in Ohio? A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election

Volunteer to help investigate with the Save the Ballots campaign

As the destruction of the ballots from the 2004 presidential campaign draws closer, the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism has been sending crews of people to the county boards of elections to count ballots and study the signature books. If you are interested in helping with the investigations, contact: Bob Fitrakis - 614-374-2380 or 614-253-2571.

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