Voinovich to Retire

Source: 3BlueDudes.com via CNN

Another GOP senator in a critical swing state bows out.

Last week, Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri announced he would not seek reelection, creating a pretty significant void for Republicans in a state that has seen super tight races. Now, Ohio Senator George Voinovich will announce on Monday that he will not seek reelection. Ohio is a critical key swing state that Democrats managed to wrestle from Republicans with a big win for Barack Obama in November.

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If not him, then Jennifer Brunner.

Jennifer Brunner is an excellent SOS though but Hackett would also be great, Ive had the privelege of meeting both, i live right here in ohio

have the good sense to replace him with a Democrat.

Has the Nixon southern strategy reduced the GOP to a party of the confederacy with an appendage of plains states? It is beginning to look that way.

A Confederacy of Dunces?

The Abramoff Scandal is Expanding: More GOP woes for 2009...
by dengre
Thu Jan 01, 2009
For many the Jack Abramoff scandal is old news, ancient history and in the past. As the corrupt Bush Administration winds down many of his corrupt fellow travelers are hoping that the Abramoff scandal is dead and buried—and that their involvement will never bubble to the surface. These Corruptionists hope that the Abramoff scandal is over, but they are just whistling past the graveyard. As Faulkner said:

"The past is never dead. It’s not even past."

Quietly, the professionals at the Department of Justice have been working this massive scandal—that is complex by design—to build cases that move from the outer edges to the heart of political corruption in Washington DC. Abramoff is just a doorway in—not an endpoint—and prosecutors are zeroing in on some big fish in a corrupt stream.

The investigation was very active in 2008 and expanded its scope. More shoes are dropping. More details are being exposed. This is why the GOP fears the future, Obama and Eric Holder.



dengre's diary :: ::
To date, sixteen people—including Abramoff—have plead guilty in the scandal and as terms of their pleas they have been cooperating with the DOJ. Another two have been indicted. One is awaiting trial while the other was recently found guilty again in a retrial. Others, including Abramoff, have been indicted for crimes committed on the US Territory of Guam. A trial there is schedule to begin in January 2009. And then there are some indictments on the Marianas Islands that may also prove to be related to corruption in Washington when they come to trial. And that is just what is known on the surface. There are quite a few people identified in these cases who have yet to be indicted, but their day is coming.

The Abramoff scandal is a very active investigation and it is flying far below the radar. One gets the sense that the professionals in the Department of Justice who have been investigating this scandal are waiting out the Bush Administration to minimize political interference and any possible pardons Bush might hand out to his co-conspirators as he leaves office. The US Attorney in Maryland had to be tasked with investigating the DOJ in Washington DC because Abramoff and his team had infiltrated the Justice Department. There is evidence in the Abramoff billing records, documents released from Court cases and from Congressional investigations that former Attorney General John Ashcroft may have exposure is the scandal. Two of his former staffers are involved. One has pleaded guilty and the other has been indicted, his trial should begin later this year.



Trevor Blackann is a former staffer to Congressman Roy Blunt, and Senator Kit Bond who went through the revolving door to become a lobbyist. Blackann (along with Ring and Coughlin) tightens the link between Missouri Republicans and Jack Abramoff. He plead guilty to his role in the scandal on November 20, 2008 and this may have been a contributing factor to Blunt’s decision to leave the GOP House leadership team for the 111th Congress. Blackann is married to Laura Brookshire, a former Tom DeLay staffer and media spokesperson for Richard Pombo and John Doolittle. Blackann is cooperating with the DOJ and has yet to be sentenced for his crimes.


PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT daily kos

Daily Kos: The Abramoff Scandal is Expanding: More GOP woes for ... The Abramoff Scandal is Expanding: More GOP woes for 2009... by dengre. Thu Jan 01, 2009 at 09:29:18 PM PST. For many the Jack Abramoff scandal is old news, ...
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there will be no pardon for the rat bastards.

The Golden Touch - Government Technology There is leadership in Congress today, senators Voinovich and Thompson and others who are interested, but there still is a tendency to ...
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Voinovich was a client of the GOP IT guru Mike Connell who crashed his plane just before testifying in vote fraud investigation in Ohio. If you type Voinovich and Govtech ,together, in your search engine,you will find PAGES of links. Govtech even marketed Tee shirts saying I Love Voinovich-just as they hawked Jeb Bush Teeshirts and paraphernalia.Ken Blackwell figures prominentloy in the 204 and 2000 election fraud investigation currently underway,and there are HUNDREDS of links to Blackwell and Govtech and Mike Connell. epluribusmedia has the best,imho.

We can scoop up Burr's seat, maybe Snarlin' Arlen's. By 2012 the GOP Senate Softball team may have to forfeit.