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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 12:26 AM
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More good news from Ohio
Edited on Wed Nov-05-03 12:28 AM by dsc
With 98% of precincts reporting Issue 35 is winning in Cleveland Heights by 55% to 45%. This will allow any couple to register their relationship as a domestic partnership with the city of Cleveland Heights and to get rights like hospital visitation. This is the very first time this sort of thing has won in a referendum. Gays and lesbians, as well as unmarried straights won a historic victory tonight. And in Ohio.

egad forgot the link

http://www.onnnews.com/shared.php?story=/thirdparty/1103election/election-cuyahoga.php
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 12:31 AM
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1. Grreat! This is tremendous stupendous News!
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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 12:33 AM
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2. I didn't talk this up at all here
due to thinking it would lose and lose big. I am so glad I was wrong.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 12:38 AM
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3. This is great news, dsc. Cleveland Heights is one of my favorite cities.
Edited on Wed Nov-05-03 12:39 AM by blm
I grew up in Seven Hills, but always felt more comfortable hanging in Cleveland Heights whenever I returned to that area for visits home.
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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 12:42 AM
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4. again I am in shock
I really figured we were dead meat there or anywhere in Ohio with this but I was wrong. And pretty convincingly I might add. I am very happy to see this. Also my local tax levies passed so my election day was pretty decent (except Lakewood's mayor races which I don't know about yet).
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Lady President Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 12:48 AM
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5. Wonderful
I'm not about to write off Ohio in 2004. I think the Dems. have a legitimate shot.

News from Columbus: The Dem. Mayor Coleman ran unopposed, all four Dem. candidates for City Council won (City Council is all Dems.),and the Columbus City Attorney won. Issue 1 also went down. We had a very solid showing for the city offices. :)
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 12:52 AM
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6. My friend, Dennis, from Ohio, would be stunned. And hopeful.
He left Ohio thirty years ago because it was too hard to be gay there. He died of AIDS in New York ten years ago.

But he would be chortling and glowing over this.
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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 12:58 AM
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7. sadly we did lose Mayor Cain
Edited on Wed Nov-05-03 01:23 AM by dsc
and that was not good. She flew the pride flag for a week and all hell broke lose. She also did a bad job on the West End development issue. Also both openly gay candidates lost their council races. Lakewood was not a pretty picture tonight but that West End thing is what probably did us in.
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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 01:33 AM
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8. bed time kick
I think this deserves some notice
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 07:35 AM
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10. Thanks for the good news dsc!!
:bounce:
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 01:35 AM
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9. We Buckeyes are rocking the hizzousse tonight!
Edited on Wed Nov-05-03 01:36 AM by VolcanoJen
You know, had Gore won Ohio, we wouldn't have needed Florida at all.

As a proud, proud, Buckeye, I do hope that our nominee does some serious stumping here. If we can carry Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, we honestly wouldn't need to carry a single southern state.

GO OHIO! I'm so proud of us, especially for denying Taft his "Third Frontier,"

Jennifer

ON EDIT: For you Southwestern Buckeyes, the Zoo Levy passed tonight, as did many, many school levys. People don't mind higher taxes when it's for the common good... let's drive that point home in '04!!!!!
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farmbo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 07:55 AM
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11. Don't forget Columbus Mayor Mike Coleman... Yee haaa!!
He actually "won" it 90 days out. No Repub even had the guts to file against him. Prior to 1999, the GOP controlled the Columbus Mayor's office for some 20 years.

And he's warming up for a statewide race in 2006!
:toast:
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DivinBreuvage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 08:29 AM
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12. And Akron Mayor Don Plusquellic...
who whomped the tar out of that lying little toadie of Alex Arshinkoff.

Françoise
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cmd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 08:56 AM
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13. Young Dems alive and well in my city
21 year old Chris Penso (D) is losing the mayor's race by 4 votes. The republican mayor has been in office for 12 years and has always won by a wide margin. Penso and his friends campaign aggressively and may still pull out a win. I'm so proud of them.
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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 10:45 AM
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14. That is great
I hope he does win but even if he doesn't in four years he almost certainly will. Ohio did well tonight unlike a year ago.
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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 05:17 PM
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15. I guess I should have bashed a candidate
then I might have gotten a decent number of responses.
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GinaMaria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 05:24 PM
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16. no bashing needed
this is great news. Sad too in a way, that something like hospital visitation had the number of people voting against it that it did. Thanks for sharing this.

Peace
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