Medina County Dem News

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MCDAC's Democratic Newsletter for October 6, 2006

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MCDAC's Blog. Check out this week's entry at http://www.mcdac.blogspot.com/ It's called "Republican Protection" and can be read at http://www.mcdac.blogspot.com/ 

Dem TV: New Dem TV spot up, also called Republican Protection, (there's a theme here). It can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRqK_6N8uDk

Lee Fisher Visits Medina on October 9th

Monday, October 9th
from 8:30 to 9:30 am
at the A.I. Root Conference Room
623 West Liberty St., Medina
The meeting is free and open to the public. A very small crowd turned out for Blackwell's visit. We can easily top that and prove that Medina County Democrats are working to Turnaround Ohio with Ted Strickland and Lee Fisher. Be there!

Roger Strickland Visits Medina Dem Headquarters on October 10th

Roger Strickland, an avid hunter, outdoorsman and Ted's brother is visiting Medina County to talk with hunters and outdoorsmen about why they shoujld vote Ted Strickland for Governor. He will be at the Democratic Headquarters on North Court Street in Medina at the Medina Shopping Center from 2 pm to 3 pm. Come out and talk hunting, fishing, and politics with Roger.

Medina County JJ Dinner

Race to the FINISH LINE!!! Rev up your engines for the "last lap" before Nov. elections at the annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner and Silent Auction, Sat. Oct. 28, at the Sharon Event & Party Center, 6600 Ridge Rd., Sharon Center. Reservations: $40 per person to Medina County Democratic Party, 330-722-6655, by Oct. 20. Warm-up laps (Cash Bar) at 6:30 p.m.; "Start Your Engines!" Buffet Dinner at 7:30. Meet local and statewide candidates and bid on super auction items. See website: http://www.medinadems.org/ for more details and registration form.

Articles

Governor's Race

Bush referred to Blackwell as a "nut", according to Woodward's new book, State of Denial. Seems like even the Republican president that Blackwell help re-elect knows his true nature. http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/15665977.htm

Strickland breaks record for most money raised by a gubernatorial candidate in Ohio.
Cleveland.com News

Senate Race

Big Democratic names are campaigning for Sherrod in this year's Senate race. http://www.chroniclet.com/Daily%20Pages/100506head10.html

Profile on Sherrod Brown by the Cleveland Plain Dealer
http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news/1159864304159270.xml?nnusa&coll=2

Brown says that DeWine is missing 50% of Senate Intelligence Committee meetings.
http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/isope/1159959434260050.xml?isope&coll=2
Recap of the Brown-DeWine debate on Meet the Press.
http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/isope/1159959434260050.xml?isope&coll=2

Iraq Articles

Bush's "just a comma" remark concerning the Iraq War are drawing charges that he doesn't understand the impact American deaths in Iraq have on the families left behind.
http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=8717

Iraq police brigade, suspected on ties to "death squads", is demobilized.
Yahoo News - Mideast

American military deaths in Iraq are going up. American media pretty much ignoring the bad news out of Iraq. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/03/AR2006100300398.html

Other Articles

Republican Congressman resigns after it is learned that he sent sexually suggestive to a teenage male page. House GOP leadership may have known of the emails, but took no action against him. The  Congressman who resigned, Foley, was head of a the Congressional Caucus on Exploited Children. Another GOP hypocrite. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/09/29/national/w123452D40
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New York Times has reactions to the Foley resignation. NRCC wants Foley's money to use in other races. As Josh Marshall says, "hate the sin, love the sinner's money" is the mantra of the GOP, a party without shame. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/02/washington/02foley.html?hp&ex=1159761600&en=a4db50b2c2d91418&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Good rundown on Foley resignation and the impact on the GOP. http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/cats/mark_foley/

According to Woodward's new book, State of Denial, Rice had a meeting with Director of the CIA where he tried to get her to respond to threat of terrorist attack in America in 2001 and she did nothing. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/washington/01cnd-book.html?hp&ex=1159761600&en=797d904aeadd4206&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Rice denied that a meeting took place, saying that while she had no memory of such a meeting, it was "incomprehensible" to her that she  would have ignored warnings of the sort described in Woodward's book. NYTimes reports that such a meeting took place after examining the White House records. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/02/washington/03ricecnd.html?hp&ex=1159848000&en=5de194832d554019&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Republican Senator puts Senatorial "hold" on breast cancer funding. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fran-visco/coburn-to-breast-cancer-c_b_30709.html

Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist wants to bring the Taliban, you know the people that sheltered bin Laden after 9-11, back into the Afghan government. These people are idiots. http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2006/10/02/383378-frist-taliban-should-be-in-afghan-govt