Medina County Dem News

(Medina County Democratic Party)

MCDAC's Democratic Newsletter for October 20, 2006

ONLY 18 DAYS LEFT UNTIL NOVEMBER ELECTION

Brunswick Common Sense Distribution and Lit Drop This Weekend

This weekend Brunswick City Councilperson-at-Large Pat McNamara is organizing a massive distribution of Common Sense in Brunswick combined with a literature distribution for Democratic candidates. He needs volunteers. If you are interested in helping contact him at his cell phone number, 440-623-3455, or his home phone number which is 330-225-8168.. His home address is 112 Claremont Dr. in Brunswick.

Sherrod Brown is Coming to Wadsworth

Sherrod Brown is coming to Wadsworth on Saturday, October 28 at 10am ! He will be addressing the crowd, answering questions and meeting voters at the Masonic Temple, 660 High Street (Rt. 94) in Wadsworth . Doors open at 9am . After the Rally, take your enthusiasm to the streets of Wadsworth by canvassing the City for Sherrod! For more information or to become a Sherrod canvasser, contact Julie Batey at 330-334-0392 or email her at juliebatey@neo.rr.com.

Read Common Sense Online

This year MCDAC has concentrated on delivering Common Sense into targeted precincts in Medina County. You can read the 2006 Election Issue online by going to http://www.mcdac.org/ and clicking on Common Sense in the table of contents.

MCDAC's Blog. Check out this week's entry on how independent voters are abandoning the GOP at http://www.mcdac.blogspot.com/.

Dem TV:

Check out this incredible ad from a new 527 group called "The September Fund" founded by Harold Ickes, former aide to President Clinton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNJJe58CodU

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.

Medina County Young Dems Election Night Party

The Medina County Young Democrats are having an election night party at Buffalo Wild Wings on Route 18 in Medina starting at 8 pm on November 7th. Everyone is invited and you may bring a guest. The party will be in the backroom of the restaurant. For more information contact Amanda Armstrong at amanda.m.armstrong@gmail.com

Articles

Governor's Race

Strickland's lead grows in the University of Cincinnati Ohio poll to 52-38%. http://www.buckeyestateblog.com/ohio_poll_strickland_brown_leads_growing

Seniors turned off by Blackwell's tactics during debate, according to Columbus Dispatch.
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/election/election.php?story=219970

Plain Dealer account of the debate, calls Blackwell's charges against Strickland  "discredited". http://www.cleveland.com/open/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/116107392583550.xml&coll=2

Toledo Blade points out that Blackwell is repeating the same "old charges" that Bryan Flannery made on his way to losing the primary to Strickland by over 60 percentage points. http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061017/NEWS09/610170418

Right-wing smear machine goes after Strickland and spread rumors that he is gay because after all, heaven knows that Ken Blackwell can't talk about issues or the real problems facing Ohio http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061019/NEWS01/310190019

Strickland calls Blackwell's charges reprehensible.
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061018/NEWS01/310180031/1077/COL02

Senate Race

Brown's lead grows in the Ohio poll to 52-45% http://www.buckeyestateblog.com/ohio_poll_strickland_brown_leads_growing

New York Times reported on Monday, the 16th, that Republican Senate Campaign Committee has decided to write off DeWine and focus its efforts elsewhere.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/us/politics/16spend.html?ref=politics

Lorain Morning Journal endorses Brown. http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17330499&BRD=1699&PAG=461&dept_id=46368&rfi=6

DeWine and National GOP lie about Sherrod Brown and taxes. http://sherrodbrown.com/press/releases/801/

Iraq Articles

AP article on Bush's shifting rationale for the war in Iraq: boston.com/news/

Other Articles

Country singer Tim McGraw calls himself a "southern populist Democrat" and says that hat matters to him is preserving the social safety net. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061016/ap_en_mu/people_tim_mcgraw

Poll tracking page on Talking Points Memo website which posts polls from all over the country. http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/#block-views-breaking_polls

Interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about how fear affects voting. http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116068988757591182-_GJqd1SqiHfQY7__WMtZHzLPgRc_20071012.html?mod=rss_free

GOP insiders in D.C. upset with Bush for not having a plan if the GOP loses control of one or both houses of Congress. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/061013/13bush.htm

ABC News reports that there could be pressure from the religious right to conduct a purge of Republican staffers who are gay. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2564929&page=1

Bush increasingly uses the word "unacceptable" as events move beyond his control. An interesting article about presidential language. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101201580.html

Rove promised 5 million to the Republican National Congressional Campaign if it could raise 5 million. The report is that Rove made good on that pledge. The question is: where did the money come from?  http://www.examiner.com/a-340433~Rove_Makes_Good_on__5_Million_Pledge.html

John Kerry opens up on Republican lies. news.yahoo.com/-

Chicago Tribune on how Ohio may be changing colors this election year. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0610140252oct14,1,2904226.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

Bill Clinton on how a "tiny sliver" of the Republican Party has divided the nation by insisting that it is pure while the rest of the country is stained. news.yahoo.com/

Dems determined to catch-up in voter turnout operations. news.yahoo.com/-

Bush's former head of the FDA is charged with crimes. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/business/4262761.html