Ohio Politics

Political donors go wild in Ohio

January 31, 2004 Associated Press GOP has $3.6 million to spend on elections; Democrats far behind COLUMBUS - The Ohio House Republican Campaign Committee raised an off-year record $3.6 million in 2003 for this year's elections, led by a $510,000 donation from Rep. Jon Husted's campaign, reports filed Friday with the secretary of state's office showed. Just six campaign committees were...

Op-Ed: If the media is watching Big Brother, who is watching them?

January 30, 2004 by Gerard Valentino The recent debate over public records provisions in Ohio's concealed carry law sent the media into full blown fits about infringing freedom of the press and their self-proclaimed position as protectors of the common person from abuses by Big Brother. Hearing them describe their defense of the commoner conjures up images of valiant crusades headed by knights in...

Cincy Post editorial highlights failure of Ohio gun control laws

01-28-2004 Cincinnati Post Getting weapons off the streets The value of equipping police with non-lethal weapons has been shown at least twice this month. Last week, Cincinnati police successfully used a stun gun on a suspect who was reaching for a gun as he struggled with officers who had run him down in a foot chase. It was the type of situation that could easily enough have forced officers to...

Cincinnatians ask ''why can't the police control this?''

January 28, 2004 Cincinnati Enquirer WEST END - Mary Lockett's Dayton Street home in the West End has been broken into five times since Thursday. align="right"> The burglars took countless items, including jewelry, china dishes and other family heirlooms. They were even bold enough to smoke half a pack of cigarettes and devour a pot of chili that was sitting on her stove. "I want to find out...

Taft spinners trying to put a new face on years of anti-self-defense rhetoric

Whether a student or not, campus journalism is always good for a read...and sometimes good for a laugh. But as we read this story from the student voice of the Ohio State University, we're not laughing at the writer. Instead, we're laughing at Bob Taft's sudden conversion into a concealed carry advocate. What to do about concealed guns Taft hopes to ease concerns The (OSU) Lantern (to read the...

Law enforcement cuts statewide - only YOU can protect you

Champaign County sheriff to cut force Tight budget blamed; 29 will lose jobs by month's end January 24, 2004 Cox News Service URBANA -- The Champaign County Sheriff's Office will lay off more than half its 52-member force at midnight Jan. 30, the sheriff said Friday night. Twenty-nine workers — including all lieutenants, sergeants, detectives and part-time employees — will be furloughed. "This is...

OhioCCW can't come soon enough for defenseless victims...

AP: Where Are They? January 18, 2004 - At least 40 inmates who escaped from Ohio prisons, some decades ago, remain at large and in some cases are no longer the subject of arrest warrants, the Akron Beacon Journal reported on Sunday. The two agencies most accountable for prison escapes -- the State Highway Patrol and the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction -- can't agree on the number of...

Pro-concealed carry Joy Padgett sworn in as senator

January 15, 2004 Gannett News Service COLUMBUS -- Joy Padgett described Wednesday's Senate session as more like a class reunion than a formal swearing in ceremony. "It has just been a maze of memories," she said, hugging friends and colleagues who mobbed her on the Senate floor. Several dozen lawmakers welcomed Padgett back to the Legislature after she took her oath of office Wednesday,...

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