by sean on December 8, 2005
And they wonder why people are suspicious of companies like Diebold.
Money from three Diebold executives began trickling into two Republican campaigns last August, just two months after the voting-machine maker banned political giving by a handful of its top brass.
Mike Jacobsen, a spokesman for the manufacturer based in Green, Ohio, expressed regret over the donations, which totaled $1,400 to U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine and state Sen. Kirk Schuring of Canton, according to campaign finance reports.
But he said the three officials who gave were not subject to the 2004 ethics policy changes, which applied only to the chief executive, Walden O’Dell; president; chief financial officer; and vice president in charge of Diebold Election Systems.
Well, that makes sense then.
by sean on December 6, 2005
Via George, there’s this odd thing at Buckey Politics.
I now know why Sherrod Brown hasn’t accepted our invitation to Meet The Bloggers. What he really wanted was to get slurped by out of state media on his own payroll.
This interview at MyDD is one of the most incredible pieces of chutzpah I’ve ever seen a candidate engage in. MyDD, an incorporated media property owned by Jerome Armstrong, who is on Sherrod Brown’s payroll, has a kid in California (who presumably is on Jerome’s payroll, who knows, that’s not transparent, although this seems to indicate a paid relationship) interview Sherrod on the phone with such hard hitting questions as “What other local issues will you be bringing to the table in this election cycle?”, which I guess the kid has to ask because he’s in California. It’s like George W. Bush hiring Bill O’Reilly to be his consultant, and then giving O’Reilly’s replacement an interview on Fox News, only worse, as O’Reilly doesn’t actually own Fox…Armstrong owns MyDD.
Until I see something from Brown on this matter, I’m taking down the link to his campaign website. Meet The Bloggers is a great local voice for candidates, and avoiding it doesn’t look good.