Observers debate effect Ney scandal will have on election

[Algorem]

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Sunday, September 17, 2006
Elizabeth Auster
Plain Dealer Reporter

Washington -

..."In a sense, we have enough scandals with the Taft administration. I'm not sure if one more has that much more effect," said Ohio State University political science professor Herb Weisberg. "I think it will increase somewhat the anti-Republican incumbent feelings in the state of Ohio, but we're not talking about a 20 percent difference. We're talking about a few more percent."...

Democrats clearly hope so. Dover law director Zack Space, the Democrat nominee for Ney's seat, has made ethics a centerpiece of his campaign. His spokeswoman, Angela Guyadeen, said Space plans to emphasize to voters that Padgett is running with Ney's blessing...

"It's irrelevant. He's not on the ballot," said Ed Patru, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee...

Ohio GOP chairman Bob Bennett said he expects Democrats to try to exploit Ney's guilty plea and "do their predictable hue and cry about the culture of corruption." Bennett maintained in a statement, however, that he expects Republicans to persuade voters that they are trying to "clean up the corruption where it exists in government, regardless of partisanship, while the Democrats stand idly by pointing a hypocritical finger."

[Berry Cool]

1. Oh, is THAT what he expects? LOL!!!!

The hubris is amazing.

The day I become convinced that the Republicans of Ohio are trying to clean up corruption in government is the day I invest in one of their rare coin funds!

[badgervan]

2. Blackwell Reaps What He Sowed

I would say that dems have damn good reason to "hue and cry" in Ohio. I eagerly await the exposure of Mr. Blackwell's past efforts to make it harder for democrats to vote, those efforts going back years. How the top repub in the state, a major backer of the Decider, can be in charge of Ohio's entire electoral process is just beyond my understanding. Talk about the fox in the chicken coop! This dude has to be put out to pasture.

[yellowcanine]

3. DEmocrats should "hue" and let the Republicans "cry". If the Dems

can't find a way to win in Ohio this year they should fold up the tents.

[Zorra]

4. Republicans ARE the corruption in government. End of story. n/t