http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/sam_fulwood/index.ssf?/base/opinion/115321148751350.xml&coll=2Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Sam Fulwood III
Plain Dealer Columnist
Tony McCarty of Columbus is disgusted by my re peated accusations that GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell tried to suppress Ohio's black vote in past presidential elections.
"As a concerned citizen, I would greatly appreciate it if you would base your columns on facts instead of smearing a person's character and accusing them of serious public crimes," McCarty wrote in an e-mail.
Well, sir, I'm delighted to offer you - and all of the others who didn't ask so nicely - an explanation, though I doubt anything I say will convince you.
To refresh my memory, I asked Plain Dealer newsroom researcher Cheryl Diamond to help review and double-check the news stories leading up to and immediately following the 2004 election that involved Blackwell's many troubling decisions...
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