"you either are or are not from the House of Labor."

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No endorsement, no money. That's the problem this week for two Democratic candidates for Ohio Supreme Court.

William O'Neill, a 11th Ohio District Court of Appeals judge, boycotted an endorsement interview with the Toledo Blade yesterday. Instead, he held a news conference down the street from the paper at the Toledo Council of Newspaper Unions.

Because the paper has locked out more than 200 union members in a months' long dispute, O'Neill is locking out any interest in the paper's endorsement for his challenge of incumbent Justice Terrence O'Donnell.

Luann Sharp, a Blade spokeswoman, harrumphed that O'Neill was presumptuous that he would even get the newspaper's endorsement in the first place. She was puzzled, however, that he wouldn't try to get both sides of the story.

But O'Neill, a former union organzier, said "you either are or are not from the House of Labor."

http://www.cleveland.com/weblogs/openers/index.ssf?/mtlogs/cleve_openers/archives/2006_10.html#191783

[Bluzmann57]

1. Good for Mr. O'Neill

A man who stands by his Union principles. Wish we had more like that.

[demosincebirth]

2. I agree