Toledo Blade Backs RON
“There is one newspaper in Ohio that has propelled itself head and shoulders above the competition statewide during the past year. And there is one newspaper in Ohio that understands better than any other the culture of corruption permeating Columbus. That newspaper is the Toledo Blade, and today, the Blade endorsed State Issues 3, 4, and 5-better known as Reform Ohio Now.” Read the rest HERE at GrowOhio.org.
Ahhhhh the Blade, what a paper.
Brandon L. Boos said,
Wrote on October 31, 2005 @ 11:43 am
The Toledo (Rusty) Blade has never failed to endorse any initiative that was designed to increase the influence of union dues on politics, nor has it ever missed an opportunity to run a negative story about The University of Toledo, or a positive story about itself.
The Toledo Blade was once one of AmericaÂ’s great newspapers, but oddly enough that ended about the same time as Republicans running for city offices in Toledo did.
The city of Toledo has been on a declining slope both economically and socially in recent years – crowned by race riots a few weeks ago – and instead of harkening for change Mr. Block and his little paper are holding the same liberal course. Big surprise.
Maybe the Blade should be helping to improve the city (or at least itÂ’s image) instead of supporting more of the same failed policies that have all but destroyed Toledo in the past decades. Maybe the Blade should be out covering news instead of trying to make it.
ThatÂ’s OK though. If the Blade has itÂ’s way and the liberals take over the state the paper will have put itself out of business in 20 years. ThatÂ’s about how long I figure it will take for the liberal policies and politicians the Blade supports to screw up ToledoÂ’s (already failing) public schools to the extent that there wonÂ’t be enough literate people in that city to make it worth printing a newspaper anymore.
VikingSpirit said,
Wrote on November 1, 2005 @ 3:52 am
The Blade opposes Issue 2 though.
Brandon L. Boos said,
Wrote on November 1, 2005 @ 7:45 am
VS, when you consider what the Blade and it’s liberal comrades are trying to gain through issues 3, 4, and 5 it makes sense that they would oppose issue 2.
We have seen the extreme elements of Ohio’s left attempt to flood elections with fraudulent absentee ballots for years in an attempt to siphon power away from a stronger and more popular Republican party. This is how they believe campaigns are supposed to be run – and expect will be run by any party in the minority.
If enough Ohioans are tricked into voting for issues 3, 4, and 5 the liberals will have a shot at grabbing Ohio for the left, even without a platform. Should that happen they undoubtedly expect that we would resort to their brand of unscrupulous political trickery and therefore see issue 2 as a threat to the power that they are conniving so desperately to swindle from us with issues 3, 4, and 5.
(OK, so it’s a little far fetched, but it’s one hell of a fun conspiracy theory, and it is fair game when the Blade prints things like “Quite simply, it would end an evil system that perpetuates one-party domination�).
Since when is DEMOCRACY an “evil system?”