Cuyahoga County Isn’t Ready for the Primary Election
From the PD
While other states jockey for power in the presidential nomination process by moving up their primaries, Cuyahoga County commissioners want Ohio’s to be moved back.
The commissioners are concerned that the voting equipment used in Ohio’s largest county won’t be able to handle that big election, and they want to give the Cuyahoga Board of Elections and the secretary of state time to consider options, including changing the voting equipment.
They recently asked Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to consider moving the primary from March to May, where it had been in the past. Copies of their letter also went to the governor and leaders of the Ohio House and Senate.
Does this even surprise anyone anymore?
Hammertime said,
Wrote on September 10, 2007 @ 2:29 pm
Check out this commentary on Callahan’s Cleveland Diary:
http://www.callahansclevelanddiary.com/?p=347
Could the County Commissioners be attempting to delay the primary to save Kucinich from a DiPiero primary challenge? If Dennis keeps running for President in the March primary, Dennis! the Congressional candidate might be more vulnerable to suggestions that he’s ignoring his district.
straightarrow said,
Wrote on September 11, 2007 @ 6:34 am
Regardless of Jerid Kurtz’s assertions, DiPiero is doing none of the things that a candidate who was going to make a serious primary run at an incumbent Congressman would be doing with a primary less than 6 months away.
Dennis has already fired the first shot by recruiting a cutter, if DiPiero actually decides to run more cutters will surface.
If anything, the best weapon that Dennis will have will be that Democrat leaders in Washington - regardless of how much they may hate Dennis - will not want a divisive primary in a critical Democrat area. I suspect at some point a call from somebody with real juice will come asking Dean to wait until 2010.