Glass City Jungle

Aaron has written a very good post on his blog in support of the COSI levy. Whether you’ve made up your decision on how you are going to vote on Issue 11 or not, I recommend heading over and reading what he’s posted.

Two recent emails I’d like to share, first an Old Orchard resident wrote to point out that this past weekend campaign literature was not left at his door but was put in his mail slot. The material was from the re-elect Judge Doneghy campaign. As this Post Office link explains, it’s against post [...]

First of all I’m sorry that I haven’t been able to get a re-direct code to work to automatically get you here from the old blogspot site. I’m still working on finding one that will cooperate with blogger. If you have me bookmarked or linked? I’d appreciate you updating to our [...]

I was disappointed with last night’s debate, very little focus was on real ideas it was basically about George’s decision to run a cartoon type ad with the whole “the apple doesn’t fall to far from the tree” meme and Tom Noe and accusations back and forth over who had ideas, and who was distorting [...]

We never received any notification that the change was to happen today from the City. Apparently a few people don’t read the paper or watch the news because there were a few on my street who left their garbage in the alley.
Parking already has started to be a problem, and now we have garbage [...]

From the Mark Dansack for District 46 campaign:
Mark Dansack Stands for Change in Ohio, Mark Wagoner protects the status quo.
Mark Dansack will be recapping over the next several days the reasons why residents of District 46 will be better served by electing a voice for positive change in Ohio rather than his opponent, who embraces [...]

Mark Reiter of the Toledo Blade continues his coverage of the judical campaigns here in Lucas County.
Today’s article is about Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Thomas Osowik and Judge Dennis Parish who was appointed to the appellate court last year.
For previous articles on the local judicial races, visit here

Judge Osowik at the Maumee Days Parade

From the Dave Schulz for Toledo City Council campaign:
Dave Schulz on utilizing our waterfront assets
Toledo is missing out on economic development opportunities
Dave Schulz expresses his support for the progress being made on improving our waterfront with the announcement of the Marina District plans. However, areas north of downtown / East Toledo offer areas where [...]

Toledo City Council Candidate Dave Schulz was on WTOL and Fox36 last night. There’s no link on Fox but the WTOL link has the text story and the video. From WTOL:
TOLEDO — Trash-wise, it’s an autumn of discontent in the city of Toledo. Council candidate Dave Schulz says he can’t believe the [...]

McNamara: Marina District Must Benefit East Toledoans
Toledo, OH – Toledo City Council candidate Joe McNamara says the new plans for the Marina District hold great promise but more must be done to ensure that the project benefits the surrounding neighborhood.

I saw this last night on WTOL and meant to post it:
TOLEDO — Instant citations are creating instant anger in Toledo. It doesn’t matter whether you’ve got huge piles of trash sitting in front of your home, or just one little box — if it’s there too early, you’re going to get a $75 ticket [...]

From the Ben Konop for Lucas County Commissioner campaign:
Konop to Speak with Citizens about Community Issues at Local Barbershops
Democratic Candidate plans Barbershop Tour focused on listening to citizens’ concerns
(Toledo, OH) – On Saturday, October 28, Democratic candidate for Lucas County Commissioner Ben Konop will tour five local barbershops to listen to citizens’ concerns. The tour [...]

Okay, the post title is a paradoy of the Issue 3 catch phrase, but as today’s Toledo Blade points out, both the Tobacco Industry and the Gambling Interests have put a lot of money into trying to sway voters into believing what they are promoting:
Seven racetracks, a pair of Cleveland developers, and a handful of [...]

From the Mark Dansack for District 46 campaign:
Campaign Finance Reports/Mark Wagoner, fiscal conservative or reckless spender??
Citizens of District 46
“The pre-general campaign finance reports are due today and I think they are worth a comment or two. Do we want or need to have all this money influencing our election campaigns? Should we [...]

Today’s Toledo Blade features information on Stacy Cook and Michael Goulding.
This continues in the series of articles written by Mark Reiter that I have posted about yesterday
I have interviewed Michael Goulding as well as Mark Davis and Jim Nusbaum, I have talked with Stacy briefly but haven’t had a chance to interview her yet. [...]

Today’s Toledo Blade points out another problem with communication as far as promises made to residents that didn’t materialize.
What’s interesting is I can’t find anything in the Blade archives about this or even a lot of information about when the Toledo Correction Institute was built.
Some material on the actual facility:
TOCI is located on more [...]

This from the Dave Schulz for Toledo City Council campaign:
Schulz & GOP Chairman Reichert To Hold Press Conference On Deceptive And Unethical Campaign Practices Of Joe McNamara
City Council candidate Dave Schulz and GOP chairman Bob Reichert will hold a press conference on Thursday October 26th at 11:15 a.m. at the Point Place Branch Library to [...]

Today the Toledo Blade highlighted Charles Doneghy who is currently the incumbent Judge running for re-election and Mark Davis who is running as an independent as his opponent.
Yesterday the Toledo Blade focused on James Nusbaum and Linda Jennings.

Today’s Blade focuses on Lucas County Commmissioner candidate George Sarantou pointing out that not all of Lucas County Commmissioner candidate Ben Konop’s campaign materials have been bought locally:
denouncing Mr. Konop for veering 1,080 miles away from Toledo to hire Designer Graphics, of Tyler, Texas.
As the Blade article mentions this is not the first time the [...]

I’ve seen some of the attack mailings that have come out against Mark Dansack. Basically what they are doing is taking one small statement that Mark made while on the Nookular Option back in July and claiming things like “Mark Dansack has made his position, uh, clear”; “MORE TAXES are in the works – Vote [...]

I wasn’t able to contribute to this week’s Carnival of Ohio Politics but as always there are some very good posts that were submitted so stop on by to see what’s being discussed in the Ohio blogosphere.
Also over at the Toledo Journal there is an article on Joe McNamara and Lourdes Santiago that is noteworthy [...]

This week’s Blog it! Toledo is up and at the title link, as always there are some excellent articles in this week’s Toledo Free Press so make sure to get your copy today as well as visit their website for some exclusive material that you will only find online.
Michael Miller writes about his search of [...]

Continuing in the better late than never blog coverage category, Lucas County Commissioner candidate Ben Konop received the endorsement in an editorial today in the Toledo Blade.
There is also an interview with Ben in Sojourner’s Truth as well as an interview with his opponent George Sarantou. (If the link the the articles becomes inactive [...]

I listened this morning while Toledo City Council candidate Bob Vasquez was on air with Don, Bob did an excellent job in sharing his ideas and as soon as the podcast for today’s show is up I’ll update here with a link. I didn’t get a chance to call in since this morning was [...]

From the Joe McNamara for Toledo City Council campaign:
McNamara Rejects “Trash Politics,” Demands Answers On City Budget

Across-The-Board Cuts Could Threaten Essential City Services
Toledo, OH – With Halloween just around the corner, the Mayor and Lourdes Santiago are playing political tricks with trash collection. Toledo City Council candidate Joe McNamara will hold a press conference today [...]

From the Dansack for District 46 campaign:
October 23, 2006
Mark Wagoner has raised your taxes
Citizens of District 46
Mark Wagoner has voted to raise your taxes, Mark Dansack has never raised a tax.
Mark Wagoner supported House Bill 66, signed into law by the ever-popular Ohio Governor Bob Taft in June of 2005 as part of Ohio’s 2006-2007 [...]

I watched the news clip on 13ABC, where John Irish said that Joe McNamara was stating he was the endorsed candidate in the sample ballots he sent out to voters. Then I read this on WTOL:
“Mr. McNamara is purposely attempting to deceive Toledo voters — especially senior citizens — by distributing this literature that [...]

I’m sure this is not new news by now, I didn’t read the Toledo Blade this morning, I wasn’t planning on doing a great deal of blogging today, and I’m still not, but when I got the phone call from my husband that Joe had gotten the endorsement I headed over to read about it. [...]

From the Ben Konop for Lucas County Commissioner campaign:
Konop Completes First Portion of 30-Mile Walk Throughout Lucas County
UAW-endorsed candidate to meet with employees at Ford Stamping Plant in Maumee on third leg of trek
(Toledo , OH) – Democratic candidate for Lucas County Commissioner Ben Konop has completed the first two days of his [...]

Blogging will be light the rest of this weekend and maybe Monday, Friday I started experiencing some pain in my left abdomen which increasingly grew worse. On Saturday the pain was so severe I couldn’t take it so I ended up in the Emergency Room. After tests, blood work and a CT scan [...]