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The “J” Is For Judas

Today I’m launching, in honor of the Columbus Dispatch’s poll on religion in Ohio, my “The ‘J’ is for Judas” campaign. If you wish to donate any money to my campaign by going to...

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Obvious Conflicts of Interest

Finally, Ohio Democratic Party Chair Chris Redfern has requested the obvious. That Hackwell remove himself from investigating the voting malfunctions in Cuyahoga County based on conflict of interest....

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Diebold and Dead Canaries

Reuters is reporting that Diebold, the notorious and partisan maker of electronic voting machines, now faces an informal Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) inquiry about how the company reports...

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“American Blackout”– A Must-See Film

Whether Ken Hackwell wins in Ohio as governor may depend on whether or not there’s a blackout on one of the most important movies of the year – “American Blackout,” a winner at Sundance and the...

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Ohio: A “Bill of Rights Enforcement Zone”

As governor, I will proclaim Ohio a “Bill of Rights Enforcement Zone,” unlike the current governor Bob Taft, who has joined the U.S. government in illegally spying on U.S. citizens. I would move to...

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NYT and WSJ Finally Get It

At last, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times seem to be slightly comprehending the horrors of e-voting. Granted that mainstream corporate papers are usually willfully ignorant on the great...

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Both D’s and R’s Play the Game

The Columbus Dispatch shed some light on the bipartisan nature of corruption at county boards of elections. Democrat and former Deputy Director of the Franklin County Board of Elections Michael R....

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How I Would Clean Up Elections

I’m speaking in Athens, Ohio at Ohio University to the Political Science Majors Association on the Culture of Corruption in Ohio. My B.S., M.A. and Ph.D. are all in political science, but I learned...

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Don’t Reward Kerry’s Betrayal

So John Kerry’s giving the commencement speech at Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio. The college’s press release reads: “Thanks to record student voter participation, Kenyon College was among the last...

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Re-living the Outrages of 2004

I was doing some research last night for a book I’m working on and found myself once again being outraged by the blatant theft of the 2004 election in Ohio. Here are a few of the irregularities that...

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The Filters Come Off

Here’s an article that ran in the Athens News. I’m actually quite pleased with it, since it doesn’t contain the usual corporate media filters. For example, the writer actually lists my credentials...

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Returning Democracy to Ohio Politics

Ohio’s electoral problem is based on the bipartisan collusion of a two-party system that makes it difficult for third parties, like the Libertarians and Greens, to get on the ballot.  The problem also...

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Redistricting Bill in Ohio – What’s the Hurry?

My colleague, attorney Cliff Arnebeck, testified today on HJR 13, the redistricting reform bill. First of all, Arnebeck raised the key question: “What’s the hurry?” As polls show, the scandal-ridden...

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Granny D Arrested In Washington DC Fighting For Clean Government

I had the privilege of having breakfast with Doris “Granny D” Haddock today. Granny D, who lives in the woods between Dublin and Peterborough, New Hampshire, came to Columbus to campaign for clean...

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Minimum Wage Is Not Living Wage

When the Republicans that control the state recently raised Ohio’s minimum wage to match the federal rate of $5.15, there was little cause for rejoicing. The federal minimum wage has not been increased...

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End The Atrocities In Iraq

This Memorial Day I reflected on the war dead in Iraq. Not just the U.S. soldiers, but the more than 30,000, and possibly as high as 100,000 innocent Iraqi civilians killed in this unjust war. When...

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Bush And Hackwell About To Be Stoned

Check out Leftyblogs.com – the Top 50 Headlines of the Week includes a blog by Cincinnati’s Andrew Warner. He’s asking Strickland to drop out of Ohio’s governor race, so as not to be a “spoiler” for my...

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Prof. Tokaji: No Due Diligence

People have asked me to respond to what they perceive as Ohio State Law professor Dan Tokaji’s “balanced” analysis of Robert Kennedy’s Rolling Stone article about the stolen 2004 election. Tokaji’s...

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Enquirer Endorses Plain Speaking

Jon Craig at the Cincinnati Enquirer is doing a great job writing about politics. They had the full Robert J. Kennedy Rolling Stone piece on their blog: http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/gov/ The...

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The Ohio Left, Out Of The Gubenatorial Debate

So Hackwell and Strickland plan a series of five debates. As always, they don’t invite the other parties, in this case the Libertarians and the Green candidate for governor (me). I suspect that the...

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Grassroots Green Activism

In “An Inconvenient Truth,” former Vice President Al Gore tells us that we only have a decade to turn around the destruction by global warming to our planet. What we would be entering into has been...

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Inconvenient Truths

Ohio lags behind the states of the northeast in our commitment to clean energy. By November 15, 2004, nine Northeastern US states – Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island,...

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Ted Strickland In Gay Pride Parade?

I didn’t get a chance to blog over the weekend. I was busy volunteering at the Community Festival in Columbus, Ohio at Goodale Park. I also did a little campaigning. On Saturday, Tim Kettler, Green...

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Renew, Re-energize And Revive

Representatives of the Blue-Green Alliance were in Columbus Wednesday preaching the gospel of good jobs, a clean environment and a safer world. The Alliance is a partnership between the United...

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Ohio: Between 44th and 46th in Education, A Schoolhouse Divided

When I first came to Ohio, the state’s higher education was ranked 37th among the 50 states, and that was under the Democratic administration of Dick Celeste. Under Voinovich, and now Taft, state aid...

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How We Got On The Ballot

Here’s a breakdown from the Secretary of State regarding the filing of the Fitrakis/Rios gubernatorial slate. We filed 1,199 petitions representing 81 of Ohio’s 88 counties. In Franklin County alone,...

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Another Sign Of Smiley-Faced Fascism

I marched in the Doo Dah Parade today in Columbus, Ohio; democracy requires dissent. And here’s where I dissent from W. Bush and his junta. Our founders held that people are born with certain...

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Blackwell Chooses A Flake

What do we make of the aptly named Rev. Floyd Flake, president of Wilberforce University, signing on as Ken Blackwell’s Co-Chair? First, the press release is one of the weirdest in gubernatorial...

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IMMEDIATE UPCOMING COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP FORUM

Wednesday, July 19th, 7PM, Robert Fitrakis, Editor and Publisher of the Freepress and a practicing local attorney, Candidate for Governor, State of Ohio, will speak to the Community Leaders Forum on...

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Green Party To Columbus Dispatch (Uh Hello?) Media Lockout

Since that very important corporate newspaper, the Columbus Dispatch, has decided that only Strickland and Blackwell’s opinions matter, I’m now forced as a duly certified candidate to ask myself the...

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Meet & Greet For Ohio’s First Statewide Green Party Candidates

You are invited to a meet & greet for Ohio’s first Statewide Green Party candidates: Bob Fitrakis for Governor Anita Rios for Lt. Governor Timothy Kettler for Secretary Of State On Friday Aug. 4th...

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Dr. Robert Fitrakis Ohio Green Party Gubernatorial Candidate Finds The...

I spent 12 hours at the Ohio State Fair on Saturday and Sunday at the Green Party booth. The best thing the Greens had going for them is that they are not Democrats, and particularly not Republicans....

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Raise The Minimum Wage – More Young Leave Ohio Than Any Other State

I heard an interesting statistic recently. Our state loses more young people aged 18-24 to jobs and opportunities outside Ohio than any other state in our nation. Not something to be proud of. As an...

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Two Candidates Do Not A Dictatorship Make

Heard Ted Strickland speak the other day at the Chamber of Commerce gubernatorial candidate breakfast at the Holiday Inn on the Lane in Columbus – best moderate Republican political talk I’ve ever...

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If The President Is Spying On Americans

http://tinyurl.com/roa55 Blackwell Faces Green Challenger in Ohio Governor Race By Matthew Cardinale, News Editor and National Correspondent Atlanta Progressive News (September 16, 2006) (APN) ATLANTA...

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Bill Cohen, Statehouse News With Dr. Fitrakis

Third Party Candidate For Ohio Governor Vows Fight To The Finish  Bill Cohen, Ohio Public Radio COLUMBUS, OH (2006-09-18) His name is on the ballot in this year’s race for ohio governor, but he’s been...

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STEALING AMERICA Vote By Vote Film Local Event

STEALING AMERICA Vote by Vote A new documentary film by an OSCAR-nominated, EMMY-wining filmmaker For more information contact: The Free Press, 614-253-2571, truth@freepress.org Date: September 10,...

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Key Issues For An Informed Ohio Electorate

School funding: School funding should be equalized with each child getting the same amount of money regardless of whether their parents own a mansion or rent a shack. Vouchers for private schools...

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Republican War, Democratic Enablers

I got to speak with Rev. Werner Lange this weekend at the “We Count” voting rights conference in Cleveland. On September 22, within an hour of the funeral of Sgt. David Gordon of Andover who was killed...

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Ohio Gubernatorial Debate: The Green, Libertarian, and Write-In Candidates

Ohio Gubernatorial Debate in Cincinatti, Ohio The Cincinnati Beacon 1 hr 7 min 27 sec – Oct 14, 2006  http://tinyurl.com/ya9krt See also: Fitrakis, Live! Greens in Cincinnati The Cincinnati Beacon 44...

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Dr. Fitrakis On TV In Columbus Sunday And Monday

PLEASE WATCH ONN OHIO NEWS NETWORK TV Time: SUNDAY 10-29-06 AT NOON AND 7 PM, ALSO MONDAY 10-30-06 AT 3 PM. DR BOB WILL BE ON TV. TELL YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS       Moderator

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Dr. Fitrakis On WOSU Radio Open Line With Fred Andrle

This show was recorded 10-31-2006. 11:00 AM Green Party candidate Bob Fitrakis.  WOSU podcasts available @ http://www.wosu.org/radio/radio-open-line/ The audio on this page has been re-mastered for low...

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Free Press Publisher BOB FITRAKIS & Senior Editor HARVEY WASSERMAN On Lou...

FYI, Free Press Publisher BOB FITRAKIS & Senior Editor HARVEY WASSERMAN are scheduled to appear on CNN’s LOU DOBBS Show TONIGHT at 6:30pm EST. They will be discussing possible irregularities in the...

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Sweet Dreams on Election Eve

Blackwell is fighting desperately to keep the GOP ship of state afloat. But it looks like a remake of the Titanic. Just recently, Vicki Lovegren reported from Cleveland that the Cuyahoga County Board...

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Advocates 2004 Vote Want An AG probe

Advocates who say there were serious problems in the 2004 vote want an AG probe By Bill Cohen – November 20, 2007 Bill Cohen, critics are continuing to claim the election was stolen Three years after...

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Two events – reception and radio show

Reception/fundraiser for Green Presidential candidate Jill Stein Saturday, February 4 – 6:00PM Immediately following the Ohio Green Party convention Meet and greet the candidate, refreshments Suggested...

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Free Press Second Saturday Salon June ~14th

We will be talking about this and other important issues at our monthly Second Saturday Salon on June 14th. Join progressive friends for food, drink and music at 1021 east Broad from 6:30pm - 11:00pm.

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Free Press Second Saturday Salon

Free Press Second Saturday Salon Saturday, July 12 - 6:30-11:30pm 1021 E. Broad St. (outdoors, weather permitting) Eddie Pfau and Bob Fitrakis Join progressive friends for socializing, networking, art,...

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Drinking Water Is A Human Right, Ohio Must Go Green In Agriculture

In response to the water crisis in Toledo this weekend, Ohio Green Party Lt. Governor candidate Bob Fitrakis says that Ohio must move away from petrochemical fertilizers and adopt a new green...

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10 Ways Kasich Hurts Ohioans

After working for Murdoch and prior to being elected, Kasich spent his time hawking junk assets for the now-defunct Lehman Brothers investment bankers. He helped sell these worthless assets to the tune...

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