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...
View ArticleObvious 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....
View ArticleDiebold 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...
View Article“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...
View ArticleOhio: 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...
View ArticleNYT 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...
View ArticleBoth 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....
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleDon’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...
View ArticleRe-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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleReturning 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...
View ArticleRedistricting 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...
View ArticleGranny 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...
View ArticleMinimum 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...
View ArticleEnd 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...
View ArticleBush 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...
View ArticleProf. 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...
View ArticleEnquirer 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleGrassroots 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...
View ArticleInconvenient 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,...
View ArticleTed 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...
View ArticleRenew, 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...
View ArticleOhio: 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...
View ArticleHow 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,...
View ArticleAnother 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...
View ArticleBlackwell 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...
View ArticleIMMEDIATE 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...
View ArticleGreen 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...
View ArticleMeet & 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...
View ArticleDr. 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....
View ArticleRaise 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...
View ArticleTwo 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...
View ArticleIf 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...
View ArticleBill 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...
View ArticleSTEALING 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,...
View ArticleKey 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...
View ArticleRepublican 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...
View ArticleOhio 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...
View ArticleDr. 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
View ArticleDr. 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...
View ArticleFree 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...
View ArticleSweet 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...
View ArticleAdvocates 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...
View ArticleTwo 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...
View ArticleFree 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.
View ArticleFree 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,...
View ArticleDrinking 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...
View Article10 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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