I’d love to see The Rooster produce a candidate & issue endorsement postcard.
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For basically my entire eligible voter life I’ve relied on party endorsement postcards to do my thinking for me. It is what it is, and what it is is a shame.
At the same time, given the amount of establishment party corruption cover up, I likely wouldn’t have uncovered enough truths to vote off book, even if I had been doing my own research.
Which is to say The Rooster is doing a bang up job of showing us what’s going on behind the curtain. I’m grateful to the friend who told me about DJ’s news rag. If he hadn’t, I would be voting for Ross, a hack and phony with a nice headshot.
Again, I’d love to see The Rooster produce a candidate & issue endorsement postcard.
You know I appreciate everything you do, but I must disagree with your assessment of giving Hardin kudo’s for appointing a placeholder instead of appointing someone and giving them an advantage of incumbency.
First of all, Hardin uses his position of power to inform potential applicants for an open seat stating they are not permitted to run for the seat. That’s BS. Hardin has recently created this “placeholder seat” while appointing party insiders while attempting to show the public that the appointment process is now on the up and up. We all know it is not. The candidate for the open seat has been chosen ahead of time and will be automatically be given the FCDP endorsement. In this case Tiara Ross. If Ross loses (which I believe she will), I look to see Hardin and company to go back to its old ways of appointing someone and giving them that advantage of incumbency to run for the open seat.
All fair criticism. It’s definitely not a coincidence that the appointments went away when they debuted a new ward system that they thought would preserve their power. We will cross that bridge when come to it if, God willing, Vogel wins next week.
I agree with this. The only reason they appointed a placeholder instead of appointing Tiara Ross and giving her the advantage of incumbency is because she wasn’t eligible. At the time they had appointed the placeholder, Tiara Ross had not lived in the city long enough to be eligible for the appointed seat. Had Ross actually lived in Columbus and not moved in from Reynoldsburg a day before the one year requirement for this election, she would have been appointed. No doubt in my mind.
Per the Columbus City Charter: “applicants must have resided in the district the departing council member represents for one year.”
IIRC Hardin has publicly proclaimed, in the media, who he was willing to appoint to these publicly elected positions based on race or gender, twice, and no one has sued him yet. That blows my mind. He’s openly violating anti discrimination laws that he should have at least been taught to follow, is purposefully ignoring, or he’s just that dumb, but none of those are good excuses for his hand picking of his friends for council seats. It’s wild we allow this to happen.
I’d love to see The Rooster produce a candidate & issue endorsement postcard.
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For basically my entire eligible voter life I’ve relied on party endorsement postcards to do my thinking for me. It is what it is, and what it is is a shame.
At the same time, given the amount of establishment party corruption cover up, I likely wouldn’t have uncovered enough truths to vote off book, even if I had been doing my own research.
Which is to say The Rooster is doing a bang up job of showing us what’s going on behind the curtain. I’m grateful to the friend who told me about DJ’s news rag. If he hadn’t, I would be voting for Ross, a hack and phony with a nice headshot.
Again, I’d love to see The Rooster produce a candidate & issue endorsement postcard.
coming tomorrow.
Yay!!!!
You know I appreciate everything you do, but I must disagree with your assessment of giving Hardin kudo’s for appointing a placeholder instead of appointing someone and giving them an advantage of incumbency.
First of all, Hardin uses his position of power to inform potential applicants for an open seat stating they are not permitted to run for the seat. That’s BS. Hardin has recently created this “placeholder seat” while appointing party insiders while attempting to show the public that the appointment process is now on the up and up. We all know it is not. The candidate for the open seat has been chosen ahead of time and will be automatically be given the FCDP endorsement. In this case Tiara Ross. If Ross loses (which I believe she will), I look to see Hardin and company to go back to its old ways of appointing someone and giving them that advantage of incumbency to run for the open seat.
All fair criticism. It’s definitely not a coincidence that the appointments went away when they debuted a new ward system that they thought would preserve their power. We will cross that bridge when come to it if, God willing, Vogel wins next week.
I agree with this. The only reason they appointed a placeholder instead of appointing Tiara Ross and giving her the advantage of incumbency is because she wasn’t eligible. At the time they had appointed the placeholder, Tiara Ross had not lived in the city long enough to be eligible for the appointed seat. Had Ross actually lived in Columbus and not moved in from Reynoldsburg a day before the one year requirement for this election, she would have been appointed. No doubt in my mind.
Per the Columbus City Charter: “applicants must have resided in the district the departing council member represents for one year.”
IIRC Hardin has publicly proclaimed, in the media, who he was willing to appoint to these publicly elected positions based on race or gender, twice, and no one has sued him yet. That blows my mind. He’s openly violating anti discrimination laws that he should have at least been taught to follow, is purposefully ignoring, or he’s just that dumb, but none of those are good excuses for his hand picking of his friends for council seats. It’s wild we allow this to happen.
You are correct about what Hardin said. And I agree that it was discriminatory.