Lucas County Democratic Party leaders want to replace a county elections official with a longtime political operative accused in the past of destroying opponents' campaign signs.
That's not typically to me a behavior you'd want on the Board of Elections, but WAIT there's more....
If the move succeeds, Lucas County's new deputy elections director would be Domenic Montalto, 76, a party mainstay who is about to lose his job in the county treasurer's office when a member of a rival Democratic faction takes it over next month.
Mr. Montalto says he has worked 60 years in politics. He managed Jimmy Carter's campaign in northwest Ohio, served in former Mayor Carty Finkbeiner's administration, and ran unsuccessfully for elections board and local party chairman. He has worked for the county since 1980 as a tax collector, a property appraiser, and a deputy treasurer.
He and two others were charged in 1984 with destroying a campaign sign for a Republican candidate for sheriff. Mr. Montalto worked for the Democratic candidate, James Telb, and the Republican, Marion Fitch, dropped the charges after losing the race.
A Republican running for county commission accused Mr. Montalto of tearing down his signs in 1996.
Yes, I admit I supported Carter when he was trying to be re-elected (my first Presidential election). However the jaw dropping moment to me was this man is 76 years old! I am not knocking the elderly here, but are there no young Democrats who are eligible for this job?
Surely out of all of the up and coming politically active Democrats we have in Lucas County there might be someone......
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There are no young Democrats. We are all Independents or Non-Affiliated. Plus, we push a different form of politics than the parties are used to. We want qualified and inspurational people, the old party faithful want their friends and donors
See that's something weird about this county is there are alot of younger Democrats who are very active. Which is why to me this one makes no sense at all.
Thank you again, Lisa. The entertainment of the mayoral race over there seems boundless.
Yet another example of Democrats losing thier minds and lack of untiy. I'm thinking that the only Democrats we will see in the White House in the next eight years are the ones who are on the West Wing on NBC. They just need to get their act together and give us a candiate that isn't horrible. True, Republicans don't have good canidates either, but they have their act together.
So now the secret comes out. The long time (now elder) Dems were, shall we say, not in the top of the of their classes.
Too harsh. Let's try this:
Some people have the ability to learn rather quickly from their mistakes. The rest we refer to as repeat offenders.
BTW, the Dems don't have a monolopy on slow learners...
TRUST Me on this ;-)
HT I do trust you on this one, and it's exactly why this area is a mess. If it were not for the fact that for some reason Republicans cannot organize better the Dems would have lost power a while ago.
However if they don't start getting it together eventually it's going to bite them in the butts.
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DM and the sign capers are only an example of the low tactics that some party operatives use in Lucas County.
I forget the candidate, but there was a campaign a few yers ago that featured someone pretending to call from Candidate X's pollster.
When a resident in the targeted ward would say he was voting for Candidate Y, the caller would then start using profanity, thus making Candidate X look bad.
Swing a hundred votes here and there and it adds up.
I think Alan Alda will be the next president in the West Wing. They will make him an intelligent and compassionate leader who does what is best and makes his supporters mad.
I live in a West Wing dream worls and pretend that is the America I live in
I remember hearing about that too mike, but can't remember who it was.
I do like alan too me4 but either way that one ends up I'll still probably enjoy it.
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Jonathan, I am leaving those who have a blog in blogspot up so we can all visit their blog and redflag them.
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Those that don't have blogspots? I destroy on site...hehehe
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