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How much does a City Commission seat cost? Answers today.

By David Esrati, on July 31st, 2009

It’s the campaign finance turn in day today.
If you’ve got over $10K in donations you have to file. I’m proud to say, I don’t have $10K and won’t be filing. That doesn’t mean I’m not serious, it’s just that I have a real job, and real obligations, and don’t think that winning elections should be

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Unforgiveable

By David Esrati, on July 29th, 2009

I’m pissed.
And, there are a lot of other people pissed as well. I know them well, I served with the US Army Special Forces.
These are people who don’t accept excuses, and it’s time for Dayton to stop making them. That means you, and everyone you know.
It’s time to stop letting punks run the streets, it’s

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Carmen’s Deli now open- go see Haitham

By David Esrati, on July 29th, 2009

I’ve known Haitham Iman for years. I’m sure many of you who have attended events at the David Ponitz center, Building 12, of Sinclair know him too.
He’s the always smiling, nice guy, who makes sure your experience is exceptional when it comes to the food at events.
Now, he’s the guy on the grill- only it’s

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Budget Expert, Richard Sheridan, Gives Ohio Governor Strickland An “A+” In Financial Management

By Mike Bock, on July 29th, 2009

Richard Sheridan, a former longtime head of the nonpartisan Legislative Budget Office who has studied Ohio budgets for more than three decades, in the latest “State Budgeting Matters” publication, says that Ohio’s Governor Ted Strickland an his Budget Director, J. Pari Sabety, “have thus far earned a well-deserved ‘A+’ when it comes to financial management.”

Sheridan says, “His (Strickland’s) first budget was enacted on time and with almost unanimous bipartisan support — a feat which none of the last six governors were able to achieve. The budget provided for the smallest increase in GRF spending in half a century and

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The best politicians money can buy- the continuing saga

By David Esrati, on July 28th, 2009

Maybe I missed something in the Dayton Daily Newsless- but, this news from February’s Cleveland Plain Dealer (thank’s TG) covers the Fed’s raiding a defense lobbying firm that has given considerable amounts to Congressmen Hobson, Turner and Austria.
PMA Group specializes in securing defense earmarks for clients in spending bills. The Center for Responsive Politics says

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Health Insurance Reform To Be Decided By Six Senators — Mostly From Sparsely Populated, Very White States

By Mike Bock, on July 28th, 2009

According to an article in The New York Times, it looks like the chance for health reform is in the hands of a bi-partisan committee of six senators. This committee has already rejected the notion of a government-run insurance plan that would compete with private insures and it has also dismissed a plan by House Democrats to pay for health reform via an income surtax on high income earners.

An article by Nathan Newman at Talking Points Memo analyzes this small, but evidently, crucial senate group. In “The Tyranny of the Tiny White States,” Newman identifies the senators and

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Let’s take out the trash Ohio.

By David Esrati, on July 28th, 2009

For lack of $53,000 the State of Ohio has stopped providing trash cans at State Parks. This means, when doing maintenance- like cutting the grass, State employees have to waste more time stopping to pick up the trash that didn’t get taken home by taxpayers. Really bad choice. Here is the article from the Dayton

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The Creation Museum’s Shocking Indoctrination Effort Reminds — Only The Authority Of Reason Can Save Us

By Mike Bock, on July 27th, 2009

This is the second post about the Creation Museum. The first post is here.

It seems hard to believe, evidently, a large percentage of Americans — 40% – 50% — agree with the Creation Museum’s point of view — that the world is 6000 years old, etc. (It’s hard to believe that the percentages are so great, but, see this poll and this poll.) The stunning realization that such a big percentage of Americans are in such absolute denial of reality prompts some big questions.

Here in 2009, only a person who has been indoctrinated, brainwashed in a

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Stars in their eyes, screws in our wallets: film tax credits

By David Esrati, on July 27th, 2009

America is a country that has always been fascinated with rather than repelled by wealth, where people aspire to become rich, or at least associate themselves with the rich, rather than redistribute their wealth downward.
From page 7 of Congressional Testimony, given Tuesday July 21, 2009
And who more fascinating than movie stars? Unfortunately, Ohio voters aren’t

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Good to see you, and how’s the campaign coming….

By David Esrati, on July 26th, 2009

The Board of Elections is a funny place. There are two of everything- and they should be color coded. It’s our crazy way of running elections- where we put the two parties in charge- who then make it their sole goal to keep any other parties or independents out of the action.
A disconcerting recent example:

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