Ohio Campaign Notes

Swing State Project has the results of two different polls for the Ney vs Space (OH-18) match up. Although the polls have different numbers, it is interesting to see how the electorate is responding to the scandal-plagued Ney's continuing troubles.
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Why the heck is Rudy Giuliani running around Ohio campaigning for Republicans? There are some people who view Giuliani as some sort of moral leader. However, I am not one of them. Giuliani who has been married three times, divorced twice, and had a very visible extra-marital affair, is not someone I'd look to for moral leadership or any leadership for that matter.
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In an effort to beef up their military recruiting, the government has been allowing members of hate groups to our armed services. From the New York Daily News:
...But the Army also is being accused of overlooking gang and hate-group affiliations. Last week, the Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama-based civil rights organization, issued a startling report, "A Few Bad Men," describing how neo-Nazis and white supremacists have infiltrated the military.

"Recruiters are knowingly allowing neo-Nazis and white supremacists to join the armed forces," says Scott Barfield, a Department of Defense investigator. "It's not epidemic, but there's plenty of evidence - we're talking numbers well into the thousands," he says.

Barfield found and reported 320 cases of white-power extremists in the past year alone - but only two were actually removed from service. The report cites the case of Matt Buschbacher, who posed in front of a flaming swastika giving a Nazi salute at a KKK rally in 2000 - then became a Navy SEAL in 2001, served in Iraq and received an honorable discharge...

*Republican Rep. Deborah Pryce wants you to know about the GOP accomplishments. CNN has this:
"If we don't let our constituents know about our accomplishments, no one will," House Republican Conference Chairman Deborah Pryce (Ohio) writes in a letter accompanying the House GOP's recess packet. "The Democrats are not going to be out there this recess touting our accomplishments for us."

Here is a list of Pryce and her GOP's successes:
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Did you see them all? You didn't see them? Do you know why? There are no accomplishments! However, here are the Republican failures: supporting an unending war, no oversight, no ethics, rewarding oil companies, failure to raise the minimum wage, corruption, promoting a confusing Medicare Part D program, granting higher tax cuts to the wealthy, etc. To Pryce and the Republicans I say---Thanks for nothing!