This is how you attract jobs to Ohio

Last week, Ohio continued to get more good news on the jobs front. Alexander Mann Solutions was looking for a place to open it's first office in the U.S. They looked at several communities in other states, including North Carolina, Florida and Texas. But they chose Cleveland to build their North American headquarters, which will bring around 300 good paying jobs.

Governor Kasich's mission to make Ohio business-friendly again is paying off. Take a look at how the company was impressed by the energy coming from the administration in landing their location.

Victory 2012: All About The Turnout

Recently, poll after poll keeps finding President Obama ahead of Mitt Romney here in the Buckeye State. There’s more than a few reasons for that—not the least of which is the completely biased sampling—but there’s one consistent stat from every recent poll:

Independents are siding with Romney.

• Fox News: Romney +4% among Independents
• Quinnipiac: Romney +1% among Independents
• Ohio Newspaper Poll: Romney +27% among Independents
• Public Policy Polling: Romney +2% among Independents
• Purple Strategies: Romney +10% among Independents

So what does that mean for this election? It’s going to be all about the turnout.

Hysterical: Sherrod Brown claims to be pro-business

Sherrod Brown sat down with the editors of the Cincinnati Enquirer today. What he told them made my jaw drop.

Despite the fact that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is running ads against him, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown said Wednesday, he has been a strong advocate for business in his first term.

“I think I’ve worked with business better than any senator in recent memory,” the Democrat said in an interview with Enquirer editors and reporters, citing his relationships with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber.

You have got to be kidding me.

Sherrod Brown says he is a champion of business

The ridiculous bias at Politifact Ohio

If you follow Sherrod Brown or any of his cohorts on Twitter, you hear a LOT from them about how Politifact Ohio has given several "Pants on Fire" verdicts to Josh Mandel. It's also the centerpiece of one of Brown's ads, (which also makes use of an anti-Semitic phrase against Mandel, who is Jewish.)

Politifact Ohio is a project of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Sherrod Brown is married to Connie Schultz, who used to be the paper's star columnist. (Until we caught her doing political work, that is.) So, any editorial work from the PD involving Brown was already slightly suspect.

But what Jason Hart from Media Trackers Ohio has discovered about Politifact Ohio is truly troubling.

Cancel this Sister Act... Please!

The Obama for America campaign has released a new video in Ohio. This web advertisement consists of a nun from Cincinnati, along with a mother from Warren, Ohio. It saddens me, that a member of the Dominican Sisters of Hope, is drinking the Obama kool-aid.

Ohio Poll Buys In To Liberal Media Bias

It's pretty well known that the national media has been going to bat for President Obama this election season.  If there was any doubt about that, it was swept away by last week's coverage of Romney's '47%' comment all while the White House lied and covered up details on the murder of an American ambassador in the Middle East.

Sherrod Brown's Wall of Shame

It is truly ridiculous that a moderate swing state like Ohio is represented by the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate. Sherrod Brown's voting record and his various statements and actions over the last 2-3 years are equally appalling.

We've tried to stay on top of all of Sherrod Brown's outrageous antics here at 3BP. What follows is a compilation of the stories that stand out the most. "Sherrod Brown's Greatest Hits", so to speak. Or more appropriately, "why Sherrod Brown doesn't deserve reelection."

Bellefontaine reporter facing discipline for calling you "bigots"

This story just took another strange turn.

Last week, we told you about the Bellefontaine mayor who uses federal welfare programs.

Brannon claims poverty, but his situation is entirely of his own making. Both he and his wife have college degrees, but have purposefully decided to live on only $27,000 a year. Fine. That's his business and his alone.

Until he demands that the rest of us actual taxpayers actually feed the children he decided to have. Not only is he irresponsible, he dares to act like a victim. Just like Romney described.

Then, a couple of days later, I got a nasty response from a writer at the Bellefontaine Examiner after forwarding the link to the paper.

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The Bellefontaine Examiner says you're a bigot

Our Wednesday post about the Bellefontaine mayor generated a lot of interest and commentary. So I forwarded the link to the Bellefontaine Examiner, thinking it might be of interest to them, but not really expecting a response.

Well, we did get a response, and it is quite revealing as to the supposed objectivity of the small town newspaper. The following is the complete response.

Of course the post generated a lot of traffic and emotion, you threw a bunch of red meat at a group of judgmental, conservative bigots.

One Nation, Under Obama

Well, what do YOU think is more important?  Fifty meaningless little stars, or the man that was sent to us from above to put gas in your car, make your house payments, and stop the rising of the seas?

For some background information, see Katie Pavlich's article here, and make sure to read LUR's diary here as well.

Betty Sutton: Nancy Pelosi's little Ohio puppet

Congresswoman Betty Sutton is Ohio's version of Nancy Pelosi. In fact, she's really a Pelosi wannabe. She has voted with her 99% of the time. When Nancy says "Jump, Betty!", instead of asking how it will affect Ohio, Betty's only response is "How high!? Tell me what to do, Nancy!"

• Sutton voted for the failed stimulus bill
• She voted for cap and trade, which would destroy Ohio's coal industry
• She voted for Obamacare and it's massive new taxes
• She even voted for the union bosses' dream of card check, which would strip workers of the private ballot and open them up to union thug intimidation.

Watch this new ad that highlights Betty Sutton's voting record.



Even more fun, thanks to the Congressional Leadership Fund, you can pretend to be Nancy Pelosi and pull Betty's strings!

Democrat Ohio Mayor is a proud citizen of Entitlement Nation

Adam Brannon is the mayor of Bellefontaine. Mayor Brannon is an absolutely perfect example of the entitlement culture that is taking over America and bankrupting our country. Adam, like most Democrats, believes that it is his right to force his fellow citizens to subsidize all of the many irresponsible life decisions he has made.

Check out a recent Facebook post he made:

Let's look at Mayor Brannon's life decisions:

Won't Back Down: Putting Children First

"When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children."- Albert Shanker, President, American Federation of Teachers (1974 - 1997).

In today's education system, the quote says it all.  Whether you believe unions are 100% in the right, or whether you're a right-to-work supporter, the fact remains: if union representatives cared about the kids, schools throughout the United States wouldn't be failing right and left.

That's just the way it is; and if you don't believe me, just look at the hundreds of thousands of children left wandering the streets of Chicago while unionized educators scoff at their $76,000 yearly salary.

Quantitative Easing - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Making money out of thin air... what could possibly go wrong?

Cross-posted: TobyToons.com (Conservative Political Cartoons)

Vote NO on Issue 2

Fate is a cruel mistress. And Ohio’s labor unions are about to learn that first hand.

In a fantastic twist of fate, the same union special interests that spent a royal fortune on inducing Ohioans to vote against their safety and welfare with a ‘No’ vote on State Issue 2 just over 300 days ago, are now met with convincing those same Ohioans to vote against their interests with a ‘Yes’ on State Issue 2 this November.

That’s right, folks.

Photo Courtesy WeAreOhio

Sherrod Brown's Job-Killing Energy Policies: Bad for Ohio, Bad for America

Written by Joshua Culling of Americans for Tax Reform, reprinted here with permission

Brown's legacy: Less domestic energy, slower job creation, higher energy prices in Ohio and across the country.

Gas prices are on the rise again in Ohio, squeezing family budgets even tighter as the economy fights headwinds from D.C. in its attempt to recover. It’s time to take a hard look at Sen. Sherrod Brown’s long record of opposing energy policies that promote job creation and affordable energy across the country.

Here’s a breakdown of Sherrod Brown’s votes for the radical environmental lobby, and against American families and job creators:

Keystone Pipeline: Not only did Brown vote against approval of the Keystone XL pipeline; he voted for an amendment that would have prohibited the export of crude oil transported by the Keystone Pipeline. The pipeline would have promoted job creation, energy security, and economic growth in general.

Chicago Teachers Union Seeing Red

Maybe instead of demanding a 35% pay increase over 4 years, they should focus on increasing student reading proficiency to 35% in that same time.

 Cross-Post: TobyToons.com

Obama Floundering Among 59% Of Ohioans

Leave it to a Democrat pollster to spin poll numbers in favor of Obama.  The new Public Policy Polling poll, out earlier this week, has Obama up 5 in the Buckeye State.  That much is enough for the polling outfit to call the state for Obama:

“It’s hard to see a path to victory for Mitt Romney without Ohio,” said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling.

Hard to see, huh?  I guess she must have missed the fact that Romney leads among Republicans and Independents, who made up 59% of those polled.

11 years

9/11/2001 to our generation is the equivalent to previous milestone American events like Pearl Harbor and the JFK assassination. We will probably be repeating these types of remarks and recollections for many years to come on this day on the calendar.

Sometimes to me it seems repetitive, and that we say the same things every year, but that's OK. I think its part of the healing process, and it also ensures that we never forget neither the horrors of that day, nor the heroism that we witnessed.

Courtesy of Marc Kovac from Ohio Capital Blog, here is a short video of remarks that Governor Kasich made this morning amid the sprawling field of flags representing those we lost.


Shaky video courtesy Ohio Capital Blog

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