tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3410777391768812582.post8698639369868958787..comments2023-06-27T04:01:01.832-04:00Comments on Republicans for Higher Taxes: Pete Beck sued for fraudRepublicans for Higher Taxeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130573776285692406noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3410777391768812582.post-22424985065860276162013-01-28T11:22:48.823-05:002013-01-28T11:22:48.823-05:00Remember, kids, Jesus wants you to vote Republican...Remember, kids, Jesus wants you to vote Republican, because fraud is a "family value"<br />The Christian Right Is Neithernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3410777391768812582.post-59753341662292607282013-01-13T14:32:34.489-05:002013-01-13T14:32:34.489-05:00I have to ask, and I hope someone will give me an ...I have to ask, and I hope someone will give me an honest response: Why would any politician or anyone to desires to be a politician ever hire Julie Matheny to run their campaign? She's obnoxiously abrasive, petty, and has a political tin ear. On top of that, she clearly has a record of failure that is, quite fankly, unmatched among political operatives in Southwest Ohio. I honestly didn't know she was the one who mangled Pete Beck's campaign, but it all makes perfect sense now. What doe these people who hire her know that the rest of us don't?Dear God, Why?noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3410777391768812582.post-24622201378657644312013-01-11T23:09:54.577-05:002013-01-11T23:09:54.577-05:00I was the lovely campaign manager of Peter Beck...I was the lovely campaign manager of Peter Beck's failed County Commissioner campaign! Naturally it is the one race he's lost. My brilliance did for Peter the same thing it did for Virgil Lovitt, Tom Weidman, and myself. Campaign Expert Mathenynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3410777391768812582.post-11417534279611906822013-01-11T23:02:00.603-05:002013-01-11T23:02:00.603-05:00We remember the primary campaigns well. Out here i...We remember the primary campaigns well. Out here in Warren County, unlike in Hamilton County, the Republican primary is the key race because we live in a low-tax, conservative prosperous area. We don't have the high taxes and high levels of government dependents that you have in Hamilton County now. But I digress. <br /><br />When you can outspend someone 6-1, you ought to be able to win in a walk even if the other guy is a universally beloved figure, which Mike Kilburn clearly was not. <br /><br />Beck used his financial leverage to win his next campaign for higher office, clearly, but it wasn't as big.<br /><br />Warren County is fast-growing, so incumbency doesn't mean as much when so many people don't know him. Also in a county that's usually an afterthought for local media, it's harder for incumbents to get name ID. <br /><br />The simple campaign strategy would have been to focus registering and turning out voters in places where new folk were moving in. But no, they chose to target the farming community, figuring they had Pete's area in Mason in the bag. <br /><br />The farmers and people in the small towns have been here for generations and have been friends and in many cases somehow related to someone in the large Kilburn family. Most of them liked Mike. The ones that didn't would have voted for Pete without being pestered by some strange lady from Cincinnati with a funny bowl-cut and terrible dye job. Or any of those out-of-towners the builders brought in to "help." That's not a good strategy in "old" Warren County. <br /><br />In "new" Warren County, you have to realize that most of the new folk who came in the past 5-10 years did so to raise a family in good schools and also to get away from the high taxes and bloated government payrolls of Hamilton County, not to mention the crime and drugs that have seeped out from the center sewer city of CIncinnati. <br /><br />The last person you want running a campaign like Pete's is someone who has lived their whole life in that bloated Hamilton County system who has no problem with the high taxes of, say, Princeton schools, and who has no problem with the public employee unions because they're such great cops and firemen, and we're all one big, happy government-dependent family.<br /><br />That 2006 primary clearly came down to campaign management. Mike had it. Pete didn't. And it's sad because at the time I wanted Pete to win. I really did. <br />Warren County Voternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3410777391768812582.post-38798055649455946472013-01-11T20:16:36.223-05:002013-01-11T20:16:36.223-05:00Hey, I mean, who among us hasn't twisted or be...Hey, I mean, who among us hasn't twisted or bent a few rules or protocols to get where we are today? Being so new to politics and government, I don't know much about this guy I will be in the State House with, assuming the lynch mob mentality quiets down that is. Oh, well, whatevs. Just hope I get to be on the Parks Committee.<br /><br />My first week in Columbus was a real breeze. Any moron could do this job. And you'll get to do this job if you too have the right last name.<br />Baby Boy Blessingnoreply@blogger.com