2012 Endorsement Wrapup

Dear fellow tax hikers, the end of our journey to elect great tax-hikers like Barack Obama and Sean Donovan is in sight.  We have endorsed a fantastic team of big government advocates.  We will recap those endorsements and add a few more so that we can vote for the finest team of tax hikers we've ever seen.

Barack Obama for President.  It is vital to the future of our country to re-elect Our Messiah Barack Obama.  Obama has given us massive tax increases, vast government expansion into healthcare, four consecutive budget deficits of over $1 Trillion, Wall Street bailouts, and an additional $6 Trillion in debt that someday will require significant tax increases to pay off.

Sean Donovan for Sheriff.  Donovan is the finest Republican on the ballot.  His support for streetcars, higher taxes, double dippers, and a large Administrative staff makes him the class of the Republican Party.

Tracy Winkler for Clerk of Courts.  We endorsed Tracy a long time ago and reiterate that support.  We don't care whether the Clerk of Courts office is run well, Tracy doesn't care, and you shouldn't care either.  Tracy hired Jennifer Triantafilou to a Green Township job that she was completely unqualified for, and in return Alex Triantafilou rewarded her with the Clerk of Courts position.  The Clerks office isn't about serving your family, it's about serving the Winkler and Triantafilou families.  Vote Winkler! 

Some Guy Named Smith for Congress.  Brad Wenstrup defeated Jean Schmidt in March, and now he must pay!  We don't know anything about this Smith guy but we want him to win anyways.  Avenge Jean Schmidt!  Vote Smith.

Leslie Ghiz and Heather Russell for Judge.  This race features a choice between 4 lovely ladies competing for 2 spots.  Both Ghiz and Russell are great tax-hiking Republicans who stood with us when we supported Hamilton County's $777 Sales Tax Hike.  These are the kind of Republicans we must elect.

We also encourage you to support the following candidates:

Connie Pillich for State Representative.  We endorsed Pillich 2 years ago and she has done nothing but ratify our support.  Connie has been a great disciple of higher taxes, more spending, Section 8 housing in the suburbs, and taking donations from known racists.  If Connie loses, Racist State Representative Bob Hagan would have to find someone else to laugh at all his racial slurs. 

The candidates running against Lou Terhar and Pat DeWine.  We hate Pat DeWine.  We have never been shy about telling you how much we hate this guy.  This guy has opposed one tax increase after another and we find that completely unacceptable.  Lou Terhar is another bad guy who we want to see stopped.  We support their liberal opponents, though we don't find either of them relevant enough to merit their own individual paragraph. 

The Democratic candidate for Coroner.  We can't spell or pronounce her name, but we endorse her.  We love her call for a new $50 million crime lab.  Surely that would require a tax increase.  Her opponent, whose name we also can't spell or pronounce, opposes a new crime lab.  We just hope you can find her on the ballot.

Lou Blessing for State Representative.  Lou Blessing voted for Bob Taft's Sales Tax hikes.  Keep a good thing going.  Lou Blessing for State Representative.

Sean Donovan for Sheriff

Dear fellow tax hikers, we give our strongest possible endorsement to Sean Donovan for Sheriff.  Donovan is one of our closest friends and is by far the finest candidate on the ballot this year.  Consider the Sean Donovan record:

1) Stood with Marc Dann, Simon Leis, David Pepper, Todd Portune, Roxanne Qualls, and Tax Hikers of the Year Virgil Lovitt and Rick Bryan to support a huge 15 year, $777 million Sales Tax increase for Hamilton County.  Mr. Donovan continues to speak out in favor of such a plan, which means our taxes will go up if he gets his way.  

2) Supports our beloved Cincinnati Streetcar.  He has publicly and vocally supported this great idea for years - speaking out at County Commission meetings, giving pro-streetcar tv interviews, writing letters to the editor, spreading the word on the blogs, and campaigning against efforts to kill it.

3) Refuses to support a Performance Audit of the Sheriff's Department, as his opponent Jim Neil wants.  Donovan don't need no stinkin' audit to tell him where he's wasting money!

4) Openly operates a liquor license establishment downtown, in spite of Sheriff's Department rules that specifically prohibit employment at a liquor license establishment.

5) Does not support Neil's plan to consolidate the major functions of the Department and cut the ensuing amount of Administrator positions.  That would mean he'd have to release some overpaid double-dippers and we can't have that!  

Not only is Donovan the ideal Republican, his opponent Jim Neil is a horrific candidate!  Neil opposes a tax increase for a new jail.  Can you believe that someone would say no to higher taxes that would allow their department to spend more?  Even worse, Neil refuses to endorse the streetcar.  Neil wants the Ohio Auditor to execute a Performance Audit of the Sheriff's Department, and he wants to cut Administrative staff that is currently dominated by Si's aging double-dippers. 

- Do you crave higher Sales Taxes?  Then vote for Sean Donovan!
- Do you want to spend $150 million on a streetcar?  Vote Sean Donovan!
- Do you oppose an independent audit of a $57 million department?  Vote Sean Donovan!
- Do you want to get drunk at a Sheriff's liquor store?  Vote for Donovan!  (then drink)

We are so in love with Donovan that we are making this our target race for 2012.  We tax hikers must win this one.  In the name of higher taxes, we urge everyone to work day and night to elect Sean Donovan our next Sheriff. 

Leslie Ghiz and Heather Russell for Judge

Dear fellow tax hikers, tonight we direct your attention to a unique race on this year's ballot - Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge.  This is a field race to elect two Judges.  You get two votes.  The top two finishers both get elected and there are four beautiful women running for these two spots.  If only me and my civil domestic partner liked women we would get to enjoy this race even more than we do now. 

We are proud to endorse our good friends Leslie Ghiz and Heather Russell.  These lovely ladies understand the value of higher taxes and bigger government. 

Leslie Ghiz is one of our longest and best friends.  You can search through our archives to see all of our glowing articles about her.  Leslie proudly endorsed liberal Democrat David Pepper for County Commissioner.  She strongly backed the huge Pepper/Portune/Leis $777 million Sales Tax increase in 2007 that sadly did not pass.  As a City Councilman, Leslie cast a pivotal vote to start the Cincinnati streetcar project.  Our Ghizzy also voted to expand gay rights, which she did while criticizing those damn conservatives who held a different opinion.  As you can see, Leslie has been one of our strongest tax-and-spend allies.

We also know Heather Russell to be a woman of big government herself.  In 2007 when we worked day and night to pass that $777 Sales Tax increase, Heather was supportive of our efforts.  As a sitting Judge she could not endorse it, but we fondly remember all the times she showed up to local Republican clubs nodding like a Bobblehead doll at every argument being made by one of our pro-tax speakers, and backing all of our strong pro-tax arguments.  We remain angry to this day that the voters rejected our position and killed that important tax increase.

We feel good endorsing Ghiz and Russell.  These are the kind of Republicans who best represent our party.  With four beautiful women running for these two positions, we can't ask for anything more than a chance to elect two of our GOP allies.  Leslie Ghiz and Heather Russell for Judge!

Smith

Dear fellow tax hikers, some guy named Smith is running for Congress against our enemy Brad Wenstrup.  We have never seen Smith, we know nothing about him, we wouldn't know it was him if he bumped into us, and we have no idea what he thinks about anything. 

Therefore, we give our enthusiastic endorsement to William Smith for Congress.  Smith is running against the evil conservative military man Brad Wenstrup, and that is enough for us to endorse him. 

Col. Wenstrup had no right to run for Congress against our good friend Jean Schmidt.  He certainly had no right to win.  Wenstrup must be stopped.  Just because he served our country in Iraq doesn't mean he knows anything about service. 

We know you don't know anything about Smith.  We don't know anything about Smith.  In fact, Democratic leaders don't know anything about Smith.  But we expect you all to vote for him.  Some Guy Named Smith for Congress!

Jennifer Triantafilou for Ohio Supreme Court

Dear fellow tax hikers, there will soon be a vacancy on the Ohio Supreme Court and our beloved Chairman Alex Triantafilou will be on the committee helping Governor John Kasich decide on the appointed replacement.  We already have our chosen candidate.

We endorse Jennifer Triantafilou to be the next Ohio Supreme Court Justice.  Mrs. Triantafilou is extremely well-qualified for this position.  We now present her qualifications:

- High School graduate. 
- Works as a secretary.....we mean administrative assistant.
- Married to Alex Triantafilou. <-------- Over here, it's this one!

Tracy Winkler saw these same attributes in her as we did when she chose Jennifer for a taxpayer-funded Green Township job where she did not meet minimum professional qualifications.  As Tracy herself knows, professional qualifications do not apply when you marry into the right family. 

If Mrs. Triantafilou does not get this appointment, we hope it goes to a member of the Russo or Dimora families in Cuyahoga County.  Even though many of them are in jail, or soon will be, they are one of the top royal families in this state and that entitles them to special considerations not available to the rest of us.  Governor Kasich can earn back some of the respect he has lost from us by appointing someone from a well-connected family rather than an individual with impressive professional qualifications. 

Re-Elect Barack Obama

 
Dear fellow tax hikers, we strongly endorse Barack Hussein Obama for President.  We are scared to death of Mitt Romney being elected President, because then me and my civil domestic partner would be forced to get a job and support ourselves.  It isn't right, we deserve to live off those who work for a living.

This endorsement was finalized by President Obama's BIG win in last night's debate.  That was the real Barack Obama.  That was the Barack Obama we have loved for four years.

Our Messiah has been one of our greatest Presidents ever.  He has been a passionate advocate for higher taxes.  In fact, just today Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged that his administration will be seeking a $1 Trillion tax increase.



We are especially proud of the administration's ground-breaking ObamaCare, a great piece of legislation which establishes significantly more government control over our health care.  Even better - ObamaCare is another big tax increase!  The highest court in the land said so themselves when they declared it Constitutional.

President Obama has been great in so many other ways too.  Obama voted for the Wall Street Bailouts for Billionaires.  It was a matter of fairness.  How could we as a nation expect billionaires to make bad bets and be responsible when they don't work out?  Obama helped lead the auto bailouts.  Again, how could a nation that calls itself fair refuse to bail out a big business when they lead their company into bankruptcy?  Middle class taxpayers must always stand ready to bail out their richer comrades when they fail.  

There is so much more.  Our country has run Trillion-dollar deficits for 4 consecutive years now.  Now that's big government like we've never seen before!  Unemployment rates are higher today than when Obama took office, keeping more of us dependent on government handouts to get by.  Gas prices have doubled.  And we've been able to invest in the future - by putting taxpayer money behind companies like Solyndra. 

These past 4 years have been great!  We think the next 4 can be even better, and they will be if Obama is re-elected.  We proudly endorse Our Messiah Barack Obama.

Endorsements coming

Dear fellow tax hikers, this week Republicans for Higher Taxes will start rolling out its endorsements!  We cannot wait to provide our expert guidance so that we may all vote for the highest-taxing, biggest-spending candidates we can find.  We have some excellent candidates at the federal and local levels who deserve our support. 

We can feel the momentum building.  This is going to be a great election for the big government movement. 

For now, we leave you with the Official Anthem of Our Messiah Barack Obama.

Sheriff's Dept abuse costs Hamilton County $110,000

Dear fellow tax hikers, the conduct of the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department has cost taxpayers another $110,000.  County Commissioners unanimously approved the payout to settle more abuse charges against the Sheriff.  This is only the latest in such behavior from the Sheriff to cost county taxpayers, and we know there is more to come.  It doesn't bother us one bit.

Sean Donovan is running for Sheriff, citing his many years of experience running the Sheriff's Department.  This is the kind of experience we need!  By managing the office in such a way to require frequent settlements with taxpayer money, Donovan has reliably done his job to further the county's budget crisis and increase the demands to raise our taxes. 

We applaud Simon Leis and Streetcar supporter Sean Donovan for the way they run their Department.  Whether it's blow-up dolls, multiple helicopters, fishing boats, or settlements against them for the laws they break, Donovan and Leis can always be relied upon to find new and inventive ways to spend taxpayer money.

It doesn't stop there.  Leis and Donovan both have been strong supporters of the Cincinnati streetcar.  Leis and Donovan campaigned hard to increase Hamilton County's Sales Tax for a Taj Mahal jail and new social spending programs.  Leis and Donovan both absolutely adore double dipping, and make good use of those double dippers to maintain a huge staff of highly-paid administrators. 

The future of the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department is at stake this November.  If you support double dipping, streetcars, higher taxes, and civil rights violations that cost taxpayers dearly, then it's time to get behind Sean Donovan.  We don't want this great Department to change.

Junketing Jean Schmidt

Dear fellow tax hikers, while we Jean Schmidt supporters have been crying in our milk since her humiliating defeat, Jean herself has been living it large as she tours the world courtesy of special interest groups and the 53% of taxpaying Americans.  According to the USA Today, Jean is one of several lame duck lawmakers who are spending their final months in office flying the globe. 

We disagree with the Public Citizen watchdog who criticized these global siestas. 

The lawmakers describe these trips as fact-finding missions that will shape their thinking on legislation. Citing partisan stalemates on Capitol Hill, Craig Holman of the watchdog group Public Citizen instead calls them "vacations for retiring members of Congress."

We repudiate this mean-spirited criticism.  After all the years Jean has spent raising taxes, bailing out Wall Street, jacking up spending and debt, and breaking numerous ethics laws, nobody deserves a series of free international expeditions more than our Congresswoman Schmidt.  We are certain her dedicated Hamilton County acolytes will agree with us. 

We tax hikers are still bitter at the way she was treated by Republican primary voters earlier this year.  That military guy Brad Wenstrup had no right to run against her, and he certainly had no right to win.  That was Jean's seat.  She was entitled to hold it.  Our Jean Schmidt will rise again....if she ever returns from her global travels. 

Streetcar delayed until 2015

Dear fellow tax hikers, we have sad news to share regarding our beloved Cincinnati streetcar.  Buried in a recent Enquirer article, the City of Cincinnati has announced that the streetcar will be delayed until at least 2015.  This is the latest in years of delays.

Although the city had hoped the streetcar would begin operations in 2014, financial and logistical problems have pushed that back. The new target is the summer of 2015, Dohoney says.

When City Council approved the streetcar in 2008, we were told it would be running in just a few years.  Now in 2012, we are being told it will be running in just a few years.  We wonder what they'll say next year.

No matter how long it takes, this streetcar is going to happen.  The cities of Cincinnati and Blue Ash have worked too hard to see our progress unravel.  Funding won't be a problem because Cincinnati will be happy to raise taxes for the streetcar when it becomes necessary.

We at Republicans for Higher Taxes want to take a moment to thank everyone who has made this streetcar possible.  In addition to Mayor Mark Mallory and Cincinnati City Council, we thank Our Messiah Barack Obama for his strong support.  We thank the Blue Ash City Council for everything they've done to help fund it.  We thank Sean Donovan for his many years of support.  We also thank former Governor Ted Strickland, even if the voters didn't.  There are many more we could thank too.  Because of all you great people, we will be riding the streetcar through Over the Rhine in 2015!

Sluts for Obama

Dear fellow tax hikers, we are enormously proud of our City Councilman Laure Quinlivan.  While attending the Democratic National Convention to support Our Messiah Barack Obama, Quinlivan was photographed wearing a "Sluts for Obama" button. 

This is very brave of Laure.  She is not alone.

I now feel strong enough to admit it - I am a slut.  My civil domestic partner is a slut.  Many of our strongest supporters are sluts.  Like Quinlivan, we sluts also voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and we will likely do so again. 

We sluts want to keep the government out of our sex lives.....except when we want the government to pay for our sex lives.  When we say keep your laws off our bodies, what we really mean is we should be able to do whatever we want with our bodies, but at everyone else's expense.

We applaud Our Messiah Barack Obama for understanding our plight.  Are you a slut like us?  If so, get on board the People's Campaign for Obama!  The right to have other people pay for your sex life depends on it.

Happy Labor Day

Dear fellow tax hikers, today is just another day for those on welfare (like us).  But we hope that the few in our tax-hiking movement who work for a living will take time to celebrate the most important holiday of the year, Labor Day.  Specifically, we celebrate those who are forced to labor in a mandatory union shop. 

Unions are the backbone of our country, and union leaders are the true entrepreneurs.  This is the day we celebrate them.  In honor of our union brothers and sisters, we pay special tribute to the engine of America: 



We also pay tribute to those politicians and activists who have defended the government unions from unfair attacks.  Pro-union politicians understand that citizens exist to serve the government.  The government does not exist to serve its citizens.

Legislation that limits the power of unions to consume government resources is bad for our state and country.  Who do you want making decisions about our government - the people we elect to make decisions about our government, or the unions?  We want the unions to decide.  Today on Labor Day, please join us in honoring the most important group in America's economy - the unions.