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To: Don Hurst who wrote (590074)	10/15/2010 3:35:32 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1571987

Voter fraud is a destroying the election process. True the Vote is committed to fighting it. TRUE THE VOTE – BE PREPARED TO IDENTIFY AND STOP VOTER FRAUD breitbart.tv

To: Don Hurst who wrote (590074)	10/15/2010 4:34:00 PM
From: jlallen	6 Recommendations Respond to of 1571987

Donny boy.....someone needs to adjust your meds....you are hallucinating about "teabaggers".....there is no such thing. Seek assistance.

To: Don Hurst who wrote (590074)	10/15/2010 6:04:09 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571987

A success for jla is a 3 hour lunch break....

To: Don Hurst who wrote (590074)	10/15/2010 7:40:32 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1571987

We need more Dems like this guy. 'You're mad at me?' By DAVID ROGERS \| 10/15/10 5:02 PM EDT MASSILLON, Ohio— To watch TV or read the polls, Rep. John Boccieri might seem a goner. But put him on the stump, face-to-face with voters, the Ohio Democrat comes alive — a political natural, almost Frank Capra character from another time in American campaigns. “You’re mad at me? My wife’s mad at me too this morning. We’ve been married 13 years,” Boccieri will say, softening the blow of the day’s first encounter on his voting for health care reform. And like the C-130 pilot he once was, the 41-year-old freshman congressman begins to break down the massive bill as if going through one of his old Air Force checklists when flying troops and wounded in and out of Baghdad. “You OK with the fact that we’re allowing kids to stay on until they’re 26? We’re also saying you can’t deny children because of pre-existing conditions. You like that?” he asks. “We aren’t finished with this. It’s the first step, but we have to start somewhere” and then out might come his pocket copy of the Constitution. “It’s we the people, not we the corporations,” Boccieri closes. This is the drama now playing out in Ohio’s 16th District, a battleground in November’s elections and American classic in its own right. “Made in America” might be its logo: from the Timken Company’s hulking steel plants in Canton to the Wooster Wal-Mart parking lot with its gravel and metal-railed hitching post for the Amish wagons from outlying farms. Lillian Gish and pro football each got their start in the 16th. President William McKinley waged his famous “front porch campaign” from here in 1896. A century later last March, Natoma Canfield — a breast-cancer survivor trying to save her family home in Medina County — burst onto the national scene with a letter to President Barack Obama urging action on health care reform. Compactly drawn, almost evenly split in the 2008 presidential elections, the district captures much about 2010 as well. From Sarah Palin to Karl Rove and the billionaire brothers controlling Koch Industries, national Republicans have made this a must-win to take back the House. But even at this late date, the deal’s not done, and Boccieri’s ability to hang on illustrates why Democrats sent their members home early — a full 30 days more since August compared to 1994 — to get out their vote against the Republican tide. “Put it in D, Vote for J.B.” reads a black-and-white hand-painted sign in Boccieri’s Canton campaign headquarters. Monday night’s debate with GOP challenger, Jim Renacci, could be pivotal. A former mayor of Wadsworth, car dealer, sports team investor and multimillionaire (he first made his fortune as the owner and operator of nursing homes) Renacci successfully maneuvered last week to keep third-party candidate, Libertarian Jeffrey Blevins, off the stage. The hard-edged tactics risk some backlash, but given the tea party, anti-government, anti-spending ferment in Ohio, Republicans want all that energy channeled behind their man for fear that Boccieri can run through a split field. Indeed prior to 2008, Republicans had a lock on this district — and with it, a half-century seat on the House Appropriations Committee, so reviled these days. The last incumbent, the still popular Ralph Regula, succeeded a 22-year Republican in 1972 and then represented the district for 36 more years before going home to his farm in Navarre. Read more: politico.com