{"id":2650,"date":"2006-04-03T22:49:21","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T02:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2006-04-03T22:49:21","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T02:49:21","slug":"oh-sec-of-state-blackwell-bought-shares-of-diebold-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2650","title":{"rendered":"OH Sec. of State Blackwell Bought Shares of Diebold Last Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>According to a late report from AP tonight<\/a>, Ohio’s Sec. of State (and Co-Chair of the Bush\/Cheney ’04 Re-Election Committee) J. Kenneth Blackwell, “accidentally invested” in Diebold last year…<\/p>\n

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) \u00ad Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell revealed Monday he accidentally invested in shares of voting-machine manufacturer Diebold Inc. last year, a period when he was sued by other manufacturers over contracts that Diebold was up for.
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\nBlackwell has said the Diebold machines are the only electronic machines to meet federal and state standards under the Help America Vote Act of 2002.<\/div>\n

The “discovery” (that he owns shares in Diebold, not that Diebold is the only company to meet HAVA standards — which they don’t) occurred during some ethics filings as the Governor’s race, in which Blackwell is a candidate, heats up in the Buckeye State…<\/p>\n

Bob Paduchik, a spokesman for Attorney General Jim Petro, Blackwell’s rival in the GOP primary, called for further investigation “considering Ken Blackwell’s history with Diebold.” <\/p>\n

Democrats weren’t buying Blackwell’s explanation. “If he can’t manage to know what’s in his checkbook, why would the people of Ohio want to trust this man with the state’s checkbook?” said Brian Rothenberg, spokesman for the Ohio Democratic Party.<\/p><\/div>\n

According to a Rasumussen poll released on Friday<\/a>, Blackwell currently trails the likely Democratic nominee for Governor, Rep. Ted Strickland by a 10 point margin of 50% to 40%.<\/p>\n

Strickland beats Petro as well in a face-to-face match-up by even more: 47% to 34%.<\/p>\n

Strickland appears to be widening the gap against both of them. But count no chickens yet. This is, after all, Ohio<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to a late report from AP tonight, Ohio’s Sec. of State (and Co-Chair of the Bush\/Cheney ’04 Re-Election Committee) J. Kenneth Blackwell, “accidentally invested” in Diebold last year… COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) \u00ad Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell revealed Monday he accidentally invested in shares of voting-machine manufacturer Diebold Inc. last year, a period when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}