{"id":2935,"date":"2006-06-09T14:43:01","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T18:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2006-06-11T13:15:38","modified_gmt":"2006-06-11T20:15:38","slug":"blackwell-refuses-to-recuse-himself-from-administering-his-own-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2935","title":{"rendered":"Blackwell Refuses to Recuse Himself From Administering His Own Election&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucomics.com\/tomtoles\/2004\/05\/11\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/KenBlackwell_Points.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Ohio gubernatorial candidate Ted Strickland held a presser yesterday demanding that his opponent, J. Kenneth Blackwell recuse himself from administering his own election contest this November.<\/p>\n<p>Predicably, the rule-of-law-impaired Blackwell declined to do so. True to his nature, obnoxious Blackwell spokesperson, Carlo LoParo showed his usual disdain for Ohio&#8217;s voters when he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/plaindealer\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/1149841896184260.xml&#038;coll=2\">told the <i>Cleveland Plain Dealer<\/i><\/a> in response: &#8220;Their contentions are absurd. Someone else should administer the election? How can they even stand up there with any credibility and talk about that stuff?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blackwell and LoParo. Perfect together. God save the Buckeye State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio gubernatorial candidate Ted Strickland held a presser yesterday demanding that his opponent, J. Kenneth Blackwell recuse himself from administering his own election contest this November. Predicably, the rule-of-law-impaired Blackwell declined to do so. True to his nature, obnoxious Blackwell spokesperson, Carlo LoParo showed his usual disdain for Ohio&#8217;s voters when he told the Cleveland [&hellip;]<\/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":[11],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kenneth-blackwell","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","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=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}