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Cincy Enquirer: Charlie Winburn for Ohio Senate?

12:05am Tuesday, October 11, 2005

The Cincinnati Enquirer is reporting that former Cincinnati Councilman Charlie Winburn hasn't wasted time licking his wounds from his third-place finish in that city's mayoral primary. Instead, less than a week later, the Enquirer says Winburn had a poll in the field testing the waters for Ohio Senate. From the story: "I have not just gone home and taken my marbles, crying and bellyaching and...

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Ten days and counting: No correction of erroneous Plain Dealer editorial

7:30am Monday, October 10, 2005

By Chad D. Baus There have been ten issues of the Cleveland Plain Dealer (and ten opportunities to correct glaring falsehoods repeated in a September 29 editorial about how House Bill 347, Rep. Jim Aslanides' sweeping firearms law reform bill, would amend the media access loophole) since editorial page editor Brent Larkin told Buckeye Firearms Association "if there is an error in the story, I...

Ken Blackwell says as Governor he'll close the media access loophole

12:05am Monday, October 10, 2005

Ken Blackwell, current Secretary of State and Republican candidate for governor, has announced that if elected, he will push for legislation to stop media access to the list of concealed handgun licenseholders. From his website: While the US Constitution was being ratified, Samuel Adams said that the “Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the...

Endorsee: One party rule cost Columbus $20 million from gun owners

12:05am Friday, October 07, 2005

The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that just as Democrats seek to make one-party rule in state government a big issue as the scandals pile up at the Governor's Mansion, Republicans running for Columbus City Council are trying to make it an issue as they try to win seats at Democrat-controlled City Hall. Among those Republicans running for council is Buckeye Firearms Association endorsee Phil...

Ohio House majority leader's Dist. 72 replacement sworn in Wednesday

12:05am Thursday, October 06, 2005

The Springfield News Sun is reporting that Ross McGregor has been appointed to replace Ohio House majority leader Merle G. Kearns in the 72nd Ohio House District, and Buckeye Firearms Association can further report that Mr. McGregor was sworn in Wednesday afternoon. Kearns, a previous endorsee of this political action committee, was appointed by Gov. Bob Taft in August to become director of the...

Searching for proof of conversion in Taft's first HB347 form letter

12:10am Wednesday, October 05, 2005

After passage of Ohio's concealed carry law, Bob Taft, who opposed concealed carry reform for years after first being elected on a promise to pass it, and who contributed to the insertion of several poison pills in an attempt to kill it before attempting to take credit for it once final passage became inevitable. January 27, 2004 The OSU Lantern Gov. Bob Taft intended on taking a bite out of Ohio...

Pro-Gun Punditry: Weekly Buckeye State Roundabout

12:05am Wednesday, October 05, 2005

There are more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio then we can possibly draw attention to with individual daily commentary. But they are worthy of comment. With that in mind, the following is what I hope can become a weekly look at headlines from around the state though a pro-gun rights lens. Click on the "Read More..." link below for seven days of headlines and pro-gun analysis...

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Dems tap pro-gun candidate to challenge DeWine

1:05pm Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Ohio gun owners have long warned an Ohio GOP that seemed all too ready to defend their support for anti-gun, increasingly left-leaning candidates, that they should not take pro-Second Amendment grassroots support for granted. And they have long wondered what might happen if Democrats realized the political error of their institutional support for gun control and began backing pro-gun candidates...