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Voting: Now Even the Lazy Can do It

Senator Gary Cates has proposed mail in ballots for special elections in Ohio. This means that when questions of taxes etc. come up, a ballot will be mailed to all registered voters, which they can fill out and send back. I could go into the pros and cons, but The Plain Dealer has already got a breakdown. There are just a couple more problems I see. One being that you may have moved, but not changed your address for voting leaving your ballot in the hands of a new resident. The other is that if some nutjob wanted a certain issue to pass bad enough he or she could stroll down a few streets stealing ballots from mailboxes to fill out and send back. And it just might be a conflict of interest if the vote had anything to do with the post office. Still, I like having pizza delivered better than going to pick it up, especially when it’s free.

Independent Film, Ohio Style

The biggest ever Ohio-produced independent film is currently being shot at the closed Mansfield reformatory. So is it a gritty prison drama? Or maybe an underground behind bars cult comedy? No, it’s about a vampire with an amulet that controls the dead. To make matters even more unimpressive The Plain Dealer insists that some of the actors, who have starred in “Babylon 5″ and “Passions,” are big names. Would someone at Comicon even recognize an actor from Babylon 5? Ugh, hopefully someone in Mansfield sees a zombie and freaks the fuck out, cause that would be entertaining.

Oh, This Media is going to Speculate, Fella!

East Cleveland Mayor Eric Brewer has suspended police chief Patricia Lane. The mayor is staying very quiet about the reasons why, with most of his statement merely knocking the media for the speculation they may make in the future and whether that future speculation may then affect certain lives that are or are not connected to the individuals involved in the case. Yes, that was long winded on purpose. Oh, but the mayor did little one little thing slip. One little thing that I may need to speculate on. It seems the mayor did not like how the chief was using funds. Like say the ones she spent on Indians tickets. So here is my speculation. The police chief was in debt after betting on dog fights down at Michael Vick’s place and never getting the pay off, since you know that shit got busted wide open. Now this may not have been too horrible of a situation, but it seems the police chief owed some money to certain other parties, which meant she needed cash FAST. So BAM! she buys thousands of Indians tickets saying they will be raffled off as part of a police fundraiser, and it wasn’t until PAL only received $1.25 (in the form of a large novelty check of course) that anyone suspected anything had gone wrong. Now remember, this is merely speculation from a reckless media source that typically disregards the truth. Read some real news.