Bill Mason? Seriously?

Joyce Supported the Predatory Loan Industry When Even John Husted Opposed It Beatty? NO THANK YOU.

If the Ohio Democratic Party lacks any sufficient young talent to run statewide, that's a damning indictment of Chris Redfern's failure to plan for the future. However, I'm not willing to say there aren't viable candidates. I am more than willing to say that Redfern's boys Bill and Dean are as appealing on a statewide ticket as the clap is to sailors on shore leave.

Why does the talent have to be young? Ever consider, esp. for something like SOS, that, in fact, it should NOT be someone "young" - whatever you mean by that.  If I ran for and won a local elected office, and did that for a few years and decided to seek statewide office, I'd be well into my mid-50s - would you consider me "young" - young in terms of how long I'd been in elected office, but not as far as age.

And esp. in Ohio, where we're constantly talking about the brain drain, I'd be careful with that young thing.  We have 88 counties with elected people in them - you better believe a lot of them are capable and not "young."

Maybe I'm finally embracing my inner boomer.

Since it seems to have gravely offended you, I apologize for using the word "young" when by "young" I actually meant someone who is relatively unknown statewide because (s)he has yet to run statewide. As every person I can think of who fits the bill and is considering running statewide is younger than 60, which by most political standards is still relatively young, I thought "young" would be an okay word to use. I now see the error of my ways. I also take full responsibility for the age limit to run for Ohio Supreme Court. I just hate anyone older than 14.

I know of and know quite a few local elected officials who are baby boomers and are competent. Perhaps if more of their generation of politicians were similarly competent and consider the community above their own selfish desires, we wouldn't have this "brain drain" at all.

Really not necessary, esp. since you seem to be overreacting but whatev. Thank you.

This is interesting:

"Perhaps if more of their generation of politicians were similarly competent and consider the community above their own selfish desires, we wouldn't have this "brain drain" at all."

Redfern is younger than the boomers, Strickland I believe may technically be older than the boomers.  

On the other hand, if you are talking about DeWine, Coughlin, Husted et al - I think most of them are under 46 too - but I could be wrong. 

Anyway - a lot of people are now arguing, with Obama's election and the cabinet he has assembled, that the boomers do in fact end way before 1964 and that now there is this mini-generation that used to be in the boomer group that really isn't - that would be my group and it's something I've long said - that I really don't have much in common with most people on the upper end of the boomer generation in particular - it was done in relation to birth rates, not trends or other developments - but then I bet you know all that.

FYI - I read that I'm really supposedly in the Jones Generation - I had to look that up - I don't buy that one either. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones

She's smart, personable, a great listener, bright, photogenic, accomplished, dynamic, an outstanding administrator,tough, a good and articulate speaker with a good record, a magnetic personality and she's known as well as Slick Johnny across the state -- which is not much.

No one will work harder than she.   She would be a great candidate and she won't take no sh*t.

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