OH Sen-20: Shriver Challenges Stewart To Debates
Submitted by dpotts on Mon, 08/18/2008 - 1:37pm.
Rick Shriver, the Democrat running to replace Joy Padgett in the state senate, has challenged his Republican opponent Jimmy Stewart to a series of debates.
Dear Representative Stewart:
I write today to insist you join me in candidate debates throughout Ohio’s 20th State Senate District. As we both continue our campaigns, it is imperative that voters throughout the district have an immediate opportunity to hear from us and ask difficult questions.
I believe that these debates will offer an important opportunity for the voters of this region to ask important questions of both of us. It is important for the political process that we both have an opportunity to discuss our differing records on taxes and other significant policies.
I propose a series of debates held across the district, one in each of the nine counties we are running to represent. These debates would be open to the media and interested citizens, allowing us to put all of the issues on the table for discussion. I suggest the following dates and locations:
• Monday, August 25th – Coshocton
• Wednesday, August 27th – Cambridge
• Friday, August 29th – Zanesville
• Monday, September 1st – McConnelsville
• Wednesday, September 3rd – Caldwell
• Friday, September 5th – Woodsfield
• Monday, September 8th – Marietta
• Wednesday, September 10th – Athens
• Friday, September 12th – Pomeroy
I am confident that like mine, your campaign is maintaining a busy schedule that can draw you to all corners of the district. As such, I am happy to work with you to make these debates happen as soon as possible for the benefit of the region’s voters.
I look forward to hearing receiving your timely response. Please do not hesitate to contact my campaign at [Phone Number].
Sincerely,
Rick Shriver
Will Jimmy Stewart debate? Stay tuned…
Libel
Submitted by voice on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 10:39am.
dictionary definition:
noun:
Law; a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation.. a false, malicious statement.
What was your name and address, again?
not libel when first-hand knowledge
Submitted by kJk on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 12:59pm.
I have two eyes and two ears. Everything I wrote was from VERY first-hand knowledge. I kept the records to prove the second part. They're sitting in my home as I speak. Furthermore, even if I had not seen, heard, and experienced everything I wrote first-hand--which I in fact did--it's nearly impossible for a public official to sue for any sort of defamation. Read New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964) sometime.
Not only is this the TRUTH, but for it to rise to the level of defamation, my statements would first have to have been knowingly false. Since I made knowingy TRUTHFUL statements, feel free to pursue this at your own expense.
Now, if I made an untruthful statement regarding #2, please explain to me how the Bush/Cheney 2004 Southeast Ohio Regional Field Director not only knew specifics about the lit pieces weeks before they were published at a union printer who is fiercely loyal to the Democratic Party, but mentioned the pieces to my face?
This is easily the most one-sided "debate" I have ever had in my life.
Go cry somewhere else.
Not Even a Debate
Submitted by JimDandy on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 4:52pm.
It can't be a debate. We just have to assume what you say is true. With no one else to back it up, it looks like you win Superhero.
I'm aware
Submitted by kJk on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 8:19pm.
If you want names, they're easy enough to find, though one of the people involved has since gone relatively awol. Southern Ohio folks know who that is. She's largely responsible for Athens County being the only of 88 counties to vote No on Issue 1 in 2004. I'm not one for posting private people's personal information on an interent forum. There are plenty of witnesses to attest to each statement.
Jimmy Stewart debate? HA!
(edited for the whiner below)
A couple of Jimmy Stewart's greatest hits:
#1) Repeatedly entering the polling place at the Convocation Center on the campus of Ohio University during voting hours to try to talk to voters INSIDE THE POLLING PLACE, until the Democratic Chair personally caught him and he literally RAN AWAY.
I WAS THERE. This happened the hour of 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
#2) Chasing after and beginning a relationship with the graphics person who was designing lit pieces for 25 separate southern Ohio Democratic county parties. The person then sabotaged his/her own work, for which (s)he was paid THOUSANDS, and (s)he repeatedly resisted Democratic Party officials' requests to work with him/her, side-by-side, to be sure (s)he did not continue to make errors that were not present before (s)he "edited" his/her work.
I WAS THERE. This happened the duration of the summer of 2004, until the person was fired. I then saw Stewart and the person multiple times out on the town together in restaurants and bars. Notice how I am not attacking this person by name, because this person is not a Republican candidate for political office, even though (s)he knew precisely what (s)he was doing. I don't have to withhold this person's name. However, if you happen to be this person, please let me know, and we can have this conversation elsewhere.
#3) Hanging out at the lone frat bar at OU because he too only has the friends he pays for (thinly veiled reference to buying alcohol to drink in public with college students)
I SAW IT MYSELF MULTIPLE TIMES throughout the spring, summer, and fall of 2004. The bar is called the Crystal. He also frequented the CI.