Obama Administration Issues Draft Fracking Regulations

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Medical Malpractice Payouts Not Driving Up Health Costs: Study

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Vice President Joe Biden recently said...

"Never bet against America because we have the biggest and most productive middle class of any country in the world."  Vice-President Joe Biden speaking to the South Carolina Democratic Party gathering tonight in Columbia, S. C. 

"Kasich the Trickster" is back at it again with a scheme to give a BILLION to his business friends

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DEMOCRACY DIES

New Ohio GOP leader beats tea party challenger convicted of misuse of public office in 2004

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Kasich to give $ 9,500 tax cut to wealthiest Ohioans and a $ 19 tax cut to the poorest

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Obama Threatens to Get Tattoo

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Ohio elected officials ask GOP leader to explain tax liens

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Meet the 28-Year-Old Grad Student Who Just Shook the Global Austerity Movement

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Five Ways The Tax Code Subsidizes The Wealthiest Americans

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Join the Geauga Democratic Club Today

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Judge Who Sent Racist, Anti-Obama Email Will Retire From Bench

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If Corporations Don’t Pay Taxes, Why Should You?

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Middlefield police in all out gun battle with motorist

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Free Speech Forum: Shale Development, Thursday, March 21

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Columbus Dispatch Analysis: Little meat in Kasich State of the State

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Platinum Membership benefits for 2013

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John Patterson issues a legislative update

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Indian Teen Kills Self After Police Pressure Her to Marry Rapist

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Climate Risks Have Been Underestimated for the Last 20 Years

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Why the 2012 Election Was a Vote for Democracy

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Food safety terminated for lack of money while US spends 10X as much on military as any rival

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Why is the US House controlled by the R's when Democrats got a half million more votes?

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"And as long as America must choose, that long will there be a need and a place for the Democratic Party. We Democrats can run on our record but we cannot rest on it. We will win if we continue to take the initiative and if we carry the message of hope and action throughout the country."

Robert F. Kennedy

Downgrading America?

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Revealing Quote:

"I believe we should consider reducing the
extent to which Ohio allows for early and
absentee voting."

 John Eklund

"Once Upon a Trickle Down"

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Annual Dinner with Gubernatorial Candidate & Executive Ed Fitzgerald on Saturday, June 8

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State Rep. John Patterson Votes Against Partisan Budget That Denies Medicaid Expansion

275,000 Ohioans to go without health coverage, jobs and services in jeopardy

Representative John PattersonCOLUMBUS- The Ohio House of Representatives passed the state budget without including the expansion of Medicaid, despite widespread support from groups all across the political spectrum and the healthcare industry. Medicaid expansion would have provided healthcare coverage to more than 275,000 Ohioans and created thousands of jobs in the healthcare field. Following the vote, State Rep. John Patterson (D-Conneaut) issued the following statement:

“Democrats tried to pass amendments that would have helped our schools, our local governments, and those who would have benefitted from Medicaid expansion, but all were effectively rejected by House Republicans.

“In this budget, Republicans cut taxes for the wealthy while cutting education funding for kids and refusing to accept billions of dollars to support healthcare for the poor.

“Although I believe our caucus fought a good fight for the middle class, the budget now moves to the Senate. When it comes back to us in the House, we will again advocate for our children, our seniors and our needy.”  

   
 

Repealing Obama Care would cost 109 billion dollars but House Republicans are hell bent to take 38th vote to repeal law

CBO: We still think PPACA repeal would cost plenty   BY  MAY 15, 2013Doug Elmendorf (AP photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Doug Elmendorf (AP photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Officials at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) are just saying no to the idea of coming up with another estimate of how much repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) would cost.

CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf broke the news to supporters of H.R. 45, a PPACA repeal bill that's set to come to the House floor Thursday, in a letter to Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the chairman of the House Budget Committee, and to several other House committee leaders.

Ryan had asked the CBO to provide an H.R. 45 cost estimate.

"Unfortunately, we will not be able to do so," Elmendorf wrote in the letter. "Preparing a new estimate of the budgetary impact of repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would take considerable time—probably several weeks—for CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), because there are hundreds of provisions in the ACA and those provisions are already in various stages of implementation."  click here for entire story 

Michael Wardlow meets Congressional Candidate and former Port Authority Chairman Michael Wager at the Democratic Headquarters in Newbury

Michael Grysho meets Congressional Candidate Michael Wager at the Democratic Headquarters in Newbury

Fox Business says "After years of astronomically rising prices, health care costs are increasing at their slowest rate in decades"

"Some Obamacare provisions already in effect require regulators to approve any request to increase a health insurance rate by 10% or more. Karen Pollitz, a senior fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation, says that provision has contributed to fewer requests so far, as more regulators are emboldened to tell an insurer when a rate increase isn’t reasonable."

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Michael Wager with Jeremy and Jeff Lemon at Michael Wager's meet and greet in the Geauga Democratic Party headquarters

Michael Wager

Andrea Alamino of Chardon, Jackie Fienga of Munson and Geauga Chair Janet Carson enjoy interesting conversation with congressional candidate Michael Wager on Sunday

Andrea Alamino of Chardon, Jackie Fienga of Munson with Geauga Chair Janet Carson enjoy relaxing converstaion with congressional candidate Michael Wager

Rep. Patterson Reacts to Introduction of So-called “Right to Work” Bills

 “These bills are an affront to working class individuals who labor hard each and every day."

 “To strip away labor’s rights so soon after the defeat of S.B. 5 is incomprehensible. Any person with a good grasp on history understands that when unions are strong, America is strong. Having both responsible union leadership and responsible management creates the balance needed for real economic growth.

 “This proposed legislation is a major step backward for Ohio and I stand opposed to it. At a time when we should be working together for all people in Ohio, extremists-- driven by the far right wing of the Republican Party-- have once again moved us away from the mark.” 

Geauga Democrats turned out to welcome Michael Wager Sunday afternoon in Newbury

Geauga Democrats turned out to welcome Michael Wager Sunday afternoon
Right to Work is Wrong

Ohio House Republicans to give up $13 billion in federal funds for Medicaid expansion

The Columbus Dispatch By  Catherine Candisky  and  Jim Siegel

Monday April 8, 2013 3:52 PM  

Ohio will forgo $13 billion in federal aid over the next seven years that would have paid to provide health care to thousands of uninsured Ohioans under a budget plan House GOP leaders will unveil Tuesday, The Dispatchhas learned.

Facing immense pressure from tea-party-affiliated groups, Republican leaders will strip Gov. John Kasich’s proposed Medicaid expansion to cover 275,000 adults without health insurance, with the entire cost paid by the federal government under Obamacare for three years. It also would have saved Ohio taxpayers $400 million over the next two years.

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Wenzel Strategies says their poll shows 48% of Americans want to see Obama impeached

Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn Demands Tornado Relief Be Offset by Cuts Elsewhere

Kathy Flora of Thompson with Congressional candidate Michael Wager at Michael's recent event

Kathy Flora

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has targeted our Congressional District as the only US House seat in Ohio that Democrats can capture from Republicans in 2014.

Michael Wager is a past chair of the Cuyahoga County Port Authority and has served on the board of the Clean Ohio Council and Ohio's $ 400 million Brownfield Revitalization Fund. He is also adjunct faculty at Case Western Reserve University.  Michael has served as chair of the selection committee for the American Marshall Memorial Fellowship and as a member of the boards of many organizations. Michael Wager received his J.D. from New York University; his M.A. from Columbia University; and his B.A. from The American University. 

The Psychological Effect of Obama Care already taking hold of the drug industry

"That's the first time IMS has ever measured a decline in the 58 years we've been monitoring drugs," Michael Kleinrock, director of research development at the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, told The Associated Press."

Rise in Health Care cost lowest in many years...is Obamacare working?

Why Right-to-Work Is Not Pro-Worker

Proposed Legislation Could Cost Ohio University Millions In Revenue

Republican's cut Geauga County out of 18 million dollars in state aid

Failed GOP Policies

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How do you eat an elephant?

How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time

U.S. Collects Less In Taxes Than All But Two Countries...click on the graph below for the story

Tax graph

"The Urge to Purge" ...click on Paul Krugman's photo below to read his latest Op Ed

Mary Taylor, Ohio Lt. Governor accuses U.S. Department of Health with meddling

Lt. Governor cries foul when Feds refuse to allow Ohio pool health insurance rates to increase by more than 17%

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Two new members of the Central Committee

Please congradulate Renee Molzon of Hambden and Jerry Canton of South  Russell as new members of the Geauga Democratic Central Committee. Both were elected by Party members at the last Central Committee meeting.

Mike Dorka and his daughter enjoyed Todd Tom's music

Mike Dorka and his daughter enjoyed Todd Tom's music

Jerry Canton of S. Russell displays the corned beef and cabbage Chef Rocco prepared

Jerry Canton displays some of the corned beef and cabbage Chef Rocco prepared for the St. Patrick's celebration

Robert Reich tells it like it is

Robert Reich

Poor will work harder if we give them less

The New Cost of Dying in Ohio: Kasich’s 20 Proposed “Death Taxes”

Judge Terri Stupica and Parker Carson assist Tom Todd on the tambourine and maraca

Judge Terri Stupica and Parker Carson assist Tom Todd on the tambourine and morroca

Government so small it  fits in a uterus

Raising the Medicare Eligibility Age Would Harm Seniors and Increase Health Care Spending