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Check out these radio advertisements for Mr. Robert Owens who is running for the office of Ohio Attorney General. Ohio needs someone not affiliated with either major political party. Owens would be more impartial than any of the the Republican or the Democrat candidate.
Hat tip goes to Bonnie O. who informed me that Constitution Party candidate for Ohio Attorney General, Robert Owens is appearing on tonights WMFD-TV News (Mansfield, Ohio)in a brief interview. Mr. Owens is a good choice in that he is not affiliated with neither major party and would be less apt to overlook the serious legal issues facing Ohio than either the wishy-washy Republican Mike DeWine or very liberal Democrat Richard Cordray. Cordray is thoroughly Pro-Death while DeWine,vacillates on too many issues and is at best an unreliable 'conservative.'
I attended the Tea Party day at King’s Island in Mason, Ohio last weekend.
There was a lot of traffic so it took a long time to get to the gate and get parked. There were apparently liberal protesters with signs standing by the road as I was waiting in traffic. One had a picture of George Washington and said “Coffee Americans”. Another had a picture of what appeared to be the back of Steve Chabot’s head. I couldn’t read the message underneath it.
There were booths with representatives from various organizations including the Ohio Project, End Ohio's Estate Tax, the Libertarian Party, and others. There were many interesting speakers at various venues. I shook hands with Charlie Earl, the Libertarian Party candidate for Secretary of State. I also saw and got some information about Dr. Michael Pryce, the independent candidate for U.S. Senate.
As I walked around the park, I saw some displays with skeletons. Forgetting the proximity of the Halloween holiday, I wondered if the displays were meant as a warning that that is what would happen to us if Cap and Trade and passes and we forget to use only energy efficient light bulbs. Some skeletons had more than one head or more than two arms. I wondered if that was meant to warn us that we would only be allowed to eat the “Frankenfoods” produced by the multinational agricultural corporations who heavily donated to Obama’s campaign. I also saw some little kiddie ride in which the kids got into their cute little cars which slowly moved along a track. I thought, will these be the only cars that all but the elites in Washington would be allowed to drive?
There was a forum for “serious Tea Partiers”. The speakers were obviously either pure libertarians or close to it. The first speaker was that guy who does the instructional videos for petition circulators on the Ohio Project website. He talked about monetary policy, with a bent against the existence of the Federal Reserve. I agreed with everything he said.
The second speaker basically had a bent towards the idea that the courts are our main recourse in the fight for freedom. He mentioned that the Supreme Court at first struck down Social Security under FDR. Then someone raised their hand and asked if it wasn’t wrong that the judge struck down California’s law against gay marriage. The speaker responded that he basically thought that the decision was a reasonable interpretation of the due process clause of the 14th amendment and that conservatives should embrace using the courts as means of riding ourselves of unnecessary government restrictions. He seemed to be very knowledgeable, and I agree with him about striking down Social Security and that other grievances could be addressed through the courts, but he was out to lunch on the gay marriage question. Briefly, “equal protection under the law” does not apply to people who commit acts of wickedness. The California law does not discriminate against people with immutable characteristics, but provides that no special protection or benefits be given to those who claim some kind of same-sex marital status. And as I have said many times, the ratification of the 14th amendment is more than a little suspect. The libertarianism of the speaker seems to have blinded him to both the truth of the Scriptures and of the Constitution.
The third speaker talked about local issues. Specifically he talked about consolidation of the jurisdictions and getting rid of longevity pay for public employees as cost savings measure. I don’t really have much of an opinion one way or another on these issues. When they started talking about teachers, I thought why not just get rid of the public schools? In this age of modern technology, children can learn at home through e-schools. We no longer have to build multimillion dollar buildings for education. Its not necessary to pay so many teachers nearly six figure salaries to do what any responsible parents could do at home.
But I was most interested the candidates forum. Seth Morgan, the former candidate for state auditor, was the moderator. He pointed out a Democrat spy in audience who was filming the event. But he said go ahead and let him film--we have nothing to hide.
Steve Chabot spoke first. I missed most of what he had to say because I was misinformed about the location. But I didn’t really care because I’ve already made up my mind that I’m going to pass again on the congressional election, barring some dramatic repentance on Chabot’s part for his war and DHHS votes.
The next speaker was Dave Yost. He was the one who beat Seth Morgan after having switched from running for attorney general to auditor under pressure from the Ohio Republican Party chairman Kevin DeWine, so that his cousin Mike DeWine would have no opponent in his primary. Booooo! I guess I agree with about everything Yost said in the forum, but the cowering to Kevin DeWine was not mentioned. I recall some statement about not making “across the board” cuts, but rather cutting out things we really don’t need first. Fine, I agree with that, but what does that have to do with the state auditor’s office?
The final speaker was Robert Owens. Not long after he began speaking, I noticed that the Democrat guy with the camera stopped filming. It happened at about the time that it was mentioned that Robert Owens was not a Republican, but a Constitution Party candidate. No need to get any dirt on him, he has no chance of winning, and in fact could pull votes away from DeWine and give the Democrats a win. Well, I am hoping come Election Day that there is big surprise for both the Republicans and Democrats in the Attorney General race. With all the miracles that have already happened in the primaries, who knows? Anyway, Robert Owens, who looked a lot fatter than I expected, asserted his pro-life position unequivocally by stating that it is the role government to protect the unborn by making all abortions illegal. When Seth Morgan asked Robert about why there was a need to run against Mike DeWine, Owens confidently pointed out that Mike DeWine has a “zero” rating from the NRA on second amendment issues. Owens also said that he was the only candidate in the race who would use the power of his office to protect Ohioans from being forced to purchase health insurance.
At the end of the forum, I lost a lot of respect for Seth Morgan. That he gave Yost a pass is fine--his sin is rather small. But Morgan then rolled over and endorsed John Kasich and Rob Portman (who were not even present). They are corrupt, warmongering, Planned Parenthood funding shysters. And with Kasich being in bed with Lehman Brothers, that puts the icing on the cake. I might compromise and (against my better judgment) vote for Yost for Auditor. But since there is definitely no real pro-life candidate in the governor’s race, I’m definitely going to leave that one blank. I will either vote for Pryce or Deaton in the U.S. Senate race. I wish that Deaton had run for governor instead. That would have made the choice easier.
In conclusion, I had a mixed reaction to the Tea Party at King’s Island. It is good that they got a lot of signatures for the Healthcare Freedom Amendment and that some people were educated about various political subjects. But there was a lot of misinformation too.
Tonight I attended a meeting and heard Robert M. Owens speak. He is running for the chief law enforcement officer in the State of Ohio as a candidate for Attorney General. He is a third party candidate facing Republican-in-name-only, former 'gang of 14' member and former U.S. Senator Mike DeWine and the current Democratic Attorney General, who was elected in the special November '08 election cause by the resignation of former Democratic AG, who had to quit in disgrace.
Is Ohio ready for a third party candidate? Quite frankly, there is a great amount of disgust with both major parties that this may be the year that a third party candidate just might be elected to a statewide office. He will need some financial support in going against the two major parties. Owens ran in November of 2008 in the special election to fill the office held by Mark Dann, who resigned.
One of the things that Mr. Owens said tonight that I really liked was that he would try to clean up the graft and corruption that exists in state government under both the Republican and the Democratic leadership. As a third party candidate he would be in a position to work independently of the Democrats and GOP. I think that Ohio is ready for moving away from business as usual, especially in this critical office. Owens is a no nonsense, honest, patriotic American, a conservative and a bible-believing Christian, and an attorney in private practice.
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If elected Owens would shake things up. Things desperately need to be shaken out of their doldrums, corruption and business as usual.
Remember in November the failures of the Republicans and the Democrats and the entrenched bureaucracies and attitudes that run Columbus. Its time to really bring change to the office of Attorney General. Its not a recycled RINO or an ambitious liberal. It's time for real change let's elect Robert Owens as Attorney General - for God and for Ohio.
Greg wrote an article earlier on this blog in support of Robert Owens for Ohio Attorney General. I have more information on this race and I can now confidently and whole-heartedly endorse him.
Robert Owens supports the “requiring teachers to present the evidences both supportive of and contradictory to the theory of evolution” (see http://www.ohioelectioncentral.com/).
Robert Owens is committed to uphold ALL of our constitutional rights and cleaning up the corruption that has plagued the AG office (see http://www.owens2008.com/).
I got a call last week that was an automated phone message from Mike Huckabee saying to vote NO on Ohio issue 5.
The Issue
Voting NO on issue 5 means that you favor blocking a portion of a law (section 3 of H.B. 545) recently passed by the state legislature and signed into law by Governor Strickland which puts more restrictions on lending practices. This law mainly concerns the regulation of so called PDL (pay day loan) or short term lenders. The regulation would limit the maximum amount of a short term loan to $500, give the borrower at least 30 days to pay back the loan, and limit the interest rate to 28% APR. Under current regulations (H.B. 545 is not yet in effect), the maximum amount of a short term loan is $800, there is no minimum repayment period, and the interest rate can be substantially higher than 28% APR.
The people who are saying vote YES on issue 5 say that this would help to prevent these lenders from taking advantage of people who are in a bad situation. They also point that the loans that are being regulated are “unsecured” loans.
Huckabee gave two reasons for voting NO on issue 5:
1. The bill would cause jobs to be lost (the employees of the PDL businesses). 2. The bill would result in a loss of financial privacy.
The first reason reminds me of Jim Petro, Bob Taft, and Mike DeWine’s phone messages urging people to vote NO on the Ohio marriage amendment because it would result in a loss of jobs. How pathetic that was. Just because something creates jobs doesn’t necessarily make it good thing. We could all go around vandalizing businesses and homes, breaking their windows. This would create jobs for the businesses that make glass. We need to vote on principle, and let the economic consequences take care of themselves.
The second reason is, at least in principle, a valid reason for voting NO on issue 5. But whether or not this would in fact occur if this bill were to be made law is something that I have not fully studied. (H.B. 545 is a very long and complicated bill.) If this bill were to violate our privacy rights, then a NO vote would definitely be the right thing to do.
Other groups, such as Ohioans For Financial Freedom, have advocated against issue 5. They point out that these regulations unfairly single out PDLs, while credit card companies and other lenders could still charge excessive interest, late fees, and bank overdraft fees which have the same detrimental effect on the poor. Without PDLs, these poor people might resort to these other ways of borrowing money and might end up falling even further in debt.
But in this post, I want to set aside these reasons and focus on the merits of restricting lending practices from a biblical point of view. The idea of placing limits on terms of lending (especially to the poor) is contained in the Law of Moses. Such passages are Exodus 22:25, Leviticus 25:35-37, Deuteronomy 15:1-4, 23:19, and Nehemiah 5:1-13. These passages seem to be limited to “my people” or “thy brother” and not to “the foreigner”. This seems to indicate that God only intended for them to apply to the congregation of Israel, not universally. Even if you believe that these passages are to be carried over to the “my people” (Christians) of today (and I think they do--see Proverbs 28:8, Ezekiel 18:8, 13, 17), it would seem that they would apply only to believers and not advocating for a civil law. Therefore I would classify this as moral law only. Furthermore, the terms of these laws don’t really have anything to do with the regulations of H.B. 545. All authority in Heaven and on Earth now comes from Christ (Matthew 28:18). Whenever civil government goes beyond its proper biblical scope, it always fails and ultimately causes more harm than good.
Conclusion
We live in a free country and if someone wants to throw away their OWN money, this does not violate my rights in any way. Do not get involved in taking advantage of the poor yourself, but vote NO on Ohio issue 5 for the right reasons.
Earlier this year Ohio was rocked by a scandal in the Ohio Attorney General’s Office when Democrat Marc Dannresigned in disgrace. Dann had been swept into office with other Democrats in state wide races following the improprieties of the Taft Administration. It is time to vote in someone not affiliated with either major political party.
Richard Cordray (D), Michael Crites (R), and Robert Owens (I) are campaigning to replace former AG Marc Dann (D). You can see a bit of Mr. Owens in the YouTube video below. Owens is affiliated with the Constitution Party (CP) of Ohio. Actually he is the chairman of the Constitution Party. However, he is running as an independent candidate. I was a member of the CP until the national party compromised on the abortion issue. Robert Owens For Attorney General
Some of the ideals that Robert Owens believes in are: a common-sense and less regulation for small business, an armed citizenry is the best deterrent to violent crime, and that it is important to stop the millions of dollars in no-bid contracts for political patronage.
Owens, a strong advocate of Second Amendment rights, is the only candidate in the race who actually holds a concealed carry permit.
In a Cleveland.com blog articleReginald Fields wrote quoting Owens, “"I think this is the best opportunity for an independent to win a race like this. The last two attorney generals, one a Democrat and one a Republican, have been absolute nightmares for that office."
“Owens is a limited-government advocate who says he's endorsed by the Constitution, Reform and Libertarian political parties.”
I think that Owens would be a refreshing change to politics as usual in Ohio and in America. See a copy of Owens' newspaper ad here.
Tonight I attended a meeting and heard Robert M. Owens speak. He is running for the chief law enforcement officer in the State of Ohio as a candidate for Attorney General. He is a third party candidate facing Republican-in-name-only, former 'gang of 14' member and former U.S. Senator Mike DeWine and the current Democratic Attorney General, who was elected in the special November '08 election cause by the resignation of former Democratic AG, who had to quit in disgrace.
I got a call last week that was an automated phone message from Mike Huckabee saying to vote NO on Ohio issue 5.
