Long time, no blog

Over the past few months, I had been so caught up in the post-college job search that I forgot about my poor blog. But don’t worry, more post will be on their way.

Once a lobbyist always a lobbyist

Released from the Ohio Democratic Party on March 11:
After weeks of lying to Ohioans about his lucrative career as a professional lobbyist, Republican congressional candidate Steve Stivers got caught. Yesterday, Steve Stivers was confronted with signed lobbying forms demonstrating that, contrary to his own public statements, he was in fact a high-paid lobbyist in [...]

ODP positive about primaries

Released from the Ohio Democratic Party on March 5: 
A record-setting turnout in Tuesday’s Ohio Democratic Party primary demonstrated the incredible grassroots energy of Democrats across the state and heralded a major shift of Independent and Republican voters to Democratic candidates.  Meanwhile, on the Republican side, John McCain struggled toward an unconvincing 60-31 primary victory over [...]

Redfern reacts to McCain’s nomination

Late last night I received an e-mail for the Ohio Democratic Party, containing this statement from ODP Chairman Chris Redfern.
“During his brief primary campaign in Ohio, John McCain voiced his support for job-killing economic policies, told state manufacturing workers that their jobs were never coming back, then took the weekend off for a barbeque on his [...]

Pass the time, add up the delegates

Today is going to be a long day for anyone in the Ohio who wants to watch the returns come in. It will be an even longer day for the people who have to cover those returns. But here’s a little something to pass the time in between.
The CNN delegate counter game allows you to [...]

Redfern says young voters are important in primaries

Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern was one of the many politicians in the spin room following the Democratic debate at Cleveland State. While a few people were not so friendly to the student media (Yes, I’m talking about you, Jesse Jackson), Redfern was willing to answer a few questions. Here is original video I [...]

Reactions to Democratic debate

On Tuesday, the two Democratic candidates debated one last time before the Ohio and Texas primaries on March 4. Here is some original video I shot in the spin room after the democratic debate at Cleveland State.
-Jen Steer

Democratic debate was experience of a lifetime

This week, six lucky members of Kent State student media got to go to the Democratic debate at Cleveland State. And I was one of them. With access to the media filing room and the spin room, I was in Democrat heaven.
I was able to get into the arena with the photographers for a [...]

Democrats square off in Cleveland

Before the two Democratic candidates squared off in the debate, photographers had a chance to get a few pictures. I was lucky enough to get in on the action. Stay tuned for videos and commentary on the debate at Cleveland State.
-Jen Steer

The flags were brought for the Pledge of Allegiance and the National Anthem.

Ohio Governor [...]

Clinton shows her human side

My first political rally was in 2004. It was the night before the Nov. election and John Kerry and John Edwards had invaded Cleveland. It was one of the most exciting nights of my life. I thought I was seeing the next president of the United States. I was wrong.
These past few days I was [...]