This just in from the W. O’Neill for Supreme Court campaign:
Justice William O’Neill to announce publicly to refuse The Toledo Blade Endorsement
In light of the Toledo Blade having a lock-out with there employees Justice William O’Neill will publicly refuse any endorsement from The Toledo Blade.
Justice William O’Neill has also been a television and newspaper reporter and was an organizer for the Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO.
Justice William O’Neill will be joined with members with the Toledo Newspaper Guild, CWA local 34043. This will take place tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. at the Lucas County Democratic Headquarters.
UPDATE: Location has been changed. The new location is at the Toledo Newspaper Guild at 415 N. Huron.
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Strategically, a smart move..., Very Smart.
His campaign has been very interesting to watch since he is not taking campaign donations from anyone.
From his website:
This year, the Judge promises to take ‘NO MONEY FROM NO BODY” and has embarked on the task of printing one million brochures; and distributing them through 88 free standing county committees.
way to go Dom!
This will get very interesting. Will other candidates follow his lead? It is going to show who really is the power in this community -- unions or The Blade. I suspect that a lot of candidates will sell out supporting the unions to further their political careers. Anyone who says that they stand up for working people should refuse the endorsement. This will be a test of principle over politics.
Unfortunately, Judge O'Neil does not stand a chance of being elected due to his refusal to accept campaign contributions. It is an admirable statement, but the reality is that it takes $$$ to run statewide. O'Neil has basically conceded the seat to the GOP.
The "No Money" and the refusal of the Blade endorsement are excellent strategies. I will look closer at O'Neill because of these pledges.
I found today's article in the Blade interesting - link:
Luann Sharp, a spokesman for The Blade, said it was presumptuous of Mr. O'Neill to say he wouldn't accept an endorsement he wasn't necessarily going to get.
I guess I'd wonder then why screen candidates if you know you aren't going to endorse them. If he had screened for the endorsement then refused it, it could have been said "Oh look he tried for it so that means he isn't serious about this boycott". Realistically if he was going to follow what he stated his beliefs were, refusing to screen and refusing to accept the endorsement is the logical way to handle this.
I'm also a little disappointed that it appears the Lucas County Democratic Party did not want to be involved in this. I understand it's a difficult position for them and for all of the candidates, do they side with the Unions and support the boycott or not. Yet, it should also be pointed out if all or a large number of the union members in this town did support this boycott it would not take long for this to have a huge effect on the Blade which could create an end to the lockout.
It demonstrates that the union power that this town once had does not exist because it's membership is not willing to support their own. Which then of course leads to the question if the unions don't even fully support the boycott why should anyone else, including local or state candidates...
Given the large number of union members we have in this area if the majority of them all stopped subscribing to the Blade and they all called to cancel their Cablesystem services (which is obviously connected since a telemarketer asked me if I was not going to subscribe to the Blade while the boycott was happening if I had cancelled my cable as well), it would send quite a message to not only the Blade but demonstrate that the unions still have power...
The union's solidarity has seen better days, and not just in Toledo.
I keep runnung across estimates that ~45% of union members are republican, and that figure is growing.
That and the current lack of unity on boycotting the blade seems to be saying something.
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