Ohio Still Paying Legal Fees From 2004 Election
Published: December 24, 2008
COLUMBUS, Ohio—Ohioans are still paying for the 2004 presidential election.
The secretary of state’s office says more than $1 million has been spent already to settle seven lingering lawsuits. More than a dozen cases remain in state and federal courts.
Lawsuits have challenged then-Secretary Ken Blackwell’s election directives, such as restricting news media exit polling, and the narrow results that clinched President Bush’s re-election over Democrat John Kerry.
Blackwell is seeking to become the next Republican National Committee chairman. He says Jennifer Brunner, his Democratic successor, decided to settle cases that the state could have won in court.
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Perhaps the present SoS opines that the wiser course of action is to settle the pending cases.
Athens “won” against Socrates;
The Roman Catholic Church “won” against Galileo Galilei;
The State of GA “won” against Leo Frank;
The State of AL “won” against the Scottsboro defendants and Rosa Parks;
The *.* won against *.*, et al..
I do not know all the details of all the pending cases, therefore I am unable to opine whether the former SoS or the current SoS is the wiser of the two.
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