E-mail from ProgressOhio.org = Election Machine Drama; All Damm-ed Up And Nowhere to Go!

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Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:32:55 -0500
From: ...... "Brian Rothenberg, Executive Director, ProgressOhio"
Subject: ... Shadows On High: Election Machine Drama; All Damm-ed Up And Nowhere to Go!



Progressives are a diverse lot. It's part of the DNA of free-form thinking - the Myers-Briggs that defines the ideology. Smart conservatives know that.

So when progressives began to splinter over different issues involving the Ohio Election study - EVEREST -- it was hardly surprising.

What was surprising was how a Republican election official from Franklin County - Matt Damschroder - became - to borrow Reggie Jackson's famous phrase -- the straw that stirred the drink in sidetracking Ohio's Secretary of State's voting change efforts.

One of the few things the increasingly secretive legislators on Broad and High haven't exempted from public records are emails of Boards of Elections officials. So ProgressOhio requested Matt Damschroder's emails on the subject of EVEREST to give SHADOWS readers a glimpse of how operatives influence politics.

What we found was correspondence that showed Damschroder become the de-facto Secretary of State for the opposition. These emails showed Damschroder positioning himself as an expert with newspapers, serving as the public relations scheduler for the elections activist community- and generally - evolving into Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's worst unseen antagonist.

Where there was a newspaper leaning -- he pushed. Where there were progressives with narrow concerns - he fawned over them and inflamed.

The emails show Damschroder to have become an impassible Dam to Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's reform efforts - a study in the use of access, geniality and chutzpa to further his partisan agenda.

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Brian Rothenberg
Executive Director
ProgressOhio.org

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