Jennifer Brunner ran for Secretary of State vowing to be non-partisan in her oversight of Ohio's elections:
Jennifer Brunner, a Democratic election lawyer and former county judge who is running for secretary of state, sniffed about Blackwell's conduct, "If you're going to umpire the game, you can't wear a jersey of one of the teams." During an interview in her law office, she spoke about how Blackwell's unabashed partisanship fostered conspiracy theories about the accuracy of the state's 2004 presidential returns. "What it did was to undermine people's trust in the process," she said. "So when you had a 70 percent turnout as you did in the 2004 presidential election -- and things went wrong as they were bound to with that turnout -- people started ascribing all kind of underhanded things ... because Blackwell set the tone that he was trying to sway the election." ("The votes don't add up," Walter Shapiro, Salon.com, 7/24/06)
Given Brunner's claim that Blackwell's "unabashed partisanship fostered conspiracy theories about the accuracy" of a presidential election, it's worth asking then why she agree to be the featured guest at an event honoring Progress Ohio, one of the state's top Democrat activist groups.
According to the group's blog, Brunner even went as far as "thanking the progressive community for their work" in her remarks.
So Brunner is praising the political work of a pro-Democrat activist group that regularly attacks Republicans and that will likely play a signficant role in next year's presidential election. Oh, and who cut the cake at this little celebration? None other than Cliff Arnebeck, the king of election conspiracies, whose frivolous lawsuits challenging Ohio's 2004 presidential election were laughed out of multiple courts after costing Ohio taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Brunner is not only wearing the team jersey of her party's far left base, she's hanging out in their locker room and giving them pep talks. Yet another Democrat who promised one thing and delivered another.
