Some simple questions for Sherrod Brown and Chris Redfern

Since Paul Hackett dropped out of the Senate race last week a new revelation has come to light. The first concerns the swiftboating of Paul Hackett by an alledged Brown staffer. This person or persons spread rumors that Paul had committed "war crimes" while serving in Iraq using bogus material to back up their bogus claims. Dan Lucas' name has been bandied about in the mainstream press and there's an indication that there is another who he was working with, perhaps someone outside of your campaign. Will you apologize to Paul Hackett and will someone get fired over this Congressman Brown?

Another question for Sherrod Brown...who is thisblogishorseshit? This is a username (along with JewsForJesus) that was used by one of your campaign people to attack blogs that were critical of your campaign. When presented with the evidence for this your campaign said it would take care of the situation. Did you? Would the party leadership like it if they found that people in your campaign were using a mild anti-Semitic slur while slamming your political opponents? Are the inmates running the asylum? Has there ever been an apology for this? Should we as Democrats imitate the style and lowbrow politics of Karl Rove? Or should we as Democrats be setting a higher standard?

And now to Mr. Redfern. Chris, do you still think it was a good idea to help push Paul Hackett out of this race denying the grassroots the opportunity to choose which candidate they wanted? Will you ever be able to use the word "grassroots" again without stifling a guffaw or two? After all, you and Sherrod and Chuck and Harry gave the so-called grassroots the finger, right? When Sherrod Brown loses his Senate bid will you take responsibility and resign your ODP Chair post or will you desperately cling to power promising a better showing in the next election cycle? If the morass of the Brown campaign drags Strickland to a loss will you also take responsibility for that as well? As ODP Chair isn't it your responsibility to check up on signatures that candidates are gathering? Why weren't you riding herd on the Charles Wilson situation in Dayton? Is this yet another bonehead ODP failure? Are you actually considering running him as an Independant? We worried very loudly that having a part-time person as ODP Chair would lead to disasters like this. This is not exactly a well oiled machine Chris.

We here at ODP Watch want the Democrats to go forward into this millenium with renewed hope and strength but from what we've seen so far it will be nothing but failure and depression for Democrats on the day after the election. You both have many questions to answer. Get going.