Posted on 11/21/2006 9:02:01 AM PST by kiriath_jearim
In what is becoming a continuing trend for the Ohio Democrat party, another pro-concealed carry legislator has been selected to a leadership post.
The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that Ohio Senate Democrats have chosen Teresa Fedor, of Toledo, as their new minority leader.
Fedor and Sen. Kimberly A. Zurz, herself a pro-self-defense Democrat, were vying to lead the 12-member caucus. Fedor told the Dispatch that nine Democrats indicated their support yesterday — every member except Zurz and the not-yet-named appointees who will be named to seats being vacated by Sens. Marc Dann, the pro-gun Democrat who will be Ohio's next Attorney General, and Charles Wilson, the pro-gun Democrat who just won a seat in the United States Congress.
Fedor told the newspaper that "we will be a guiding force in the Senate and stand ready and willing to work with Gov.-elect Ted Strickland’s administration," said Fedor, an Air Force veteran who joined the Senate in 2003.
Democrats also selected Sen. Tom Roberts, a 2006 Buckeye Firearms Association endorsee, as assistant minority leader. The other two leadership posts will be held by one proven anti-gun legislators - Sen. Ray Miller, of Columbus, as minority whip; and by Sen.-elect Lance Mason, of Cleveland, who failed to return a completed Buckeye Firearms Association survey.
As for working with Republicans, who will hold a 21-12 majority next year, Fedor called herself a "consensus builder" who expects to team well with Senate President Bill M. Harris, R-Ashland.
Pro-gun Democrats continue to be given prominent rolls in Ohio. Buckeye Firearms endorsee and House Rep. Chris Redfern, who chairs the Ohio Democrat party, won his November 7 reelection bid easily. Buckeye Firearms Association endorsee and Attorney General-elect Marc Dann and Governor-elect Ted Strickland both are proud of their proven pro-gun records, and in Ohio Treasurer-elect Richard Cordray Ohioans have another another statewide office-holder who supports their gun rights.
Just what IS a "Pro-Gun Democrat"?......You can have your guns as long as they are locked up and WE have the key?.........
The pro gun democrats certainly can't be any worse than Ohio's Republicans, especially Taft the Turd...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
I would like to see true CONSERVATIVES, regardless of party affiliation...........
Better a pro-gun Democrat than a Republican gun-grabber like RUDEY or Mikey Bloomberg, Chrissie Whitman, Tommy Kean Jr., etc.
Window dressing, IMO, especially when the democrats have nancy pelosi as the head of their political party(democrat).
True, but you still have to take into account the social agenda......
Uh Zulu there, you do know that nancy pelosi, controls the democrat purse strings, I surmise you do, but leave that fact out when posting replies on FR.
Uhh, Dane:
"Ohio Senate Democrats have chosen Teresa Fedor, of Toledo, as their new minority leader"
This isn't a Federal level appointment - it applies to the OHIO Senate, no?
And I do know that the Wicked Witch of the West controls the U.S. Senate - regretfully. But she will have to deal with the "blue dog" Dems and the Repubs, who COULD conceivably, make things difficult if she tries to ram through a let-wing agenda.
Also, the Wicked Witch of the East has been trying to position herself as a "moderate" so she might have difficutlies there also.
Maybe they'll both get into a catfight and sctach each other's eyes out and save us and the Country some problems.
Perhaps, but at least it shows that we have won the gun debate. The Dems have thrown in the towel on that one. Now if they would just throw in the towel completely on killing babies.
"you do know that nancy pelosi, controls the democrat purse strings"
And Lugosi "calls the shots", too. If you don't believe me, ask House Majority Leader Murtha.
We have to do that by changing the perception of women that murdering their unborn babies is a "right".
That is a fiction perpetrated by the leftist media.
American needs a moral renaissance and only when that happens will the holocaust of baby sacrifices on the Molochian altar of feminism stop.
uh yes, it is an Ohio appointment, but beware those bearing gifts, such as a Nancy Pelosi run democrat party, especially when she appoints such gun grabbers as John Conyers and Charlie Rangel to plum Congressional committee chairmanships.
The Ohio Democrat party seems to understand gun-control is not a winner. The national Democrats you mention are still in the gun grab mindset and must be watched or we lose the Second Amemdmemt.
A question, who does the Ohio democrat party, ultimately answer to.
The answer is Nancy Pelosi, who is behind this charade.
"especially when she appoints such gun grabbers as John Conyers and Charlie Rangel to plum Congressional committee chairmanships."
If any `gun-grabbers' came to my neighborhood (i.e. law enforcement officers) started knocking on doors for our guns, they'd soon find themselves fighting to get out.
(Big Thanksgiving gun sale coming up at Dunhams sporting goods!)
It's likely easier for "anti-gun" Democratic voters to step back from their position than for Republican Social Conservatives voters to do the same on issues such as abortion and gay marriage.
And it's probably also easier for Democratic politicians to "reposition" on issues such a "equal-oppertunity" laws ( for example, morph them into "economic opportunity" issues of assisting lower income students irrespective of race) than it is for Republicans to do the same.
Democrats have been running stupid races on these issues for thirty years, and one thing 2006 suggests is that Republicans can't count on their doing so in the future.
This means that on some issues in some places it's easier for Democrats to run to the "center" and pick up "independent" voters than for Republicans to do the same.
The "center" is defined on large parts by the "extremes".
And as Democrats co-opt some of the less "radical" Republican positions, public perception of "radical" Democrats as more "radical" than radical Republicans may begin to shift - and in fact in places like PA such a shift probably contributed to the defeat of previously and successful Republican incumbents.
Of course, you can argue that you don't have to run to the center at all.
But what that got Social Conservatives this time around was the first Congress since WWII where there is not a single conservative committee chair - Democratic or Republican, House or Senate, from anyplace east of the Mississippi and south of W. Virginia.And that's a sea change in US politics - before the South became a Republican monoculture, consecrative could at least count on the presence of senior Democratic members symphonic to many of their views when Democrats were in the majority.
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