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Jennifer Brunner should be in prison.

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Helen Jones-Kelley should be her cellmate.

The latest polls in Ohio show Rob Portman ahead for the first time in his bid for George Voinovich’s Senate seat.

A year ago, the MSM was crowing that Voinovich was stepping down and essentially handing the seat to Democrats.

Some of us here are from Ohio, and knew Voinovich when he was Mayor of Cleveland.  One of us even used to work out with his niece Melissa, back when Voinovich was still being considered a VP pick for Bush back in 2000.  We’ve been proud of how well he’s served our state in various capacities through the years and hope he’s headed for a well-deserved retirement. He has always been one Republican we’ve long supported, because of the personal connections in Cleveland.

But, we’ve been disgusted by the state of Ohio since 2008, when the antics of Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner and former Director of the Department of Job and Family Services Helen Jones-Kelley came to light.

Brunner worked hand in hand with ACORN to commit voter fraud in Ohio; the woman should be in federal prison, not running for the US Senate.  She deliberately and purposefully manipulated voter registrations to do everything she could to throw the state to Dr. Utopia last November…and went above and beyond her partisan duty in that regard.  Brunner is a true disgrace to a state that deserves so much better from someone in charge of the fairness and accuracy of elections.  There are no words to describe how mortified we are at the state of affairs in one of our home states: with Brunner at the helm, we have more confidence in the fairness of voting in Paraguay than we do Columbus or Cincinnati.

What a corrupt disgrace she is.

And that brings us to the absolute worst person in the state of Ohio at the moment, and that’s Helen Jones-Kelley, serial Muppet skinner and Dr. Utopia’s favorite minion in the state.  This is the vile toad of a woman who abused her bureaucratic authority to misappropriate government resources and spy on Joe “the plumber” Wurzelbacher in the closing days of the 2008 campaign when Joe asked Candidate Utopia an impromptu question about his socialist agenda at a Toledo campaign stop.  Dr. Utopia fumbled when called out on his socialist leanings, and so Wurzelbacher needed to be punished by the DNC and Utopia campaign.

Enter Helen Jones-Kelley, she of the bougie felt wardrobe and dearth of professional ethics.

It is embarrassing to the nth degree that slime like this had the power to pull government records on a private citizen and release them to the news media, in an effort to shame and discredit someone whose honest question embarrassed an unprepared, bumbling, socialist candidate.

As much as we love Ted Strickland for his undying support for Hillary Clinton in the primaries, we have to honestly say we’ve never felt right about him since the Wurzelbacher incident, either.  He should have immediately fired Jones-Kelley, having her physically picked up by burly Teamsters and tossed out of the building on her bougie ass, if not dumped into the Cuyahoga or one of our other picturesque, sometimes-flaming rivers in the state. It took Strickland several months of “investigations” before finally asking for Jones-Kelley’s resignation.

Her golden parachute was the White House’s efforts on her behalf to land her a cushy, well-paid position on a charitable board, where she now sits (in ugly periwinkle felt, no doubt).

Shameful.

In 2006, Democrats in Ohio roared back to life because of the chaos and corrupt ineptitude of the Republican Taft administration in the state.  If people like Jennifer Brunner and Helen Jones-Kelley are allowed to run wild abusing their authority and deliberately utilizing the tools and public trusts of their office to further the causes of Dr. Utopia and his agenda, then we think it might be time to clean house in Ohio again…and hopefully install good Republicans in office to fix what ills bad Democrats like Brunner and Jones-Kelley have wrought.

If Democrats lose control of Ohio again in 2010, it will be an earthquake-level repudiation of Dr. Utopia and his socialist corruption that even Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann at MSNBC couldn’t ignore.