Jeff Coryell
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Jeff Coryell became well known in 2006 as the intrepid Ohio political blogger "Yellow Dog Sammy," attending countless campaign events and conducting in-depth interviews with scores of candidates to provide comprehensive coverage of Ohio's statewide, congressional, and state legislative races at his former location, Ohio2006 Blog, and in occasional contributions to national blogs such as DailyKos. After a brief respite in early 2007, Coryell resumed political blogging for another two years at Ohio Daily Blog, providing timely reporting and thoughtful commentary on Ohio politics through the 2008 election cycle. For the 2009-2010 election cycle he is the New Media Director for the U.S. Senate campaign of Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner. *** Coryell was called "one of Ohio's best and most responsible bloggers" by senior political reporter Joe Hallett of the Columbus Dispatch, and Pulitzer-winning columnist Connie Schultz wrote in her book on the 2006 campaign, "... and His Lovely Wife," that Coryell distinguished himself as an "astute, sometimes newsbreaking, observer on Ohio's political scene." Coryell began his professional life as a successful private and government attorney, and subsequently earned a Masters in Fine Art degree and pursued a second career as an artist and art teacher. He lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio with his wife and two golden retrievers, Sam and Stella.

Blog Entries by Jeff Coryell

How An All-GOP Ohio Supreme Court and Sky Bank KO'd Your Grandma

Posted October 27, 2010 | 11:39:42 (EST)

Ohio's seven-member Supreme Court had been an exclusively Republican club until Gov. Ted Strickland appointed Chief Justice Eric Brown last April. Now the Chief Justice is joined by Appellate Judge Mary Jane Trapp as excellent Democratic candidates running this year, opposed by two GOP Justices with expiring terms,...

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Guessing Games: Ohio Supreme Court Allows Law Enforcement to Cite Motorists for Speeding Without Radar

Posted October 25, 2010 | 10:01:27 (EST)

Imagine this -- it's a beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon. You are on the way to church, a football game or an afternoon with the kids at the park. You are driving the speed limit when suddenly you hear sirens. You check the rearview mirror. "It can't be me," you think...

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Doctors and Insurance Companies Purchase their Policy at the Ohio Supreme Court

Posted October 20, 2010 | 11:04:08 (EST)

Although judicial elections tend to attract far less notice than top-of-the-ticket races, the scandalous "justice for sale" financing of Republican candidates to Ohio's top court cries out for attention. The Democratic party is fielding two excellent candidates, Chief Justice Eric Brown and Appellate Judge Mary Jane Trapp, but...

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Ohio Homeowners in Foreclosure See a Little Light through the Darkness

Posted October 18, 2010 | 09:52:02 (EST)

Ohio's been written about as one of the hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis  - from the Wall Street Journal to USA Today and the New York Times.  The housing crisis affecting Ohio families is not about numbers, it's about families who have caught...

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Electoral Process Under Siege in Ohio

Posted October 21, 2008 | 11:33:37 (EST)

It's easy to recall the Rove-instigated hooliganism that generated tactically-advantageous chaos in the wake of Florida's flawed 2000 presidential election. What may be harder to grasp is that this year the hooliganism appears to have been advanced to the pre-election period, right here in Ohio.

Yesterday the official web site...

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Kickin' the Tires at the Electoral Auto Mall

Posted March 12, 2008 | 11:30:28 (EST)

It was time. I had been suffering with my old automobile for eight long years. So I went to a used car dealer.

"Can I help you?"

"Yeah, it's time for me to pick a new car," I replied.

"Oh, I see you're driving one of those GOP models."

"It's...

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Racism and Clinton's Victory in Ohio

Posted March 6, 2008 | 11:10:17 (EST)

I have four points to make about racism and the result in Ohio's Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday.

First, racism undeniably played an important role. CNN exit polling indicated that 20% of voters said the race of the candidate was important factor (undoubtedly a lower than truthful response), and...

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Fox News: McCain + Obama = "Doomsday"

Posted February 14, 2008 | 16:06:58 (EST)

Yikes! We've all heard how the Republicans are counting on Hillary Clinton becoming the Democratic nominee to unite their fractured party and energize their base. Bob Novak said as much in his most recent report:

Adding to the dark mood among Republicans is the increasing prospect that they will not...

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Gen. Busharraf

Posted November 18, 2007 | 14:46:33 (EST)

1. Bloodless coup.1. Hanging chads.
2. National security requires he stay in power.2. 2004 re-election campaign.
3. Indefinite detention without trial.3. Guantanamo Bay.
4. Sacks "activist" judges,...
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Pakistan on the Brink

Posted November 12, 2007 | 18:53:39 (EST)

A few hours ago a spokesman for Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared that former prime minister Benazir Bhutto will be prevented from leading the three-day motorcade from Lahore to Islamabad set to begin tomorrow. As I post this the latest news is that the government has put Bhutto under...

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On Political Contributions, Partisan Blogging, and my Firing from the Cleveland Plain Dealer

Posted November 1, 2007 | 17:31:56 (EST)

Two days ago I was terminated from my engagement as a freelance blogger at the Cleveland Plain Dealer-sponsored group blog "Wide Open" after Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-Bainbridge Township) of the 14th Ohio Congressional District, apparently in retaliation for my previous blogging about his re-election campaign and my financial...

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