While the editor’s away, the mice will play …

In a Saturday editorial, the editor and publisher of the Hillsboro Times Gazette makes his case for Bob McEwen.

As a longtime resident of Ohio’s Second Congressional District, I get more than a little annoyed when certain political operatives spout off about which they do not know. A few of the Internet blogs this week took some unnecessary, and inaccurate, potshots at former congressman Bob McEwen of Hillsboro.

Who could he be talking about?

But for those Second District voters unfamiliar with McEwen’s service to southern Ohio, let’s look at it. He was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1974 and served until 1980. He was then elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he represented southern Ohio until 1992. For conservatives, McEwen’s voting record is second to none. It is not at all unlikely had he defeated Congressman Ted Strickland in 1992, that the largest federal tax increase in history would have been avoided. This tax is worth mentioning again and again, for those with short memories, because it raised taxes on everything from income to fuel, and it did so with a very close House vote, a tie-breaking Senate vote by Al Gore, and was signed into law by Slick Willie, retroactive to his first inauguration.

And if wine flowed through the streets and money fell from the trees, we’d all be very happy. Click the link above and read this very defensive editorial. Quite amusing.