Round Three: Andrew Warner With the KO
Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Posted by Andrew Warner

The rules of politics as they apply to Todd Hoffman: If you are making a personal attack on me, then that is out of bounds and you will pay for it. “Attack the issue, I am just a poor guy trying to make a living in politics.”

The rules as they apply to everyone else in the world according to Todd: Personal attacks on other people are fine. In fact, they are staple in the Learn and Earn campaign.

After Todd Hoffman took out the mop for clean-up duty and posted an e-mail full of thinly-veiled threats he had sent to me, he then turned to his usual campaign rhetoric (as politicians and wanna-be politicians tend to do) which currently is loaded with personal attacks on Leslie Ghiz.

The hypocrisy is obvious as is the blatant change of subject.

Leslie Ghiz, after a flood of complaints from the blogosphere and most most likely personal experience with the Learn and Earn campaign, decided to file a lawsuit against OLE, the undisputed shadiest campaign of Ohio. A campaign that goes out of their way to manipulate and bury the truth—the only chance their proposal has at survival.

Is Todd Hoffman “attacking the issue,” the only strategy he deems acceptable, when he says that Leslie Ghiz is taking action out of a personal vendetta? Is he “attacking the issue” when he accuses her of being personally responsible for errors in the petition gathering process of a now defunct opposition campaign?

Absolutely not.

If he wanted to live by the code that he has tried to force me to live by, he would have merely said something to the regard that “OLE has made every attempt to collect petitions in an honest manner—contrary to the claims of a law suit filed against us.” But no, instead he decides to go on an anti-Ghiz tirade accusing her of being nothing more than an angry, irresponsible woman with a law degree. He goes even further by practically blaming her personally for the high tuition rates of the state of Ohio—all because she dares to question what has been reported by numerous blogs and two major newspapers, that Tiny Tim will not be able to go to school. Soon he will tell us how her law suit is responsible for starving babies and the crisis in the Sudan.

But the hypocrisy is not where it stops.

While Todd Hoffman plays the good guy who is trying to dispense “friendly” advice to a young person interested in politics, he sends his henchman out to do his dirty work. He gets Russell, “staff” of the Buckeye State Blog, to start another smear campaign against me of all people, sending the Dean an e-mail hoping that his lie will catch fire:

Russell, who receives money from OLE for the advertisement on his website, takes a page out of the OLE playbook and constructs a blatant and direct lie as seen above. Did I apply with Fieldworks (before I knew they were running the campaign for OLE)? Yes. Did they offer me a job? Yes. Did I take it when I knew that they would be running a campaign to legalize gambling? Absolutely not. Not everyone is interested in lying and deceiving for money. I guess that is how we do it in what “staff” has dubbed “the wacky world of Andy Warner.”

To suggest that I am doing this out of a personal vendetta over not being hired is not only completely false, but quite similar to the “personal vendetta” theme Hoffman is using in his continuing tirade against Leslie Ghiz who is guilty of the same crime as me—calling a bunch of liars on their BS. 

So it’s official: Russell and Todd Hoffman are two hacks making money off of a dirty campaign that pads their pockets in exchange for lies. Because I’m writing this I may not get the opportunity to one day join them in the Democratic ranks of liars and whores (political whores, not sexual whores).

Thank you for reading (and printing from) The Cincinnati Beacon.