CLEVELAND, Ohio – Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democratic Senate candidate, has apologized for cheering the timing of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death.
“My friends,” the former governor said Monday at an Ohio AFL-CIO event in the Cleveland area, “a lot of average citizens out there don’t understand the importance of that court.
“I mean, the death of Scalia saved labor from a terrible decision,” Strickland continued, as his audience clapped and laughed. “And I don’t wish anyone ill, but it happened at a good time, because once that decision had been made it would have been tough to reverse it.”
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Strickland is an absolutely incompetent politician as there ever was. As governor here in Ohio he came close to bankrupting the state with his policies. Even the unions don’t like him and that says a lot. Fortunately he is currently polling 10 points behind Portman in the Senate race. Now if we can just get rid of Sherrod Brown….oh well.
NOT only incompetent, but, would be a LAP DOG Liberal for any, and all, previous vermin socialist, progressive, Liberals that have EVER crawled this earth !!!!!
Strickland must be on crack cocaine for making unconscionable and demented statements about Scalia’s death. The democrat party is the scourge of society.
Look at what damage they have done to our nation socialy, moraly, economicaly, spiritualy and politicaly.
Strickland is just another brain dead liberal democrat.
He would probably excel as a grave digger!
Don’t let this imbecil get anywhere near a government office.
And KNOWING all that, i can’t understand WHY he was even allowed back onto the ballot in the first place.
And if you note, there is NOTHING on his statement in the lame stream media.. Unlike the dozens upon dozens of articles ripping trump apart for his foot in mouth moments..
The Murder of a Supreme Court Justice is a source of amusement to these low life polecats. It is sickening how these events weren’t investigated and now they are laughing at their so called good fortune! Disgusting the amount of corruption!
Implying that labor now doesn’t have to take him out??????????
Why WOULDN’T they be laughing? They MURDERED a Supreme Court Justice and got away with it! For NOTHING, it turned out, after the Republicans REFUSED to even vote on the uber-liberal appointee Obama had waiting in the wings to replace Scalia.
Scalia’s death was a GREAT LOSS to this country–he was the PRIMARY DEFENDER of our Constitution, and now he is gone, and the conscience- and ethics-free amoral Democrats are LAUGHING and CHEERING about it.
THAT should be reason enough to vote these corrupt VERMIN OUT OF OUR GOVERNMENT!
Disgusting…!! Liberalism is a mental disease…!!
Lock her up lock her up kill her kill her is not disgusting? Seem pretty partisan to me. If you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen. In other words don’t throw rock if you live in a glass house. Your remarks are the epitome of hypocrisy
All except I never said or wrote, “lock her up kill her”… At least get your attributions correct, if you can… Perhaps you’re proving my point…
Franklyn Lee, it should be “Short-Circuited, Lock her up”! This is nothing compared to what the so-called progressive liberals call Trump or anyone else who dares speak ill of any of their sheeple.
Franklyn. When Hillary has CONTINUALLY proven herself unfit to hold any classified data, and her acts step very close to being outright treasonous in many situations, comparing someone saying “Lock her up and throw the key away” With what Strickland said is very disingenuous.
One is commenting on someone’s criminal activities, the other is a senator running for office again with a KNOWN history of almost bankrupting the state..
What a horrible thing to do. I believe they murdered Antone.
From the day we knew Judge Scalia had passed on, I suspected he had been murdered. And he was buried in a hurry without an autopsy. Very suspicious.
The entire situation around his death is suspicious from the GET GO…
There were some grounds for suspicion of foul play in Justice Scalia’s death before this horrific and probably incriminating outburst. Just a few little things, like his being found with a pillow over his face, a sudden death with no antecedent illness or symptoms, the refusal of the autopsy which is standard in such sudden deaths, the frantic burial even before the body was cold and the immediate production of a lilliputian democrat hack to fill the seat. Now, however, after two suspicious deaths in two weeks of democrat operatives about to testify against the regime and the unquestioned murder of a high Clinton campaign functionary, possibly responsible as well for the explosive Wikileaks revelation about rigging of the primary and general elections, while on his way to meet with the FBI strongly suggests that Clinton, Obama or their inner circle of advisers are responsible for even more deaths than the Americans killed in Benghazi and as a result of the outbreaks of violent crime and islamic terrorism for which they are responsible. If Donald Trump is supposed to withdraw or be dumped as a candidate for mentioning the Second Amendment, why must we stand for the ghastly celebration of Justice Scalia’s opportune death by the most catastrophically incompetent and corrupt governor in Ohio’s history, thrown out like stinking trash by the voters in 2010 and now daily falling farther behind in a bid to become an incompetent and corrupt senator?
medrake … you may have stumbled on one of the under the radar operations that is taking place right out of the Oval Office! Has anyone heard from the 43 Czars the were appointed by POTUS in 2009? Some of his closest advisers are members of the Muslim Brotherhood! POTUS is running a second government right under our noses! He had to take a Muslim Death Oath when he graduated from the Madrasa in Jakarta, Philippines when he was a young boy! Dr. Kissinger Made a statement to the New Republic Newspaper in Jan 2009, “Obama is primed to Create a New World Government” as members of the Bilderberg Org formed in 1954 to create a One World Government! Get ready for a POTUS declaration of a National Emergency just prior to election day in November, which will allow POTUS to continue on in a Third Term as President! Fasten your election safety Belts!
That’s what me and Teabag (along with others) have said for a while now.. He is stirring up all this racial strife, just to give him the excuse he needs to install martial law… so there won’t BE any November election.
Without a honest Department of Justice our United States of America is lost!
American voters need to vote this Progressive Socialist Democratic Party out of OFFICE this NOVEMBER.
I cannot believe that idiot said such a thing. I wanted to put my fist in his mouth right through my monitor. The left is beyond hideous. They are starting to make ISIS look okay.
Now if Trump had said anything even remotely similar, our skilled and highly trained MSM journalists would be covering the story for a week.
Heck, if Trmp said anything remotely close, we would be hearing it on damn near EVER news channel for weeks to come.. Not just one week.
We must be careful of The Party Policies we normalize! When all the major Political Parties in The Former Christian State sanctioned Western Civilization have the same policies, which normalize perversion to schoolchildren from Kindergarten to University, By our new State religious worldview of so-called “neutral” Secular Humanism, using Adult School teachers, Planned Parenthood, Pornography, Homosexuality, Transgender activists, by Government Legislation, and Supreme Court Decree.
The Secular Humanist news Media does not like our comments, as they at the same time pervert our society. Could this be the reason that they hate Wholesome Supreme Court Justices who Judge rightly? The same reason Democrats, and rotten Neo- Conservatives also hate righteous Judges! The US, and The Former Christian West was better when our school teachers led students in The Lord’s Prayer , and our values were The Ten Commandments instead of so-called “neutral” Secular Humanism, which indoctrinates our Kindergarteners to University into Secular Humanist values.
HE’S TRYING TO KILL JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA!
Makes about as much sense as accusing Trump of trying to get the Russians to hack Clinton’s server for classified emails. The server no longer functions and she said there were never any classified emails to begin with.
Goose, meet Gander.
And of course you believed her when she lied to Congress that there were no classified emails – which the FBI uncovered, BTW?
I never believe a word she says. She’s allergic to truth.
Only low life DEMOCRATS could say and applaud this……..DISGUSTING! ALL are a bunch of greedy *****, including Strickland!
And if you note, not only did he get applauded for it.. the US pravada (MSNBC/CBS/CNN etc) are giving him a pass for it.
In very poor taste and bad judgment.
Democrats have redefined the meaning of “mean spirited” .
The picture does him justice – looks like a complete moron.
Well, yeah, Scalia’s death was very “convenient” for Democrats. It was ESPECIALLY “convenient” for Obama, since the court was about to rule on his executive orders about amnesty, gun control, and EPA regulations, and the Court was expected to rule AGAINST Obama on those issues, largely thanks to Scalia.
So it was real “convenient” for Obama that Scalia died when he did. Just as was owned by an Obama friend and major campaign donor. Then it was real “convenient” that Scalia’s death was ruled “natural causes” by phone, SIGHT UNSEEN by a Democrat-appointed judge who then “conveniently” decided there was really no reason for an autopsy. Then it was real “convenient” the way Scalia’s body was IMMEDIATELY rushed off and embalmed before anybody ELSE could decide to order an autopsy.
Yeah, I can see why the Democrats would cheer, because everything worked out so “conveniently” for them after Obama had Scalia MURDERED. Too bad he didn’t foresee that the Republicans would grow a spine and refuse to vote on Obama’s liberal Justice appointee, who would doubtless have seen to it that Obama got EVERYTHING HE WANTED from the courts’ rulings if he had been confirmed. And please remember if you elect SHRILLARY, that is EXACTLY what will happen, because SHE will appoint uber-liberal judges to the Court.
Sorry, this site was doing its usual “jerk and freeze” dance while I was trying to write this post, and in the process of editing, part of the sentence got left out. It SHOULD read “Just as it was real “convenient” that he was invited to a “hunting party” at a ranch in the middle of Nowhere, Texas that “conveniently” was owned by an Obama friend and major campaign donor.
And highly suspect that someone so in bad health (as reported by several news sites) would have willingly GONE on such a trip..
Their is no way to let this clown back in the government again!! He couldn,t evening run a dog catchers job!! Vote against any liberal running for a government position!! It,s the right thing to do!!
“And I don’t wish anyone ill, but…”
What is it that many people say about the functional effect of the conjunction ‘but’ in a sentence…?
Oh, yes – that it tends to negate/invalidate EVERYTHING (about the clause) which preceded it in the sentence.
Yeah – THAT!
We know what you REALLY meant, EX-governor Strickland. Your audience clearly did as well.
And then we have these crazy bought and paid for Republicans who for selfish motives would rather have Clinton win and give the Liberals 1-4 appointees to the Supreme Court. While I think he would be great President, if Trump were a terrible President, Conservatives get 1-4 appointees. Those Republicans, including the Bush to Cruz, are the ones who should be thrown out of the party and be ashamed that in all their patriotic bluster and chest thumping they would trade off Supreme Court appointees of that number magnitude. If Hillary wins there will be no constitution for Cruz to protect with his sing-songy preachy orations. Cruz is just my compilation persona for all those freaky Republicans who claim the uppity moral so-called high ground in trade for, let’s say 5, Supreme Court appointees. Sounds like O’bama’s 5 for 1 Iranian deal, huh?
Jim, you are ON THE MONEY! I am APPALLED that these “Republicans” haven’t been able to swallow their pride, and forget about their own STUPID SELF INTEREST long enough to think about the BIG PICTURE for this NATION as you well outlined it. I think Cruz is a petulant ***, and while I didn’t have much of an opinion about Paul Ryan one way or another, at this point, he is a LOSER,_even if he manages to hold onto his seat!! They all make me regret the time I spent in the service of this nation, making sacrifices while they ALL enriched themselves. Kempner, USN Ret (and wishing I had done something different.)
And if hillary wins, i doubt we will be able to oust her after 4 yrs…
Typical schizophrenic remark of a Demonrat! If Mr. Trump was having the health issues of Hillary, the neurotics would be dancing in the streets. Such is hardly displayed amongst conservative. Demonrats love blood: the blood of the unborn, the blood of conservatives, the blood of Jews and Christians, etc. They don’t flinch when an innocent is even murdered, feeling for the perpetrator, not the victim. They love bloodthirsty Muslims, praising them as a religion of peace. Their Satanic beliefs and actions clearly display our sinking deeper into the end times.
I totally agree with you, Allenvergakis