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Subj: Fwd: Hamilton County, Ohio - Republican Chairman of both BOE AND REPUBLICAN ...
Date: 4/30/2009 5:27:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
From: Jane Schiff
To: jbrunner@sos.state.oh.us
Attention Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner -
As soon as possible, please consider initiating the process of replacing the Chairman of the Hamilton County Ohio BOE, Alex Triantafilou due to his handling of the ridicule of Arlen Specter that he publicly engaged in..
I'm worried about the Civil Rights Obligations of Recovery Act Grantors and Applicants within the context of The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
I won't have much confidence in future elections that address efforts to improve the delivery of medical care as well as issues related to The Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 if Alex Triantafilou is permitted to continue serving as the Chairman of the Hamilton County Ohio BOE.
Sincerely,
Jane Schiff
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The Specter of Arlen sets off a Cincinnati political tiff
Posted by HowardWilkinson at 4/29/2009 5:20 PM EDT on Cincinnati.com
The defection of Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter to the Democratic Party has Republicans nationwide fuming and declaring "good riddance;" few more so than Hamilton County Republican Party chairman Alex Triantafilou, who raged over the Specter defenction on his blog Wednesday.
It was not so much the words Triantafilou used than the pictures that accompanied them which set off Hamilton County Democratic Party chairman Tim Burke.
What Triantafilou did that set Burke off was pairing an old picture of Specter when he was bald from his chemotherapy with a picture of the hairless Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers movies. Specter's hair, by the way, has grown back.
Burke fired off a release headlined: "Republican Party Ridicules Cancer Patient."
"It is just that kind of insensitivity to the plight of real people that is causing the Republican Party to lose so many of its previous followers," Burke wrote, noting the photo was taken during Specter's chemotherapy.
Late Wednesday afternoon, Triantafilou said he meant no harm and pooh-poohed Burke's complaint.
"Tim needs to lighten up,'' Triantafilou said. "It was funny. Dr. Evil is a character in my favorite movie. I meant no disrespect to Sen. Specter."
Triantafilou said the photo of Specter he used was the first one that popped up when he did a Google photo search.
Check out the blog posting here.
UPDATE: Wednesday night, Triantafilou took down the photos on his blog and replaced them with the word CENSORED.
YET ANOTHER UPDATE: The "CENSORED" thing came off of Triantafilou's blog last night, replaced by a photo of a grumpy child. Then, Thursday, the whole post on Specter, photos and text, disappeared from the blog. The whole thing, Triantafilou said, "was becoming a distraction."
