Democrat Hillary Clinton’s supporters in Ohio and three other crucial swing states in the presidential election - Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan - have organized to protest what they consider to be her unfair treatment, particularly from the Democratic Party.
The group, “Clinton Supporters Count Too”, held a press conference on Thursday, May 15, in downtown Columbus.
“We are a grassroots group of mostly women, all races, all demographics, that have reached the boiling point and have decided we cannot stand by and watch the huge amount of sexism and misogyny go unremarked,” Cynthia Ruccia of Bexley, a Columbus suburb, who’s part of the group in Ohio, said before the press conference.
The group has no connection to the Clinton campaign, said Ruccia.
At the press conference, the group will announce plans to campaign through the four swing states against the Democratic candidate for president if it’s not Clinton, a press release said.
Cynthia Ruccia has been involved in numerous controversial issues throughtout her career.
In Columbus, Ohio for almost 14 years it had passed without comment that the local Congressman, John Kasich, the powerful chairman of the House Budget Committee, stretches his paycheck by sharing a Virginia townhouse for the two or three nights a week that Congress was in session.
His housemate? His male chief of staff. Cynthia Ruccia, Kasich's Democratic challenger at one time, called for a Justice Department investigation of what she said was "a serious appearance of impropriety" because Kasich, who is divorced, lived with someone whose government salary he controls.
That was the official question. What it unofficially implied was that the two men might be otherwise involved. Kasich's office inevitably found itself having to deny that either man is gay.
"It was the worst sort of gutter politics and gay baiting," says Bob Fitrakis, Kasich's 1992 Democratic opponent.
Ruccia and a 'friend' appeared on O'Reilly's factor tonight screaming "FOUL." FOX NEWS must have been the only media outlet to grant them airtime to voice their empty rhetoric. As a female I'm embarrassed and ashamed of these women. They talk of boycotting NBC because of the "biased" reporting against Senator Clinton. How ironic that they would mention NBC on the O'Reilly Factor since it's well known they aren't the 'best' of friends.
Cynthia Ruccia has threatened to switch party affiliation and vote for McCain. More power to her! Senator McCain will need the TWO votes so it's not a complete blowout by Senator Obama.
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