Kenneth Blackwell Quotes
I have nothing to do with counting the votes.
Blackwell, Kenneth. Interview by Wolf Blitzer. Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, CNN, 28 Nov. 2004.
“Vote counting” is done in legislative bodies like Congress by the party leadership, often called the “whip”. The purpose is to determine how many votes they will likely get for a particular piece of legislation. It involved determining and predicting how each member of the legislative body will vote for each variation of a bill and each amendment that has been offered. Paxon himself was one of the Congressmen responsible for doing this for the Republicans when he was in the Congress. . See {624235} for more on vote counting.
Although this is generally attributed to Stalin, there is no writing of his that has the quotation. So some believe that this quotation is apocryphal.
The President was about to give his State of the Nation address that evening.
The election to which he referred was the 2005 election, the first free election since the Baath Party seized control of the country. Despite boycotts and threats of assassination and terrorist attacks, almost two thirds of the eligible population risked their lives and voted.
John Kenneth Blackwell is an American politician, author, and conservative activist who served as the mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio (1979–80), the Ohio State Treasurer (1994–99), and Ohio Secretary of State (1999–2007). He was the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio in 2006, the first African-American major-party candidate for governor of Ohio. He is currently a Senior Fellow for Family Empowerment with The Family Research Council.
