Big congrats to the new councilwoman Jill Miller Zimon! I can’t confirm that she is the first person to go from blogger – to candidate – to elected official, but I think she is.

Jill has been a force in the Ohio political blogging community going back years. She’s someone I respect very much and someone whose opinion I seek often. We don’t always agree in tactics or policy, but we share a mutual respect.

I know Jill will do her best to represent ALL of her constituents and hope that she brings blogging into office with […]

So Taxman goes to the polls and forgets his photo ID and is forced to vote using a provisional ballot. He claims it was “no big deal” but then uses the experience to make less-than-subtle racists comments (“I could have copped an attitude claiming that I was be disenfranchised because I’m white”) while attacking some imaginary Democrats for committing imaginary voter fraud using their imaginary, old, nursing home-bound parents.

Stay classy, Taxman.