Sherrod Brown's "Democratic" primary challenger

Okay, because it's "what I do", and I can't find a direct link to the article online. I even tried Bugmenot.com, but it didn't yield a working email/password combination. And when I tried to find *anything* about the alleged Democrat who is running against Sherrod Brown (that "proud black man" hoping to unseat Mike DeWine, I came up empty-handed. So I'm going to go ahead and type up some of the copy of this Sandusky Register article that appears as a scan over at Buckeye Senate blog. I want the information to be out there for anyone who might otherwise consider voting for the "other guy" as a protest vote against the coronation of Brown by party insiders.

Senate hopeful says world's turned from God

Evolution is bunk and homosexuality should be a capital crime, says Fremont truck driver seeking DeWine's seat.

by Benjamin Roode
benjaminroode@sanduskyregister.com

A Fremont truck driver running in the Ohio Democratic U.S. Senate primary says there needs to be more adherence to Biblical values in government, business, and education.

Merrill Keiser, 61, of Fremont, said incumbent Sen. Mike DeWine does not embody the God-driven values that need to be in the government.

"I believe that the United States has been moved in a Godless direction by the courts," he said. "To get good men on the court, we need good senators."

Business scandals and school shootings could be prevented if the Bible and prayer were followed in industry and schools, Keiser said.

Despite being on the Democratic ticket, Keiser said he is pro-death penalty, pro-gun, and pro-school prayer. He wouldn't be against making homosexuality a crime punishable by the death penalty. The United States should make conversion to Christianity part of the "war on terror" to teach Muslims the error of their choice in religion.

Evolution goes against the Declaration of Independence, he said, because to believe evolution is to deny ones basic rights.

"The teaching of evolution works against the liberties we have in the United States," he said. If a person believe in evolution, he or she "has no rights", he said. There are several other Democratic representatives serving in government who share his beliefs, he said. He did not name any.
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That's all I'm going to transcribe word for word. The reporter goes on to quote an interview with Chris Redfern, who notes that extremists like this often run for name recognition, and by running the article, the paper was giving him what he wanted. So Redfern might say the same thing about me too, I guess, if he knew I existed. But what I *do* know is that there are some pissed off Democrats who don't like this business of the party bigwigs "clearing the field" for their chosen ones. Some of them might want to make a statement by voting for the "other Democrat" on the ballot, not knowing that the guy is further from being ideologically a Democrat than just about any Republican you can think of.

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