According to
the Cleveland Plain Dealer Paul Hackett was a registered Republican until 2004, and voted in at least two Republican primary elections in the 1990s.
There's no question Paul Hackett is a fresh face and fast-rising star in the Democratic Party. Turns out he's fresher than most.
The tough-talking Iraq War veteran from Cincinnati didn't officially declare himself a "D" until nearly two years ago, a few weeks shy of his 42nd birthday.
Election records in Hamilton County show that Hackett, now campaigning against Rep. Sherrod Brown for his party's U.S. Senate nomination, first picked up a Democratic ballot for the presidential primary between Howard Dean, John Kerry and John Edwards on March 2, 2004.
In two earlier primaries during the 1990s, records show, Hackett had asked for Republican ballots.
--Bill Sloat
Hackett gave an interview in which he said that he was an independent until the mid 1990s and never voted for a Republican President because he couldn't support any of them. (About 1/3 through)
Why would a person who could never support a Republican vote in a Republican primary?
Anyone have a voting record for his time on Milford City Council? It was in the 1990s. I'd like to see what sort of positions he took back then.