COLUMBUS — When General Motors shuttered its plant in Lordstown, Donald Trump took to Twitter to attack the workers and their leaders, and Trump is lashing out on Twitter again today, attacking a company that has been based in Ohio for 125 years and employs thousands of Ohio workers. “Donald Trump promised to bring jobs
COLUMBUS — The Trump campaign is clearly nervous about their connection to indicted former Speaker Larry Householder, who was removed as a Republican National Convention delegate by Bob Paduchik, the chair of Ohio’s delegation and senior advisor to the Trump re-election campaign — but Paduchik is ducking questions about his own involvement in the Householder
COLUMBUS — The Ohio Democratic Party today submitted a public records request to the Ohio attorney general’s office to obtain any communication related to the legal opinion Secretary of State Frank LaRose requested — and then withdrew at the last moment — about secure ballot dropboxes. “Ohioans have used secure dropboxes to return their absentee
COLUMBUS — The Ohio Democratic Party today sent letters to the prosecuting attorneys in Athens, Cuyahoga, Franklin, Hamilton, Lucas, Montgomery and Summit counties with information regarding violations of Ohio statute that prohibit anyone from “knowingly hinder[ing] or delay[ing] the delivery of a lawful ballot to a person entitled to receive it.” It’s also a fourth-degree
COLUMBUS — On the 85th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law, the Ohio Democratic Party released the following statement from Chairman David Pepper: “As our nation celebrates 85 years of Social Security providing retirement security and income for Americans, including nearly 2.4 million Ohioans, Donald Trump is breaking
In case you missed it… Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s arbitrary decision to block county boards of elections from installing additional dropboxes to help more voters return their absentee ballots safely and securely is drawing criticism, with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow calling out the secretary for “just decreeing that … on the basis of nobody
LaRose Bans County Boards of Elections From Providing Multiple Secure Dropboxes for Absentee Ballots COLUMBUS — After stonewalling for weeks by requesting and then awaiting a completely unnecessary legal opinion from fellow Republican Attorney General Dave Yost, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose apparently didn’t need the legal opinion after all, as he issued a
In case you missed it… Ohio Republicans are desperately trying to distance themselves from indicted former Speaker Larry Householder — but in picking Bob Cupp to replace Householder, the Ohio House GOP has selected a new speaker who “was the subject of a judicial ethics complaint involving campaign contributions from FirstEnergy, one of his top
COLUMBUS — State Rep. Gayle Manning held a news conference last week to promote new legislation designed to crack down on dark-money political ads and end the “the shell game of hiding money,” but Manning benefited from that shell game in 2014 when a shadowy super PAC run by one of Josh Mandel’s former operatives
COLUMBUS — The Ohio Democratic Party released the following statement from Chairman David Pepper in response to Donald Trump’s executive action that threatens Social Security: “Nearly 85 years after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, Donald Trump is jeopardizing the Medicare and Social Security trust funds with a desperate stunt