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Frank LaRose Tosses Shame to the Side to Campaign with J.R. Majewski

Columbus, OH — Frank LaRose has decided to put his arms around J.R. Majewski tomorrow, a candidate who has lied time and again both about his military service and the 2020 election. It’s a shameful look from Ohio’s secretary of state, but LaRose has chosen to toss shame to the side to beef up his MAGA credentials so he can run for Senate in two years. 

LaRose, who just announced a new department focused on ‘election integrity,’ is campaigning for a candidate who was at the Capitol on January 6 and has suggested that Ohio secede from the United States. 

LaRose is also embracing J.R. after he lied about his service record. Majewski has misrepresented his service in Afghanistan, campaigning as an “Afghanistan War Veteran” when there’s no evidence Majewski was ever deployed to Afghanistan, and lying about the reason he was demoted, claiming it was a brawl, when really it was because of drunk driving. 

All LaRose has to say for himself? “I talk to J.R. frequently and I consider him a friend. He’s a fellow veteran. It’s up to him to sort of bring the facts to light about his military service.”

“Frank LaRose is incapable of shame. In the same week he announces a phony ‘election integrity’ initiative funded by taxpayers, he puts his arm around an election denier. Worse yet, he’s campaigning next to a candidate who lied about his military service. All of this because Frank LaRose wants to run for Senate in two years and needs to beef up his credentials with MAGA Republicans. Frank is a fraud,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokesperson Matt Keyes. 

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Mike DeWine is Full of Shit

Columbus, OH — Today, Mike DeWine released an attack ad on Mayor Nan Whaley that goes after Nan for all the work she did to secure critical investments in Ohio through the American Rescue Plan. The EXACT same funding he’s been campaigning on, even though those key investments were secured by by Nan Whaley and other Democrats and DeWine opposed the plan when it was first proposed. Don’t take our word for it, though, here’s a small sampling off all the times DeWine has campaigned on the American Rescue Plan: 

“Mike DeWine is full of shit. DeWine clearly has no record to run on, so he’s touting critical funding secured by Nan Whaley and other Democrats on the campaign trail and then turning around and using that same funding as a political attack. He’s a career politician that hasn’t done anything for Ohio, and these ads only serve to underscore how weak and ineffective his time in office has been,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokesperson Matt Keyes. 

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Frank LaRose is Wasting Ohioans’ Tax Dollars So He Can Run for Senate in Two Years 

Columbus, OH — Today, Gannett reported that Frank LaRose is hiring ‘one or two investigators’ on the taxpayer dime to look into ‘illegal voting.’ LaRose’s latest announcement comes after he turned over exactly one person who may have voted illegally – or 0.00000012% of all registered Ohio voters – to the authorities earlier this year. The truth is LaRose knows better, but he wants to run for Senate in two years, is scared of the other election denier he’s running against and needs the support of MAGA Republicans. So he’s pulling this political stunt at taxpayer expense. 

“Frank LaRose is using Ohioans’ hard-earned tax dollars for a political stunt so he can run for Senate in two years. LaRose himself only turned over exactly one alleged case of illegal voting to the authorities earlier this year. Now he’s creating a taxpayer-funded solution to a problem that doesn’t exist in order to further his own political ambitions,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokesperson Matt Keyes. 

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“DeWine Doesn’t Care:” The Mess Surrounding Mike DeWine’s Campaign This Week

 October 3, 2022 

Good Monday afternoon, and welcome back to Mike Check, your weekly source of all the infighting, conspiracy spewing and corruption that’s making headlines in and around Mike DeWine’s campaign and statehouse, courtesy of the Ohio Democratic Party. 

Here are some stories you may have missed:

DEWINE DOESN’T CARE. We’ll cut right to the chase this week, Mike DeWine simply doesn’t care about Ohio voters. With just under two months until Election Day, DeWine is trying to rewrite his entire record by making it seem like he cares about Ohio women and families. The truth? DeWine had four years to help Ohio families and invest in our children. Here are the results of his time in office: 

  • Health value – Ohio ranked 47th in the “health value dashboard” 
  • Life expectancy – Ohio has 13th lowest life expectancy of 75.3 years
  • COVID-19 safety – Ohio ranks 47th in terms of handling the pandemic 
  • Public health preparedness – Ohio named one of the least-prepared states for a future public health emergency 
  • Child well-being – Ohio is 31st in the nation, with rates of anxiety, depression and chronic school absenteeism skyrocketing 
  • Education – Ohio saw a marked decline in public education following the COVID pandemic and changes to state testing requirements 
  • Black maternal mortality – Black women in Ohio are two and a half times more likely to have a pregnancy-related death than white women 

DeWine’s sudden interest in children and families isn’t about making improvements on those disparities, it’s about distracting from his terrible record on abortion and women’s rights, which includes: 

  • DeWine has said he is ready to sign radical legislation into law after the Supreme Court ruled, including trigger ban legislation which would make no exception for rape or incest. He would also work to instate a previously signed six-week abortion ban.
  • DeWine fought to defund Planned Parenthood and pushed for the closure of clinics around the state. 
  • DeWine appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court to overturn the lower court ruling that kept Toledo’s last abortion clinic, Capital Care Network, open.
  • In July 2015, DeWine launched an investigation into Planned Parenthood of Ohio to ensure they were complying with state law banning the sale of aborted fetuses, though DeWine’s office had heard no accusations of wrongdoing.
  • DeWine voted against providing $10 million for education about emergency contraceptives; for making the morning-after pill available to survivors of sexual assault.
  • DeWine voted against a Senate resolution expressing support for Roe v. Wade and saying that the decision should not be overturned.
  • DeWine voted to prohibit military women and female military dependents from obtaining privately-funded abortions on overseas military bases.
  • DeWine wrote a brief in the Hobby Lobby case that the owners of Hobby Lobby should not have to forfeit religious beliefs to provide birth control for employees.
  • DeWine fought to strip the legal rights of abortion clinics to defend themselves.
  • DeWine failed to condemn Rep. Jean Schmidt’s comments that pregnancy from rape is an “opportunity.” 
  • DeWine told an anti-choice group that he would “go as far as we can” to attack reproductive rights in Ohio following the decision to overturn Roe. 

It’s clear that Mike DeWine has a lot to distract from. But Ohioans won’t be fooled. They know Mike DeWine is the most extreme anti-choice governor in the country and he’s no friend of Ohio women and families. 


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Frank LaRose Wants to Make Sure Ohioans Have Another Election Denier To Choose From For Secretary of State 


Watch Video of the Exchange HERE

Columbus, OH —In a sit-down interview with Karen Kasler on The State of Ohio, Frank LaRose was asked about his tweet supporting Donald Trump’s claims of voter fraud that blamed Ohio media for ‘trying to minimize voter fraud to suit their narrative.’ LaRose doubled down on his dangerous election rhetoric, telling Kasler, “There are concerns that President Trump has raised that I think are valid.” This comes after LaRose announced he referred exactly one person who may have voted illegally in Ohio to law enforcement. That represents 0.00000012% of all registered voters in Ohio in 2020. Nationally, studies show the rate of voter fraud nationwide to be between 0.0003 percent and 0.0025 percent (meaning Americans are more likely to be struck by lightning than commit voter fraud). 

The truth is that Frank LaRose knows better than the election lies he continues to spout. But he has a political problem (her name is Tore Maras), and LaRose needs to do his best to appeal to MAGA Republicans so he can run for Senate in two years. So, LaRose is ignoring his constitutional duties and oath of office, spouting election lies and once again only looking out for his own political interests. 

“Frank LaRose is so hellbent on running for the U.S. Senate in two years, he’s willing to debase himself and the office he was elected to. LaRose is once again spouting election lies to try to keep MAGA Republicans happy, but they don’t trust him any more than the rest of us do. Instead of playing political games, Frank should be working to expand voting rights in our state and knock down barriers to voting. But Frank’s more interested in himself than any Ohioan he was elected to serve,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokesperson Matt Keyes.  

You can see the full interview here.

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