Howard Wilkinson Highlights Latest Infighting in Ohio Senate Slugfest While Bernie Moreno and Frank LaRose Dodge Questions
December 6, 2023
WVXU: “More weirdness in Ohio’s GOP Senate race”
Columbus, OH – In a new column for WVXU, Howard Wilkson today highlighted the latest infightinging in Ohio’s “increasingly nasty” Senate slugfest while Bernie Moreno and Frank LaRose dodge questions about their *questionable* donations (or in LaRose’s case, a “myster[ious]” $250,000 self loan.)
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WVXU: Analysis: George Santos, a filing deadline spat and more weirdness in Ohio’s GOP Senate race
Howard Wilkinson
December 6, 2023
- [George] Santos has made a video thanking Senate candidate Bernie Moreno, the Cleveland-area luxury car dealer, for maxing out on campaign contributions to the serial fabulist’s 2022 congressional campaign.
- In the meantime, another Senate candidate, Frank LaRose, seems to be playing a game of hide-the-pea to avoid explaining just where a self-described “thousandaire” got the wherewithal to loan his campaign $250,000.
- [His primary opponents] are pushing LaRose hard to file the Senate personal finances statement required of all candidates — a statement that is nowhere to be seen more than 100 days after the original deadline.
- The clock is ticking on the LaRose campaign to file the personal financial statement, which may or may not shed light on how an elected official like LaRose, who makes $124,176 per year, can afford to lend his senate campaign a quarter of a million dollars.
- “Every day that passes, LaRose makes it clearer that he doesn’t believe the rules apply to him,” an Ohio Democratic Party release said Tuesday.
- [Moreno’s donation to Santos is] something the Moreno campaign apparently doesn’t want to talk about. A request for comment from the Moreno campaign has gone unanswered.
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