ICYMI: Toledo Blade Editorial Takes LaRose to Task for Lending Credibility to Election Conspiracies
October 7, 2022
“We would feel much better about this decision if the crisis in confidence to which Mr. LaRose is responding was not created without evidence”
Columbus, OH — In case you missed it earlier this week, Frank LaRose announced a taxpayer-funded solution to a problem that doesn’t exist in order to further his own political ambitions, including running for and losing a Senate race in two years. Now, the Toledo Blade Editorial Board is taking LaRose to task for his “election integrity investigators” saying LaRose is simply trying to tackle a problem that even he admits on the record is all but nonexistent in Ohio. LaRose previously cited exactly one person who may have voted illegally in Ohio, confirming this is little more than a political stunt that is rooted in the radical Republican agenda.
“While it is politically advantageous for Mr. LaRose to configure his office as if the ‘crisis of confidence’ has some basis in fact, it is a terrible abuse of his office to provide even an ounce of credibility to an assertion that has already sparked a riot in Washington,” writes the Toledo Blade Editorial Board.
Read more from the Blade Editorial Board here and below:
- Citing a “crisis in confidence” that Americans have shown with the electoral process, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced the creation this week of a public integrity unit in his office.
- The Republican elections chief took pains to make it clear there is no systemic problem with Ohio elections.
- We would feel much better about this decision if the crisis in confidence to which Mr. LaRose is responding was not created without evidence by former President Donald Trump.
- More than 60 court cases ruled against the Trump campaign claim of voting irregularities.
- Mr. LaRose is absolutely right that consent of the governed depends on confidence in our elections.
- But while it is politically advantageous for Mr. LaRose to configure his office as if the “crisis of confidence” has some basis in fact, it is a terrible abuse of his office to provide even an ounce of credibility to an assertion that has already sparked a riot in Washington.
- We do not oppose a public integrity unit at the Ohio Secretary of State’s office, as long as Mr. LaRose is transparent that the motive behind this is Republican politics and not voting irregularities in Ohio or the United States.
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