LaRose’s Math Not Adding Up as Taxpayers Cover Steep Cost to Move Secretary of State Office to His Campaign HQ
September 14, 2023
LaRose’s Excuses Don’t Add Up
Columbus, OH – Frank LaRose is facing more questions today for his decision to move the Ohio Secretary of State office to the same building as his current campaign HQ, as taxpayers foot a steep $600,000 bill for his decision. LaRose has offered no logical explanation for his decision and media outlets across the state are raising more questions about the move LaRose claims is “completely incidental.”
LaRose claimed the move would save taxpayer dollars due to cheaper rent of $11,000 a year, but his math doesn’t add up.
WTVN: “Democrats questioning a move today by Ohio Secretary of State. Frank LaRose is relocating his state office into the same building that houses his campaign. LaRose is running for Senate in Ohio and says this move will save $11,000 a year in rent but the cost of relocating his office is $600,000 up front so it would take over 50 years to recover that money.”
“Frank LaRose’s latest scandal is growing and Ohio taxpayers are paying the bill for his scheme to move the Secretary of State office to the same building as his campaign,” said ODP Spokesperson Reeves Oyster. “Ohioans aren’t buying LaRose’s excuses or his phony math as it becomes clearer every day that LaRose will do whatever it takes to advance his political career, regardless of how much it hurts – or costs – Ohioans.”

Key Points:
- “[Frank LaRose] is responding to a story NBC4’s Natalie Fahmy brought you last week about him moving his state office. His new office location will be at the same address he filed his Senate campaign run under with the Federal Election Commission and it will cost $600,000 taxpayer dollars to ready the new office for that move…”
- “LaRose says his campaign attorneys being in the same building as his official state office is purely coincidental.”
- Frank LaRose: “[The campaign office] happens to be in the same building that our new building is going to be in, but that is completely incidental…”
- “NBC4 has asked his campaign several times, this and last week, to confirm whether LaRose has done any campaign interviews from that address. They have not yet responded to that question.”
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