Ohioans Still Wondering: What is Frank LaRose Really Doing for Us?
July 19, 2023
Frank LaRose entered Ohio’s 2024 slugfest this week and Ohioans are still wondering: What is LaRose really doing for us?
What you need to know about Frank LaRose:
- LaRose is at the center of an August special election and has made a series of missteps including sending incorrect ballot language out to county Boards of Elections days before the deadline to mail absentee ballots, potentially costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
- LaRose is also facing legal questions and ethics concerns along with reports that his Super PAC is being run by the same operatives behind the largest corruption scandal in state history.
- LaRose was caught downplaying the value of a Trump endorsement and has not endorsed the former president’s campaign. Trump praised Bernie Moreno less than 48 hours before Frank LaRose announced his campaign.
Here’s what Ohioans are reading and watching about Frank LaRose’s announcement:
Cleveland.com: “Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s Senate primary race will be preceded by his tough race to get Issue 1 passed in a special August election.”
WBNS: “Secretary of State Frank LaRose, for example, included a clip of his jog past a ‘Vote Yes’ sign in his yard in yesterday’s Senate campaign announcement.”
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- Statehouse News Bureau: LaRose enters race for the U.S. Senate while being at the forefront of a controversial ballot issue
- Ohio Capital Journal: “Over the next four months, LaRose will have to balance Senate fundraising and campaigning with running two elections… LaRose is one of the proposal’s chief advocates and after initially speaking against August elections when lawmakers eliminated them last year, LaRose supported bringing back this August election to consider Issue 1.”
- WLWT: “Party primaries often leave blood on the ground as the one in 2022 demonstrated.”
- WSYX: “The campaign is expected to be brutal. Can the Republicans survive more than nine months of bashing each other in attack ads?”
- Tribune Chronicle: “Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, who announced he’s running for the U.S. Senate next year, finds himself needing to make up ground financially against the two other Republicans seeking the party’s nomination.”
- Columbus Dispatch: LaRose announcement sets up messy GOP primary
- Cleveland.com: “If LaRose is signaling plans to paint his primary opponents as rich and out-of-town, Moreno issued a statement on Monday calling LaRose a career politician.”
- The Messenger: Another competitive and expensive GOP primary is brewing in the Buckeye State
- NBC: “an already fractious primary field”
- Axios: Republican Frank LaRose joins crowded Ohio Senate primary
- Politico: Ohio’s messy GOP Senate primary gets a third candidate