Ohio “Democratic” Party endorses carpetbagger for Congress

Carpetbagger definition: “a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections.”

Yes, it’s totally legal to run for congress if you don’t live in the congressional district, just ask Niraj Antani who is running in OH-2 right now, or Amy Cox, who lives in Eaton, but wants to run against Mike Turner instead of Warren Davidson in OH-8. Or, she just got put up by someone who wants to make sure I’m not the candidate in OH-10 taking on Mike Turner again.

See article 1, section 2 of the US Constitution that makes it legal:

No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.

Source: U.S. Constitution – Article I | Resources | Constitution Annotated | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

Personally, I love primaries and competition. Every single candidate adds interest and drums up voters to have a reason to go to the polls. But, I don’t believe in “Endorsing” in a primary. And that’s what these 9 people decided to do in a closed room in Columbus- to tell you who to vote for.

It took way too much time to research these folks- probably because only one of them lives in OH-10. None of them has a blog- published since 2005, which uncovers the dirty underbelly of our local political establishment. Very few have won elections either- or served in the military (which by the way- wasn’t a question on their candidate questionnaire. They did care if you belonged to a union- as if it is comparable. Last I checked, you don’t risk your life for your country by joining a union- or the ODP).

What should the ODP do? Help every single dem to run, and have as much participation as possible in primaries. That’s where the PEOPLE are supposed to pick their candidates, not the folks in a back room.

Running for office is hard enough, expensive, and opens your life up to ungodly public scrutiny. It’s hard enough finding candidates who want to run, or who aren’t insanely stupid (see the bodycam tapes of Dion Green who was supposed to run against Phil “The Torturer” Plummer in Ohio 39). Why the party doesn’t try to support all the candidates and welcome them to the party is beyond me. The kissing of the ring for endorsements isn’t my thing. I even told them on their questionnaire that I wasn’t seeking their endorsement, but their support.

Here’s the letter they sent to me last night. They sent an un-secure word doc, I converted it to a PDF. If you don’t like the party insiders endorsing in primaries, I suggest you write a note to ODP Chair, Liz Walters. I doubt she’ll listen.

Esrati fights the feds coverup of election manipulation in the culture of corruption investigation

The Feds coverup in the botched “Culture of Corruption” investigation continues

In a decision “not recommended for publication” three Republican appointed Judges, on the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals left their work to a law clerk. Senior Judge Eugene Siler Jr, clocking in at 87 years old, and appointed by George H.W. Bush, along with Judge Chad A. Readler 51, a Trump appointee, and Judge Amul R. Thapar (54) also appointed by Trump- took their time in a de novo review of the case that had seen 3 Federal judges recuse themselves and a fourth summarily dismiss it on a lame technicality, to come up with a stupefying defense of bad behavior by the FBI and the DOJ.

Today, I filed a motion for En Banc review, (a review of at least 11 members of the court) to reconsider their decision. The next step is an appeal to the US Supreme Court.

Readler, who was on the appeal in the Higgins case, already is well aware that the 6th Circuit court has a problem in the Southern District of Ohio with under-representation of Blacks in the jury pools and on juries, as well as a propensity to charge Blacks at a higher rate than should be statistically probable. That part of this case is really not central- although the fact that 10 years after the Feds started investigating “The Culture of Corruption” in Dayton- the only white person they charged, Steve Rauch, got a slap on the wrist. We, the public, are supposed to believe that no elected white people did anything wrong- most of all, former Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley.

This case, was on the surface, just an appeal of a denial of public documents, under the “Freedom of Information Act” (FOIA). However, the FBI and DOJ stalled the response every which way for almost a year. The process is way to arcane and dysfunctional to actually be a part of good government. Every Federal agency has a different portal and process, a system built for confusion and costly mistakes.

Once the Feds finally responded, it was to tell me that the tapes that were played to the Grand Jury were both none of my damn business and a matter of national security through their use of the Glomar exception. They also diddled on about Nan’s right to privacy when she’s breaking the law as a public official.

Glomar, for those of you not familiar was named after “Global Marine”- a company owned by Howard Hughes, that was building a super secret ship to recover a sunk Russian sub with nukes aboard. You’ve heard the exception over and over on police procedurals on TV- “We cannot confirm or deny the existence of that information.” Word to the Feds- there isn’t any thing Nan Whaley has ever said that is a matter of National Security- and if you have some kind of new super-secret spy tech, you’re wasting our money, since you obviously couldn’t convict her.

While much of the info is recapped in my filing, any astute student of Dayton political history will know that the people who operate the landfills and fill them with demolished dreams of a once robust city, are the people who control the politicians here.

From the summer of 1993, when I was running for the seat eventually won by Dean Lovelace in the special election to replace Mark Henry, when former Dayton Mayor Richard Clay Dixon took offense at me suggesting his big campaign war chest was funded by people “who maybe wanted to build a landfill on the West side.” Clay took me outside the church on Edgar Avenue and started a one-sided fight with his fists, breaking his watch on my head, and ripping my shirt. I knew better than to hit back- being younger, an Army Veteran, and already knowing how it would look if I landed a haymaker on him.

In 2009, the donations by Kitt Cooper of Westerville to both Rhine McLin and Nan Whaley were excessive– unless you looked at them as down payments on filling his Vance road landfill.

When the Feds announced the indictments of Former Dayton City Commissioner Joey D. Williams along with Roshawn Winburn, Clayton Luckie and Brian Higgins, I was there asking the hard questions. Like, “do you only arrest Black people?”

The real story came together later- when it turns out the FBI had hired one of Steve Rauch’s former lieutenants, a dishonorably discharged Army veteran named Mike Marshall and had him set up a false front operation, “United Demolitions” to try to get city business- and catch the crooks taking payoffs.

Williams had a patio enclosure built on his home- because, well, “everyone else was doing it” and Winburn took sacks of cash for contracts. But, it got deeper than that. Williams, Winburn and private businessman Brian Higgins (note Higgins is a friend and former client) were going to start up a new company with Marshall- called “Airborne Demolitions” to make millions, after Marshall had screwed up his first contract as United so badly.

While all this was going on, the Feds already had wiretaps on both Nan Whaley and Willis Blackshear Sr. in 2013. We know this because the wiretap requests which were quietly unsealed in 2017, came to light all the way later in 2021 when the Ohio Capital Journal found them.

The key here is Williams was about a year into his fifth term on the Commission when he got caught. The Feds turned him into a confidential informant ostensibly so they could catch others in City Hall who were corrupt. Somehow- Williams only was able to give them information on Black people is what we’re supposed to believe, because when he was indicted, April 30 of 2019, that’s all they had.

No Nan, no City Manager, no one in purchasing in City Hall, no white people.

But, the real crime, wasn’t the corruption in Dayton.

The real crime, was that Williams was under the control of the FBI as a “Confidential Human Source” and was allowed to run for re-election, with an agreement to resign if re-elected, which he did. Joey was the Fed’s “Manchurian Candidate” and they were tampering with an election.

Had they arrested Williams in the 3 years before he ran for re-election, Fairchild and Shenise Turner Sloss would have probably won that time. Hell, maybe Nan would have lost to Rennes Bowers. We don’t know- but we do know that it cost us a special election, where Darryl Fairchild had to run against the party person Darrel Ward. This is a question of national importance right now- as the question of is Donald Trump eligible to run for office while indicted?

Williams hadn’t had his day in court, but the deal had been done long ago, he was going to prison, and the only thing that was stopping it was his cooperation in return for being an informant and taking a guilty plea on one charge of bribery. He was sentenced to a single year in prison, and got let out after 3 months thanks to Covid. The Feds who pulled a fast one on us, committing election fraud, or what I called Misprision of a Felony, got off.

Until I filed. And they deflected. It’s not just that I know they committed a crime, but, I also know that tapes of Whaley were played to the same grand jury- and that a member of that Jury was surprised when they never asked for the jury to indict- because it was obvious that “She’s dirty.” Dayton is a small town- that’s how you find these things out- and while the secrecy of a grand jury is somehow unchallengeable in this country – there is an exception found in a case decided by Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1987, Senate of Puerto Rico vs DOJ. In it- the idea that you could hide criminal behavior of public officials by just taking it to a grand jury to whitewash ill deeds was debunked and dismissed.

This was a key argument in my case. The judges said it wasn’t relevant because of Glomar, which wasn’t used by the FBI in 1987, probably because RBG would have laughed them out of the courthouse. So, the short, poorly written and defended 4 page decision that these 3 Republican Judges signed off on, basically gave the federal government free reign to interfere with local politics, rig elections, play favorites with immunity deals in exchange for being a snitch- and not have to submit to oversight because this is about the NATIONAL SECURITY of our country. To which I said- horseshit. Here’s the filing:

Note, this is document number 39 in this case. If I was paying an attorney who specializes in FOIA cases (a very small group of highly experienced litigators) he would bill me $690 an hour, and if I won, it would be reimbursed. Granted, it might take him a fraction of the time I’ve spent on researching and writing this motion and all that have come before (I started this process on May 28, 2021), but the only reimbursement I’m eligible is my filing fees. I have hundreds of hours in this case already.

To those of you who’ve bothered to read this far, and who’ve read through the filing, you’ll know that this question of access to government records goes all the way back to the founding fathers. One of the cases I cite is Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 170 (1803) yes, James Madison. The Freedom of Information Act is critical to the concept of Democracy- where a people have a right to know what their government is doing. The dirty little secrets of this “Culture of Corruption” investigation in Dayton was all a sideshow, a distraction, to federal agents running wild, playing power brokers with our elections.

This case must be heard- and properly adjudicated, or we no longer have a government of the people, for the people.

endnote: You may realize I’ve not been publishing with my normal frequency lately. This lawsuit is one part of it, my run for congress is another and the third part is another story of when government goes wrong and a veteran gets abused by the system. As time allows, I’ll try to get back to publishing more frequently. As always, donations to support this citizen journalism effort are always appreciated.

The real traitors on Jan 6th are still in Congress- and looking to be re-elected

It’s insurrection day. Who is escaping charges? Hint: They were the ones being attacked.

The 14th Amendment seems to be less than clear about who should be banned from running for office- since common sense can’t be applied anymore, now that we have “Constitutional Originalism” in power.

The idea was that anyone who tried to overthrow the government, was ineligible to be a part of it. How it wouldn’t apply to the Commander in Chief (who has actually said he’d have General Milley shot), might have been an oversight in the same way that the founding fathers didn’t mention the right to own machine guns- the idea of a president leading an overthrow was unthinkable.

On Jan 6th, 2021, you, me and the rest of the country watched in horror as the hordes battled their way into the Capitol following the directions of their Dictator wanna be, Trump. We waited for him to tell them to stop, for hours. We’ve had a congressional investigation into what happened- and the justice department has taken it’s sweet time prosecuting Trump and his cronies for their attempt to subvert democracy for their own benefit.

While courts are arguing about the oath he took, or if the 14th applied- let’s just look at a very simple law already on the books: 18 U.S. Code § 2381 – Treason

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §?330016(2)(J), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)

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Is that clear enough?

So far, the Feds and the courts have prosecuted Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Olympic medalists, active duty Marines, and a whole bunch of Trumpettes who thought the election was “stolen.” And while some of your neighbors are going to prison, the person who planned, caused and prodded the raid on the Capitol is still running his mouth and running for office.

Who should we blame? Well, for starters, there were a whole bunch of people (147 to be exact) sitting in Congress who failed to do their job in ratifying the election. They, supported and agreed with Trump the Traitor that the election wasn’t legit- despite a ton of evidence that the only thing not legit were Trump’s claims.

That they didn’t believe the very election results that elected them is grounds for removal. This country is built on trust, and if you don’t trust the elections, the last thing you should be doing is being in office illegitimately (by your own standards).

Robert Aderholt (AL)
Rick Allen (GA)
Jodey Arrington (TX)
Brian Babin (TX)
Jim Baird (IN)
Jim Banks (IN)- running for Senate in 2024
Cliff Bentz (OR)
Jack Bergman (MI)
Stephanie Bice (OK)
Andy Biggs (AZ)
Dan Bishop (NC) running for Attorney General of North Carolina in 2024
Lauren Boebert (CO) running for a different district as a carpetbagger in 24
Mike Bost (IL)
Mo Brooks (AL) ran for Senate and lost in 22
Ted Budd (NC) became a Senator in 23
Tim Burchett (TN)
Michael Burgess (TX) not running for re-election in 2024
Ken Calvert (CA)
Kat Cammack (FL)
Jerry Carl (AL)
Buddy Carter (GA)
John Carter (TX)
Madison Cawthorn (NC) lost in the Republican primary in 22
Steve Chabot (OH) Lost in 22
Ben Cline (VA)
Michael Cloud (TX)
Andrew Clyde (GA)
Tom Cole (OK)
Rick Crawford (AR)
Warren Davidson (OH)
Scott DesJarlais (TN)
Mario Diaz-Balart (FL)
Byron Donalds (FL)
Jeff Duncan (SC)
Neal Dunn (FL)
Ron Estes (KS)
Pat Fallon (TX)
Michelle Fischbach (MN)
Scott Fitzgerald (WI)
Chuck Fleischmann (TN)
Virginia Foxx (NC)
Scott Franklin (FL)
Russ Fulcher (ID)
Matt Gaetz (FL)
Mike Garcia (CA)
Bob Gibbs (OH) left office in 23
Carlos Gimenez (FL)
Louie Gohmert (TX) ran for Texas Attorney General- primary loss in 2022
Bob Good (VA)
Lance Gooden (TX)
Paul Gosar (AZ)
Garret Graves (LA)
Sam Graves (MO)
Mark Green (TN)
Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA)
Morgan Griffith (VA)
Michael Guest (MS)
Jim Hagedorn (MN) died in office in 2022
Andy Harris (MD)
Diana Harshbarger (TN)
Vicky Hartzler (MO) ran for Senate in 2022 and lost in primary
Kevin Hern (OK)
Yvette Herrell (NM) lost in 22, running again in 24
Jody Hice (GA)ran for Sec of State and lost in primary in 22
Clay Higgins (LA)
Richard Hudson (NC)
Darrell Issa (CA)
Ronny Jackson (TX)
Chris Jacobs (NY) Left Congress in 23
Mike Johnson (LA)
Bill Johnson (OH) Resigned 2024 to become president of Youngstown State University
Jim Jordan (OH)
John Joyce (PA)
Fred Keller (PA) left congress in 23
Trent Kelly (MS)
Mike Kelly (PA)
David Kustoff (TN)
Doug LaMalfa (CA)
Doug Lamborn (CO)
Jacob LaTurner (KS)
Debbie Lesko (AZ) not running for reelection in 24
Billy Long (MO) ran for senate in 22 and lost in primary
Barry Loudermilk (GA)
Frank Lucas (OK)
Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO)
Nicole Malliotakis (NY)
Tracey Mann (KS)
Brian Mast (FL)
Kevin McCarthy (CA) resigned Dec 31 2023
Lisa McClain (MI)
Daniel Meuser (PA)
Mary Miller (IL)
Carol Miller (WV)
Alex Mooney (WV) running for Senate in 24
Barry Moore (AL)
Markwayne Mullin (OK) joined the Senate in 23
Gregory Murphy (NC)
Troy Nehls (TX)
Ralph Norman (SC)
Devin Nunes (CA) resigned end of 21 to work for Trump’s media company
Jay Obernolte (CA)
Burgess Owens (UT)
Steven Palazzo (MS) lost in R Primary in 22
Gary Palmer (AL)
Greg Pence (IN)
Scott Perry (PA)
August Pfluger (TX)
Bill Posey (FL)
Guy Reschenthaler (PA)
Tom Rice (SC) lost in R primary in 22
Mike Rogers (AL)
Hal Rogers (KY)
John Rose (TN)
Matt Rosendale (MT)
David Rouzer (NC)
John Rutherford (FL)
Steve Scalise (LA)
David Schweikert (AZ)
Pete Sessions (TX)
Jason Smith (MO)
Adrian Smith (NE)
Lloyd Smucker (PA)
Elise Stefanik (NY)
Greg Steube (FL)
Chris Stewart (UT) resigned Sept 15, 23
Glenn Thompson (PA)
Tom Tiffany (WI)
William Timmons (SC)
Jefferson Van Drew (NJ)
Beth Van Duyne (TX)
Tim Walberg (MI)
Jackie Walorski (IN) died in office Aug 3, 2022
Randy Weber (TX)
Daniel Webster (FL)
Roger Williams (TX)
Joe Wilson (SC)
Rob Wittman (VA)
Ron Wright (TX) died in office from Covid February 7, 2021
Lee Zeldin (NY) ran for Gov in 22 and lost

Of the 147, 25 are not in office anymore or won’t be in 25. That still leaves 122 who voted to support the people who attacked the capitol.

The ones with no details after their names- are seeking re-election again in 2024.

The following Senators objected:

Ted Cruz (TX)
Josh Hawley (MO)
Cindy Hyde-Smith (MS)*
Cynthia Lummis (WY)*
John Kennedy (LA)
Roger Marshall (KS)*
Rick Scott (FL)
Tommy Tuberville (AL)*

Tuberville, Marshall, Lummis and Hyde Smith were all also elected in the same election. Therefore, if they didn’t accept the vote for Biden, they were in office thanks to an illegitimate election.

You can’t have it both ways folks. And, for Tuberville, who had grandstanded by holding up military promotions for almost a year, there should be a special finding of treason.

How they escaped the scrutiny of the federal prosecutors is beyond me. And, why, they’ve been allowed to stay in office is a question no one seems to be asking (except me).

Either you believe in the outcomes of elections, or you don’t get to be elected by them. It’s time to remove all of these folks from the ballot.

But, as per usual in this country, only the little people go to prison.

It’s time to put people who trust our elections and believe in Democracy in office, and send the traitors to prison. The attack on the Capitol was an attack on Democracy- and those who don’t believe in the election results, shouldn’t be elected.

Mohamed Al-Hamdani tries to stop Mary McDonald from Running against Debbie Lieberman for Montgomery County Commission

Montgomery County Crips try to whack McDonald

If you can’t win on the strength of your candidate, go to the arcane book of technicalities called the Ohio Revised Code and try to disqualify your opposition. That’s the latest play out of the Montgomery County Democratic Private Club, run by Mohamed Al-Hamdani, who got away with breaking the law before he was even in office (see DPS: Special meetings are to avoid scrutiny).

Al-Hamdani filed a complaint with the board of elections with an imaginary friend, Brenda Blausser (her name is misspelled- it should be Blauser, who is a “PARTY UNC” according to her voter record) whom he calls (wrongly) a Republican.

He wants former Trotwood Mayor, Mary McDonald, (full disclosure- I’ve printed a mailer for McDonald).disqualified from her run for Montgomery County Commission against Debbie Lieberman, since he claims McDonald can’t run as a Republican because she failed to resign from her elected position as a precinct captain in the Dem Party. From his filing nonsense:

Mary McDonald is a duly elected member of the Montgomery County Democratic Party Central Committee from TR4-D, in an election on May 3, 2022. (See Exhibit 1) Because she is an elected Central Committee member, Ohio Revised Code §3513.191 is the controlling statute. As an elected office holder for which she was nominated and elected at a party primary, she must file a “Declaration of Intent” which shall: ” … (a) be filed not later than 4:00 p.m. of the 30th day before a Declaration of Candidacy and Petition is required to be filed under §3513.05 of the Ohio Revised Code;
(b) be filed with the same official with whom the person filing the Declaration of Intent is required to file a Declaration of Candidacy and Petition;
( c) indicate the political party whose nomination in the primary election the person seeks;
( d) be on a form prescribed by the Secretary of State.”
Mary McDonald has not filed a Declaration of Intent as required by the Ohio Revised Code.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS FORMAL PROTEST RELATING TO THE CERTIFICATION OF MARY MCDONALD TO BE PLACED ON THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY BALLOT FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER FOR THE ELECTION ON MARCH 19, 2024

To be clear, the election isn’t on March 19, 2024- since there are no primary challengers in this race. The election is Nov 5th, and by that time, Ms. McDonald will have voted in the Republican primary, where she’ll have practically no choices anyway. This whole question of who is a member of a political party is really a joke. Need proof? Here’s a few examples:

Mary McDonald was the Mayor of Trotwood which is elected in a non-partisan election (no party labels are on the ballot, and any “primary” is merely a “thinning of the herd” because American Politics think we’re all too stupid to pick anything different than catsup or mustard in elections. You can watch a Pecha Kucha presentation I made long ago calling it “Coin flip politics”

Mary was considered a Dem because she had voted in a primary election and requested a Dem ballot. She also had been elected as a “precinct captain” in Trotwood for the Dem Party. In the last election, Yvette Page, ran against her. Yvette was also a Dem. The Dem party should be ecstatic- 2 strong dem candidates- they can’t lose. Let the people decide? Awe, Hell no.

Instead, the party went through a bunch of voting gyrations to “endorse” Page over McDonald, despite their constitution requiring them to automatically endorse incumbents. You can read more about this mess and watch my video in this post: What does “endorsed democrat” mean? And why you should ignore it.

What happened that night was that people who don’t live in Trotwood, tried to make a decision for the people of Trotwood in advance. How very undemocratic.

After being snubbed, and losing the election, McDonald did what other’s before her have done- she switched parties (or so she thought). The protectionist party, the friends and family, the monarchy, doesn’t like people who don’t do as they say. Some other Dems who’ve left the fold in recent years:

Judge Dick Skelton had the nerve to spend $250,000 of his own money to unseat Francis McGee Cromartie from the Common Pleas bench. Dick switched parties and beat the former Mayor of Dayton James H. McGee’s daughter and took his lifetime appointment to the bench where he can be a lousy judge (he’s the one that allowed Al-Hamdani to break the Sunshine Laws).

John McManus ran a hard race against State Rep Jim Butler in the old R leaning 41st Statehouse seat. McManus came the closest ever in a district that was gerrymandered strong Republican. (full disclosure- I’ve printed materials for both McManus and Butler).He had no help from the local party. He then ran for Treasurer as a Republican and beat the appointed incumbent, member of the monarchy, Russ Joseph like a rug.

Jacqueline Gaines is now on the ballot for a judgeship, after being told she couldn’t run by the party, who chose Angelina Jackson, over the insider Tony Schoen in the last race. Jacqueline is now an R and running for common pleas against Jennifer A. Petrella for the R nomination. No D’s are running.

I can’t tell you how many times Phil Plummer, who I routinely call “Phil “the torturer” Plummer on this blog, has tried to get me to run for County Commission as an R. It’s sad. If you need to know what I think of Phil and his jail- go read this post and watch the video: Cruel and unusual punishment in the Montgomery County Jail

Now, back to real issues with candidates and legalities. I identified a school board member on the Dayton Public School board who didn’t live in the district anymore. It’s a requirement. When a local Republican Huber Heights Council Member got divorced and had to move out of his house- to Beavercreek nobody seemed to raise a ruckus until way later, see: Huber Heights is another nexus of corruption These are real issues- yet, the BOE did nothing. Neither did the State AG, the local prosecutor, the list goes on. I even identified that Dr. Adil Baguirov, the DPS board member- had committed voter fraud, along with his business partner, claiming to live in a house on Maryland Ave. Nothing. (Btw- Baguirov has now changed his name to Al Bagiro probably because if you search his name, he shows up on this site too much. And, btw- he also ran for County Recorder and got beat, after I forced his resignation from the school board).

And if you want the final question of who is a dem or not a dem, in the 2022 election there was a four way primary to run against Mike Turner for Congress. The results had me beating the other three to be the party choice. The Montgomery County Democratic Party refused to acknowledge my win, my candidacy or grant me access to the party databases, fundraising, participation on the slate cards, or the discounted postage available to the political parties.

This party is as bad as Trump- claiming elections don’t matter. Except when their candidate, queen of the monarchy, Debbie Lieberman is facing a real challenger.

And, Debbie has some baggage. I doubt you’ll read all 6000+ words of this investigation (When the wrong answer and no response spells corruption and coverup) which showed how Debbie’s assistant, John Theobald, steered a $200K no-bid county health department contract and a Montgomery County Board of Elections $25K contract- no bid to The Wilderness Agency. The agency that did Lieberman’s campaign work- and the one that Theobald is now trying to claim 51% ownership of so they can be qualified as a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business. It took Debbie over 7 months to quietly ease Theobald out of his cushy government job as her bat boy. Despite ample evidence, no investigation was made of Theobald or this contract steering.

But, that’s how we roll in Montgomery County. Where protecting the status quo is job 1. The idea of letting voters decide who wins elections here is still blasphemy when it comes to the two parties. Our unwritten rules about never challenging judges, about how we’ve divvied up the prosecutors office and the sheriff’s office to each party are just standard operating procedure.

Let’s also be clear, the Montgomery County Democratic Party is a very small group of people, many of whom got 5 signatures and ran unopposed to be precinct captains. The party can’t fill all the seats (see how many “Vacant” positions there are) and a very small subset actually show up. The ones guaranteed to show up- are either related to, or work for elected officials. Patronage jobs guarantee the people in power- have power. This is not a welcoming or friendly to strangers group (unlike the excellent and friendly South Dayton Democratic Club).

What is the purpose of even having primaries, if a small group of people think they should select who is on the ballot or not on the ballot? This isn’t supposed to be the Crips and the Bloods- it’s supposed to be the bedrock of a democracy.

In the end, this will be much ado about nothing. The local BOE will split 2-2 and it will go to the Secretary of State- and he’ll rule to allow Mary McDonald on the ballot. And, Al-Hamdani and Debbie Lieberman will be sitting there together, crying in their beers on election night when each of them gets beat by former Dems who they helped drive out of their own party.

Who’s running to beat Mike Turner (actual news instead of Dayton Dayton news)

The Dayton Daily news published a story today that was sloppy, lazy reporting. They listed a guy from Cincinnati as an opponent- who’s petitions have fatal flaws.
They didn’t actually list all the people who turned in. They didn’t give you any information about the candidates. And they wonder why so few people subscribe.

A list is easy to pull off the BOE website- what’s a little harder is making the calls to see what’s going on, or actually knowing anything about your subject matter.

Kirk Benjamin who ran last time in the four way primary was short a few signatures in Montgomery County but got some Greene County signatures to make it onto the ballot. He didn’t have a website last time- and didn’t campaign. (He did come into my office frequently to try to test his odd ideas on what campaign issues he thought were important- this was after our non-profit did a video interview with him). Apparently, Benjamin dropped out- updated 19 January 2024.

Amy Cox has a website up. She doesn’t live in the district (Yes- that’s legal, it’s what Niraj Antani is trying to do in OH-2). When I asked her why she wasn’t running against her Congressman, Warren Davidson, she said, “oh, that’s Vanessa Enochs race.” Actually, it happens to be a 3 way Democratic race between Enoch, Nathaniel Hawkins and David E. Gelb if Enoch and Hawkins signatures are certified on the second. Gelb is certified. You can see the Butler County report here.

It was interesting looking at the Hamilton County Candidate report- where they actually attempt to inform the public- showing who was filed, who is pending, who failed. A very nice change from Montgomery County’s den of inequity.

Here are 3 examples of reports:

Which BOE report is more informative? Should be obvious.

I’ve filed- and my petitions are recommended for approval. My site is www.electesrati.com I won the 4 way primary last time, and got zero support from the Democratic party which apparently, doesn’t believe in election results.

Manual Foggie of Cincinnati filed as a carpetbagger, and his petitions are flawed.

Joseph S. Kuzniar filed and his petitions have been approved. He’s a retired AF Lt. Colonel, and is very focused on why the WPAFB library is closed. He’s in his 80’s – and I had to help him get his petitions to fill out. I doubt he’ll have a website.

Tony Pombo lives in Beavercreek, and turned in enough signatures. According to searches he runs a company called “Circuits Alive” out of his house. Attempts to contact him via his google voice assistant were denied. Emails were not responded to. Based on the technical execution of his business website (which is unsecure) he won’t have an online presence.

Mike Turner has no Republican opposition in the primary- and will probably continue his long track record of never meeting with voters in person.

While his deadline to turn in his 2890+ signatures isn’t until the day before the primary, Michael Harbaugh, who owns the Wild Banana food truck and has a website up: https://www.harbaugh4congress.com/ is planning on running as an independent in November.

All boards of elections will meet on January 2nd to officially certify the petitions.

It is my plan to organize candidate forums in Clark, Greene and Montgomery counties over the next three months so voters can ask questions of the candidates- they will be filmed and livestreamed. More details to come.

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