It's paywalled but Householder is the crooked politician that thought he could hide a sixty million dollar bribe.

Either third-party auditors, the state auditor (recommended), or more powerful enough, the fed auditors (hey shoutout to GAO OR OIG OR SOMEONE) need to just audit the whole entire state throughput on every level: personal (on general council), local, county, and state

Didn’t the pandemic prove that illness/ inability to appear doesn’t have to affect proceedings? Or did they just delete zoom from all court computers after 2021

It's Ohio. They love their crooked right wing politicians.i know. My significant others family is from there and I visit at least three times a year. They are knee deep in conspiracy theories and have Newsmax and OAN apps right on their phone at the ready.

Ironically they are the same folks that keep voting these morons into office and don’t try them for bribery and corruption

All Red States prefer their politicians to be openly and blatantly corrupt. They consider it to be "Transparency", and getting away with it as a sign of God's Favor.

A man that for years facilitated and protected a sexual predator while working as a college coach, is the State's Number 1 hero.

We weren't always like this. The death of American manufacturing and unions left a vacuum the hillbillies filled.

It looks like the prosecution has the smoking gun, the smoking knife, the smoking poison, the smoking slam dunk. Why drag this out?

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Exactly. Ohio is so far off the reservation in politics it just blows my mind the mentality. I have to ask myself when Im there is how the fuck did it get this bad.

Democrats haven't done well for themselves either. They have decent policy but terrible politics. Republicans will take advantage of that and have horrible policies but put out good PR to spin it no matter how really bad it is and fling it back on the Democrats so the cycle continues. And they have their hooks on those who don't know better.

Actually, the gerrymandering of the voting districts that were ruled illegal by the Ohio Supreme Court has a lot to do with it. An independent third party came up with new districts but the gop legislature drug their feet until it was too late to correct before the primaries. This allowed them to resubmit and use the previously ruled on map. Similarly to the school funding that has been ruled illegal by the Ohio Supreme Court for years, but just ignored. Rules don’t apply to anyone who gets to enforce, investigate and or punish themselves no matter what occupation they are in.

Even simple cut and dry cases take weeks if not months. Here we have the FBI, damning witnesses, millions of dollars, a massive corporation doing dirty, and scum of the earth human beings that we elect over and over and their henchmen. Then covid/illness delays. Better stock up on Raisinets and Milk Duds.

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Yea everyone seems to have forgotten the 1 billion dollar online charter school scam too.

The State Auditor is probably the dumbest choice you listed.

He’s a Republican politician in Ohio. Do you want the Republican Party to be responsible for investigating itself?

He’s also a giant asshole who can’t handle criticism and lashes out whenever anyone asks him about stuff like the blatantly unconstitutional electoral maps.

I don’t think him being Republican means anything. Like you’re either corrupt or you’re not. Based on what I read it seems as though he is trying to do his job. We should let the system work in this way. It also concerns me that so many on the local level pretend they don’t have the personnel to perform the audits for the system to work. This actually reduces the level of checks and balances and to me is a HUGE red flag and requires regulations.

But then again, you may be right! He may be corrupt. And if so, replace his ass too.

I just read about this gerrymandering crap. You guys are right. Just comes to show the absolute corrupt nature of the existing governing structure

Fat piece of lying shit.