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Ohio’s top presidential debate search topic stands out from other states: Capitol Letter
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Rotunda Rumblings
The heart of it all: In forty-nine states, abortion was the top-searched political topic during Tuesday night’s presidential candidate debate. But Ohioans had their own queries. As Andrew Tobias writes, Buckeye State residents’ top search topic was immigration, which likely was prompted by debate viewers scratching their heads after former president Donald Trump falsely asserted that migrants there are eating people’s cats and dogs.
Father’s plea: The father of an 11-year-old boy who was killed in a 2023 school bus crash denounced “morally bankrupt” Republican politicians for using his son’s death for political gain and begged them to stop using his son as “a political tool,” Sabrina Eaton writes. Speaking at a Tuesday night Springfield City Commission meeting, Nathan Clark said he wished the crash that killed his son, Aiden, had been caused by a 60-year-old white man instead of a Haitian immigrant because then “the incessant group of hate spewing people would leave us alone.” “They can vomit all the hate they want about illegal immigrants, the border crisis, and even untrue claims about fluffy pets being ravaged and eaten by community members,” Clark said. “However, they are not allowed, nor have they ever been allowed, to mention Aiden Clark from Springfield, Ohio.”
Place your bets? New Ohio Senate legislation would legalize online casino gambling, or iGaming, allowing each of the state’s four casinos and seven racinos to set up websites and apps that offer online poker, slots and other games. As Jeremy Pelzer reports, Senate Bill 312 seeks to make Ohio the ninth U.S. state to legalize iGaming, though its chances of passage are still unclear.
Gold standard: Ohio’s Frank LaRose was one of six secretaries of state from across the country who traveled to Washington, D.C. on Wednesday for a House Administration Committee hearing about November’s election. “You can make elections both convenient and secure,” the Columbus Republican told the committee. “We can make it easy to vote and hard to cheat. That’s what we’ve done in Ohio. That’s one of the reasons why we’re nationally recognized as a gold standard for elections administration.”
Pick up the case pace: LaRose’s office has asked Attorney General Dave Yost to take over hundreds of cases of suspected election-law violations, as county prosecutors so far have only filed charges against 12 of the 633 people LaRose’s office referred to them. “We don’t necessarily expect all 633 referrals to lead to criminal charges, but only 12 out of 633 shows a second set of eyes might be needed here to determine whether prosecution of these crimes is justified,” wrote Hun Yi, director of investigations for the Ohio secretary of state’s public integrity division, in a letter to Yost quoted in a release. The release didn’t say how many of the 12 criminal cases that have been filed resulted in convictions.
Master’s of none: False assertions about Republican U.S. Senate nominee Bernie Moreno’s academic resume have popped up in multiple places over the past 13 years. As Marty Schladen of the Ohio Capital Journal reports, Moreno’s November 2011 application to open a Florida car dealership stated incorrectly that he held an MBA from the University of Michigan, as did Moreno’s Cleveland Foundation website bio when he first joined the foundation’s board in 2014. A 2018 Cleveland State University bio, as well as the website of a Moreno-owned Mercedes-Benz dealership in North Olmsted, asserted he earned multiple degrees from Michigan. A spokeswoman for Moreno (who holds a single bachelor’s degree in business from That School Up North) blamed the dealership application claim on an unnamed staffer and said Moreno never told the Cleveland Foundation he held an MBA.
$50 million and counting: The Ohio Division of Cannabis Control reported another $10.6 million in recreational sales for the week of Aug. 25 through Saturday, the beginning of the Labor Day holiday weekend. In all $54.6 million in product has been sold to adult-use customers. Since sales began Aug. 6, 689,034 receipts have been rung up at dispensaries.
Full Disclosure
Five things we learned from the Jan. 2, 2024 ethics disclosure filed by Bradley Lacko of Amherst, the Republican nominee for Ohio House District 53, about his 2023 finances:
1. Lacko made $53,000 in gross income last year from working as a truck driver.
2. At some point in 2023, Lacko owed more than $1,000 to Firelands Federal Credit Union and 7 17 Credit Union.
3. He’s a trustee for the Lorain County Farm Bureau.
4. His only listed investment worth more than $1,000 was an Ohio deferred compensation retirement account.
5. He owned two properties in Lorain County (legislative candidates aren’t required to list their personal residence or property used for personal recreation).
On The Move
The National Council of Teachers of English announced Honesty for Ohio Education, a coalition that is fighting ring-wing influences in education, will receive its National Intellectual Freedom Award honorable mention at a ceremony during its annual convention in Boston on Nov. 23.
Straight From The Source
“The Republican candidate for president’s remarks about Haitian — meaning Black — immigrants in Ohio were barbaric, bombastic and beneath the dignity of someone aspiring to hold the highest office in the land. People are struggling, but these outrageous and racist lies are an insult to our Ohio communities — including the ones I represent here in Congress.”
– U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown, a Warrensville Heights Democrat, denouncing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s comments about Haitian immigrants to Ohio during a Wednesday U.S. House Agriculture Committee hearing.
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Ohio-based artist sketches tribute to Apalachee High School shooting victims
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Sketches to honor Apalachee shooting victims
An Ohio-based artist is using his sketch pad to pay homage to the four victims killed in that mass shooting at Apalachee High School last week.
BARROW COUNTY, Ga. – Ohio-based artist sketches tribute to Apalachee High School shooting victims
An Ohio-based artist is using his sketch pad to pay homage to the four victims killed in the mass shooting at Apalachee High School last week.
After receiving a life-changing Deep Brain Stimulation treatment for Parkinson’s disease in 2008, Ron Moore turned his pain into purpose—creating art that brings comfort to hurting families of mass shooting victims.
“I got confirmation that I’m supposed to sketch these folks for their families,” he told FOX 5. “I made a promise I would use my gift of doing artwork to bless people.”
Barrow County students uncertain about return to school after mass shooting
With every stroke of his pencil, Moore says there is healing found in art that imitates life.
“First, when I sit down to sketch, I pray and ask God to guide my hand,” he said.
Moore’s most recent work, like many other pieces he’s done over the years, was inspired by tragedy in Barrow County last Wednesday when investigators say a 14-year-old student opened fire, killing two classmates and two teachers—injuring nine others.
“I saw a news break about another school shooting…I looked up at it and I just cried.”
Apalachee High School embraces hope a week after shooting: ‘Love will prevail’
Now a week later, photos of 14-year-old Christian Angulo, 14-year-old Mason Schermerhorn, 39-year-old Richard Aspinwall and 53-year-old Christina Irmie are on display outside Apalachee High School—surrounded by a growing memorial.
He used those photos to sketch these images of Angulo, Schermerhorn, Aspinwall and Irmie.
“I imagine my grandkids…there’s two teachers who really impacted my life—one of which was my art teacher,” Moore recalled.
It’s artwork he hopes will capture the essence of each and inspire others to lead with love—even with people you’ve never met.
“If we loved each other a little more, what a greater world this would be,” he told FOX 5.
Moore says he’s mailed the sketches to the Barrow County School District, and they should arrive by the end of the week.
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Trump’s baseless allegations during debate put new focus on Ohio city
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Focus group reacts to Trump claim that migrants are ‘eating the dogs’ in Ohio town
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Voters across party lines in Fox News’ focus group reacted to a moment in Tuesday night’s presidential debate when former President Trump declared that Haitian migrants are “eating the dogs” in an Ohio town – despite pushback from local officials on the claim.
“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats,” Trump said. “They’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country, and it’s a shame.”
When Trump made the claim, approval from all groups – Republicans, independents and Democrats – dipped, with the strongest dips coming from independents and Republicans, while Democratic approval remained low.
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Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump during the second presidential debate at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (Getty Images)
The claim was based on a number of online reports that had gone viral in recent days. Springfield has seen a significant increase in the number of Haitian migrants arriving in the town, sparking complaints from a number of local residents.
Among those claims are a number of unsubstantiated reports that migrants have eaten ducks or pets. One claim appears to be based on an incident in Canton, Ohio, where a woman had allegedly eaten a cat – but there was no indication she was Haitian.
In response to a query from Fox News Digital, local officials pushed back against the claims surfacing online.
“In response to recent rumors alleging criminal activity by the immigrant population in our city, we wish to clarify that there have been no credible reports or specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community,” the city said.
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But a number of Republicans have continued to push the claims, including pointing to a report of a police call that claimed migrants had stolen geese.
At the debate, Trump’s approval rose again from Republicans and independents after the exchange as he started to talk more broadly about the border crisis, accusing Harris of “destroying this country” and warning that the U.S. “doesn’t have a chance of success” if she is elected.
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But it dropped again among Democrats and independents, and rose slightly among Republicans, when Trump was challenged on his claim by the moderators and stood by it.
“The people on television are saying, ‘My dog was taken and used for food,’” he said.
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