🚨A Day of Infamy🚨
It ended with a Kenton Man threatening to storm empty poll buildings with law enforcement.
Most of you got this email today but a non-zero people have said they didn’t. I am sending it again so nobody thinks I hustled them.
For the record, you can always visit Rooster.info where this story posted this morning at 4:45 a.m.
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I am deeply neurotic when it comes to news. The phrase “news junkie” is often used. I blew past that sign long ago. I am basically one with my computer now, especially in Day 4 of self-isolation.
I can’t remember a day like March 16th, 2020. It’s 4:21 a.m. of March 17th of this writing, and I feel like one of those marooned Japanese soldiers fighting World War II in 1973.
That’s because America’s immediate future looks bleak:
I’m now re-thinking my decision to stay in America instead of flying to Cuba on Thursday.
Corporations control our healthcare system, our president is literally the worst non-enslaver ever produced by our country and anti-science halfwits who think climate change is a hoax run a majority of our states.
For the last week, however, a disturbing trend emerged. I became proud of the Ohio government — namely Dr. Amy Acton and Mike DeWine — as their decisive actions led the country in response to the coming viral storm.
Like watching a Browns game in which they’re up 10 points in the 4th quarter, however; the specter of a choke-job lingered in the back of my mind. I knew Ohio would eventually fuck up something.
It’s with a heavy heart that I report we did indeed fuck up something. Although, in our defense, it didn’t end in a botched, illegitimate election that would have killed an untold amount of older people that tend to volunteer as poll workers and vote on Election Day. Though some dark forces went to Hell trying to make it happen.
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Last week, Secretary of State Frank LaRose contended the March 17th primary, which Ohio Republicans chose as a clear “fuck you” date for the Democratic primary, didn’t constitute a COVID-19 threat since, unlike concerts and athletic events where people traveled from long distance and congregated in the same area for hours at a time, election precincts involved people coming from the same neighborhood and only spending 5-10 minutes voting.
It was a curious stance for a government that clearly understood the threat of coronavirus. The virus timeline accelerated over the weekend after idiots insisted packing the bars after idiots like Mayor Ginther told them to “go about their lives.” Governor DeWine and Dr. Amy Acton — more on her in a bit — were forced on Sunday to declare an emergency press conference to shutter bars and reduce restaurants to carry-out and delivery.
Early Monday morning, Frank LaRose said the election would continue as planned, albeit with curbside voting and an extended deadline for absentee ballots.
That plan lasted until DeWine and Dr. Acton met with the press later in the afternoon when they announced the closure of gyms, movie theaters, public recreation centers, indoor waterparks and training parks.
Big Dick DeWine (I’m sorry for that) went a step further. He announced that, with the CDC telling Americans to avoid crowds of 10 or more, he would soon be filing a lawsuit the delay Ohio’s primary until June 2nd.
Shortly thereafter, Ohio’s poll workers received notice their services would no longer be needed — despite the fact that decision required the ruling of a judge that had yet to come.
This is when one of the most dangerous politicians in Ohio, Speaker of the House Larry Householder, decided to make his move.
Republicans run Ohio, and like every political party in the majority, there are factions within the machine. One of the most powerful factions belongs to Householder, the man who successfully returned to the Lincoln Chair despite his last reign ending with the FBI poking around.
Householder uses millions of dollars in unaccountable dark money donated by corporations with business in front of the state to prop-up an army of stooges within the House to maintain his vise grip on one of the most powerful political offices in the state.
In fact, since December 2016, Householder was the most powerful politician in the state.
That was until COVID-19 arrived on our shores. DeWine moved quickly and decisively while Householder flailed about and offered half-measures like “reduced capacity” that will look pathetic in a week.
He is also overseeing numerous primary campaigns to further solidify his power in the House, which is why he sent one of his biggest patsies — Rep. Niraj Antani (R-Sewer) — to team up with Columbus establishment Democrats to try to push an election that would kill an untold amount of people.
Householder clearly wanted the election to continue because he fears his preferred candidates will lose momentum. (It would also cost his corporate overlords a lot more money to prop-up his reptilian underlings in a time when corporations are seeing sales plummet.)
If he damaged the perception of how DeWine has handled this crisis, even better. If people died, obviously not Householder’s problem.
DeWine, in agreement with the Secretary of State, Lieutenant Governor, and both parties, filed the lawsuit in the Franklin County Common Pleas Court of Richard A. Frye.
Judge Frye, you might remember, was once accused in a sex-for-freedom scandal back in 2014.
From John Futty of dispatch.com in June 2014:
In yesterday’s testimony, the woman said that [defense attorney Javier] Armengau’s request for her to perform the sex act on the judge happened in Armengau’s Brewery District office on the night before her son was to be sentenced for violating probation in a burglary case. She said she didn’t recognize the other man in the office, but Armengau told her that he was Common Pleas Judge Richard A. Frye and made the suggestion about sex in front of the judge.
Although Armengau told her that her son would go free if she “did” the man, she refused, she said. She testified that it was the same man who sentenced her son to four years in prison the next day -- Aug. 26, 2008.
Under cross-examination by Coriell, the woman said that she had attended all of her son’s court hearings, which were handled by Frye, making it unclear how she failed to recognize the judge if he was in Armengau’s office.
She testified that Armengau told her that Frye was “in his pocket” and that he would arrange for all of her son’s cases to be transferred to the judge.
Anyway! According to Ohio law that I obviously had no hand in designing, this man somehow got the right to unilaterally decide the fate of Ohio’s 2020 primary.
A little after 7 p.m., this fucking idiot and probable sex criminal judge decided to reverse the decision and hold the election despite the state telling poll workers to fuck off and being unable to comply with the CDC’s mandate of avoiding crowds of 10+ people.
This was at 7 p.m.
At 9:11 p.m., The Columbus Dispatch posted a story claiming DeWine and LaRose had cancelled the election due to fears of coronavirus. (37 minutes later, ColumbusUnderground.com also parroted the incorrect fact that the election had been called off.)
Three minutes later, LaRose indeed issued a statement that did not specifically say the elections were off. Just that there would be “more to come.”
Exactly fifteen minutes later, Householder moved for the kill by… sending a sternly-written memo to his minions:
The Speaker of the Ohio House instructing his pawns to tell their constituents that there would be an election tomorrow lets you know how confident Householder felt in his victory. And why wouldn’t he? There’s a reason he’s called Big Thanos.
A funny thing happened, though. DeWine, who is one of the most ruthless politicians in Ohio, went around a genocidal judge with the most powerful person in the state right now: Dr. Amy Acton.
He issued the declaration at 10:11 p.m.:
At this rate, there will be a statue of Dr. Acton built when we survive crisis. And there shouldn’t be one. There should be at least 50, because in a just world she would be leading our national response.
From vindy.com (RIP) in August 2019:
Amy’s story is Youngstown:
Abused, abandoned, neglected, working a gig life before there was a name for it, figuring it out on her own and making up rules as she needed to. She did this not just for her, but also for her younger brother. And it started at age 3.
“My parents met at a theater party for YSU and got pregnant unexpectedly ...” is how Amy starts. It does not get better for a long, long time.
It was the 1960s. Her mom was an artist; dad talked mom into marriage; a younger brother came in; and then came divorce when Amy was 3.
“It got out of control. Custody [back then] always went to the mom. My dad tried to get custody of us,” she said.
“Out of control” meant 18 or so homes in her first 12 years scattered around the North Side – mom, brother, Amy and many, many pets. One place literally was a basement – bare walls, sump pump, boxes and a bed.
More troublesome than the nomadic lifestyle were the men in mom’s life. Amy calls them a “cast of characters.”
At one point in childhood, they moved to California. Mom got into a fight with whoever was the man at that time. So they traveled back home. They got as far as Nebraska. Mom got a job to earn money; she met a guy; she put her kids – age 8 and 5 – on a bus alone back to here to live with relatives. Three months later, mom, too, was home, and the cycle continued.
“I have so many crazy stories. ... I spent so much time being scared as a kid, but also navigating the adult world,” Amy said.
You have to be a psycho about Ohio politics like me to truly appreciate Larry Householder getting cucked. The last time that happened, it involved multiple DUIs and the FBI. That was nearly 20 years ago.
Householder was no match for Dr. Acton, and why would he be? He’s a chump compared to the struggles she has overcome.
Of course, Centrist Dems came out of the woodwork to tut-tut the decision on postponing the election
You’ll notice how these Centrist freaks didn’t stand against Dr. Acton or the threat of coronavirus. That’s because they know better than to attack the most powerful person in this state.
Of course this didn’t stop Rep. Jon Cross (R-Kenton) from claiming he would storm empty buildings with law enforcement tomorrow.
If Cross were half the Constitutional scholar he claims to be, he would know that State Representatives do not hold authority over any law enforcement agency. If by some stroke of God he were successful in his suicide mission, he would have been sued into the ground by the junkyard Civil Rights dawg (and friend of the newsletter) himself:
Normally a drunken State Rep. threatening to illegally storm the bastilles would be where a state’s craziest day would end.
This, however, is Ohio. Which meant the struggle continued until 4:00 a.m., when the Ohio Supreme Court struck down a last-gasp effort to hold the election today.
Which brings us to this morning! Despite the slew of lawsuits that will inevitably be field at 8:30, there is no chance the primary happens today. That’s good news for public health.
In a couple days, it will be clear that DeWine and Dr. Acton once again saved numerous lives.
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