Who's this legislative dipshit? Meet State Rep. Ron Ferguson (R-Wintersville)
Who's this legislative dipshit? Meet State Rep. Ron Ferguson (R-Wintersville)
Ferguson hasn't worked a real job in over a decade and once ran for the House while drawing unemployment.
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State Rep. Ron Ferguson (R-Wintersville) introduced an amendment on Wednesday to allow legislators to carry guns on the Statehouse floor. It was a good idea because it ups the chance that one of these losers accidentally shoots another.
Unfortunately, Ferguson had to mar a rare good idea by proposing another amendment that banned “non-Christian prayer” before House sessions. The idea was so blatantly racist that even a reactionary drunk like State Rep. Bill Seitz (R-Cincinnati) recoiled in horror:
After the session ended with another loss for State Rep. Derek Merrin’s holy roller clique, Ferguson cried to the media about how the results shouldn’t count because—and I am not making this up—it started three minutes late.
It got me wondering, “Who is this legislative dipshit?” that joined the House of Representatives in 2020. The 37-year-old represents the Ohio House’s 96th district, which comprises all of Jefferson and Monroe counties and the eastern part of Belmont County.
The first place of consultation is always a state legislator’s official biography page to understand how they want the unwashed masses to see them.
Representative Ferguson spent five years working as a television journalist, most recently for WTOV-TV in Steubenville, and in spring 2023, he is opening an entertainment center to bring jobs and fun activities for families in the community.
Having worked in media myself, albeit on the digital side and not television, I knew that one does not simply work for five years at a TV station in a city the size of Steubenville (population: 17,962) and save enough money to open an “entertainment center” to bring “jobs and fun activities for families” to the area.
From that little sentence, you can glean the influence of generational wealth. And wouldn’t you know it? According to Ferguson’s LinkedIn, he only worked in the media for roughly three years, not five, and that’s only if you count four jobs, not one:
Ferguson’s official biography makes it look like he seamlessly transitioned from the media to the “entertainment center” industry.
But what actually happened was he began drawing a check as a “manager” for D & L Ferguson LLC in 2014. We know this because of Ferguson’s LinkedIn, but also because of his financial disclosure form from his failed Statehouse run in 2014:
It’s unclear from what job Ferguson was drawing unemployment in 2014 as the last job he lists on his LinkedIn, working as an “anchor/reporter” for WTOTV, ended in May 2012.
D & L Ferguson LLC was founded in 2000 by Derek and Lisa Ferguson, the parents of State Rep. Ferguson.
Derek is a real estate investor in the area and the “managing member” of Ferguson’s House of Furniture, which is run by Derek’s other son, CEO Robert.
Lisa Ferguson is a judge in Jefferson County, initially appointed to her seat by then-Governor John Kasich.
It would be considered what Republicans derisively call “welfare fraud” if State Rep. Ferguson did not disclose his family business income to the Department of Job and Family Services while drawing unemployment.
Since being elected to the Ohio House, Ferguson has only listed income from RonBob Rentals LLC. It’s run by Ron and his brother Robert, who is also the self-described CEO of what Ron calls his family’s “small business.”
RonBob was founded in 2014.
Ron’s mother is the executive officer, and the mailing address is the same address at which the Ferguson family has lived since they built the house at 299 Orlando Manor in 2000:
That State Rep. Ferguson hasn’t held a real job, or one that he feels comfortable enough to disclose to his constituents in his official bio is almost as telling as him hiding the fact he has been living off his family’s business income since at least 2014.
State Rep. Ferguson also has a voter fraud problem (it’s his wife).
State Rep. Ferguson is registered to vote at 299 Orlando Manor in Wintersville. His wife, Emma Simon Ferguson, is registered to vote at 3003 Whitehaven in Steubenville, a house she has owned with Lisa Simon, her mother, since 2018.
But it appears that Emma actually moved in with her then-boyfriend, Ron, in July 2021:
The couple then married in June 2022.
However, Emma Ferguson’s voter file reveals that she remains registered at the Whitehaven address, and that she voted in the Republican primary on August 2nd, 2022, and in the General Election on Nov. 8th, 2022—presumably both times for her husband.
Unless she lived separately from her husband, that’s a stone-cold case of voter fraud that strikes at the heart of election integrity, an issue that State Rep. Ferguson cares about:
The Fergusons should update their registration before the next election before they both commit voter fraud. Most likely they would be updating to the $950,000 house at 229 Cara Place in Wintersville that they purchased on Nov. 2nd, 2022:
Unless Mrs. Ferguson is the most well-compensated teacher in history, Mr. Ferguson’s rental and furniture business must be doing pretty well!
The Fergusons, by the way, both committed election fraud if they moved into that house before the election.
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Given that Ferguson inherited all his wealth and hasn’t worked a real job in over a decade, it makes sense that he spends his time defending the second richest man in the world on Twitter while begging him for a blue checkmark like anybody knows who the fuck he is:
Hard to believe a no-juice-having rich kid (is there any other kind?) fell into State Rep. Merrin’s holy roller crew. He and Merrin are cut from the same cloth.
Ok, tell me something nice about this dipshit
Ferguson is a genuine supporter of recreational marijuana legalization.
It’s definitely from the racist libertarian perspective, and as such, he has no ideas for Black and brown communities torn asunder by this country’s failed drug war.
But sometimes in Ohio, it’s pointless to squabble over the incorrect or incomplete thinking that led a state legislator to a rare correct, albeit half-baked, position.
Threat level: LOL… lmao
State Rep. Ferguson is nothing more than the product of generational wealth. And since he doesn’t have to work real jobs, it gives him an overinflated sense of his skills. He should have been content to call himself a “CEO” like his brother, but, alas, he appears politically poisoned like the rest of us.
In the video above, a local reporter in an otherwise glowing profile asks Ferguson for ideas to fight the coronavirus without masks or vaccinations.
Ferguson promptly acts like a robot about to lose power. It showcases how Ferguson, like most of these losers, can’t function when pushed off their well-rehearsed talking points about tax cuts and freedom.
These are the types of rooms he’s knocking over in Eastern Ohio, at an event he held on marijuana legalization:
This level of operation can earn you a Statehouse seat in Ohio. But that is the easy part. Ferguson, to this point, has shown no ability to do anything with the limited power he already accrued.
Most likely, Ferguson already doomed himself to irrelevancy for the rest of his time in the House the second he decided to side with Merrin. But at least he got married and allowed me to show Frank LaRose another great example of that problematic voter fraud he’s always pissing his pants about.
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Personally I would probably prefer to collect unemployment then publicly disclose that I worked for a place called RonBob Rentals LLC too
Having been acquainted with Ron and seen his media abilities this is the most glowing profile he’ll ever get.