Rooster in Review: That escalated quickly
I appeared on a local podcast if you can't get enough of my opinions in your life. Oh, and this week we're covering the criminal justice travails of Ohio Woman.
Good afternoon!
As of this writing around noon on Friday, Mayor Sububrbs and Columbus city council president Shannon Hardin, both ostensible Democrats, have yet to issue a statement on Ohio State’s reactionary response to a peaceful pro-Palestine demonstration on the South Oval last night.
But we now know, thanks to Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted, who has a half-eaten bologna sandwich where his brain is supposed to be, that Ohio State turned to Governor Sleepy Tea to enlist the Ohio State Highway Patrol for help beating students with the incorrect opinion on Israel and Palestine.
You heard it from the pig’s mouth, folks! Guys like Husted and DeWine run our institutions of higher learning like Ohio State. Do Mayor Suburbs and Council President Hardin agree with that assessment? It’s hard to say!
But please remember Husted’s sentiment the next time the university calls to solicit your hard-earned money.
Oh, and if you can’t get enough of my opinions in your life, be sure to check out my appearance on the Downloading Dollars podcast.
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This week in Ohio Woman…
You know it’s going to be a wild installment when we switch from the travails of Ohio Man and his Sisyphean struggle against law enforcement to those of Ohio Woman.
But it appears to be the case of a grandma who robbed a bank in Fairfield Township. Her family says she only did it after becoming a victim of a financial scam.
From the Associated Press:
FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio — A 74-year-old woman charged in the armed robbery of an Ohio credit union last week is a victim of an online scam who may have been trying to solve her financial problems, according to her relatives.
Ann Mayers, who had no previous run-ins with the law, faces counts of aggravated robbery with a firearm and tampering with evidence in Friday’s robbery in Fairfield Township, north of Cincinnati. She remained jailed Wednesday on $100,000 bond pending an initial court appearance, and court records don’t list an attorney for her.
Officers arrested Mayers at her Hamilton home shortly after the robbery, Fairfield police said in a Facebook post. A handgun was found in her car, which police allege she used in the robbery.
Leaving the weapon you used to commission a robbery in your car that you parked in the driveway afterward doesn’t seem like the move of a criminal mastermind. But I’ve been wrong before.
This week in The Rooster…
Well, when you put it like that. Renowned right-wing killer Kyle Rittenhouse fails to impress at Kent State while the poorest Ohioans continue to bear the brunt of the state’s so-called fracking boom.
The Rooster’s Quarterly Mailbag. It’s that time of year when I answer some of my readers’ most burning questions about life and Ohio politics.
How to carry a vendetta. John Fortney, the Senate Republican communications director, learns the perils of treating me very unfairly while Ohio State’s reactionary response to a peaceful Palestine protest brings shame on the university.
I’m proud of the work published this week. If you’ve been on the fence about joining The Patriots Caucus, please consider this your opportunity to help sustain the largest independent voice in Ohio politics.
We have some fun things in store right over the horizon!
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