Rooster in Review: Confidence games
Jim Tressel joins Senator Jon Husted, who has a cotton candy jelly bean where his brain is supposed to be, in folding their cards to the notorious conman's hand.
Ohio Lieutenant Governor Jim Tressel announced Friday that he would not run for governor in 2026.
The announcement all but cements notorious conman Vivek Ramaswamy as the Republican nominee.
But it’s the kind of savvy business decision that made Tressel a national champion coach at Ohio State.
Earlier this year, I thought Tressel could snap and send Ramaswamy back to hawking junk to seniors on Fox News. Governor Mike DeWine had seemingly found the one Republican who could beat a Trump endorsement in Ohio.
But if that were ever to be the case, Tressel missed that boat in May when the Republican Central Committee endorsed Ramaswamy over 18 months before the General Election.
DeWine tried to persuade members to pause the endorsement process, in case Tressel decided to enter the race. But when pressed for specifics on a potential timeline, DeWine offered nothing, and Ramaswamy walked away with party machinery.
Ramaswamy has only grown stronger since May. And, sure, Tressel would probably be the favorite in a General Election. But no longer in a Republican primary.
Ramaswamy’s team would have buried the former college administrator as a DEI-pushing Democrat-in-disguise, and it probably would have worked because Trump still has their voters in a trance.
Meanwhile, the Ohio Teamsters became the latest trade union to endorse Ramaswamy on Friday. The Teamsters should be ashamed of themselves for a cowardly position that betrays all other working people.
Ramaswamy went on President Sean O’Brien’s podcast and admitted he wants to end teachers’ unions—and this is the guy that the Teamsters want to get behind?
“We got ours, fuck you” is the antithesis of the mindset that brought about the Teamers’ right to bargain collectively in the first place.
The Ohio Teamsters’ announcement comes less than a year after President Joe Biden saved 620,000 Teamster pensions. Imagine how much more could have been done if Ohio Republicans hadn’t opposed his agenda every step of the way?
This week in Ohio Man…
A Columbus man is under arrest for trying to impersonate a teenager and gain access to a YMCA in small-town, upstate New York.
From Tyler Murphy of The Evening Sun:
NORWICH - On Monday, September 15, the Norwich Police Department (NPD) arrested a 27-year-old man who was allegedly posing as a youth to enroll as a student at the Norwich high school and gain access to the Norwich YMCA.
City of Norwich Deputy Police Chief Scott Burlison said an investigation by detectives began after Caleb Jireh Alexander, 27, of Columbus, Ohio, allegedly posed as a younger person to engage with minors at the Norwich YMCA and raised staff alarm.
As police looked into the matter they found another incident relating to the Norwich high school.
Thankfully, alert staff caught this Columbus-based creeper before he could do serious damage like that 24-year-old who matriculated at Perrysburg High School earlier this year.
This week in The Rooster…
It was another busy week at Rooster Worldwide LLC, showcasing the editorial range that has earned us moderate acclaim in the past.
Ohio State caved to the woke mob on a Charlie Kirk moment of silence. Ohio State walked back a covert plan to observe a moment of silence for slain conservative Charlie Kirk after The Rooster broke the story.
Senator Beth Liston speaks on canceling a “propaganda trip” to Israel. Senator Liston sparked an international firestorm when she canceled a planned junket to Israel along with 249 other state legislators. "It’s really about not wanting to be part of a propaganda campaign,” Liston told special correspondent to The Rooster, Max Littman. This dispatch is free for all as a matter of public service.
The chairwoman sends her regards. Ohio Democratic Party chairwoman Kathleen Clyde fired two beloved full-time staffers while retaining her old campaign manager and her husband on $20,500 a month in party wages.
Inside the ACLU’s bonkers lawsuit against Ohio State. The ACLU of Ohio says President Ted “Slapshot” Carter was “personally involved” in expelling a freshman for anti-Israel speech. The university then worked diligently to ensure that other interests, including anonymous Twitter accounts, were aware that the student had been expelled.
We’ll do it again next week at the same time and place.
Until then… stay frosty, my friends!
THOSE WMDs. ChatGPT is blowing up marriages as spouses use AI to attack partners… Why fascists hate critical thinking… How an Enron parody turned into a financial mess of its own… “Revenge wives:” The girls in Mozambique paying the price of a forgotten war… My dad was a spy, maybe.
Leave it to the Teamsters to kiss a mobster’s ass. My union supporting days are over. I guess the poorer folks want to go blind (and broke) as the new dumb gilded plutocracy “treads” on them.