Rooster in Review: It's raining feds in Cleveland
President Business Deals does not seem like a man confident his party could win a free and fair election in November.
The FBI raided the Cleveland offices of the pro-democracy organization Ohio Organizing Collaborative on Thursday.
Carol Leonnig, Will McDuffie, Alex Tabet and Laura Barrón-López of MSNow broke the story.
The Rooster can also confirm that two Columbus-based organizers received a “knock and talk” from the FBI on Thursday, though one source described the agent as someone who was “bored” and “clearly didn’t want to be there.”
This is a blatant attempt to terrorize organizers and chill voter turnout in a city where Democrats need robust turnout to win statewide.
This so-called “raid” came hours after the Republican-dominated State Legislature went on break for five months, and days after famed pollster Charlie Cook reported that a Fox News poll showing Senator Jon Husted trailing Sherrod Brown by eight points was “not an outlier.”
Ideally, this deeply un-American activity would backfire on the Trump Administration. But a majority of Republican voters won’t hear about it thanks to their media consumption habits, and a large portion will agree with it.
Vivek Ramaswamy and Ohio Republican leadership won’t speak out against it in any meaningful manner.
We saw how the dismantling of ACORN played out, which never should have happened in the first place. This intimidation raid attempts to repeat that dastardly feat.
These are not the actions of a political party feeling confident heading into November. These are the actions of a video game boss, low on health, emptying its arsenal in a last-ditch effort to stay alive.
Voting isn’t a silver bullet. We wouldn’t be in this position if it were. But it’s imperative that you talk to your non-political friends about voting in November.
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This week in Ohio Man…
Sex offenders cannot live within 1,000 feet of a school in Ohio, which is about 1/5 of a mile. But there is no such restriction (or mandated mailings to neighbors) for convicted plotters of mass shootings.
And now, an Ohio man, Tres Grenco, has made national news by moving within blocks of Ohio State’s campus after planning a mass shooting at a sorority.
From Corky Siemaskzo of NBC News:
An Ohio man and self-described “incel” who was convicted of plotting a sorority mass shooting now lives two blocks from one of his potential targets — the Ohio State University campus.
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“We support the DOJ motion,” an OSU spokesperson said Wednesday. “Student safety is our top priority.”
In its motion, the Justice Department requested that additional conditions be added to Genco’s supervised release. They would include requiring Genco to reside “more than 2 miles from any Ohio university or college and that his residence location be pre-approved by the probation office.”
I’ll give his parents this much: “Tres Grenco” is definitely the name of an incel who got caught planning a mass shooting of a sorority, and then moved blocks away from one of the largest campus universities in the world.
I probably could have seen the writing on the wall for Mr. Grenco in high school, where he was almost assuredly radicalized by Big Tech algorithms into thinking his problems with women started with their inherent evilness and not him being a socially stunted creepazoid.
This week in The Rooster…
It’s been another brisk week of business at Rooster Worldwide LLC, where I’m starting to get back into the groove after last week’s unfair arrest at the Ohio Statehouse.
Here’s what you missed as a freeloading hog in the parking lot. You can rectify that problem by helping sustain the newsletter that Ohio’s corrupt political class hates almost as much as they love to read:
Data centers are a generational Democratic opportunity in rural Ohio. Data centers offer a window into the main evils of 21st-century politics. Dr. Amy Acton would be wise to reverse course on them.
John Kasich can’t keep getting away with it. The former governor gave away the farm in the dead of night, with a 40-year data center tax abatement for Google, Meta and Amazon.
The junta can’t hurt us until November. The Republican-dominated Statehouse hits the bricks for five months, which is good news for any Ohioan who makes less than $250,000 a year.
The Rooster’s June Mailbag. Answering the readership’s burning questions about Amtrak, data centers, the best sandwich in Columbus, and more.
We’ll do it at the same time and place next week.
Until then… stay frosty, my friends!
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I wondered when the gum shoes would start hitting organizing groups. Usually the spooks are content to let the foundations discipline restless souls. If you are in any way actively dissenting against the oligarchy, rest assured. You have a file.