Rooster in Review: Beware, the Ides of March
Rooster in Review: Beware, the Ides of March
We're in the final days of election season, and it's getting frosty out there.
We are in the final days of the Ohio primary season. I can’t believe I’m writing this—but I’m ready to get the chips on the table. I’ll have a dispatch on Monday talking about the races that most interest me.
But I wanted to shed some light on a recent report I tweeted about Sally Culling, the Holy Roller candidate in the Ohio House 75th District facing State Rep. Haraz Ghanbari (R-Perrysburg).
I wrote back in January that the 75th District Republican primary was the most brutal in the state, and folks, it hasn’t disappointed!
It’s a win-win situation for The Rooster: either Rep. Ghanbari, the adult in the contest, wins and maintains some shred of sanity in the House chamber, or I get to bust up a British loyalist for at least the next two years.
I don’t hide my disdain for Culling or her weird gremlin of a husband, Joshua. And it was to my great pleasure that The Rooster recently obtained text messages between Mrs. Culling and a brave farmer in the Ohio House 75th District.
The farmer contacted the Culling campaign about one of their signs mysteriously appearing on the farmer’s property. The farmer asked Culling who granted her permission.
Culling responds in part by asking, “What’s your issue?” The farmer then asks who granted her permission.
In a bizarre move, Culling returns to ask the farmer if they removed her sign. “Please answer me,” she writes. “Even if a sign was put up in error (I’ll know later), it cannot be stolen. Thanks.”
I’m not sure how it works in Britain, where Culling still holds citizenship. But in America, it’s not considered stealing to throw a campaign sign that was placed on your private property without permission.
The benevolent farmer says the sign was taken down and will be returned. They clarify it was not, in fact, stolen. “Just removed from private property.”
Culling says she’ll ask her team. But then notes, “I’ve had other signs stolen and vandalized. Is this the only one you’ve stolen? I apologize if your property was trespassed in advance. Is this your property?”
Again, this is wild stuff from a candidate for the Ohio House. She doesn’t seem to understand the elementary basics of private property rights in America.
The farmer tells Culling that it’s their family’s property and once again asks her to retrieve the sign.
Culling then played the victim card in a way that only she could.
“Given that you first contacted me 24 hours ago, and I’m a young mother like you, it would have been nice to be shown a little grace,” Culling writes back in part.
It’s worth noting that Mrs. Culling is 45 years old. Not that she is a withering crone, but I don’t think anybody other than herself has ever called a 45-year-old mother “young.” But again, maybe it’s different in the United Kingdom!
Culling then bizarrely blames a farmer who asked her to remove her illegally placed sign on the machinations of her primary opponent.
“It would have been nice to be shown a little grace. But it seems that’s too much to ask in politics, especially where Haraz Ghanbari is involved.
“The level of nastiness directed toward my young children and my family has now extended to signs it seems.”
You almost have to laugh at this point. The Cullings are the type of people who not only want political power but also the unwashed masses to kiss their feet and thank them for putting their names on the ballot in the first place.
It seems like the campaign isn’t going as well as they thought it would. That makes sense, considering even forces aligned with State Senate president Matt Huffman (R-Lima) in the March 19th proxy war have gone from calling Ghanbari toast to accepting that it’s going to be a dog fight.
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Next week, like this week, should be amazing content.
This week in Ohio Women…
We have a weekly installment around these parts about the trials and tribulations of Ohio Man and his Sisyphean struggle against the rules and regulations of our land.
But it’s time to acknowledge the 800-pound gorilla in the room: Ohio Women. And folks, we have our first installment this week in a story that almost sounds too torrid to believe.
From the Associated Press:
ASHTABULA, Ohio — Two Ohio women have been accused of driving the body of a deceased 80-year-old man to a bank to withdraw money from his account before dropping his body off at a hospital.
Karen Casbohm, 63, and Loreen Bea Feralo, 55, were charged Tuesday in Ashtabula with gross abuse of a corpse and theft from a person in a protected class, according to Ashtabula Municipal Court records.
Police said they were called Monday evening and told that two women had dropped off a body at the Ashtabula County Medical Center emergency room without identifying the person or themselves.
You know, I’m confident that their little scheme probably went a bit different in their head. I mean, who among us hasn’t thought about taking the corpse of a loved one to the bank in an effort to steal money? It’s not like they can spend it in the afterlife!
This week in The Rooster….
Get a load of Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski. He doesn’t seem like a particularly bright guy or a straight shooter. Of course, that means he enjoys the political support of our Attorney General.
The Country Club’s last stand. It’s Governor Sleepy Tea vs. President Business Deals are waging a proxy war in the final days of the Republican U.S. Senate primary.
Deep thoughts with Allan Block. Don Liberty, our chief conservative correspondent, enjoys a 20-minute conversation with the musty owner of The Toledo Blade. This dispatch is free for all.
THOSE WMDs. Refuge of last resort: Five days inside the Superdome… After coming back from the dead, the world’s largest aircraft just flew a real payload… Spring is here early, and that’s not good… Talking on the moon: The quest to establish lunar wifi… How I fixed my sleep schedule.