Tag: Ohio

Tim Ryan is a Democrat who shows how to win back white working-class voters

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The Democrats are playing catch-up with Representative Tim Ryan in a tight race for an open US Senate seat from Ohio — with a little help from his party. Republicans put about $40 million in ads hillbilly epitaph Author JD Vance campaign since Labor Day, for $4.5 million from Dems for Ryan. But Ryan turned the race that Vance should easily win (considering Ohio’s red tilt and the unpopular Democrat in the White House) into a cage match. Both are native Ohioans, with Vance formed by the struggles of Appalachia,…

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Ohio congressional candidate JR Majewski rejects Air Force logo from website after being summoned

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JR Majewski, Ohio’s Republican congressional candidate, removed the U.S. Air Force insignia from his website Thursday after The Daily Beast inquired if he had obtained permission to use the emblem in accordance with Department of Defense policy. Majewski, a Trump-endorsed Air Force veteran who served from 1999 to 2003, was about to repeatedly skew his combat service. Last week, he backed the House Republican campaign arm, the Republican National Committee, which withdrew $960,000 in ad purchases from his race against Democratic Representative Marcy Kaptur. On their website, the Ministry of…

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Columbus, One of the Fastest-Growing Big American Cities, Is Often Overlooked

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I was raised in Ohio, and then I left to earn some degrees and become a professor—a short-lived career that I decided wasn’t for me. But before I exited that exciting life of grading and faculty meetings, it brought me back to Ohio and, so far, I’ve stayed. Ohio is more than the controversial headlines it makes. It’s more than beautiful farmland. It is pinned on almost every corner by creative, vibrant cities, cool, small college towns and historic villages, with a flourishing outdoor world in-between. All of that magic…

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America’s Most Banned Books Author Elaine Hopkins Calls BS On Parents ‘Worrying’

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More than 1,600 different books Public schools and libraries have been banned for the past school year, as parents and community members across the country continue to stir up hell over acts that address cultural identities, racism, homophobia and abuse. Many banners in favor of the book insist that the material is simply not suitable for younger readers. But the authors say these concerns are just excuses — and they’re really about exclusion. “They act like they’re worried about the kids,” he said, “but they’re not.” Ellen Hopkinsauthor crankAnd the…

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Can the MAGA cavalry save JD Vance from the apathy unleashed by the Ohio “Hillbilly” party?

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YONGSOWN, Ohio – The night before the Secret Service, RV merchandise vendors and thousands of big MAGA fans descended on Youngstown for a Trump rally in honor of Republican Senate contender J.D. Vance, the city’s biggest show under the lights at Ryan Stadium. Paying off COVID-19 relief funds and the site of the first-ever penalty mark tossed at an American football game in 1941, the renovated ground reached its maximum capacity of 7,000 by halftime for the highly anticipated Chaney v Canfield, a suburban-city rivalry With high school football teams…

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Jimmy Kimmel cries at Trump’s horrific QAnon rally

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Donald Trump has totally gone to QAnon, and Jimmy Kimmel has some concerns. On Monday night, the late-night host showed footage from the former president’s latest rally in Youngstown, Ohio over the weekend where supporters can be seen Raise the index fingers To seemingly represent Qunun’s motto, “Where we go one, we all go”. “All of these people are reacting to what sounds like a QAnon song that people played at the rally,” Kimmel explained. “They hold up one finger, which means one, which is their average IQ I think.”…

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Stop Theft Fans Bury Election Workers In Record Demands

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The wave of emails started two weeks ago. The letters—some anonymous, others with identical text but from four different people, and more from a person in New Jersey—were addressed to a clerk for the city of Shotsbury, Massachusetts, of 1,700 residents. Each of the 10 individual letters had a hostile tone and requested non-existent records from the 2020 elections. They, and similar requests sent to other districts, left election officials confused and wringing their hands. “Shootsbury is a very small town, and as in many rural communities, my electorate has…

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Donovan Lewis’ sister, Tatiana Crowder, drowns in Ricky Anderson, the Columbus cop who killed him

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The Columbus cop who shot Donovan Lewis while the unarmed 20-year-old was in bed last month was previously fired from the force after being criminally charged in connection with a bank side party. The shooting did not involve the use of force, and an arbitrator later reinstated Officer Ricky Anderson. She told the Daily Beast that learning about the history renewed the anger and hurt that Louis’s sister felt. “If we do these kinds of things in any normal job, you won’t get your job anymore,” Tatiana Crowder, 28, told…

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Donovan Lewis’ mother, Rebecca Doran, angry with Columbus police after shooting, video shows

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While a new video offers a fresh perspective on the murder of Donovan Lewis, a 20-year-old black man who was shot by a Columbus police officer in bed last month while likely clutching a vape pen, the murdered man’s family has issued a new call for justice. “I want to see real action,” Lewis’ mother, Rebecca Doran, said during a press conference Thursday outside Columbus City Hall, noting that she was “a little bit at a loss.” “There’s the slang saying, ‘Don’t talk about it, be about it.’ Let’s see…

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Cops say Landon Parrott intentionally left his baby Kyler in a hot car in New Philadelphia

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Ohio police said a one-year-old boy died in a hot car after his father intentionally left him there for five hours. The temperature outside was 87 degrees when young Keeler Parrott was confined to his car seat with nothing to drink and no air conditioning on Thursday, according to authorities. “We estimate that this made the car’s interior about 130 degrees,” Dett. Tell Capt. Ty Norris of the New Philadelphia Police Department W.J.W. Norris said Tyler’s mother was at work and that his father, Landon Parrott, 19, didn’t want his…

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