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Ohio Republican Party endorses Yost for auditor; Morgan still in race
The Ohio Republican Party endorsed Dave Yost, Delaware County prosecutor, for state auditor on Monday, Feb. 1, but state Rep. Seth Morgan, R-Huber Heights, remains in the race for the nomination, said Rob Scott, Morgan’s campaign spokesman.
“I am pleased and humbled to have this endorsement,” Yost said in a press release. “I know the challenge ahead of me to fill the shoes of Mary Taylor is huge. I’ll work hard to keep a conservative in that office and put together a campaign to win.”
“Dave Yost would have been a great attorney general,” Scott said in a press release. “The Ohio auditor’s office is not a bargaining chip to be played for nor is it an office for someone who concedes to political pressure.”
About 30 critics of the decision to endorse Yost demonstrated outside the party meeting at GOP headquarters in Columbus, party spokesman John McClelland said in an e-mail.
“We are a big tent party and sometimes people have disagreements. I talked with some people and they were very cordial,” said McClelland.
Mark Haverkos of West Chester in Butler County, who helped organize the demonstration, said demonstrators had backed Yost for attorney general.
Yost had been running against former U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine of Cedarville for the GOP nomination for AG but switched to the auditor’s race at the request of Ohio GOP Chairman Kevin DeWine, Mike DeWine’s second cousin.
The demonstrators do not support Mike DeWine for attorney general, said Haverkos.
The scramble to fill the auditor’s slot on the GOP ticket came after incumbent GOP auditor Mary Taylor joined Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich as his running mate.
Hamilton County Commissioner David Pepper is the Democratic candidate for auditor.
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By Kenneth A. Normand, Fairborn, Ohio
February 8, 2010 12:22 PM | Link to this
Its unfortunate that the Ohio Republican party elected to “grease the skids” for one candidate for Auditor so that another, allegedly less qualified individual, can easily slide into a candidacy for AG. The Tea Party movement feels every Primary candidate must be thoroughly vetted before the people before being placed on the ballot.
By EMEJ
February 2, 2010 10:18 AM | Link to this
No DeWine’s will get my vote, time for a real change with new faces. Staunch Republican. I can say I only voted for one Democrat since returning from Nam. That’s what I call party loyalty but sometimes one must take a detour and hope to end at real goal of whats best for the people.
By "Pay Back Time"
February 2, 2010 8:56 AM | Link to this
Kevin DeWine road the back of Mike DeWine for years, using the “DeWine” name to get where is is today. It’s “pay back time” to his relative. Mike, say “thank you Kevin”. I guess you don’t have to earn much of anything, anymore, in politics. It’s who you know, even if you stink at what you do, and, we taxpayers pay for it.
By Sk
February 2, 2010 8:29 AM | Link to this
This is exactly why the Tea Pary movement has grown! Yost would have made a great Attorney General. Now we are left with a guy who acts more like a Democrat than a Republican and his cousin cleared the competition. This stinks. I am voting for Seth and not for Dewine. I encourage other voters to do the same.
By R U Kidding Me
February 2, 2010 8:27 AM | Link to this
I would rather see Janet Reno as our next attorney general as I would Mike DeWine. Mikey you were never a true conservative repub. You embarrased your party on many occassions - actually disgraced is a better word. “Two faced politian” is described in Webster’s Dictinary with a picture of Mikey. Retire Mikey Retire! The voters spoke - we don’t like you. Mikey DeWine = R.I.N.O
By Pete
February 2, 2010 8:16 AM | Link to this
This is disgusting on multiple levels. I’ve met Dave Yost, and thought he was a true blue conservative. Now, he has demonstrated that he can be bought and paid for (100k donation to his campaign coffers) and is now part of the problem and not the solution. I’m going to ask him for my $100 back. Mike Dewine should get out of politics or at least switch parties. Mike’s real plan is to use the AG seat as a launching pad to run against Sherrod “D-Bag” Brown in 2012. Kevin Dewine, chairman of the Ohio Repbulican Party was the enabler in all of these shenanigans and he needs to go.
By PROFESSOR POLITICS
February 2, 2010 7:03 AM | Link to this
more Tea discord within the party. no established republicans are conservative enough to satisfy the talk radio crowd. is the Tea Party movement funded by democrats? the talk about the treatment of illegal aliens is nonsense.
By 2926
February 2, 2010 1:12 AM | Link to this
Thank god! Not because Yost is the man for the job, but because Morgan isn’t. I am beginning to have faith in my party once again.
By r
February 1, 2010 11:03 PM | Link to this
at all cost Mike DeWine should not be elected…he says one thing and does another…
By linda
February 1, 2010 10:24 PM | Link to this
Mike DeWine needs to be defeated. He endorses amnesty for illegal aliens and at a time when Ohio needs a strong AG, since the federal government won’t keep illegals from taking American jobs, we sure do not need Mike DeWine. Ohio needs to pass their own e-verify and other measures and if Mike SeWine is AG he will look the other way when employers hire illegal aliens.
By nomoretaxes
February 1, 2010 9:45 PM | Link to this
Despite what the Ohio GOP had to say tonight, there were 42 people that showed up in Columbus to protest tonight’s endorsement vote. The actual number of central committee members that attended was 10-12, the rest voted by telephone, too lazy to take their job seriously. Kevin DeWine and his staff hid behind the closed mini-blinds, peeking out occasionally. Those that attended were from Cincinnati, West Chester, Dayton, Columbus, Dublin, Mansfield, Massillon, Sandusky and Toledo. The gathering consisted of Tea Party, 912, Liberty Council, and just plain citizens fed up with the GOP. Everyone understands that Yost decision to switch paves the way for Mike DeWine. If I were Seth Morgan, I would run for auditor as the one that wasn’t endorsed because there was no screening committee, no personal interviews, and with my own county rep, she admitted her ignorance by stating she hadn’t spoken with the other candidates. I believe in the next 90 days ordinary citizens, can distribute literature, plant signs and work the polls on behalf of Seth Morgan and deliver a personal wakeup call to Kevin DeWine. We need someone to pull a petition to run against and beat Mike DeWine in the primary to deliver the second wake up call. I believe anyone that runs against Mike DeWine would win just based on the anger for him alone.
By Paula
February 1, 2010 9:41 PM | Link to this
Mike Dewine is one of the best things the Republican Party has and he can and will win! We need to quit talking smack about him and support him as well as the rest of our ticket.
By Boomer
February 1, 2010 9:04 PM | Link to this
Whew, thank goodness. The GOP leadership apparently tried to hold a rational conversation about government finance, auditing principals, arithmetic and common decency with these two guys. The endorsement decision wasn’t difficult. Hmmm…talk about casting one’s bread upon the waters. Morgan’s associations with certain characters and treatment of people in recent years is well documented. And the stuff that isn’t documented is even worse.
By Gregg
February 1, 2010 8:34 PM | Link to this
Seth get a grip. You are not really qualified to be a State Rep. let alone the State Auditor. Your desire to be Governor and then President will require you to take another path, hopefully via your compentency leve, the Huber Heights School Board. I’m sorry School Board Members, I hope you don’t take my comment as an insult.
By J
February 1, 2010 8:21 PM | Link to this
This is so convenient, isn’t It. I detest rotten politics but then what else is there?