Despicable - Even for Team Arshinkoff

Ben Keeler: Despicable - Even for Team Arshinkoff

Ben Keeler reports on a despicable act from Summit County that may have serious reverberations throughout the state, pitting Summit County Republican Chairman Alex Arshinkoff and Senator Kevin Coughlin once again.

Comment: Certainly more facts will emerge as the media becomes involved in what appears to be part of one long saga of infighting within the Summit County Republican Party. However, as we sit back and watch from a distance, this event only serves to illustrate to our group why we are fighting the Ohio Republican Party (ORP). Simply, Republican politics in Ohio is focused on power, rather than good stewardship based upon republicans norms.

None of us are so naive to believe that hard ball practices do not occur everyday and at every level of politics; but what Ohio Republicans have done for well over the last 20 years has been to abandon the norms of limited government, fiscal restraint, and family and community bearing for quick score shortsighted populist measures that are frankly socialist in nature and have become a huge detriment to the state’s moral and fiscal wellbeing.

Our agenda is posted here on the weblog site so we will not rehash it in detail, but in a nutshell we will not give one red cent until leadership change occurs and republican norms return to the ORP, and we hope you will do the same.

We urge to send a letter or email to as many members of the ORP leadership, county Republican parties, republican members of the Ohio General Assembly, and elected Republican officials in Congress letting them know you are not donating any money until the change comes to Ohio. Then please write your friends and families letting them know about this boycott. And if you have a website, please cut and paste our sign and link in your site as an act of solidarity.

We have only two choices; continuing to elect and prop up the same old Republicans and expecting change to happen, or holding back support until change comes. We choose the latter and we hope you do too.

Not One Red Cent until republican norms return to Ohio!