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Ohiogal

(31,671 posts)
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 04:46 PM Jun 2020

DeWine facing GOP mutiny in rural Ohio over coronavirus

A look at the morons we have here, particularly in SW Ohio .... where the coronavirus is currently spiking. I guess DeWine isn’t far right cuckoo enough for them.



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Republicans in Warren County north of Cincinnati made headlines with their strong rebuke of Gov. Mike DeWine last week.

They told the Republican governor he “overstepped his bounds” with the restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and “grossly mishandled” the delayed primary election.

Turns out they are not the only Republican leaders DeWine has angered.

A few weeks earlier, Republicans in six deeply red counties in the west-central part of the state sent DeWine a letter expressing similar disdain.

“You have disappointed your party faithful,” the letter signed by the GOP county parties in Mercer, Darke, Shelby, Williams, Van Wert and Preble counties stated. Shelby County Republican Chairwoman Theresa Kerg confirmed the letter’s authenticity.

The letter was sent to the governor June 4. “As party leaders in our respective counties, we are telling you that the damage you are doing economically is translating politically.

(snip)

“What he’s doing, and the way he operates, appears to be more like a Democratic governor,” Kerg said Monday.

https://www.dispatch.com/news/20200630/dewine-facing-gop-mutiny-in-rural-ohio-over-coronavirus

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DeWine facing GOP mutiny in rural Ohio over coronavirus (Original Post) Ohiogal Jun 2020 OP
Meanwhile, I'm not pleased with him either! Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2020 #1
Agree about the masks! Ohiogal Jun 2020 #4
I agree! ladym55 Jun 2020 #11
Republicans should cut bait with those idiots... Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2020 #14
Steve Chabot True Blue American Jun 2020 #2
And now the virus is spiking in Warren County again. True Blue American Jun 2020 #3
The right-wing propaganda there is awful. Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2020 #5
I know who he is True Blue American Jun 2020 #7
I've done it periodically while driving somewhere. Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2020 #10
Middletown Ohiogal Jun 2020 #8
Yes True Blue American Jun 2020 #16
Virtually all of the counties mentioned border Indiana. OilemFirchen Jul 2020 #18
Southwest Ohio True Blue American Jul 2020 #19
Western Ohio. OilemFirchen Jul 2020 #20
I am only 20 miles from Indiana.. True Blue American Jul 2020 #21
I clicked this thinking the GOP was unhappy because DeWine yonder Jun 2020 #6
No, they are complaining True Blue American Jun 2020 #9
"More like a Democratic governor" - LOL DarthDem Jun 2020 #12
I know, right? Ohiogal Jun 2020 #13
Yep, one of those counties is mine. blueinredohio Jun 2020 #15
The King of Jesusville loses the denizens of Lesser Jesusvilles. OilemFirchen Jun 2020 #17
My best friend listens to Jeremiah True Blue American Jul 2020 #22

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,848 posts)
1. Meanwhile, I'm not pleased with him either!
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 04:51 PM
Jun 2020

Mandate masks in public, dummy!

You've already made the right-wing extremists upset anyway!

One of the Trump cultist coworkers at my previous job already screamed that "he's a damn RINO" when DeWine closed down schools earlier than any state in the country, for example.

ladym55

(2,577 posts)
11. I agree!
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 05:16 PM
Jun 2020

He did a good job at the beginning ... but then he caved. Without mandating masks, dummies won't wear them. And that is already obvious. Ohio is spiking.

And you are also right--DeWine had already irritated the Trumpsters in the party, so why not continue trying to keep the people of Ohio healthy?

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,848 posts)
14. Republicans should cut bait with those idiots...
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 05:36 PM
Jun 2020

... and try another political tactic, because they're harming everyone with their appeals to the most hateful and ignorant. It will destroy them too.

True Blue American

(17,972 posts)
2. Steve Chabot
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 04:55 PM
Jun 2020

Territory. That whole area is mostly Republican. Lebanon, Westchester, Middletown, Hamilton, I think might be more Democratic. Cincinnati suburbs. Only the inner city is Democratic.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,848 posts)
5. The right-wing propaganda there is awful.
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 04:59 PM
Jun 2020

Have you ever heard Bill Cunningham on WLW? He might be the worst in the country! I remember when Sean Hannity had him on FOX News years ago, and even Hannity looked shocked! (Then smiled like he admired the asshole for going so far.)

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,848 posts)
10. I've done it periodically while driving somewhere.
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 05:05 PM
Jun 2020

Always regretted it!

That radio station is one of the most powerful in the country too. Ugh!

It used to have some balance, many years ago.

Gary Burbank had some funny shows years ago, and he definitely leaned liberal despite not shoving it in the ears of listeners like the right-wingers.

Burbank would often mock the right-wingers with his various comedy routines, such as this one:


True Blue American

(17,972 posts)
16. Yes
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 11:38 PM
Jun 2020

Although there are many successful people in that area.

Note, JD’s Grandparents who raised him are Democrats. JD is Republican. He is now being criticized that it was his own disfunctional family he wrote about. I have to admit I know very few like them. But of course we stay away from the drugs and booze.

True Blue American

(17,972 posts)
19. Southwest Ohio
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 01:07 AM
Jul 2020

But they have also been known to change. People were shocked when every County down the Ohio River voted for Obama. First time Democratic in over 100 years.

They are not all Country bumpkins.

OilemFirchen

(7,143 posts)
20. Western Ohio.
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 02:10 AM
Jul 2020

Williams, Van Wert, Mercer, Darke and Preble counties run from the top of the state down to Butler. Obviously southwest counties are notorious cesspools (especially Warren), but the counties mentioned are noteworthy for their border with Indiana. None of the counties border Kentucky, West Virginia or Pennsylvania. Only Williams borders Michigan.

Food for thought.

True Blue American

(17,972 posts)
21. I am only 20 miles from Indiana..
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 04:35 AM
Jul 2020

Straight out I 70 or 40. Many of us shop there. The reason we know what Pence is.

The Dayton/ Cincinnati corridor goes all down 75 now.

yonder

(9,631 posts)
6. I clicked this thinking the GOP was unhappy because DeWine
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 04:59 PM
Jun 2020

wasn't aggressive enough with Covid restrictions. I suppose it was a foolish thought though in a sane world, I would've been right.

True Blue American

(17,972 posts)
9. No, they are complaining
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 05:04 PM
Jun 2020

Because he was doing a good job controlling the virus. I give him that but would never vote for him. Thought he was gome when Sherrod shoved him out of the Senate.

DarthDem

(5,253 posts)
12. "More like a Democratic governor" - LOL
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 05:20 PM
Jun 2020

You mean, like, interested in saving lives and dealing with this once-in-a-lifetime crisis instead of attempting to wish it away and politicize its handling?

Oh.

OilemFirchen

(7,143 posts)
17. The King of Jesusville loses the denizens of Lesser Jesusvilles.
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 11:59 PM
Jun 2020

That's just pathetic.

Cedarville, Ohio Notable People

Mike DeWine, US Senator, Ohio Attorney General, and Ohio Governor
David Jeremiah, evangelist
Bumpus Jones, Major League Baseball player
Mike Kellogg, radio evangelist
James H. Kyle, politician, South Dakota senator, "Father" of Labor Day
Eleanor Parker, actress
Whitelaw Reid, newspaper publisher and statesman
Wolves at the Gate, Christian post hardcore band
John Sizer, local bussy enthusiast

True Blue American

(17,972 posts)
22. My best friend listens to Jeremiah
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 04:41 AM
Jul 2020

Die hard Democrat. I wonder if she knows where he is from.

I despise TV Evangelicals. Remember Billy Graham, embarrassed by his friendship with Nixon saying,” He was out of Politics!” Now look at his Son, Franklin, one of the worst shysters of all.

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