Opinion contributor to Cincinnati Enquirer. Opinions are my own. Retired AP scribe/editor: in Miami x 2, San Juan, ATL, CHI, BUF, CIN x 2 OhioU - The Post alum
@Chasten
@Mike_Pence
What would you bet that he stayed out in the lobby when “Mother” was in labor because he couldn’t stand the sights and sounds of childbirth?
@SpeakerMcCarthy
The only part about House Republicans that will be remembered is their childish behavior, totally disrespectful of an American constitutional tradition. Have fun letting the Katzenjammer Kids run over you for 2 years.
Federal appeals court says Planned Parenthood doesn't have "due process right to perform abortions" in ruling that overturns lower court and upholds Ohio law aimed against using public funds for abortion:
Former LA
@AP
bureau chief John Brewer recalls a struggling actor moonlighting as night news assistant - filing, changing ribbons, loading paper - in the ‘70s.
He informed Brewer in ‘75 he had been cast in “a sci-fi movie.”
And so ended
@HamillHimself
‘s AP career!
Challenge for these new Trump books: tough to surprise. Trump thought he could just declare himself the winner? Trump thought SCOTUS would bend to his will?
Of course he did.
@GOP
chair Ronna McDaniel’s appearance on
@MeetThePress
made a compelling case to support the call by
@VivekGRamaswamy
for her to step down. Didn’t seem to have any ideas on how to turn the tide on the abortion issue or anything much to say except tired Biden family talking pts
@joncoopertweets
Bobby Kennedy. Although more shock and despair than grief. It was so soon after MLK’s assassination and it just seemed “will this never stop?”
One week after winning the Democratic
#OHSen
primary,
@TimRyan
is in GOP nominee
@JDVance1
‘s home county of Hamilton. Ryan visited Cincinnati’s Children’s hospital, met with nurses, and pledged to work to get more nurses into the profession
In a prerecorded interview, why did
@MeetThePress
go ahead & air concocted claims such as Democrats “kill the baby after birth?”
From Aaron:
“When she wasn’t trying to get Trump in touch with his feelings, Welker was overwhelmed by his nonstop lying.”
“A Tragic Parody.”
Republican state Speaker Rusty Bowers on the Trump-Giuliani effort, which led to threats to him and his family.
#January6thCommitteeHearings
Hey, Neighbor!
@JDVance1
said that as he was setting out the trash in his Cincinnati neighborhood this morning, a driver slowed and yelled “F*** You, Fascist!”
#OHSEN
Boy, I’d love to know why
@RexChapman
is shadow banned. He brings nothing but informative joy to this place.
(Try searching for his name. It won’t come up.)
Election deniers running in Ohio as GOP nominees, per The Washington Post: JD Vance-US Senate, Dave Yost-Ohio AG; Chabot, Davidson, Wenstrup, Johnson, Jordan, Latta, Miller, Gilbert, Majewski-US House
@Jim_Jordan
How many
@OhioState
U wrestlers were sexually abused under your watch? Why did you fail to report a long-term pattern of sexual abuse by a university doctor later investigation showed was widely known to those involved in the wrestling program to have been going on for years?
Republican presidential candidate
@VivekGRamaswamy
with the Patil family, which came from Dayton to his meet-and-greet Saturday in West Chester Township near Cincinnati. Mom Vijaya said
their children “are excited to meet the first Indian-American president.”
@AdamKinzinger
@DonaldJTrumpJr
made Halloween costume “joke” about Paul Pelosi, showing again his DNA is devoid of empathy or even of any humor that isn’t a lame attack on someone else
No Ohio US House seat has been flipped since a GOP-dominated redistricting took effective in 2002. Some first-time Democratic candidates hope to end that streak Nov. 3
Very sad that an AP Calculus teacher who was Anderson educator of the year has resigned her post at Turpin High School because of the CRT-crazed
@FHSchools
board.
Thanks for hurting schools,
@HamCoGOP
Some personal news, as they say:
@jwilliamscincy
takes on a new role as
@Enquirer
sports columnist, & I’ll be penning a weekly politics column.
It turns out I’m not very good at being retired, and hoping to be better by having a regular gig. More later this week
J.R. Majewski, the Ohio GOP candidate who on Monday told a crowd that his pronouns were "Patriot" and "Ass-kicker" has lost his bid for Congress to Democrat Rep. Marcy Kaptur. In September,
@BrianSlodysko
and I reported on Mr. Majewski's military record.
NEW: Parents in the Forest Hills School District today filed a federal lawsuit challenging the new
@FHSchools
policy which effectively bars teaching about anti-racism, race, gender, identity in the suburban eastern Cincinnati schools …
R.I.P. Mimi, age 15. Thanks to the Beechmont Pet Hospital for helping her have an easy transition. A tech gave her chocolate, which I never gave a dog, but she gobbled it down as a final treat.
I’m not crying, you’re crying! 😢
@FarnoushAmiri
That’s Northern Kentucky’s congressman who thinks holiday cards with his family showing off high-powered guns is respectful to the meaning of Christmas and to the many victims of mass shootings with those weapons. Bonus?
@RepThomasMassie
quotes Nazis.
@FrankLaRose
@DispatchAlerts
Remember the Good Old Days when you had a moral compass and didn’t use the power of being Ohio’s elections chief to try to advance your political ambitions?
@KeithOlbermann
@laurenboebert
“They’re there to educate.” Until Republican governors and local wing-nut activists who see CRT and kitty litter boxes hiding throughout the schools make it impossible for educators to educate.
@Jim_Jordan
Jim won’t answer or claims not to remember his Jan. 6 role.Won’t face journalists’ questions live on what he knew about Dr. Strauss molesting Ohio State wrestlers in his charge. Won’t answer live questions about what he knows about witness-tampering
Opposing Issue 1 in Ohio: rank-and-file police, firefighters, nurses (aka salt of the earth).
For: Extreme-right billionaire Richard Uhilein of Illinois and democracy-denier Kari Lake of Arizona.
THREAD
Donald Trump keeps calling Jan. 6 defendants "hostages." He did so again last night.
But an
@NBCNews
review of J6 cases identified just 15 current pretrial detainees ordered held by a judge.
Among them are defendants who (allegedly):
- set off an explosive device
-
Very confident in saying Cincinnati’s Riverfront area is only place in nation today that has a simulated 300-casualty terror attack followed by a wiener dog race
@realPParsons
Hi, say hello to my friend
@shannonrwatts
. So you want to make sure 6-year-olds are able to exercise their Second Amendment rights to shoot their teachers? PS
@elonmusk
why is this guy in my TL?
WLW is “bringing us all together?” Only when the
#Reds
are on. Otherwise, you have a very narrow definition of “us.” Let’s start with diversity … any female, Black, Hispanic, young, openly gay…anything but old or middle-aged white guys hosting?
What would Grant and Sherman say? Or Harriet Tubman? Or the three young men lynched in the Freedom Summer after training at
@miamiuniversity
?
Confederate flag flies over Ohio city | Opinion via
@Enquirer
“With Donald Trump, it was never over.”
So ends “The Divider,” by
@peterbakernyt
and
@sbg1
, & my odyssey through 12 Trump books (all written by objective, fact-checking journalists).
Now for a change of pace from
@StephenKing
Will it be as scary?
Heard
@Willie700WLW
told listeners his latest
@DukeEnergy
bill was $750, which he blamed on Biden & Marxist energy policy.
Having a large Indian Hill-area home in 90-degree weather would be a better explanation. He should know about hot air.
@JudiciaryGOP
I’m not a Democrat btw. But maybe this would be an appropriate time for the House Judiciary Committee to put aside a city’s crime & hold hearings into the questionable gifts and other financial benefits a Supreme Court justice has been receiving from a politically active donor?
@TimRyan
‘s wife Andrea greets crowd at a Saturday morning get-out-the-vote rally in Cincinnati’s Mount Lookout neighborhood. Son Brady, 8, also spoke.
#OHSEN
Former LA
@AP
bureau chief John Brewer recalls a struggling actor moonlighting as night news assistant - filing, changing ribbons, loading paper - in the ‘70s.
He informed Brewer in ‘75 he had been cast in “a sci-fi movie.”
And so ended
@HamillHimself
‘s AP career!
I told
@HunterGreene17
his signed jersey is my grandson’s Christmas present and he replied “You should get him something else.”
(the kidvis happy)
#Redsfest
This is totally out of line for a state Supreme Court justice.
@GovMikeDeWine
needs to get on the phone and tell him to show some decorum.
It’s difficult to imagine
@senrobportman
or other serious Ohio Republicans being able to urge anyone to vote for him after this.
As if voting for his own dad’s cases isn’t bad enough, OH Justice Pat DeWine now “liking” a tweet spreading unfounded disinformation about an assassination attempt.
Please.
Whatever you can do.
Help us defeat this wholly unfit Justice.
Give here:
By this logic, Butler and Clermont County residents should vote for Democrats because of their higher-than-Hamilton County jumps in valuations and property taxes.
But as reasonably informed people know, elected Republican officials in Columbus have failed to provide relief.
These signs are popping up in Hamilton County because the Democrats with their soaring valuations and their out-of-control property taxes are CRUSHING middle class families. Make no mistake—the policies of the Democrats have gouged taxpayers with soaring taxes. Vote accordingly.
BREAKING: Josh Mandel, a Marine veteran and former state treasurer, says he will make a third run for the U.S. Senate in Ohio, taking a pro-Trump message in a bid for the seat being vacated by the GOP’s Rob Portman.
@jcarrsmyth
@AP
@AP_Politics