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Ohiogal

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Mon Sep 28, 2020, 02:56 PM Sep 2020

Ohio GOP lawmaker tries to charge Republican Gov. Mike DeWine with terrorism

What some of our Ohio GOP lawmakers waste their time on ....



COLUMBUS - After failing to impeach Gov. Mike DeWine over his COVID-19 response, Clermont County Republican Rep. John Becker is trying to charge him with a slew of criminal offenses, including terrorism, bribery and interfering with civil rights.

Becker accuses DeWine of disenfranchising voters, threatening the health of Ohioans by closing hospitals to non-emergency procedures and shuttering businesses in a private citizen affidavit filed with Clermont County Municipal Court Monday.

The affidavit accuses DeWine of several crimes including:

Engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, a second-degree felony
Complicity, a second-degree felony
Terrorism, a third-degree felony
Making terroristic threats, a third-degree felony
Inducing panic, third-degree felony
Conspiracy, a third-degree felony
Bribery, a fourth-degree felony
Interfering with civil rights, a first-degree misdemeanor
Coercion, a second-degree misdemeanor
Patient abuse or neglect, a second-degree misdemeanor

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https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/28/ohio-lawmaker-rep-john-becker-tries-charge-republican-gov-mike-dewine-crimes-covid-19/3564770001/?a=a&utm_source=dispatch-News%20Alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news_alerts&utm_term=news_alert

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Ohio GOP lawmaker tries to charge Republican Gov. Mike DeWine with terrorism (Original Post) Ohiogal Sep 2020 OP
Certain members of the republican faction are just plain nuts . . Iliyah Sep 2020 #1
Aren't repubs always setting their hair on fire over frivolous lawsuits? Sigh. old guy Sep 2020 #2
Every time I think the Ohio GOP can't be any more insane ... ladym55 Sep 2020 #3

ladym55

(2,577 posts)
3. Every time I think the Ohio GOP can't be any more insane ...
Mon Sep 28, 2020, 04:05 PM
Sep 2020

What the hell, buddy? What is in the water in Clermont County? Some of Ohio's legislators are so batsh*t ...

Ohio needs legislators with functioning brain cells, and John Becker does not appear to have any ... at all.

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