Congressional candidate Bob Latta to face Ohio Elections Commission hearing…
The Blade has the details on the Hearing slated over Latta’s remarks about Buehrer’s views.
The day before Republican voters decide who their candidate will be to succeed the late Paul Gillmor in the 5th District, the Ohio Elections Commission will decide whether state Representative Latta (R., Bowling Green) misrepresented the responses of a candidate survey in characterizing state Senator Buehrer (R., Delta) as opposing prayer in schools and the public posting of the Ten Commandments.
“It’s a lie,” the Buehrer campaign’s attorney, Donald Brey, told the panel. “It is a lie to the voters. It is not a small lie. It is a big lie.”
A four-member panel yesterday unanimously found sufficient cause to hold the matter for a hearing before the full commission, most likely on Nov. 5.The decision was reached a week after the full commission chastised the Buehrer campaign and a Washington political action committee for falsely representing Mr. Latta’s 1998 vote to put a proposed sales tax increase on the ballot as a vote in favor of the tax increase.
For those of you following the news on Ohio’s Fifth, this post by Jeff on Ohio Daily Blog, OH-05: Buehrer (R) TV Ad and Response to DeWine Letter will be of interest…
