On May 15, 2018, shortly after ending a rare statehouse news conference, Governor John Kasich stormed back in having one of his trademark tizzies to label GOP state legislators as weasels for refusing to rubber-stamp his latest gun control legislation. But per usual, the increasingly out of touch two-time presidential loser, is simply projecting his own façade onto his opponents.
 
Most GOP state legislators are strong supporters of the second amendment and ran on platforms diametrically opposed to the Kasich gun control measures.  They aren’t being sneaky or conniving, they are merely keeping their campaign promises; a concept that is now utterly foreign to Kasich.
 
On most days it is rather difficult to determine whether lame duck Ohio Governor John Kasich is running for President again or auditioning for a cushy analyst gig on CNN or MSNBC.  He recently ranted that most of the Republican Party is “in a stupor” and that the party left him, not that he left the party. But to most political observers his statements have a ring of absurdity to them.
 
Back in February 3rd Rail Politics illustrated the lackluster nature of the fundraising for the Kasich political machine.  Not surprisingly, nothing significant has occurred since then to interrupt that decline.  

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State’s Actions and Decisions Should Frighten Every Ohioan
By Scott Pullins

“that way madness lies…”
King Lear – By William Shakespeare

On Tuesday, July 3, 2018, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine filed a document with the Franklin County Common Pleas Court that alleges that his office will attempt to recover nearly $200 million personally from ECOT Founder William L. Lager.  Somehow, mysteriously, this filing quickly made itself to the front page of the Columbus Dispatch, although it didn’t reach the court’s docket until days later.  

This filing is also very irregular because the Ohio Attorney General is not a party to this action.  In fact, the Ohio Attorney General has not even requested court permission to intervene in this case.  An earlier request from Ohio’s Auditor of State to intervene was denied.

The Attorney General argues that Bill Lager should be held personally responsible for money that was paid to companies that he either owned or allegedly controlled. 

Their argument for piercing the corporate veil of these limited liability companies is rather ridiculous and should send chills down the spine of any federal, state, or local government contractor, along with the entirety of Ohio’s school choice movement. 

The school was granted tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service and filed its first annual tax return for the tax year 2000 in December of 2002.  It has filed its annual tax returns without challenge by the IRS every year since then. Likewise, as a charitable organization the school was required to file certain information with the Ohio Attorney General on an annual basis.  From what I can determine, the school has done so without question or issue.

The school was audited by the Ohio Auditor of State on an annual basis starting with a special audit in 2001.  During the first few years there were recommendations by the State Auditor that Altair provide more detailed monthly invoices to better document their services.  That issue was remedied starting in July 2007. However, a review of each of these annual audits does not show that William Lager was ever considered as an agent or a public official for the school.  

​Instead, the Ohio Attorney General’s office now argues that it has authority to assert these claims against Lager because of a recently completed trial court case in Cincinnati.  The case can be found here.  DeWine’s office argues that he could not intervene earlier because charter schools are governed by the Ohio Department of Education and this recent case gives him additional authority.

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Ohio Speaker Candidate Ryan Smith’s Campaign Finances are Fishy
By Connor Brown
 
Ryan Smith has only had one real contested race for election, the 2012 primary that he narrowly won.  He didn’t raise a lot of money for that race either.
 
But his fundraising would change when he was appointed to the House Finance Committee in 2013 and he began to attend the annual Winter Warmer fundraisers hosted in Florida by Virginia “Ginni” Ragan.  

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