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Carpenter v. Nix - The ruling
The Ohio Elections Commission has decided against hearing a complaint filed against Butler County’s treasurer by the county clerk of courts, calling it an unusual case.
After talking to both parties, the Elections Commission ruled Dec. 16 that the complaint fell outside their jurisdiction. The alleged “false statements” were made in the Butler County Republican Party endorsement process, they said, not during an actual election for office.
Here is a copy of the Elections Commission’s ruling:
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Analysis:
“This is the first time we’ve had anything like that occur,” said Elections Commission Executive Director Philip Richter.
Clerk of Courts Cindy Carpenter filed the complaint last month against Treasurer Nancy Nix. Carpenter alleged Nix made misleading statements about her campaign funds and qualifications for county commission in literature and speeches courting support of the county GOP.
Neither woman —Â nor incumbent Commissioner Gregory Jolivette or anyone else —Â won the party’s endorsement, setting the stage for a bitter May 2010 primary.
Nix stands by her statements.
“My record is one of being up front and truthful, and unfortunately, this isn’t always well received,” she said. “I continue to believe this was much ado about nothing and am glad the Elections Commission could see it for what it was, and that it has been put to rest.”
Carpenter argued that the case is indeed unique, because of the unique nature of Butler County politics. Whomever wins the party’s endorsement is more likely to win the primary, thus the general election in this GOP-controlled county, she said.
“We apparently have a virtual free-fo-all period of time early in the election campaign process in Ohio in which false materials can be freely disseminated and published, regardless of whether it’s reckless, misleading or false,” Carpenter said.
Carpenter said she’ll be asking the local party to adopt is own guidelines about what type of statements can be made in the endorsement process.
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By Unabomber
December 22, 2009 1:33 PM | Link to this
Thanks for posting the address of an elected official Josh……do you know what her social security number is?
By Tim
December 22, 2009 2:41 PM | Link to this
Asking the Butler County GOP leaders to adopt its own guidelines to prevent dirty politics, Cindy that’s just stupid. Don Dixon, Rick Jones and that crowd wrote the book on underhanded dirty politics, ask Greg Jolivette about these crooks.
By Bigby
December 22, 2009 2:47 PM | Link to this
By the time these Republicans get done pounding each other with lies, half truths and insults a democrat will have a easy win in November. The funny thing is that these people know so much dirt on each other.