There are so many parallels today with the current Republican leadership on local, state, and national levels to the dictatorial, autocratic, kleptocratic and oligarchic anti-democratic forces at work, that it is good to read our historians accounts. Don’t be exhausted, be ready to rid this cancer from our state and nation. with your votes. The Cost of Corruption is enormous in Ohio!

Thomas Paine was a political activist, a philosopher, a political theorist. It would have been enlightening to have a conversation with him. I did not realize as a most significant contributor to the American Revolution, he died alone on June 8, 1809. Attending his funeral were 6 people (“half of them were former slaves”). Today’s quote reflects those in the ruling stratosphere in the Ohio General Assembly and the Ohio Governor’s Office. The Cost of Corruption is enormous in Ohio!