Oluic Alienates Potential Voters
There is a line between off-color humor and cheap vulgarity, and last Thursday, Steve Oluic (would-be Geauga County Commissioner) crossed it.
Starting off his campaign using shirts emblazoned with the slogan, “Don’t Be A B*tch, Vote for Oluic” was at best ill-advised and at worst a preview of things to come should Mr. Oluic gain office.
One might consider this a juvenile misstep had Mr. Oluic not also chosen the Geauga County Fair’s Youth Day as the appropriate venue to debut his crass new catchphrase.
You don’t have to be a prude to be alienated by Mr. Oluic’s regrettable campaign strategy, and indeed, many Geauga County voters have already concluded that this kind of antic is beneath the dignity of a prospective commissioner.
Shanley Davis
Bainbridge Township
Get Your Logic and Facts Straight
In the previous issue of the Maple Leaf, Jonathan Broadbent, a Republican Party Central Committeeman, describes a resolution, recently passed by that committee, titled the “Resolution Encouraging Investigation and Prosecution of Alleged Perpetrators of the Russian ‘Collusion Hoax.’” It’s refreshing to see such a zealous desire to contribute to the conversation on national issues, but I want respectfully to point out a couple of problems with the resolution.
First, the title betrays a serious misunderstanding of how the law works in cases like the one referred to. I’m no lawyer, but I know that an investigation precedes any proper bringing of charges, which in turn precedes any prosecution, which in turn precedes any conviction, if called for. By lumping together investigation and prosecution, the title conflates two steps which ought to be kept separate. The word “hoax” in the title only compounds the confusion, for with this word, the resolution convicts the alleged perpetrators before they’ve even been prosecuted.
Second, two major investigations—the Mueller investigation and the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee probe—sought to ascertain the extent to which Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. Neither investigation alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians, but both found overwhelming evidence that Russia interfered in that election to promote then candidate Trump’s chances at the ballot box. Those participating in both investigations took part not in a hoax but in a careful determination of guilt, which lay squarely with Russia.
If, as the resolution argues, federal and state authorities ought to round up “certain individuals” who played a role in these investigations, they might begin with then ranking Republican member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and current Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who at the time emphatically endorsed the committee’s findings. The Durham investigation, which sought to expose wrongdoing in the prior two investigations, found no evidence of criminal activity, except for that of one low-level official, who lied under oath.
If the Republican Party Central Committee wants to submit such a resolution for serious consideration by federal and state officials, it ought to get its logic and its facts straight. Otherwise, they’re engaging in the usual empty MAGA sycophancy toward President Trump. We have enough of that already.
John McBratney
Munson Township
Big, Beautiful News!
Taylor and Travis
Are finally engaged!
Gaza and Ukraine
Have been upstaged.
Democrats and Republicans
Filed for a divorce.
Washington D.C.
Taken by force.
Democrats are up a creek
Without a paddle.
Republicans ride the Constitution
Side-saddle.
Two old Presidents
Stumble over precedents.
Better they both
Seek an assisted residence.
Medicaid is for lazy Americans?
Corporations are on the dole again!
Social Security is for communists?
Billionaires are gloating socialists!
A-tisket a-tasked
A tariff in my basket.
Was it red? Was it blue?
No, just a little yellow basket.
Immigrants to the left of us,
Immigrants to the right of us.
“We are riding, never be afraid!”
Forward and masked rode the noble ICE Brigade!
School children in church earnestly pray
To live but one more heavenly day.
An unregulated Second Amendment will account
For the “thoughts and prayers,” déjà vu body-count.
Old MacDonald had a farm,
EIEIO
And on that farm, he had an app,
AIAIO…” Oh, No!”
“Gerrymander!” proclaims the Democrat.
“Gerrymander!” exclaims the Republican.
Relax, obsolete American citizen,
You will never have to vote again.
The Constitution and Science
Are passing away.
Two-Hundred and Fifty-years
Of enlightened reason is passe.
So, Citizen,
As the next faux-election
Is craftily staged,
Tamper that rage!
Tamper that rage!
Because…
Taylor and TravisAre finally engaged!
Sheldon Firem
Hambden Township
