In The News - EXCLUSIVE: Ohio Republican committeeman and radio host torch Ohio Republican Party and its chairman during on-air interview

EXCLUSIVE: Ohio Republican committeeman and radio host torch Ohio Republican Party and its chairman during on-air interview

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CLEVELAND, Ohio - Shannon Burns is president of the Strongsville GOP and a member of the Ohio Republican Party State Central Committee (ORP SCC). Burns appeared on Always Right with Bob Frantz Tuesday. The interview aired on one of America’s oldest radio signals—AM 1420 in Cleveland.

Frantz quizzed Burns about Friday’s state GOP meeting during which 36 of 66 members voted to endorse incumbent and beleaguered Gov. Mike DeWine (R).

Burns told the Cleveland talk show icon, in summary, that ORP Chairman Bob Paduchik banned the public and select media, ignored ORP bylaws and pushed through what Burns alleges to be a fake endorsement for DeWine because Paduchik was putting the will of “his boss [DeWine]” ahead of the principles of the party and the will of Republican voters.


Discussion between Frantz and Burns centered on:

• Barring public and media from the meeting, which Burns alleges is against the bylaws of the ORP;
• The voting down of a resolution that would have prohibited 17 members of the 66-member SCC (over 25% of the committee) who either are paid by the governor or serve at his pleasure as an appointee or re-appointee from voting to endorse DeWine;
• Burns alleging that Paduchik and the ORP parliamentarian falsely stated that the SCC couldn’t conduct a roll call endorsement vote—which would have put SCC members on the record in their support or disapproval of a DeWine endorsement;
• The failed attempt of SCC members to isolate an endorsement vote for DeWine specifically by removing him from the grouped slate of statewide candidates that included Secretary of State Frank LaRose, Attorney General Dave Yost, Treasurer Robert Sprague and Auditor Keith Faber;
• Gov. DeWine not showing up for his own endorsement from his state party—a move Burns claims was made to avoid boos from the crowd and hard questions from media, noting that contender Jim Renaacci was in attendance but unable to speak; and
• $1.5 million given in direct and in-kind contributions to the DeWine/Husted campaign ahead of Friday’s endorsement which will give discounted mailing for marketing materials, slate cards for election sites and millions in campaign contributions and payments for campaign staff and sundry expenses.

Burns called the way the Friday meeting was run “foolish,” and it reinforces to the public the idea that the party is corrupt.
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The entire interview can be heard by going to Always Right: Shannon Burns gives us the corrupt PBP of the ORP's Mike DeWine endorsement - Always Right with Bob Frantz - Omny.fm.