Josh Mandel and William Kristol. Photo credit: wksu.org
This latest report from BigLeaguePolitics --
"Ohio Senate Candidate Josh Mandel Pocketed Donations Intended for 2018 GOP Nominee, Paid Tens of Thousands to Mistress"
-- will come as no surprise to readers of this blog, although it is of concern that an Ohio liberty group has endorsed Mandel's candidacy for the US Senate seat presently held by RINO Rob Portman. Richard Moorhead reports:
Ohio Republican Senate candidate
Josh Mandel paid tens of thousands of dollars to a woman he was dating during
his 2018 Senate campaign, while married to another woman.
FEC reports show that Rachel
Wilson, Mandel’s finance director and mistress, was
paid more than $100,000 between his 2018 campaign and a PAC supporting
his candidacy.
. . .
Three dozen Republican women,
including three women who left Mandel’s campaign citing a toxic work
environment created by Wilson in her continuing duties with Mandel’s 2020
campaign, have urged Ohio Republicans to reject Mandel, warning he’ll
“embarrass” the party if nominated as a candidate for the US Senate. Mandel
has run for statewide office five times in the past 12 years, with some Ohio
Republicans criticizing Mandel, who has served in elected office since 2003, as
a career politician who’ll put on the act he needs to in pursuit of the next
political gig.
. . .
Questions of Mandel’s ethics go
beyond his financial arrangements with his girlfriend while he was married to
another woman. Mandel broke onto the scene of national politics as a protege of
war criminal Bill Kristol, handpicked as an instrument to advance the
nefarious neoconservative’s political views in the United States Senate in an
ultimately failed 2012 campaign against Sherrod Brown. Kristol, an advocate of
Middle East regime change wars Donald Trump partly ran against in 2016, had
recruited Mandel as a candidate in Ohio’s 2012 US Senate election to
challenge Sherrod Brown.
Read the full – ugly - report here. Mr. Mandel says all the right things in front
of the camera, but he is obviously just another self-serving hack. Candidate Mike Gibbons looks better and
better.
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