Jon Stainbrook

Ben Roberts gone so soon? Resigned just this afternoon? Where's the party in celebration going on tonight?

This one is just too bizarro world to ignor. The Board of Elections has been turned into a Peyton Place by the puppet master of the daily local.

Will the Secretary of State and State Attorney General ignor this? Perhaps a few phone calls from Pittsburgh will take care of that.

Why has Roberts resigned? Perhaps it just became too hot for him to be around. How many felony 5 charges he amassed is to be seen.

Here is the response to what was on the different computers that were confiscated:
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Lucas County Board of Elections Response to Secretary of State Jon Hustead -

For the first time in years there is no endorsed Republican running for Toledo school board. I thought there were swarms of people ready to do Jon Stainbrook's bidding at his beck and call? Or is it a sign things are worse than ever? At least for this race, that is the case.

But at least he made a ton of phone calls. He did not answer why the success did not trickle down locally, but it is probably because he has no answer to this.
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Newsmakers 2010: Win some, lose some: Jon Stainbrook

Lucas County Republican Party Chairman Jon Stainbrook overcame controversy in 2010 and said he has since worked to move the local party forward But for roughly six months, the leadership of the Lucas County Republican Party (LCRP) was in question.

http://www.toledofreepress.com/2010/12/30/newsmakers-2010-win-some-lose-...

Here is something you won't hear on any TV, Radio or in any newspaper. The Lucas County Republican Party is holding a secret meeting this Weds. the 22nd of December at 7 PM. The secret location is at the Omni on 2567 W. Bancroft Street in Toledo. Agenda will be to vote on some secret stuff that the Chairman wants the rank file to rubber stamp and some worthless awards to be given out to the brain trust who didn't work for the candidates, but did all the Stain's bovine skedattle.

PR:

Rich Iott, Republican Candidate for Ohio's 9th Congressional District, issued the following statement thanking the volunteers at the Lucas County Republican Party Victory Center:

It's with filings like this that Tom Noe went to jail. The post office attempted to deliver this many times, but no one took delivery. Must have been on the phone with the door locked or they were playing hide from the mailman.

http://www.toledoblade.com/article/20101016/NEWS09/10160317

So, if you have an important document to send to the Republican's in Toledo and you want it to get there on time, just send it return receipt.

With what happened with the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor, this one won't stick either. For now it's off to the State Board of Elections.

According to Fox Toledo a Union pulled George Sarantou's support given an argument with Jon Stainbrook. While the details are fuzzy, it is said that Jon is involved.

http://www.foxtoledo.com/dpp/elections/local/Union-pulls-support-for-Sar...

Following the collapse of Ben Konop's valiant try to get a new system of government on the ballot for Lucas County, the local paper called out Jon Stainbrook. The Blade made it clear Stainbrook was to pick up the move and get the petitions signed. Guess what? Big suprise today the paper announces that Stainbrook will do just that. Jon claims it will allow for more Republicans to be elected. He doesn't explain how. Nor does he explain how changing the structure without changing the people in government will do us any good. Please Jon, come knocking on my door.

Well Eric Skowron not really tortures, but allegedly (yeah right) kidnaps and tries to kill dog.

In-case you did not catch this:
http://swampbubbles.com/files/stainbrookpostitionlist.pdf
Eric Skowron was the treasurer at the 2008 Central Committee meeting which Jon Stainbrook originally took power.

More on Skowron being affiliated with Jon (about 2008 meeting):
http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/tempx/662549.pdf

Read more on the shooting:
http://toledoblade.com/article/20100702/NEWS02/100709921/0/BUSINESS03

Facebook also:
http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/61822#61837

Live Blog!
http://lakecurrents.com/20100609/lucas-county-republican-party-committee...
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I plan to be there and if possible will live blog the event. I can't make promises given the many possible things that can happen, but I am going to give it a good try. Not being on Central Committee will allow me to better observe what is going on.

The live Blog will be embedded on http://lakecurrents.com/ if I can do it. There may be more than that....stay tuned.

Jeff Simpson Announced that He, and Others, Have been Approached by a Blade Reporter in Possession of Simpson’s Notebook filled with Confidential Republican Information.
Jeff Simpson, the Lucas County Republican Party Chairman, announced that he regretted that names of innocent people might be published in the Toledo Blade in an upcoming story.
“It was an accumulation of some ideas I had for the Republican Party, and a list of people who might be willing to help,” said Simpson. “To say the ideas were preliminary, and the list incomplete would be a vast understatement.”

2 justices step away from GOP feud cases
COLUMBUS - A pair of Ohio Supreme Court justices have taken themselves off the bench when it comes to deciding a pair of cases stemming from feuding factions of the Lucas County Republican Party.
http://toledoblade.com/article/20100323/NEWS24/3230426/-1/SRMAIN

Here is what the Former chair of the Lucas County Republican party is doing:

New Central Committee chair adds legal challenge
http://toledoblade.com/article/20100319/NEWS09/3190325/-1/news09

Brunner defends her pick; Local GOP case in top court
http://toledoblade.com/article/20100320/NEWS24/3200359/-1/NEWS

High court to consider GOP squabble in April
http://toledoblade.com/article/20100313/NEWS24/3130362/0/OPINION

Stainbrook coverage issues in the Blade
http://toledoblade.com/article/20100307/COLUMNIST17/3070316/-1/OPINION

Jon most likely gambled that if he were to drag the decision in the court, he would get appointed by default. Looks like Brunner sent a large lump of coal to the Stainbrook group by appointing Ben Marsh to the Lucas County Board of Elections.

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In the Blade:

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner on Monday appointed Republican Party veteran Ben Marsh to a disputed vacancy on the Lucas County Board of Elections.

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100301/NEWS09/100309977

More detailed story:
http://toledoblade.com/article/20100302/NEWS09/3020429

In the article in today's Blade, Jon is saying the Fire Department caused the delay and even suggested they were in cahoots with the Jeff Simpson faction to get the meeting closed down. You can see in the story a clearer picture of what went on (view the full story). I wanted to provide some more background now that I see how the article went and Jon's take on the event. At no time did Jon or anyone say what was going on downstairs. If there was an issue, why not send someone upstairs and explain the delay? For the whole 40-45 minutes during the delay, no one said what is going on or why there is a delay, it was only after the meeting started that Jon and Megan came up and said why there was a delay. The fire department inspectors were only upstairs for 3/5 minutes, at that time everyone wondered what was going on and it was a period of time after they went downstairs (10-20 minutes) that where we thought Jon would never start the meeting, especially after what appeared at the time that he called the fire department. So for Jon to say that the meeting started in violation of the fire inspectors is assuming he actually had the skills to communicate what was going on.

Prosecutor drops GOP signature fraud case
Cuyahoga County Special Prosecuting Attorney James A. Gutierrez released a report Feb. 26 in which he stated, “criminal prosecution is not appropriate” in the GOP signature fraud investigation.