Ohio’s current attorney general has spent taxpayer dollars fighting partisan battles; he didn’t even let an hour pass after the overturning of Roe before he ran to the courts to allow Ohio’s onerous anti-abortion law to take effect immediately. He’s joined with other states’ Republican AGs to push a right-wing agenda. Jeff Crossman, the Democratic running for AG, believes that the office shouldn’t be in the business of taking away citizen rights.
As a state representative, Crossman witnessed the House Bill 6 bribery scandal in which First Energy admitted they paid bribes to former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and his republican cronies. And more than just watch, Crossman lead the charge to expel Householder from the Ohio House, the first legislator to be removed from office in Ohio since the Civil War.
Crossman also discusses his opponent’s seeming misunderstanding of Ohio’s new abortion restrictions, causing a 10-year-old girl who was raped in Ohio to flee to Indiana for an abortion. The current attorney general cast doubt on the report, even after the rape suspect had confessed. (He actually stated that the story was false, and refused to apologize after it was verified.)
CoolCleveland caught up with Jeff Crossman at an organizing meeting in Lakewood to discuss the Ohio Attorney General position that he’s running for. View the video interview here and learn more: https://CrossmanForOhio.com