Tag: Sara Carruthers

Sara Carruthers Loses to Diane Mullins in the 47th District: Don’t work against the Central Committees and new media

It was wonderful to see Diane Mullins win the Representative seat for the 47th District, beating out Sara Carruthers in the primary who had held that seat.  I think Diane will do a great job, bring some fresh perspective to that seat, and represent the people of Hamilton and the surrounding area very well.  But this is a cautionary tale that deserves some thought because it was Sara Carruthers who had come out after the election of November 2023 and referred to Tea Party types in the Republican Party as radicals, as she was alluding to the assumption that party politics existed in some moderate relationship with communism and that she knew better than everyone else how to navigate those choppy waters.  Her crime was one of the Blue 22 coalition to put the moderate Speaker Stephens into power and undercut the much more Republican presence that had been planned.  So she was a declared RINO and made herself known to everyone as such, leaving the Central Committee to pull her endorsement and support Diane Mullins as a replacement, a much more conservative Republican.  And I said so much then and put my support behind the Republican slate card.  In that same exchange, Sheriff Jones became frustrated and went out on his own not seeking a party endorsement.  Things are getting hot in politics, and for good reason.  Who needs Democrats when our representatives are like Sara Carruthers?  Or Cindy Carpenter, for that matter.  And like Sara, many in Ohio went on to support Matt Dolan over the party pick of Bernie Moreno for the senate seat.  Even after the Central Committee of Ohio had put their support behind Bernie, there were many establishment Republican types who refused to deal with reality and instead supported Matt Dolan. 

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The approach was arrogant, and the money people continued to support Sara Carruthers even after she was rejected by the Central Committee, which carried over into several state races, most notably with Moreno.  Arrogance comes from an assumption that they have more of a right to pick people who are good for them than the average voter because they put more money into politics and deserve it.  Sara Carruthers had much more money to win in the 47th District than Diane Mullins.  I also heard a lot from people during this campaign that George Lang was just like Sara Carruthers and had donated money to each other’s campaign.  They were both RINOs, so how could I support George, not Sara?  Once a RINO, always a RINO, according to these opinions.  However, my distinction falls under the actual representation of voters and how a candidate views that role.  Obviously, with Carruthers, she was not happy with the political tide from the MAGA movement, and she was not pleased to see Lynda O’Conner lose her seat on the Lakota school board in November of 2023.  Many manipulations went on with the Central Committee in that case where Lynda received a party endorsement by tampering with the vote.  There were some games going on between West Chester and Liberty Township that forced Lynda through her endorsement process, and people responded by not voting for her, defeating her soundly at that next election.  So perhaps Sara Carruthers thought that money would win out in her election and that the party endorsement wouldn’t matter much.  And Sheriff Jones went through a similar process.  He was vulnerable if someone wanted to run against him.  However, the respect between the Central Committee and Party Establishment types had been tested, and there was apparent ambiguity on the matter, which was quite simple. 

I think it’s great that Pastor Diane has been so widely endorsed. As to the church and state separations, that has been a terrible experiment. It’s against the law to conduct election fraud, have open borders. And to traffic drugs. If the churches support Diane, the world is a better place for it.

Money does not buy what people think it does.  Traditional media is not the way to win campaigns, and disrespecting Central Committees is a bad trait in state politics, especially in Ohio.  More donors providing a larger war chest does not work like it used to, with new media being the primary way people get their news.  Some of my articles for endorsed candidates saw individually more than 35,000 hits in the week leading up to the primary election in March, which is typical for me.  The newspapers never say much about political candidates, so as voters are curious about the names they see on yard signs, they look them up and usually find my articles because they are longer and are more opinionated than what they get from traditional media.  As a result, my endorsements usually impact my pick because it is one of the best information platforms for people who don’t already have a firm pick in mind during elections.  And I knew when I did my piece against Sara Carruthers that it would offset the money she had in her war chest because radio ads, television, and yard signs didn’t work.  That’s not where voters are getting their information anymore.  It might be a launching point, but it isn’t the destination.  Voters want opinions about their candidates, and vlogs, blogs, and podcasts are the best ways to inform voters who they are voting for.  And those are much less expensive ways to communicate, but they also demand more personal authenticity than just a static one-page ad in the newspaper used to provide.  This has made it harder for RINOs to hide their liberalism, which ultimately was the downfall of Sara Carruthers.

At the heart of the matter was respect.  Chairman Todd Hall addressed that issue to the Butler County Republican Party with an obvious tone that supported Trump’s nomination for 2024 to run for president.  Any fantasies that RINOs would have had in dumping party endorsements in favor of donor sentiment or shoving through endorsements that the Central Committee did not adequately pick had diminished, as they should.  Plotting and scheming against the voters is not a good way for a political party to validate themselves because if that’s how it is, then they aren’t worth the trouble.  Over these past few elections, new media and the power of the Central Committee had been tested, but the results were noticeable.  The political parties were not in charge.  Donors couldn’t buy support with unfair leverage as they had in the past.  And Republicans who acted like Democrats were going to be punished and cast aside.  No matter how long they had been in office or how well-liked they were by the establishment.  All the schemes to eliminate Trump are based on the same logic.  And back to George Lang, he never betrayed Trump.  He might associate with people like Matt Dolan and others who are obvious RINOs.  But he never stepped away from MAGA’s ideas of making America First.  But Sara Carruthers did, and her sin was in being one of the Blue 22, which set Republicans back severely in Ohio from the Speaker seat.  And she had to pay.  Just as others who join her in deceit and betrayal, thinking they know better than the average voter what needs to happen in politics and to mask it, can spend money on more yard signs to stay in power.  That’s not what happened with Sara; her story should be a lesson to all.  Don’t betray the Central Committee by playing games.  Representing their wishes will make things a lot better for everyone involved.  And that’s how the ball bounces in politics from now on.   

Rich Hoffman

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Vote for Diane Mullins in the 47th District in Ohio: She has the Republican Party endorsement and she’s a very respected church pastor

I am thrilled to see Rev Diane Mullins running against Sara Carruthers for the 47th Representative seat in Ohio.  Sara has shown herself to be the Nikki Haley of the Butler County Republican Party, disparaging MAGA Republicans as if she hoped that party politics would swing back to the globalist brand that has brought so much trouble to the world of politics.  The Central Committee criticized Sara Carruthers because she broke caucus with House Republicans last year and joined Democrats to elect a moderate Speaker.  She revealed herself as one of “the Blue 22” who joined Democrats to prevent the Ohio House from the type of reforms that were needed to align with an America First platform.  And after Lynda O’Connor was voted out of the Lakota School Board, a lot of soul-searching had to be done in Butler County politics.  It can be a tough job trying to meet the needs of donors who want entirely different things from politicians than voters do, but Sara had crossed the line and paid for it when it came time to issue party endorsements.  Sara has a lot of money in her war chest, but the person on the slate card is her challenger in the Ohio primary, Diane Mullins.  And I am rooting for the pastor of Calvery Church in Hamilton to unseat Sara for a more appropriate representative once Trump is back in office, and an America First platform will be needed from top to bottom in Republican positions.  I’d vote for Diane Mullins in a second and would be very happy to do so.  In my district, I will be voting for Thomas Hall.  However, when it comes to the 47th District, after what Sara Carruthers said and did over a very short time, she deserves to be replaced by someone who represents that district more accurately.  After all, that is the name of the game.  Not every district is the same; the goal is to ensure that voters get proper representation.

From my experience in these kinds of political discussions, where Constitutional concepts are at the core of all discourse, I have found that religious people tend to do better when it comes to defending constitutional necessity.  Since our laws are based on Judeo/Christian Biblical tradition, it takes people familiar with religious life to understand and apply law to daily life.  We’ve tried secular politicians, and they are too easily moved off their mark and corrupted at the slightest temptation.  It has always been a challenging game to play where large amounts of money had to be raised to get a politician’s name identity so that they could even get elected.  That would put politicians always at the short string to those donors, which then could pull them off course to constitutional alignment.  But that has changed a lot over the last few years, where traditional media has lost much of its power, and vlogs, podcasts, and blogs like this have turned out to be far more potent than yard signs and television ads.  More people spend their time getting news online than watching it in front of the television.  So that plays into this opportunity to have someone like Diane Mullins in the 47th seat instead of someone who clearly couldn’t handle the pressure in Sara Carruthers.  Wherever possible, I think the Ohio House would do better to have religious people in representative government, lessons learned.  I’ve always thought that way, but for the sake of society in general, they wanted to believe a more secular approach was possible, but it isn’t.  That experiment has failed miserably.

Of course, there’s more to a representative position than just being religious.  However, in Diane Mullins’s case, she has a lot of experience working with large groups of people and leading community improvements.  It’s interesting to hear how print media trained in classic reporting interprets a pastor of a church running for elected office.  Many of those people have very little understanding of what church on Sundays entails or what the context of biblical study plays in our law and order society.  So they repeat the same woke rules that BlackRock has flowed down to them from the World Economic Forum and expect the people of Hamilton, Ohio, to accept those standards.  News flash, ordinary everyday people don’t care one bit what the aristocrats from Davos think about religious opinion.  They have solid and independent views in Butler County, Ohio, and don’t want a United Nations filter on their political discourse, significantly benefiting Diane Mullins.  She’s fresh and passionate and has proven she can walk through the valley of death and resist temptation.  And that is needed in Columbus.  We need a lot more like her to represent our government.  If we had them, we would be a lot better off in the future.  Traditionally, someone like Diane Mullins would not get much traction because the donors would choke off access to the Central Committees because they controlled the media.  However, as everyone has learned over the last ten years, traditional media is a thing of the past.  A war chest can get some yard signs out.  But it can’t buy people’s opinions as it once did, which has been a hard lesson for the Republican Party.  The hard lesson of Trump should have been evident to everyone, but the globalist types thought they had control, but they never did. 

There are a lot of people who only get involved in politics for the money that can be made off the power the government provides, and among donors, if their business survival depends on globalism, then they are going to try to steer their political representatives into that direction, to protect their viability.  That’s how Mitch McConnell has got himself into so much trouble with his shipping business and how John Boehner lost all credibility as a pot lobbyist.  I’ve had some hard talks with people who have to walk that fine line, and it’s not easy.  However, government service becomes much more viable when the Bible guides representatives.  And I think Diane Mullins would bring a lot of fresh air to the 47th District.  Friendships often form in political efforts because almost everyone is likable when the rubber hits the road.  But we must judge what people do, not what they say, and in Sara’s case, she played a role of deceit when she worked to keep a Speaker of the House who was much more America First from taking the gavel, and for that, she needs to pay.  It will be interesting to see how Diane Mullins does with the Butler County Republican Party endorsement as opposed to the amount of donor money Sara Carruthers has.  It will be a real test of where we are these days on what voters get from their representatives and whether they can break free of the kind of controls that have previously held politics down.  Do the donors control the party, or is it the voters?  We’ll find out on March 19th, 2024.  I hope that Diane Mullins will get a chance to make Butler County Great Again, which could lead to a whole new set of opportunities for a good, moral government. 

Rich Hoffman

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Ohio State Central Committee Members Show the Trend in Modern Politics: Sara Carruthers did not get endorsed by the Republican Party, among others

It’s not just the cosmetics on corporate television; we are seeing some real trends in politics that everyone should take notice of.  What we learned after 2020 was just how much control an invisible sector of a ruling class had over our elections, and in America, we were very far away from a real republic.  It was a kind of dictatorship run by corporate conglomerations who thought that communism China style was the wave of the future and that everyone else should get on board with it.  I read countless books, particularly by people like Ray Dalio, who had already committed to this World Economic Forum view of the world from the power players at Davos early in the last decade, so for them, it was all a done deal.  But as mystified that many are that Trump is headed to be the nominee for the Republican Party and that Ohio was one of the first states to fully endorse him officially, there are a lot of perplexed faces out there from the mainstreamers who thought they had it all figured out.  They didn’t, and the evidence of all that was obvious in a recent Central Committee meeting in Butler County, Ohio, where the actual trends were showing themselves quite obviously.  The mainstream candidates found that they weren’t so mainstream and that the baked-in opposition party approach to mass collectivism, such as the local Sheriff’s commitment to unionized labor, was dramatically out of step with the coming political trends.  No surprise for me, I have watched this evolution since before the Tea Party movement started in 2009, as a direct reaction to the implantation of Barack Obama as a terrorist selection of the Weather Underground party, which many of us pointed out but were not listened to.  It was the same kind of denial that resulted in local politics in 2023 as the Central Committee picked new faces for party endorsements to replace the old ones. Suddenly, the political world took on an entirely new meaning. 

For instance, there has been a lot of talk lately about Sara Carruthers, a state representative for the 47th district in Ohio who had just been censored for not supporting the Speaker of the House that should have been elected, but instead worked with Democrats to put in place a known RINO, last year.  After the defeat of Lynda O’Conner off the Lakota school board in 2023, Sara expressed her views about extremism in the Republican Party to the Journal News quite explicitly, saying that she found them alarming.  For a long time now people have been frustrated by Sara’s obvious leanings toward the Democrat Party and there has been a desire to purge the party of RINOs, (Republicans in Name Only) and that has most percolated within the Central Committee meetings.  Over the last decade, better people have joined these Central Committees and have sought to reform the Republican Party from the inside out because they were frustrated with the kind of Republicans who were running the party, people like John Kasich and John Boehner.  But there was always a lot of strong-arming and intimidation that went with these meetings, so it has taken a while for many members to find their courage and conduct themselves the way that party politics was designed to best represent the voter base of a community.  So Sara didn’t get an endorsement for the Republican Party this time; instead, it went to Diane Mullins.  Shocking in the traditional way of viewing politics, where those who raise the most money tend to have the most power.  That shift has changed since Trump entered politics. Gradually, the Central Committees have grown the courage to fill their roles appropriately instead of being intimidated into voting a certain way. 

Another emerging trend is in MAGA candidates, like Bernie Moreno, who J.D. Vance has endorsed as a partner over Secretary of State Frank LaRose.  Frank LaRose only received 30% of the vote among the Ohio State GOP Central Committee, whereas Bernie Moreno received 70%.  Remember the story about Sheriff Jones, who went on a personal vendetta against State Rep Thomas Hall? It looked like the young man was done in politics because the powerful sheriff targeted him for destruction, along with several other people as well.  Thomas received 100% of the vote.  But when it came time to endorse the sheriff, he did not come highly recommended, which is a direct result of his activism against the very popular Butler County auditor Roger Reynolds, whom the sheriff falsely prosecuted for purely political power-playing reasons.  At this last meeting, according to those there, the Sheriff was very upset about his weak vote and decided to pull his name from the endorsement process.  I recently had a pleasant conversation with Sheriff Jones about his new car in the parking lot of an event we were both at.  It was a nice car.  We also joked about our hats because we both wear cowboy hats in public.  And we kept the conversation light.  The vice mayor of Hamilton, Ohio, was there, and the meeting was a “lofty” occasion.  I may like the Sheriff personally, but he has not shown himself to be a Republican these last few years since Trump left the White House.  And that exploded at this recent Central Committee meeting.  Without a full-throated endorsement, he decided he was done with the whole political party endorsement process and didn’t need it.  After all, who was going to run against him?  As angry as he was, who else could he blame?  He was using the political party to strong-arm the Central Committee for years, and finally, they stood up to him, and he didn’t like it.  But it was based on his actions, not theirs.  It’s in subtle ways like that which politics is changing all across America, and many have not yet figured out just what kind of impact that will have.  Which I say will be dramatic. 

People are tired of corruption in politics, and many good people have joined the Central Committees in their communities to help root it out.  For too long, powerful political characters and their donor backing imposed their will on Central Committee members without much respect.  But that has changed.  Central Committee members in Ohio endorsed President Trump in these same meetings, so the trend is moving in an obvious direction.  And if I had to bet money on it, I would say that all this has the attention of Jack Smith’s case in Washington, D.C.  He knows his case is going nowhere and now he’s looking to shift the blame to the Supreme Court by accelerating the trial for insurrection.  The goal was to prevent Central Committee members from endorsing Trump ahead of the primaries coming up.  But now that Trump is so far out early, these court cases won’t do what they were intended, so Smith is looking to get out of it and place the blame on the high court to protect his reputation.  I’m also sure that there is a way for Sheriff Jones to get back into everyone’s good graces.  He was good in Butler County when Trump was in the White House for the first time.  And now that Trump is running again, the Sheriff can get behind that effort and people can come together again.  But the days of forcing big labor RINOs who would otherwise be Democrats if they ran anywhere else are over.  Central Committees are doing their jobs, not just rubber-stamping some of these political candidates.  And when they do wrong, such as Sara Carruthers has, they endorse alternatives, which is about time and a sign of good things to come.

Rich Hoffman