General Discussion

Austin noted unless they were worried about “recent polling that had former Sen. Sherrod Brown up considerably over Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, and Amy Acton, our candidate for governor over Vivek Ramaswamy.”

“If we are going to talk about partisanship and the FBI, we have to talk about fidelity and partisanship to the United States Constitution and to voting rights,” said Dr. Joseph Wilson, labor historian and union consultant. “And historically the FBI has played a diabolical role in terms of civil rights, human rights and political rights starting with Jay Edgar Hoover and his attacks and subterfuge against Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement.”

Wilson, who was the biographer for A. Philip Randolph, the iconic civil rights and labor leader, said the Ohio FBI raids “were an act of desperation that will backfire and only inspire greater voter turnout.”