To the Editor:

Civics 101 briefing. Washington D.C., state, county, and township governing entities and an overlooked body of elected representatives significantly affect your daily life.

Every county in Ohio has, as defined by law, namely the Ohio Revised Code 3517.03, a county Central Committee being the controlling committee elected by you, respective to each major party. Each county’s distinct voting precinct district citizens elect one representative. Under its authority are its officers, formed Executive Committee, and sub-committee(s).

The Central Committees’ primary purpose is to advance forward candidates who filed petitions successfully for ballot placement. It also by internal vote, names for recommendation or actual appointment replacements as applicable within county and state office vacancies.

Multiple Ohio county Republican Central Committees have had to engage an arduous undertaking to recover their lawful authority as the controlling committee from renegade and self-empowering chairpersons. By-Laws have been craftily reconstructed, effectively subverting the lawful authority and controlling power of the citizen’s representative elected officers. Often, vote-banking has been set in place to overtake the Central Committee elected officer’s votes, effectively shutting out the voice of representation.

Consequences of power seizing have been the anointing of pre-determined Primary candidates, sidelining others, and strong-arming wannabe candidates from the ballot. Concentration of power mixed with attractive government paychecks and weak candidates wanting campaign money and a job further empowers the “Candyman.” The “Candyman” in boasting arrogance passes out candy, audaciously and ghastly executes tyrannical power, political lawfare, “Wrap-Up Smear” tactics, “unchosen candidate’s” personal destruction, censorship, and aggressive egregious punishment of deemed dissenters.

Today’s news is replete with reports of seized power which no longer represents the citizen but instead self-interests. Unelected cherry-picked bureaucratic cronies overtake duly elected representatives propagating corruption, self-empowerment, and money games.

Freedom of Speech personally and by representation is at the core of our constitutional liberty! JD Vance in Munich addressed the censorship and criminalization of Freedom of Speech. The seed beds of tyranny must not be enabled to cross pollinate! “Making America Great Again” and “D.O.G.E.” are causing the “Good Ole Boy Club” to panic fearing exclusive power loss! The strategic manipulative forceful hijacking of your rightful lawful power of representative voice must stop!

The Central Committee elected officers are your county lawful representatives! Know them! Ensure that they represent you not the self-empowered and cronies! Stand with them as they stand for you! They are up against a minacious “Candyman” “Good Ole Boy Club!”

Mark E Guy

East Palestine