STARK COUNTY'S GOP "RIGHT WING" INTERNAL FIGHT?

When the SCPR took a look at Brook Harless' (Plain Township trustee candidate) campaign finance report (pre-general election), all this blogger could see was 'red flags' which prompted a "deep dig" into the question:  "What is going on here?"

It is truly amazing what one finds when one examines things like campaign finance reports and makes "simple" Google (R) searches.

Take a look at Harless' pre-general 2019 campaign finance report:



Note all those "heavy hitter"  Stark Co (and connected) Republicans:

• Jane Timken, Ohio GOP chair
• Sarah Brown of Alliance, a Ohio GOP committeeperson,
• Reggie Stoltzfus, (R, Stark's 50th OHse [Christina Hagan's former office),
• Anthony Gonzalez (R, US Congress 16th [opposed by Hagan in 2018]),
• Bob Gibbs (R, US Congress 7th [a out&out Trump supporter as was Hagan])

And take a look at Harless' 2017 pre-general CFR:



No "heavy hitter Republican official" except for:

• Christina Hagan, then a member of the Ohio House as Stoltzfus' predecessor

• (six years, having been appointed by the Ohio House Republican caucus in 2011 when Todd Snitcher resigned to take a Gov. Kasich PUCO appointment as chair) 

Note:  NO 2019 campaign contribution Hagan to Harless!

Lay on top of all this the fact that Christina's brother Josh ran (as political ally of now OH Hse speaker Larry Householder) against Stoltzfus (a supporter of then OHse speaker Ryan Smith) for the GOP 50th District nomination in May, 2018 while Christina was running against Gonzalez.

Byzantine politics, no?

What to make of all this?

The SCPR thinks that a battle between political right-wingers Hagan/Harless is underway.

Who is going to end up the loser?

Christina Hagan as her ambition to build a Stark County based family political empire vanishes?