Schmidt Hires Chesley to Investigate Possibility of Vote Fraud by McEwen

WCPO has the story.

NixGuy has a post.

My take: The aggressiveness is justified. One of these days McEwen supporters are going to realize that his conduct over the past 14 years is a serious matter.

This trumps “resume enhancement” and a few days of incorrect endorsements on a web site, doesn’t it?
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UPDATE. April 20, 7 AM: The Cincinnati Enquirer posted this about an hour ago (it was also in this morning’s print edition):

Republican Rep. Jean Schmidt has hired Democratic lawyer Stan Chesley to take legal action claiming former congressman Bob McEwen, her opponent in the May 2 GOP 2nd Congressional District primary, voted illegally in Ohio while he was a resident of Virginia.

Chesley, with Schmidt at his side in his downtown Cincinnati law office, said there is “a serious question about whether he should be allowed to vote for himself” on May 2.

He said he has yet to decide the form of the complaint he will file and whether it will be filed in state or federal court, or before the Ohio Elections Commission.

An Enquirer review of public records has shown that McEwen and his wife, Liz, have used the addresses of two different women in Highland and Hamilton counties to register to vote in Ohio, even though they did not live there. The McEwens own a home in the Washington suburb of Fairfax, Va.

“My question is, why didn’t he run in Virginia? That’s where he lives,’ said Chesley, a trial lawyer who has raised millions for Democratic Party coffers.

Michael Harlow, a spokesman for the McEwen campaign, said Schmidt has become “the laughingstock of the nation.”

“What other Republican would seek political cover behind one of the nation’s leading Democrat super-lawyers?” Harlow said.

I would think that at some point, these people need to seriously consider what they are allowing themselves to be associated with. It appears to be too much to expect for the candidate to recognize what his continued presence in the race may be doing to their reputations and credibility.

UPDATE 2: Let’s not forget that McEwen dragged his family into this (about halfway through the post), and that Highland County cancelled the registrations of his wife and two oldest children in addition to his in that infamous “Mrs. Lyle’s house is not your home” letter. Is he really willing to expose his children to legal action that could affect the rest of their lives in the interest of holding on?
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Previous Posts:

• April 16 — Bob McEwen’s Easter Nightmare
• April 17 — First with the Worst: Official McEwen Statement
• April 19 — Bob McEwen Should Withdraw, and Won’t, So Here’s an “Easter Nightmare” Update