Video from the Columbus Protest at ORPINO (Ohio Republican Party In Name Only) Headquarters

Note: This was originally posted shortly after midnight, and has been carried forward so it will be closer to the top today.

UPDATE: Matt Hurley at Weapons of Mass Discussion, posted at 10:24 p.m. Monday evening –

Did ORP Really Call Cops on Tea Partiers?

My sources say yes.

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Just found this. Watch:

Text of the YouTube info (spelling corrected):

Columbus Tea Party protest of closed-door endorsement of David Yost for State Auditor. Republican party bosses pushed him out of Attorney General race. Constitution-loving Ohioans get gun-hating RINO Mike DeWine. Patriots support CPA Seth Morgan. Yost should go back to AG race. End tyranny!!! No more RINOS!!!

Towards the end of the vid, the degree of police presence isn’t clear, but it’s clear that police are present.

Here are the early paragraphs of the report from the Dayton Daily News’s Bill Hershey report on tonight’s events:

The Ohio Republican Party endorsed Dave Yost, Delaware County prosecutor, for state auditor on Monday, Feb. 1, but state Rep. Seth Morgan, R-Huber Heights, remains in the race for the nomination, said Rob Scott, Morgan’s campaign spokesman.

“I am pleased and humbled to have this endorsement,” Yost said in a press release. “I know the challenge ahead of me to fill the shoes of Mary Taylor is huge. I’ll work hard to keep a conservative in that office and put together a campaign to win.”

“Dave Yost would have been a great attorney general,” Scott said in a press release. “The Ohio auditor’s office is not a bargaining chip to be played for nor is it an office for someone who concedes to political pressure.”

About 30 critics of the decision to endorse Yost demonstrated outside the party meeting at GOP headquarters in Columbus, party spokesman John McClelland said in an e-mail.

“We are a big tent party and sometimes people have disagreements. I talked with some people and they were very cordial,” said McClelland.

Mark Haverkos of West Chester in Butler County, who helped organize the demonstration, said demonstrators had backed Yost for attorney general.

A DDN commenter claimed a crowd of 42.

Here’s most of the AP’s coverage:

The Ohio Republican Party has endorsed a county prosecutor as its candidate for state auditor.

Party officials said Monday that David Yost will be their candidate for the statewide office, which opened up when Auditor Mary Taylor announced she would be the running mate for Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich.

Yost was selected over Republican state Rep. Seth Morgan.

Yost, a prosecutor in Delaware County north of Columbus, only recently moved into the auditor’s race, dropping a bid for attorney general.

State Committee member Teri Morgan said Yost has the ground game in place to run an effective statewide race and has strong conservative credentials. ….