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OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY FILES COMPLAINT OVER “MISLEADING” DARK-MONEY AD ATTACKING OHIO SUPREME COURT CANDIDATE

For Immediate Release:

Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020

CONTACT: Kirstin Alvanitakis, kirstin@ohiodems.org, 919.923.4055

The complaint also calls on Justices Sharon Kennedy and Judi French to adhere to their “clean campaign pledge,” disavow the advertisement and publicly call on the RSLC to discontinue airing it.

“If Justices Sharon Kennedy and Judi French are going to make ‘clean campaign pledges,’ then they are obliged to adhere to them,” said Ohio Democratic Party Executive Director Greg Beswick. “This is straightforward -- the ad makes false statements, has been judged to be ‘misleading’ by an independent fact checker and impugns a sitting appellate judge and candidate, along with two current members of the Ohio Supreme Court. The Ohio State Bar Association must take action, and Kennedy and French must publicly disavow this ad and demand it be taken down.”

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Campaign Ad Watch: GOP group's attack on Brunner misleading in race for Ohio Supreme Court

Randy Ludlow - The Columbus Dispatch

Published 1:23 p.m. ET Oct. 27, 2020 | Updated 2:56 p.m. Oct. 27, 2020

The ad: A 30-second commercial from the Republican State Leadership Committee, a tax-exempt nonprofit that spends millions of dollars nationally to support Republicans running for state judicial and down-ticket offices, that attacks Ohio Supreme Court candidate Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat.

Analysis: The implication that Brunner, who is running against French, freed a child predator is misleading. The ad concerns her ruling in a 2-1 10th District Court of Appeals decision involving Lawrence Dibble, a former teacher at Wellington School in Upper Arlington. He pleaded no contest in 2013 to 17 felony counts of voyeurism and was sentenced to four years in prison. 

Brunner and Judge Gary Tyack, a Democrat running against incumbent Republican Ron O'Brien for Franklin County prosecutor, ruled in 2017 that police conducted an "unreasonable search" of Dibble's home for incriminating videos of girls undressing.(O'Brien also is using the case to attack Tyack in a TV commercial.)

The appellate decision was not about the prison sentence of Dibble, who was freed three years into his sentence by a trial court judge and placed on house arrest while his case was on appeal.