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Cleveland Plain Dealer's Upset: Democrat's Claim of Assault Isn't Holding Up
Newsbusters ^ | September 13, 2026 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 09/13/2026 7:25:44 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

Was there a threat of political violence against Ohio Democrat gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton over the Labor Day weekend? Or was it much ado about nothing? Acton was speaking to Democrats in a tent in Mahoning County when a man moving toward Acton caused several senior citizens to fall down.

Acton’s campaign put out a statement “praying for the recovery of those injured” and argued “This kind of violence has no place in Ohio.”

What was initially hyped as a serious threat by many liberal sources was later downgraded to just a man "moving forward." The local district attorney has downgraded the charges to mere misdemeanor violations.

This lack of substantial charges against the person who allegedly attacked Amy Acton did not seem to sit well with the Cleveland Plain Dealer. In the first of their two articles about the attack that appears not to have happened, the Plain Dealer pretty much stuck to the facts in their online edition, Cleveland.Com, written by Lucas Daprile on Wednesday, "Prosecutor says suspect ‘never gets near’ Amy Acton at Canfield Fair."

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KEYWORDS: amyacton; fakenews; hoax
This was suspicious from the get-go and the prosecutor later confirmed this was a Nothing Burger much to the extreme annoyance of the Plain Dealer.
1 posted on 09/13/2026 7:25:45 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

Why would anybody read the “Plain Dealer” for other than the obituaries and crossword puzzle?


2 posted on 09/13/2026 7:36:56 AM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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Why would anybody read the “Plain Dealer” for other than the obituaries and crossword puzzle?

FUN FACT: A five year old PJ who was living in Cleveland at the time learned to read before being taught in school by looking at the Plain Dealer comics section every day.

3 posted on 09/13/2026 7:50:27 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Presenting Voter ID to CA Election Officials is Like Waving a Cross in Front of a Vampire)
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So this wretched woman wanted to duplicate Butler. Win by whatever means necessary.


4 posted on 09/13/2026 8:06:57 AM PDT by gibsonguy ( )
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I want to put a banner of a blood covered Acton with the logo” “SHE KILLED MY GRANDMA” in the front yard but my wife says no. She says the neighbors already think I’m too extreme.


5 posted on 09/13/2026 8:06:58 AM PDT by anton
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“SHE KILLED MY GRANDMA”

I'm so sorry for your tragic loss. May you somehow find peace.

6 posted on 09/13/2026 8:15:49 AM PDT by goo goo g'joob (When honest people say what's true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful)
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To: PJ-Comix

I read the Encyclopedia Britannica A to Z by the time I was 15. It was not very economically beneficial.


7 posted on 09/13/2026 8:16:12 AM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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Wake me up when a bullet buzzes her ear and she gets up with some blood dripping.


8 posted on 09/13/2026 8:27:57 AM PDT by allendale
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Who was that reporter, again???

9 posted on 09/13/2026 9:02:52 AM PDT by budj (Combat Vet, second of three generations.)
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“””So this wretched woman wanted to duplicate Butler. Win by whatever means necessary.”””

I had forgotten that Butler was just a fake assassination attempt meant to draw sympathy. Thanks for the reminder.

The attempt at his Florida golf course was fake, too, right?


10 posted on 09/13/2026 9:40:04 AM PDT by shelterguy
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Did I really have to include the difference being Butler was an actual attempt to murder the President? Yeah, I guess I did.


11 posted on 09/13/2026 10:06:13 AM PDT by gibsonguy ( )
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No. I merely suggested that the democrats keep calling it a staged hoax.


12 posted on 09/13/2026 12:05:39 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: PJ-Comix

Democrats lie. What else is new?


13 posted on 09/13/2026 2:04:59 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Democrat cult.)
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