Posted on 03/20/2024 10:38:08 AM PDT by RandFan
EXACTLY ONE WEEK before the primary election, the Associated Press dropped a bomb on the Senate campaign of Ohio Republican Bernie Moreno.
The AP told Moreno’s campaign that it confirmed a profile on the “sex-and-swingers” Adult FriendFinder website had been established in 2008 by someone using Moreno’s email account from his car dealership. The Moreno profile was set up to search for “Men for 1-on-1 sex,” the AP reported.
The subject matter and timing of the story were terrible for Moreno, a 57-year-old married man and father. He was about to appear on stage with Donald Trump to get a needed boost in a tight and vicious three-candidate GOP primary against Matt Dolan, a state senator, and Frank LaRose, the Ohio secretary of state. The campaign has already seen $50 million in TV ad spending. For about a month, Moreno’s campaign had kept the Adult FriendFinder story out of the press and largely off social media by: (1) denying any knowledge of the Adult FriendFinder profile; (2) accusing opponents of pushing a smear; and (3) arguing that the profile in question had never been activated with Moreno’s email from one of his Ohio car dealerships.
But the AP checked the Adult FriendFinder metadata—which became public after an infamous 2016 data breach—and used the expertise of a cybersecurity researcher to determine that someone had activated and authenticated the Adult FriendFinder profile by using Moreno’s email.
The AP ultimately couldn’t say whether Moreno himself established, or knew about, the Adult FriendFinder account, which he continues to deny. The AP told Moreno’s campaign it was publishing its story soon.
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His son is gay, thats all you need to know.
Check Dan Rather's computer and cell phone.
This kind of shit is why I have a BIG PROBLEM with protecting the media from most defamation-type lawsuits.
They need to learn to PAY THE PRICE for what they do. For example, who in the media was held accountable for pushing the Trump/Russia ‘collusion’ hoax. For example, why were they not tortured until they revealed their ‘sources’ (assuming there were sources), which led to story after story that was TOTALLY Fake News. Seems like people should be held accountable...unless the media is a 5th Column.
I think this race is yet another where people on FR are celebrating Trump’s candidate winning the primary and then losing badly in the general and handing the f-ing dems the damn Senate. I’m sorry, but when will you people learn?
So wait.
Is the media saying that two dudes hooking up is a bad thing?
In other Ohio news: Dem House Candidate
Gives Victory Speech In Somali After Primary Victor
ROBERT MCGREEVY, dailycaller.com CONTRIBUTOR, March 20, 2024
Democratic Ohio Rep. Ismail Mohamed, a Somali immigrant, won the Democratic primary for Ohio’s 3rd House District on Tuesday night and delivered his victory speech almost entirety in Somali. Mohamed, the incumbent in the district, defeated fellow Somali immigrant Abdirizak Diini, capturing 55 percent to Diini’s 33 percent, according to the Columbus Dispatch. The 31-year-old Columbus lawyer became Ohio’s first Somali lawmaker in 2022, alongside Munira Abdullahi, who won in Ohio’s 9th district in 2022 as well.
Mohamed is a Somali refugee who, after originally escaping the violence in his home country and fleeing to Kenya, came to the United States in 2005, he told Spectrum News in 2022.
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Much of his campaign centered on representing his community’s substantial Somali population – Columbus hosts over 45,000 Somalis, second only to fellow Somali refugee Ilhan Omar‘s district in Minnesota – and he even campaigned on a Somali-owned state television network. Mohamed previously ran unsuccessfully in 2018, falling to then-incumbent Democratic Rep. Bernadine Kennedy Kent in 2018, losing narrowly by just 658 votes, according to the Dispatch. But his 2022 election victory was a landslide, as he won with about 80 percent of the vote, according to the Dispatch. His policy objectives include funding affordable housing and education. “I want to use my voice to fight for equitable policies, all in the pursuit of a brighter future for every resident across the district and State,” he told the Dispatch.
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