Dispute over GOP panel petitions ends in shouting match, vulgarity (It came from Akron)

[Kolesar]

This is great. The Summit County is divided and distracted going into a major election year. This at a time when they should be planning fundraisers for lobbyists.

Elections officials clash

The battle for control of the Summit County Republican Party turned into a shouting match Thursday near the end of an elections board meeting that lasted more than four hours.

Wayne Jones, the board's Democratic chairman, called county GOP chief Alex Arshinkoff an ''asshole'' and ''crazy'' and slammed his hand down on the table.

Arshinkoff, one of two Republican board members, accused Jones and his law firm of being behind the attempt to oust him as the Republican Party chairman.

''You've been behind this whole thing!'' Arshinkoff shouted.

''I could care less!'' said Jones, the county Democratic Party's finance chair.

The argument grew out of a dispute over petitions for candidates for the Republican Party's central committee that were filed by state Sen. Kevin Coughlin, R-Cuyahoga Falls, who is leading the charge to unseat Arshinkoff and appoint a new party chairman.

Jones and other Democratic board leaders accused Bryan Williams, the board's Republican director, of getting board employees to scrutinize the central committee petitions Coughlin filed more thoroughly than those submitted by the county Republican Party, in an effort to find errors that would disqualify the Coughlin candidates.
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[annabanana]

1. I will dance around the funeral pyre of the Ohio Republican party.

[annabanana]

2. I'm kicking this because I think it's happening to the GOP everywhere..

Not just in Ohio.