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Ohio Supreme Court may not intervene in Summit GOP fight

By Stephanie Warsmith/Beacon Journal staff writer

POSTED: 11:22 a.m. EST, Feb 01, 2008

State Sen. Kevin Coughlin has dropped a request that the Ohio Supreme Court intervene in the fight for control of the Summit County Republican Party.

David Langdon, Coughlin's Cincinnati attorney, requested late Thursday that the court dismiss a mandamus action that he filed last month.

The Supreme Court has not yet ruled on this request.

The complaint asked the high court to certify seven Summit County Republican Party central committee candidates that the county elections board had disqualified from the March 4 ballot because of alleged problems with their petitions. The action also requested that the court allow 16 other contested central committee candidates filed by Coughlin to appear on the ballot.

Coughlin is attempting to unseat Summit County Republican Party Chairman Alex Arshinkoff by gaining the majority on the party's central committee in the March primary. This committee must meet within 60 days of the election to decide the party's leadership.

Langdon's dismissal request was made ''without prejudice,'' which means the complaint could be refiled.

The complaint was filed as an expedited elections matter and Langdon and assistant Summit County Prosecutor John Manley, who represents the elections board, were in the process of filing the required briefs. A brief by Langdon was due by the end of the day Thursday, when he instead asked that the complaint be dismissed.

Coughlin said today that Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner soon will decide on whether the 16 central committee candidates in dispute should be allowed on the ballot. (She must break a 2-2 tie vote by the Summit County Board of Elections on the certification of those candidates.)

This left only the seven other candidates in the complaint to the high court, and Coughlin said he thought his side likely would lose on some of them.

So Coughlin said he decided to ask that the complaint be dismissed and focus on the election, which is just over a month away.

If Brunner rules that the 16 candidates shouldn't be allowed on the ballot, he said he might go back to the Supreme Court on the issue.

State Sen. Kevin Coughlin has dropped a request that the Ohio Supreme Court intervene in the fight for control of the Summit County Republican Party.

David Langdon, Coughlin's Cincinnati attorney, requested late Thursday that the court dismiss a mandamus action that he filed last month.

The Supreme Court has not yet ruled on this request.

The complaint asked the high court to certify seven Summit County Republican Party central committee candidates that the county elections board had disqualified from the March 4 ballot because of alleged problems with their petitions. The action also requested that the court allow 16 other contested central committee candidates filed by Coughlin to appear on the ballot.

Coughlin is attempting to unseat Summit County Republican Party Chairman Alex Arshinkoff by gaining the majority on the party's central committee in the March primary. This committee must meet within 60 days of the election to decide the party's leadership.

Langdon's dismissal request was made ''without prejudice,'' which means the complaint could be refiled.

The complaint was filed as an expedited elections matter and Langdon and assistant Summit County Prosecutor John Manley, who represents the elections board, were in the process of filing the required briefs. A brief by Langdon was due by the end of the day Thursday, when he instead asked that the complaint be dismissed.

Coughlin said today that Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner soon will decide on whether the 16 central committee candidates in dispute should be allowed on the ballot. (She must break a 2-2 tie vote by the Summit County Board of Elections on the certification of those candidates.)

This left only the seven other candidates in the complaint to the high court, and Coughlin said he thought his side likely would lose on some of them.

So Coughlin said he decided to ask that the complaint be dismissed and focus on the election, which is just over a month away.

If Brunner rules that the 16 candidates shouldn't be allowed on the ballot, he said he might go back to the Supreme Court on the issue.



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