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By Stephanie Warsmith Beacon Journal staff writer
POSTED: 01:41 p.m. EST, Jan 14, 2008
Here is a nine-minute recording of an argument that erupted last week during a Summit County elections board meeting.
The exchange happened during a four-and-a-half- hour long meeting Thursday
in which the board voted on which candidates should remain on the March 4 primary ballot.
Wayne Jones, the Democratic chairman of the board, called Alex Arshinkoff, a Republican board member, an ''asshole'' and ''crazy.'' Arshinkoff accused Jones and his Akron law firm of being behind the attempt to oust him as chairman of the county Republican Party.
State. Sen. Kevin Coughlin, R-Cuyahoga Falls, is openly leading the effort to replace Arshinkoff as chairman by trying to get a majority on the county central committee in the March election. The central committee will meet 60 days after the March election to decide the party's leadership.
The argument occurred during a discussion of whether board employees scrutinized the central committee candidate petitions filed by Coughlin more than those submitted by the county Republican party looking for errors to throw the candidates off the ballot.
During the exchange, Arshinkoff mentions his contention that Pete Kostoff, an attorney in Jones' law firm of Roetzel & Andress, is masterminding the attempt to replace him as chairman. Arshinkoff has said repeatedly that both parties would be run out of the same law firm if Kostoff took over as Republican chairman, and Jones, the county's Democratic party's finance chair, is named chairman as expected.
Kostoff has denied having any interest in being chairman, though he has said he'd like to see Arshinkoff replaced.
The recording begins with Jones and Bryan Williams, the Republican director of the elections board, talking.
Others who can be heard speaking are Marijean Donofrio, the Democratic deputy director of the elections board; Jack Morrison Jr, the second Republican member of the board; Tim Gorbach, the other Democratic board member; and Michael Dalton, a Democratic board employee.
The most heated exchanges between Jones and Arshinkoff are at the beginning of the recording and about six minutes in. The Beacon Journal is providing the entire recording to give readers with as much context as possible.
Here is a nine-minute recording of an argument that erupted last week during a Summit County elections board meeting.
The exchange happened during a four-and-a-half- hour long meeting Thursday
in which the board voted on which candidates should remain on the March 4 primary ballot.
Wayne Jones, the Democratic chairman of the board, called Alex Arshinkoff, a Republican board member, an ''asshole'' and ''crazy.'' Arshinkoff accused Jones and his Akron law firm of being behind the attempt to oust him as chairman of the county Republican Party.
State. Sen. Kevin Coughlin, R-Cuyahoga Falls, is openly leading the effort to replace Arshinkoff as chairman by trying to get a majority on the county central committee in the March election. The central committee will meet 60 days after the March election to decide the party's leadership.
The argument occurred during a discussion of whether board employees scrutinized the central committee candidate petitions filed by Coughlin more than those submitted by the county Republican party looking for errors to throw the candidates off the ballot.
During the exchange, Arshinkoff mentions his contention that Pete Kostoff, an attorney in Jones' law firm of Roetzel & Andress, is masterminding the attempt to replace him as chairman. Arshinkoff has said repeatedly that both parties would be run out of the same law firm if Kostoff took over as Republican chairman, and Jones, the county's Democratic party's finance chair, is named chairman as expected.
Kostoff has denied having any interest in being chairman, though he has said he'd like to see Arshinkoff replaced.
The recording begins with Jones and Bryan Williams, the Republican director of the elections board, talking.
Others who can be heard speaking are Marijean Donofrio, the Democratic deputy director of the elections board; Jack Morrison Jr, the second Republican member of the board; Tim Gorbach, the other Democratic board member; and Michael Dalton, a Democratic board employee.
The most heated exchanges between Jones and Arshinkoff are at the beginning of the recording and about six minutes in. The Beacon Journal is providing the entire recording to give readers with as much context as possible.
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