I wish people would listen. I feel like that frustrated parent who has all the answers but has to stand by and watch their kids make dumb mistakes that cause them much pain and suffering anyway. And if you care about everyone, it can be a harrowing experience. But essentially, from the beginning, the prosecution against Roger Reynolds, the popular Butler County Auditor, was as flimsy of a case and motivated by the same intentions as the Fat Alvin case in New York against President Trump. These are purely political cases where the prosecutors are trying to use legal warfare to take out political rivals. In this case, it was elements of the Republican Party in Butler County, even extending into the Attorney General of Ohio to exert power and position within the party. It had nothing to do with any actual crimes committed. Roger Reynolds found himself having the law used against him in a weaponized format, something that happens more often than people would like to think, over disagreements regarding family connections and how tax money is spent, just theorizing on such spending. And for that Roger Reynolds has had to pay a fortune in legal bills, lose over three years of his life professionally, during his prime income-building years, and was popularly elected into a very powerful auditor position only to be removed from office because of a conviction on a last minute charge tossed over the fence to attempt to get anything to stick against him to get a jury to put him in jail for 30 days and ruin his political career for the rest of his life. The case had nothing to do with justice but everything to do with power, who controls the legal system, and how they can then use it to take out political rivals. And nothing more.
On Monday, May 13th, 2024 after many years of fighting for his innocence, a 10th District Court of Appeals in Columbus reversed the conviction against Roger Reynolds from a few years earlier, bringing somewhat to an end the long ordeal that started for him back during Covid when some of the people from Roger’s office as auditor stopped coming to work over Covid rules. Now I get Roger’s position. I’ve talked to him about it, and I am even more traditional regarding the COVID rules for employment. Doctors don’t run our economy and when they stuck their noses into our business with all these new globalist Covid rules, they were way over the line. It was the job of science to figure out how to stop COVID-19 and its spread with science. Not to shut the world down with a bunch of new rules to establish a new normal. And some of these kids then, and now, thought that meant they could all work from home to avoid spreading the virus. When Roger had to deal with that trend in his office, he let people go for not coming to work, and that made people mad. People then promised their family members that they had the power of the law at their back and could get revenge on Roger. At that point, an attendance issue then became a big labor one where communist policies seep into the assumptions of a government workforce, and the power of government is then weaponized against that assumption.
At that point, Sheriff Jones made it his mission to go after Roger Reynolds, spend money on investigations, and waste a lot of money in court proceedings to destroy Roger Reynolds’s life in court. Many different charges were thrown in Roger’s way, with the power of the Attorney General being added to the mix, trying to make the former auditor look like a corrupt official who had abused his power of office for personal gain. But nothing was sticking, and Roger was found innocent of all charges. At the last minute, this issue with Lakota schools and a country club golf connection came up, and Roger suggested to the treasurer that some tax money being returned to the school be applied to a venture that he thought would be a good idea. It was just a discussion about how to spend tax money. But Sheriff Jones and the prosecutors threw the weight of their office to destroy the life of Roger Reynolds in precisely the same way that Fat Alvin has been doing to Trump. Over the last few years, we’ve seen it happening more and more as these same tactics have been used nationwide. It has been the collision of why people pursue big government jobs to have immense power over innocent people, which is the problem. When government is sought and used to give power to people who otherwise wouldn’t have it, abuse of government then becomes the subject, and the warning of why we never want to give any people, no matter who they are, too much power through government to abuse others over a quest for power. In most cases, even if the prosecutors get a conviction, they are being overturned on appeals. But by the time a defendant spends years trying to prove their innocence, their lives are destroyed in the process. So, even if they don’t go to jail, they are destroyed in the process. Now that Roger Reynolds has had his conviction overturned, where does he go to get his reputation back?
I am proud to call Roger Reynolds a friend through all this. I’ve told him this when I’ve seen him throughout this process. I am proud of how tough he has stayed in proving his innocence. I want to see him get back into elected office and do good work because when political enemies see you as that much of a threat, I want to see people like Roger sticking it to those powers to keep things honest. I would hire Roger Reynolds before and after this appeals ruling because Roger is one of the good guys. And in a world run by evil and malicious people, like Fat Alvin in New York is against Trump, they are the ones who need to be punished and be fired from government work whenever possible. I remember the day the indictments came down against Roger and the people who called me to talk about it, very haughtily. These were small-government conservatives who were impressed with Sheriff Jones’s power to drum up charges to essentially take down a rival within the Republican Party. And I was surprised how many people played along with it because it was wrong. I knew it was a crooked case from the beginning because I knew all the people involved and understood the rivalry in ways that weren’t reported in the media. But what surprised me was how vicious the ordeal became, where the lawyers were the only ones who profited. They are pleased to have millions of dollars wasted on their services over an issue that essentially was just a family rivalry within a political party. And this is why we must always watch how people use government power, and why we can’t give too much of it to any one person. Because they can’t handle the temptation to abuse it. However, in the case of Roger Reynolds, he was always innocent of those ridiculous charges. And it’s fantastic that the appeals court saw the case for what it was and reversed the conviction. Justice still works, even if it takes a while, and a lot of money has to be spent on it to get it. Let’s go back to dueling, as I say more often. It was a lot cheaper, and the real bad guys usually went away, saving taxpayers a lot of money in the future.
Rich Hoffman
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