Lawsuit, complaint...some say just another day in election season

The complaints come and go. Especially when election season heats up.

Nathaniel Livingston Jr. filed a complaint with the Ohio Elections Commission accusing Citizens for a Safe Hamilton County (sales tax proponents), the Enquirer and its editorial page editor of printing false information about the sales tax increase.

At a hearing Thursday morning, the elections commission found no probable cause and dismissed the allegations.

County Commissioners David Pepper and Todd Portune had enacted the sales tax in May only to have it stopped and forced onto the November ballot by a citizen referendum. They said Livingston's complaint (he was among those involved in the referendum effort) was nothing but politics. They said the Election Commission's decision proves it is certain sales tax opponents, rather than the supporters, who are throwing around the misinformation.
Read their press release here.

This also came on a day when other sales tax opponents filed a lawsuit against Sheriff Simon Leis for allegedly using county funds to promote the tax increase.

Read the Enquirer story here.

Read the lawsuit here.

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