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September 12, 2014

Porn Allegation Dogs Incumbent in Ohio Auditor Race

MEDINA COUNTY, Ohio—An ugly piece of political hackery appears to be rearing its head in Medina County, Ohio, where charges of inappropriate porn viewing in 2008 have been levied against the Democrat incumbent, Micakel Kovack, who is running to keep his 21-year-long position as county auditor. His challenger this November is Medina's finance director, Republican Keith Dirham. According to The Medina Gazette, "A computer disc containing files from Medina County Auditor Michael Kovack’s county-owned computer, which was handed over to investigators, contained pornography, according to a former employee in the auditor’s office. Anne Murphy, who worked for Kovack from October 2012 to March 2013, said she gave the disc to Medina County Commissioner Pat Geissman in July, who passed it on to the Ohio Ethics Commission." Murphy says she had received the porn from another employee. "Murphy, who now works for county Treasurer John Burke, said she got the disc from Annette Ehrlich, the information technology manager of the auditor’s office," reports the Gazette. "Murphy said Ehrlich found the pornography on Kovack’s laptop in 2008 after he brought it to her for maintenance." Kovack has denied that the porn was his, and his lawyer is claiming that the sudden revelation so many years after the fact, on the eve of a tight election are too much of a coincidence to be believed, and asserts instead that they are "part of 'a political conspiracy' between the commissioners and the county treasurer 'to smear' the auditor’s reputation," all of whom are Republicans. In a prepared statement, Kovack's lawyer, Steve Bailey, claimed, "It is no secret that Commissioner Geissman and her fellow commissioners as well as Medina County Treasurer John Burke are political opponents of our Medina County auditor. It should be noted that Commissioner Geissman did not involve herself in this matter until the Sheriff Department’s investigation, in conjunction with the special prosecutor, failed to turn up any wrongdoing. “Why the three Republican County Commissioners do not trust the Sheriff from their own party is a mystery to us," he added. Today, fellow Medina County dems had Kovack's back. According to the Gazette, "In response to allegations from a former employee that Kovack had pornography and personal files related to his rental properties on his county computer, county Democratic Party Chair John Welker said the party is standing behind Kovack. He called the allegations against Kovack politically motivated." Needless to say, the Republican Party Chair, Nancy Abbott, has denied those claims, saying yesterday, “The Republican Party has nothing to do with it." Whether that is true or not, the investigation, while incomplete, has yet to find "any evidence to support the allegations" that Kovack's used his work computer to view porn, and even if it does, it may be too late to make a difference in the Nov. 4 election, because as Erie County Prosecutor Kevin Baxter indicated on Wednesday, it may not even be completed by then.

 
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