Bob Taft: A Taft campaign ad quoted a Cleveland Plain Dealer article as saying 'Taft didn't raise the taxes' regarding his time as Hamilton County commissioner, omitting the word 'himself' from the original text; the Fisher campaign sought and briefly won a Franklin County Common Pleas restraining order, which the Ohio Supreme Court vacated on jurisdictional grounds without ruling on the ad's accuracy.

This is one of 6 dated entries in Bob Taft's record in office on this site, filed as a action dated October 1998. The sentence above is the entry as this site states it; anyone else's reading of it is listed below in their words.

Date

1998-10

Evaluations

Ohio Supreme Court, State ex rel. Taft-O'Connor '98 v. Franklin Cty. Court of Common Pleas

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/oh-supreme-court/1426386.html

Said

the Ohio Elections Commission, not a common pleas court, has exclusive jurisdiction over false-statement election claims

Url

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/oh-supreme-court/1426386.html

Kind

action

What

A Taft campaign ad quoted a Cleveland Plain Dealer article as saying 'Taft didn't raise the taxes' regarding his time as Hamilton County commissioner, omitting the word 'himself' from the original text; the Fisher campaign sought and briefly won a Franklin County Common Pleas restraining order, which the Ohio Supreme Court vacated on jurisdictional grounds without ruling on the ad's accuracy.

• Record in office on Bob Taft's page

1. https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/oh-supreme-court/1426386.html
2. https://clipfile.org/1998/10/14/judge-says-tafts-ad-can-stay-on-the-air-fisher-requests-lifting-of-order/