Today, they are the Republican Party. And they all wish to destroy the US to remake it as an ignorant, repressive society where only white heterosexual men have any rights.

Yes Ohio voted in Issue I in Nov, but the GOP holds nearly every top post and office in the state and just endorsed the Mango Mussolini.

I’ve been extremely upset over this whole debacle ever since it was announced. It stinks of a back door, secret, done deal. The salary and perks this yahoo is going to get from Ohio taxpayers is unbelievable.

Whatever were the trustees thinking, (or smoking) fawning over a Trump stooge in every way who has absolutely zero experience in education? His voting record shows he has voted with Trump 96% of the time.
I guess he’s only anti-public-education, anti-immigrant, anti-diversity, anti-woman, when he’s not getting a huge paycheck and perks at the taxpayers’ expense. I couldn’t myself come up with anyone WORSE for the job. And I know other YSU alums who feel the same way.

Any ideas that he would attract donors seems to be working the opposite way. He’s already alienated many. Some of them who promised millions.

News reports say the trustees are just flabbergasted at this reaction by the public. What did they expect, hiring an extremist, partisan, hack with no experience in education? I fear now for the legitimacy of YSU and the backwards slide of all that Jim Tressel accomplished there.

If Johnson had any class, he’d say, “I’m flattered but I can see how my presence here is undeniably controversial, so I’ll remain in Congress serving my constituents “. But, no, he’s probably giddy over his new gig and all the prestige he thinks he’s worthy of. It makes me nauseous to the core.

He talks like a backwoods hillbilly, but I suppose that cleverly appeals to the majority of his constituents in small mining towns along the Ohio River. That's how the Ohio GOP gerrymandered a safe district that included very blue Youngstown. In 2000 during Operation Red State they added a narrow tail to that district that followed the river almost to Cincinnati. Bill Johnson spoke their language.

How that qualifies him to lead YSU leaves me without words. Well, except for the hundreds I posted above.

It’s just unimaginable to me that the trustees dropped this lucrative deal in his lap. This had to have been in the works behind closed doors.

I guess actually qualifying for a job isn’t a thing anymore, it’s long as you’re a Trump toady and you live in a red state.

Maybe then it can rid itself of the criminal stink.

But did not know how he was as an administrator. Tressel’s parents came from my hometown, but were gone before I was born. Would be curious your thoughts on his admin.