I used to hate politics. I honestly still do.

In fact, the more I become involved, the more I develop a newly refined distaste for them.

I liken it to a flavor not too dissimilar to used cat litter that has grown mold, whereas the more I learn the more I realize what a slimy, sleazy and deceptive tree of corruption our nation and world governing bodies have grown into.

In sticking with the tree analogy, it is an arborist’s nightmare, so rife with the sight and stench of rotten seed that it is, often and sometimes literally, strangling out all of the budding fruit before it even has a chance to realize it’s full potential.

Surprisingly, where I used to find the political landscape boring and nothing more than a good reason to change the channel on the television, I now have a newfound appreciation for the inner workings that underpin the machine driving our illusory perception of reality as the real levers are being pulled behind the curtain.

I’m finding that if you hyper focus on any specific area, person or group within the political landscape, a picture will begin to emerge that was previously imperceptible.

I liken it to those Magic Eye pictures you see in the comic section of the newspaper.

Upon initially viewing it, you see the abstract image as it is presented.

But as you pull it close, back it off, turn it upside down, crumble it up and throw it in the garbage, you get yourself nowhere but frustrated because all along you are looking but, ultimately, never seeing.

It’s not until later, when you pull it back out of the waste basket for one last college try, that you finally begin to make out some of the details. Then suddenly your eyes catch a glimpse of a line and the shapes begin pulling together as your brain shifts and you begin to see that part of the picture that had been hiding there in plain sight the entire time. Now you have transcended from merely looking to finally seeing.

This too, is what happens in the world we all would like to think we know so intimately.  A world controlled by the controllers, the gatekeepers and ultimately, managed by their minions trying to scratch and claw their way into their own perceived relevance by doing the bidding of the former.

What follows below will be another side of the same story currently being circulated, sans all of the copy and paste disinformation that you will find elsewhere regarding this particular subject. Hopefully some readers out there will find this perspective analysis useful.

This report comes to you not from a pundit, a reporter or even someone with credentials from a public office, but from the perspective of a father, an Ohio voter and a campaign insider with first hand experience of working within the corrupt machinations that are sadly our election process.

For the sake of full transparency, I am an active member of the Maras for Ohio campaign team.

Although my tone in this article may lean towards Ms. Maras, my true north objectivity, always points to what is factual regardless of what side those facts may fall on.

Now, if only we could get the perpetrators of this, make up the rules as we go along, rag-tag, broom closet procedural hearing to do the same, we just might have a starting point of some transparency to work with here.

Sadly, I know all too well that is asking too much from our selected officials and their ilk during these times. The funny part is that they still seem to think we don’t see them for what they truly are.

This was not intended to serve as some attempt at pitching a last minute, hail Mary statement with the hopes of it somehow crossing the desk of Frank LaRose before he laid down his final answer. That decision was clearly predetermined by others long before the inconvenient formality of a hearing ever took session.

The intention of this however, is not only to serve as a wake up call for those who believe that their voice and votes still matter to our selected officials, but also as a cartographic road map into the political landscape that is consistently obfuscated and purposely complicated to make it difficult for the non-anointed to run in any political race within our great nation.

Should you decide to run for office and make it past the initial gate-keeping, the bureaucratic filing of the paperwork or the gathering of your required signatures and come out complete, with all of your fingers and toes still in tact, fret not, they have many of other tools at their disposal, constitutional or otherwise, to take you out at the knees faster than you can say “campaign promise”.

We are living through a time in history when the reporters of yesteryear would have given an organ or two to break the kinds of stories that happen today on a daily basis.

Yet, rather than going out and breaking the news, our journalistic body has assumed the role of industry shill copywriters who  have collectively turned a blind eye on humanity for the sake of following the prescribed narrative.

This is being written because there is another side of the story that isn’t being told — because our press is corrupt.

To more concisely lay this out, this will be a two-part story distinctly divided for illustrative purposes.

The first portion will deal with getting to know the players within our story, many directly involved and others maybe not so prominent, however, we will come to see that their mention will help in properly painting the overall picture.

The second part will dive into the meat of the story to lay this out from a more detailed perspective by sticking with the facts brought forth within this case.

So let’s get started with a little intro. Shall we?