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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Tom Patton- 2022 Update [1]

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Date: 2022-11-29

Ohio state legislator and corrupt sexist trash bag, Tom Patton.

On this date in both 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Tom Patton, who has bounced around the Ohio state legislature on and off since 2003. He spent his six years in the Ohio House of Representatives, and then jumped to the upper chamber in the 2008 election. The then spent eight years in the Ohio State Senate, representing that not at all pretentiously-named town of Strongsville, before making an ill-fated attempt at getting elected to Congress in 2017 in a special election to replace Jim Renacci as Ohio’s U.S. House Representative for Ohio’s 16th Congressional District. That left him out of office, but in 2018, he scrambled back into place into the Ohio House of Representatives to serve District 7.

Now, there have been two moments in the media that have brought Tom Patton to the attention FRED for a profile. The first was a corruption scandal, when back in 2012, during the trial of former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Joe Dimora, that J. Kevin Kelley, a distant cousin of Patton’s, who testified that Patton bribed him with $10,000 to lock in a contract for a copier firm to do business with the district during his tenure. Kelley had some strong motivations for telling the truth, given that he had to cut a deal with the FBI to turn state’s evidence and not end up in jail himself. While investigations have shown there are many ethically suspicious charges within Patton’s financials, he oddly has never been charged.

The second time we saw Tom Patton’s name to appear in the news that caused some consternation was in 2016, when after his opponent, Jennifer Herold, announced her challenge to him, he gave a radio interview that maybe showed he has some issues with the ladies in his attitude:

There might have been a way to challenge her on being politically inexperienced that didn’t sound that misogynistic and like he was practically telling her to get back in the kitchen, but Patton wasn’t about to use it. Though, why would anyone get the idea that Patton was sexist… oh just because he used his official Facebook account as a State Representative to “Like” posts from a 19 year old adult film actress and professional “party companion” in October of 2017. Interesting how he found himself looking at that account…

There’s been a link drawn between sexism and anti-choice support, and go figure, Tom Patton’s voting record fits that pattern, as well as mirroring other conservative idiocy:

Thomas Patton, sadly, won re-election in 2022 with 55% of the vote. This man has somehow been in office now almost two decades, and frankly, we don’t know how he has managed to dodge the term limits laws in Ohio to have served 7 terms when the limit is supposed to be four, unless there’s some loophole about it not being consecutive terms…



One Year Ago, November 28th, 2021: Tom Patton (OH)… 2021 Update

Two Years Ago, November 28th, 2020: Tom Patton (OH)… 2020 Update

Three Years Ago, November 28th, 2019: Tom Patton (OH)… Original Profile

Four Years Ago, November 28th, 2018: Jeb Hensarling (TX)

Five Years Ago, November 28th, 2017: Bud Pierce (OR)

Six Years Ago, November 28th, 2016: Mike Christian (OK)… 2016 Update

Seven Years Ago, November 28th, 2015: Mike Christian (OK)… Original Profile

Seven Years Ago, November 28th, 2014: Scott Esk (OK)

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