GOP wants Householder out Death Notice

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The former Republican speaker of the Ohio House, now under criminal indictment, should be expelled from the Legislature, a group of elected GOP officials said in a letter to the current House leader. It’s the second such request by a local official group in two months.

The time has come to act on the fate of exspeaker Larry Householder, a Perry County Republican, the officials said.

Central Ohio’s Licking County, parts of which fall under Householder’s legislative district, has experienced for several months “the adverse impact of being without an effective officeholder” representing the district, the officials said.

“The House of Representatives and its members have had sufficient time to carefully deliberate and consider Mr. Householder’s state of affairs, and it is time to act,” said the March 11 letter to Speaker Bob Cupp, signed by 13 officials, including the Newark mayor and representatives of the county Republican Party, among others.

The letter followed a similar request in February by nearly 20 officials in Coshocton County.

Householder was removed as speaker in July after charges were filed but was reelected in November. A message was left Tuesday with Cupp, who has called on Householder to resign.

Velma L. Zwiebel,

87, of Wapakoneta died Monday evening, March 15, 2021 at her home.

Arrangements are incomplete at Schlosser Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Wapakoneta.