Mandel didn’t deserve platform newspaper gave him
In the Sept. 28 Dispatch Metro Section, the top headline read in large print “Candidates focus on churches” with a photo of Josh Mandel.
While the other candidates were mentioned later in the article on page 4, Mandel got the most attention.
What is ironic is that under the photo, it mentions that it was taken at a speech in an Orrville church where “approximately 15” were in attendance. So he speaks to an extremely small group of people in a rural church and he gets his message amplified to all the readers in central Ohio by The Dispatch. Now if he spoke to a church crowd of 1,500, then it is a newsworthy headline.
Ironically, I am going to be in the Orrville area Saturday for my family’s annual Apple Butter Day, where we have been getting together and making apple butter in a copper kettle over a fire for as long as my 91-yearold mother can remember and we will have “approximately 15” attendance as well.
I don’t suppose that is newsworthy or even the fact that the number would be even larger except that the toxic politics of people like Mandel have made some family members stop talking to and now attending family get-togethers.
Families are being torn apart by toxic politicians like Mandel — please stop giving them a larger megaphone.
Roger Imhoff, Sunbury