Unable to shame him into resignation and unwilling to expel a fellow Republican regardless of how heinous his actions are, the GOP Speaker of the Ohio state house removed a Republican member awaiting trial after he was arrested for domestic assault and making threats.
The Akron Beacon Journal reports House Speaker Jason Stephens removed Bob Young from his role as head of the influential House Pension Committee. As chair, Young received a $9,000 pay increase on his $69,876 lawmaker’s salary. Young was arrested after slapping two family members during an episode in which he explained he “undervalued Christ as a priority in my family’s life.” He apparently continued to undervalue the Lord earlier this week when he was arrested for violating a restraining order stemming from the assault.
Young personifies the two-tiered justice system Republicans like Jim Jordan decry. Instead of facing felony counts for assaulting TWO members of his family at his home when allegedly drunk, Young’s charges were mysteriously reduced to misdemeanors–a move likely having nothing at all to do with the fact that Young would’ve been forced out of the state assembly, by rule, if he was convicted of the felony charge.