• The Complaint
• The Outcome

The Complaint

I filed this complaint against Kathy Magel due to this statement on her campaign flyer:

“My committee work has consisted of extensive hours authoring the new zoning code in conjunction with the City Engineer and the City Zoning Inspector”.

I thought that the use of the words, “authoring the new zoning code” was quite a stretch because the City of North Canton had retained a planning and development consultant from Cleveland (D.B. Hartt, Inc.) to rewrite the city’s new zoning code at a cost of $50,000. A copy of my complaint to the Ohio Elections Commission dated February 16, 2002, details my concerns with Kathy Magel’s campaign flyer for the November 6, 2001 General Election.

The documents listed below link to public records available at the Ohio Elections Commission. The documents are in chronological order beginning with the original complaint filed with the commission.

The issue can be understood quickly by reading the complaint, the affidavit of the respondent, and then the transcript of the Probable Cause Panel. The other documents are general correspondence.

• Complaint from Chuck Osborne to the Ohio Elections Committee dated, February 16, 2002
• Affidavit to Ohio Elections Commission from Kathy Magel dated February 27, 2002
• A Notice of Probable Cause Hearing to be held on February 28, 2002, was mailed on February 21, 2002
• The Probable Cause Panel Agenda for February 28, 2002

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The Outcome:

• The Minutes of the Ohio Elections Commission Probable Cause Panel (Place Link to Minutes of Hearing).
• Transcript of the Ohio Elections Commission Probable Cause Panel meeting of February 28, 2002 (Place Link to Osborne vs. Magel Transcript). This is an 11-page transcript of the testimony that was presented before the Probable Cause Panel on this complaint.

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