A magistrate ruled that House Republicans must pay a $1.6 million lease agreement entered by their predecessors.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Franklin County magistrate pinned a contested, $1.67 million debt stemming from a defaulted office lease on the Ohio House Republicans’ political arm, less than a month before Election Day.
Householder’s top adviser, Jeff Longstreth, signed the seven-year lease with LCP Properties, an LLC registered out of Virginia, on behalf of what was then the Ohio House Republican Caucus Committee. It spanned the entire eighth floor of the Chase Tower in Columbus, overlooking the Ohio Statehouse. It’s not immediately clear how and when LCP will collect on the judgement. Common Pleas Judge Andria Noble, a Democrat, can still amend the magistrate’s ruling before finalizing it. John Kuhl, an attorney for LCP, declined to provide specifics on how LCP will collect but said he’s hopeful OHRA will volunteer what it owes considering the order.
OHRA attorney Don Brey in February warned that the predecessor entity that signed the lease no longer exists and “you can’t get blood from a turnip.” In a Monday interview, he declined to say whether OHRA will object to the magistrate’s order or appeal it to a higher court. Beyond being a matter of principle and of political gamesmanship, the main advantage to controlling OHRA is that it has campaign-finance privileges under state law that make it far easier for legislative candidates to pool and spend vast amounts of money on advertising for top-priority candidates during campaign season.
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