Ohio is not “broke.” We waste fortunes propping up tiny school fiefdoms like Jefferson Township, where the superintendent costs more than $550 per student while buses get cut and levies keep coming. At the same time, Mike Turner helps grow the Pentagon budget from $362 billion to about $910 billion while we are told we cannot afford universal health care, child care or a sane voter information system. The problem is not bad voters or too few levies. The problem is a government built to serve the wrong priorities, and my campaign is about redrawing that wiring diagram so it finally works for citizens instead of insiders.

A morning phone call confirmed yesterday’s post hit a nerve—so this follow-up spells out what City Hall defenders blurred. The “temporary” police substation by the bus hub doesn’t justify paying RTA $300K in rent when the city already owns a nearby building and has sunk millions into Paru Tower with no clear public purpose. The same pattern shows up in “economic development” handouts: a law firm allegedly needs a $350K grant, yet there’s no transparent application, rubric, evaluation process, or clawbacks—just public money enriching private players, often through questionable real-estate deals. The post then pivots to politics and accountability: Mike Turner’s donor money and the author’s quick scan for names appearing in Epstein-related documents, followed by a practical rundown of vacant Democratic Central Committee precinct slots and write-in mechanics. It closes with a hard critique of the State’s appeal in the Kevin Wright case—framed as face-saving bureaucracy after a judge found the original trial structurally unreliable, not a mere technicality.

Dayton’s political and civic churn keeps getting weirder. A surprise leadership shuffle at the Dayton Metro Library, a head-scratching “police substation” lease in an RTA-owned building, and a proposed $350K “development agreement” to subsidize a downtown law firm all raise the same question: is this really the new era Shenise Turner Sloss promised — or the same old subsidy machine with a new label? Plus: local media imbalance, a Greene County elections wrinkle, and a personal update from the VA/guardianship front.

Eight candidates may land on the OH-10 ballot after a chaotic filing deadline that exposes why Montgomery County desperately needs a real voter information system. Here’s the early field, the party reorg power plays, and the probate-court bombshell that could crack open the county’s “backroom” status quo.

David Esrati launches his 2026 campaign to challenge Mike Turner in Ohio’s 10th District with a DIY YouTube ad, 108 petition signatures submitted, and a promise to take no donations until ballot access is confirmed. He calls out “election friction” as district lines shift into Butler County, making voter data and absentee request information harder to obtain, and outlines a reform agenda including OKDemocracy, donor privacy protections, elections not auctions, health care for all, and a government-provided payroll tax system.