What do you see when you open Kevin Coughlin's Kimono...

... Pete Kostoff... YUCK!

"Opening the Kimono", "Pulling back the curtain", whatever you call it, some folks are just too dim to realize that they're providing others a front....

So, too, with Kevin Coughlin. So how do we know Pete Kostoff is Kevin's little (or not so little) secret? Let's start in Spring 2007 when Kevin and Pete hatched Pete's little plot to take over the Party - Pete met with Summit County Party loyalist, Sheriff Drew Alexander, and asked for his support. Kostoff is reported to have said that the movement could not succeed without Alexander's support. Sheriff Alexander, a supporter of the Party's current leadership refused to support Kostoff and Coughlin.

More recently, in state central committee filings made by Coughlin, Kostoff and his wife Pam were among the first to sign Kevin's wife's state central committee petition. In filings made on Thursday, January 3, 2008 with the Summit County Board of Elections, Kostoff's wife Pam was a leading circulator of Coughlin petitions. Many members of Kostoff's and his wife's family are candidates for the central committee.

In Coughlin's brave new world, Kostoff is set to assume the role of Finance Chairman. You know the golden rule - "He who has the gold rules." Get ready King Pete's reign to begin if Coughlin is able to unseat the County party's current leadership. More importantly, get ready for the end of an independent Republican Party in Summit County. Pete's law partner and co-collaborator on all things political is none other than Democrat Finance Chair Wayne Jones. Isn't it cosy and convenient, both political parties run from the same practice group of one law firm...