Erica Crawley

[upbeat music] We hit the half point of the week, coming off a night of two shootings in Columbus.

The Franklin County Commissioner, Erica Crawley, immersed in, uh, two different corruption scandals, speaks, and we have some clarity on the Olentangy Orange hazing situation.

Those are the major headlines we'll get to in a moment.

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Anduril, the big drone company, weapons company, uh, their CEO has thoughts on capital punishment, and those thoughts, trust me, will not be popular [laughs] with, uh, well, a lot of people, I think not just Democrats, not just students, some Republicans, as I have had a conversation the other day with a staunch Republican who's very angry, angry and upset about the fact that Pete Hegseth wants to execute, uh, Nidal Hasan, the doctor who did the Fort Hoo- Hood shooting, uh, that Pete wants to do it publicly and livestream it.

So we'll get to all of that today.

But let's start with Erica Crawley because we don't hear from her very often.

Well, we don't hear from her speaking.

Uh, you lead with the most important information.

And in a story that is, uh, well, it's got some age on it, yet it is still a story, anything involving c- Franklin County Commissioner Erica Crawley and her, um, questionable, shall we say, uh, comportment as a commissioner, taking free concert tickets and VIP suite access.

Uh, racking up, uh, 17 parking violations with her county-issued car, and then having the county, that's you, the taxpayer, pay for it.

That's all still news.

We have new details.

That's what the headline says.

New details emerge about Erica Crawley's parking tickets paid by Franklin County.

And I'm looking through here and I'm like, $580 ticket for parking in a handicapped spot.

There's no greater gift you can give someone than the gift of paying attention to them with your time, so I appreciate that very much.

I'm not sure, uh, Franklin County Commissioner Erica Crawley will be appreciative of the time that State Auditor Keith Faber is going to be paying to her.

Uh, Lacey Crisp, 10TV Saturday night reported that Auditor Faber's office has confirmed they are looking at Erica Crawley's, well, pic.

Her use of comped concert tickets and VIP suite access to a July 2nd concert at Crew Stadium, where she was, Crawley, uh, angry, combative, and nasty to Columbus Police who were simply following up on an inquiry by event security about, uh, some unruly women who were in the VIP area without the proper credentials being displayed.

Uh, or Auditor Faber could be intrigued by the 17 parking tickets that Erica Crawley incurred in 2023 and 2024 and paid for with Franklin County taxpayer money until she was caught by Lacey Crisp of 10TV.

One of those violations was parking in a handicap spot on a bright, sunny day, as 10TV's report Saturday night showed, because they take a photo of your car when you are ticketed for illegally parking.

Crawley was in a handicap zone one time, she was in a no stopping zone another time, she was parked the wrong way in a parking spot another time, and oh yeah, one of the perks that come with being a Franklin County commissioner is free parking at county facilities.

Maybe I was just fantasizing about his answer.

Is it from the county prosecutor? No.

Is it from the state auditor, Keith Faber, who has the power to, like, put Erica Crawley in handcuffs and walk her out of the Franklin County Commissioner's meeting for perpetrating fraud, not just in the free tickets and the VIP access to the suite she got at the concert on July 2nd at Crew Stadium, but for only paying the parking tickets [laughs] when she was forced to do so? No, this quote comes instead from Erica Crawley.

It's awesome when you have the power to break the law, and then you have the power to say, "The matter's over." Here's her quote.

"I consider the matter resolved and support the administration's efforts to ensure greater clarity and consistency in the future." In other words, "Uh, fix it so nobody else gets to do what I get to do 'cause I'm entitled, but this matter's over." And she's got her buddy writing an editorial in The Columbus Dispatch, Melissa Crum, who is a social justice grifter.

Well, her, in my opinion, fraudulent, because [laughs] like I've said before many times, when you have to put an adjective in front of justice, social justice, climate justice, it's not justice.

Justice doesn't need an adjective.

So Melissa Crum profits a lot over doing business with the county and with the city, so of course she's going to come to the aid of Erica Crawley in a Dispatch editorial.

And because, you know, there were five other Black women with Erica Crawley at the concert, Melissa Crum has to say that all these, uh, investigations into Eric Crawley- Erica Crawley taking free concert tickets and then, uh, not paying her parking tickets "should not displace the allegation that five Black women were subjected to repeated credential checks and ultimately faced a police response involving nine special duty officers." Well, I don't have a problem with the nine special duty officers going up to five Black women, because the v- the video, the body cam video that I saw, showed those women to be unruly and uncooperative.

He's not taking that without contributing his own degree of ineptitude to the, uh, race for worst Franklin County Common Pleas Court judge.

Uh, of course, a Black activist here locally is coming to the defense of Franklin County Commissioner Erica Crawley, who is, uh, doubly corrupt that we know about.

There's more probably behind the curtain with Erica Crawley than her just taking free concert tickets and paying for parking tickets with county money until she was caught.

Now, down in Cincinnati, first full day of deliberations in the Rodney Hinton trial.

He is the Black father whose son shot at police, was then shot and killed by police, and Rodney Hinton decided he would exact revenge on the first cop he could pause his car, get a running start, and run over.

[upbeat rock music] Uh, Fox News is celebrating its, uh, 30th year in business.

I don't know if Lacey Crisp of Channel 10 is trying to get a f- job at Fox News, but she's doing [laughs] great reporting on the corruption of Franklin County Commissioner Erica Crawley and the corruption at, uh, City Hall with Andrew Ginther and, uh, Shannon Hardin bickering back and forth.

Uh, now Lacey Crisp has, uh, filed a Freedom of Information Act request.

You remember the dust-up at, uh, Old Crew Stadium, July 2nd, America 250 concert, Erica Crawley, Franklin County co- uh, Franklin County commissioner there, uh, on free tickets, brought her gal pal friends.

They were in the VIP area, for some reason not wearing their or, uh, or not displaying, I don't know if they weren't wearing or not displaying their VIP wristbands.

Event security goes and gets the cops.

"Hey, there's these five loud people in the VIP area.

They don't have the right credentials.