Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski encouraged his Facebook audience to write down the addresses of residents displaying signs supporting the Democratic presidential ticket in their homes ahead of the 2024 U.S. Presidential election.
Zuchowski, who has been accused of voter intimidation, took to both his public and personal Facebook accounts on Friday in order to post about his displeasure at the possibility of Vice President Kamala Harris winning the presidency, outlining steps he would encourage his community to take should that be the outcome in November.
"When people ask me...What's gonna happen if the Flip – Flopping, Laughing Hyena Wins?? I say...write down all the addresses of the people who had her signs in their yards!" Wrote Zuchowski. "Sooo...when the Illegal human "Locust" (which she supports!) Need places to live...We'll already have the addresses of the their New families...who supported their arrival!"
So voter intimidation?? WTAF https://t.co/rVnshcCV1d pic.twitter.com/FBoosFDmVy
— The Wild Wild Breast (@Slee_333) September 16, 2024
Let’s be clear—voter intimidation is a federal crime. Also, the cities of Kent, Ravenna, and Streetsboro sued the county and sheriff alleging Zuchowski wrongfully kept money he should’ve distributed to a joint task force established in the 1980s that he disbanded in 2021. https://t.co/Egw0h99Cx7
— Destinee Stark (@destineenstark) September 16, 2024
Portage County Commissioner Tony Badalamenti resigned from the county's Republican Central Committee following this incident.
In a video also posted to Facebook, Badalamenti announced his resignation alongside his denouncement of Zuchowski's post, stating that he did not want to be a part of such leadership.
"It's scary to hear an elected official from the highest law enforcement in Portage County say such things," said Badalamenti in the video. "The damage this group of folks has done to the Republican Party is heartbreaking."
"I just thought it was pretty ignorant. Once it goes on Facebook, nobody really cares where it came from. If it's you, it's you," Badalamenti told journalists at Fox 8.
Hoping Ohio is better than this...
— Darrel Rowland (@darreldrowland) September 16, 2024
Portage County sheriff: 'Write down the addresses' of Kamala Harris supporters who display yard signshttps://t.co/hGpmuKE5id
"I took an oath to the Constitution to protect all of those foreign and domestic," former U.S. Marine and current Portage County resident William Lane told Fox 8. "That had nothing to do with party. It's the same oath that Bruce (Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski) took."
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