Next week the Ohio Senate Criminal Justice Committee takes up the nomination of Acting Ohio Department of Public Safety Director Cathy Collins-Taylor.

It will be a historically unprecedented hearing.? For the first time in modern Ohio legislative history, a Senate committee is holding a hearing in which the nominee herself personally appears before the committee.? Unlike Congressional confirmation hearings, the Ohio Senate has normally just held a vote on the nominee.? However, given the sensational charges in I.G. Thomas Charles’ report, what is shocking is that Senate Chairman Thomas Grendell is planning on calling FIFTEEN witnesses during the […]