Joe Hallet of the Dispatch reported this morning that a Republican Central Committee member sent a letter to the FBI, the Ohio Inspector General and other state and local law enforcement agencies asking them to investigate John Kasich and his allies for their attempts to pressure him out of the Central Committee race.

According to Andrew Manning, Portage County Republican Party Chairman, Kasich representatives Alex Arshinkoff (Summit County GOP Chairman) and Bryan Williams (Ohio Board of Education), asked him to withdraw from the Central Committee race in exchange for “influence”:

“Had I agreed to withdraw as a candidate, they […]