The Democratic candidate for attorney general in Ohio, David Pepper, paid about $10,000 in parking fines over the last 14 years, according to the Associated Press.
Records reviewed by the Associated Press found that Pepper (pictured) had paid 180 tickets in that period. The tickets were mostly for expired parking meters or parking in truck loading only or no parking zones. Pepper, the Associated Press noted, was also ticketed about a dozen times for expired license plates.
The records reviewed by the Associated Press showed that Pepper paid $9,229 for 182 tickets in the last 14 years or so.
Pepper is running against Attorney General Mike DeWine (R).
Pepper campaign spokesman Peter Koltak said the attorney general candidate got a lot of the tickets while he was going to late meetings.
“Amid a hectic schedule, mostly years back, David got too many tickets, and he paid them,” Koltak said. “He’s happy to debate old parking tickets versus Mike DeWine’s current practices as attorney general.”
The review by the Associated Press showed that, on average, he was cited for a ticket about 13 times a year with the most recent citation being in July. The majority of the tickets came between 2007 and 2009 during Pepper’s time as county commissioner. The fines generally ranged from $14 to $100.
Geez, Dave. Fuck DeWine. He’s a Category Five Asshole. How hard is it to put a quarter in the meter?
What a fucking moron. Next (D) candidate please…
Nice to know he has change floating around to pay for these. Not.
He paid, right? He didn’t try to weasel out? He didn’t pull "Do you know who I am? (Who was he?)
I’m glad that the AP has so much extra manpower around that it makes sense to dig into a candidate’s paid parking tickets. Too bad there are no other situations going on that could use some investigative reporting.
The expired license plates are more bothersome than the parking tickets. That reveals either a “the law doesn’t apply to me” attitude, or a serious lack of sense. Someone with a busy schedule might get parking tickets. But letting your license plates expire is just plain dopey - and Pepper appears to have done that every friggin’ year.