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Expletives Disrupt an Interview

Rob Rue is the mayor of Springfield. On Saturday, we encounter a local
reporter interviewing Rue downtown, near the statue of George Rogers
Clark, the Kentucky militiaman who fought in the Revolutionary War. The
mayor is a controversial figure in town, called a “RINO” (Republican in Name Only) by some and chastised as “establishment.” The reporter later trashes him on X.

Rue, a funeral parlor owner, just assumed emergency powers because of
security concerns.

The Buckeye Reporter has slammed Rue, accusing him of renting an
apartment to a Haitian. The Buckeye Reporter says a different temp
company owner also has 42 rental properties, painting immigration as a profitable business. Rue has denied conflicts of interest.

“Are you far left or far right?” he wearily asks us.

As Rue talks, people shout expletives at him from passing cars. “F*ck
the Haitians,” yells a man. Another person yells something that sounds
like “FJB.” Rue insists that Springfield is a great place. Another
person pulls over. A contingent of “Proud Boys” is marching in the city.

Rue tells Wisconsin Right Now that he doesn’t want Trump or Harris to campaign in Springfield. “It would be very difficult to have them here.”
He says neither campaign has reached out to him.

However, a few days later, Trump says he is coming to Springfield in the
next two weeks.

“You may never see me again, but that’s okay. Whatever happened to
Trump? Well, he never got out of Springfield,” Trump said in a rally,
adding, “We’re going to take care of Ohio, and we’re going to take care of Colorado.” A lot of American communities are under “siege,” Trump said.

We asked whether Rue was asking Trump not to come, and he responded, “It would be overwhelming for Springfield to have either of the political
leaders running for office for the presidency to come to Springfield.”

“It’s a lot of strain, period. We’ve already been in the national spotlight,” Rue says. “It’s a lot of stress. It’s a hot time. Why are you in Springfield, Ohio? You’re here because we have been affected by campaigning, and it’s been negative. So why am I talking to you? Because we’d like to tell our story. Springfield is a great place. It’s my hometown.”

However, Rue has also given media interviews in which he said things
like, “This border crisis, the policy of this administration, is failing cities like ours and taxing us beyond our limit.” He tells us that he fundamentally blames an “open border.”

We tell the mayor that the Springfield residents we spoke to say they
have been affected economically by the influx of immigrants, not by campaigning.

“Well, I’d say both. The influx has caused strain,” he says. “I won’t deny that. I haven’t denied that at all. It’s caused strain.”

Beth Heffner, the woman wearing a “fight, fight, fight!” T-shirt, is standing nearby, listening. She expresses anger the second the mayor
walks off.

“It’s disgusting,” she says.

She’s upset he doesn’t want to welcome Trump, who she sees as trying to solve a problem other officials caused, from Biden and Harris on down.
It was done too fast and without a clear plan, she says. It’s a mess.

“They did it all wrong.”

Table of Contents

Dogs & Cats Dominate the Media
The Ku Klux Klan Rears Its Ugly Head
Biden-Harris: ‘They’re the Disgrace’
Expletives Disrupt an Interview

https://www.wisconsinrightnow.com/springfield-ohio-the-real-story/

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