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Friday Politics Chat: State Rep. Candice Keller's Controversial Theories On Mass Shootings

91.7 WVXU | By Howard Wilkinson
Published August 16, 2019 at 7:50 AM EDT
Mourners visit a makeshift memorial outside Ned Peppers bar following a vigil at the scene of the mass shooting early Sunday morning in Dayton, Ohio.
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Mourners visit a makeshift memorial outside Ned Peppers bar following a vigil at the scene of the mass shooting early Sunday morning in Dayton, Ohio.

State Rep. Candice Keller of Middletown is facing calls to resign after a controversial Facebook post following the Dayton mass shooting. In it, she blamed such shooting on "drag queen adovcates," transgender people, illiegal immigration, Barack Obama, and athletes who kneel during the National Anthem, among others. 

Ohio GOP chairwoman Jane Timken called on her to resign, but Keller says she has no interntion of doing that. WVXU's Senior Politcal Analyst Howard Wilkinson talked with News Director Maryanne Zeleznik about Keller's post and the impact it might have for her candidacy in the GOP primary next spring for an open Ohio Senate seat.

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Howard Wilkinson
Howard Wilkinson joined the WVXU News Team after 30 years of covering local and state politics for The Cincinnati Enquirer. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Wilkinson has covered every Ohio governor’s race since 1974 as well as 12 presidential nominating conventions. His streak continued by covering both the 2012 Republican and Democratic conventions for 91.7 WVXU. Along with politics, Wilkinson also covered the 2001 Cincinnati race riots; the Lucasville Prison riot in 1993; the Air Canada plane crash at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 1983; and the 1997 Ohio River flooding. The Cincinnati Reds are his passion. "I've been listening to WVXU and public radio for many years, and I couldn't be more pleased at the opportunity to be part of it,” he says.
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