Ohio Democrats Just Aren’t That Into Richard Cordray 

After months of misleading Ohioans about his intentions and refusing requests for transparency, Washington D.C.’s most power-hungry bureaucrat, Richard Cordray, announced yesterday that he will resign his position as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, paving the way for him to enter Ohio’s Democrat gubernatorial primary. But while Cordray’s potential candidacy has been highly touted for months and expected by some to clear the field, the state’s current crop of Democrat contenders came out swinging against the D.C. bureaucrat.

Shortly after the news broke on Cordray’s resignation, he was attacked by Democrat candidates, including Nan Whaley, who said he was “turning his back on the progress we’ve made and surely emboldening Trump and Republicans” and Connie Pillich, who called his decision “disappointing and disheartening. In fact the only Democrat who seemed ready to make room for Cordray was fake candidate Bill O’Neill, who hinted yesterday that he would drop out of the race with Cordray’s entrance as promised, which would save him from continued concerns that his candidacy violated Ohio’s Code of Judicial Conduct.

Cordray may have expected a coronation for the Democrat nomination after leaving his job as a powerful Washington, D.C. bureaucrat, but after spending half a decade pushing far-left regulations, funneling federal contract money to his political allies, and misleading congress, Cordray’s fellow Democrats are giving no indication that they plan on stepping aside for him, and with one year to go until Election Day, he appears to be in for a tough fight just to win over his own party.