Guest Columnist
Travis Irvine was a candidate for Mayor of Bexley in 2007 as well as governor of Ohio in 2018. He is a co-host of the political podcast “Abe Lincoln’s Top Hat” on the Last Podcast Network and spends his time between Ohio and Los Angeles.
When I was growing up in Bexley, there was something we called the “Bexley bubble” –– it meant that if you ever left the city, you would be exposed to the harsh realities of the real world.
The Bexley bubble also had another purpose –– it would keep the harsh realities of the real world from getting inside. But with the recent House Bill 6 scandal, that Bexley bubble was popped with a big ol’ pin.
In July 2020, Bexley resident Matt Borges was arrested alongside former House Speaker Larry Householder and three associates in what federal prosecutors called “the biggest bribery scandal in Ohio history.”
While two of the associates pleaded guilty in October 2020 and another committed suicide in March 2021, Borges and Householder chose to plead “not guilty.” Their defense teams argued their actions were simply “politics as usual.”
Starting in the summer of 2021, Borges chose to be exceptionally brash in the media about his purported innocence –– even claiming that he was targeted by then-President Donald Trump’s Justice Department because he was a “Never Trump” Republican.
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