Democrats slam Click for co-sponsoring a “child protection” bill alongside a lawmaker pressured to resign by his own Republican Speaker.
TIFFIN, Ohio — Citing investigative reporting from TiffinOhio.net, the Seneca County Democratic Party today demanded that State Representative Gary Click explain to House District 88 families why he remains completely silent on a legislative colleague who admitted to state investigators that he climbed into bed with a minor female relative.
While Republican House Speaker Matt Huffman stripped Representative Rodney Creech (R-West Alexandria) of his committee assignments and explicitly asked him to consider resigning—calling the matter “very serious”—Gary Click has refused to demand accountability or utter a single word on the matter.
Instead of joining his own party leadership, Click has maintained a close legislative partnership with Creech. The two lawmakers are currently co-sponsoring House Bill 249, a piece of legislation heavily marketed by House Republicans as a “child protection” measure.
“Let’s be entirely blunt about Gary Click’s silence,” said Gina Grandillo, Chair of the Seneca County Democratic Party. “Rodney Creech admitted to state investigators that he climbed into bed with a minor relative. His own Republican Speaker was troubled enough to strip his committees and ask him to resign. Yet Gary Click looks the other way. He is entirely comfortable using ‘child protection’ as a political talking point on bills like HB 249, but when a powerful colleague admits to deeply disturbing behavior with a minor, Click chooses protection for the politician over accountability for the child. Families in Seneca and Sandusky Counties deserve to know why their representative won’t stand up.”
The Seneca County Democratic Party is demanding that Representative Click immediately provide public, on-the-record answers to two direct questions:
- Will you demand that Rodney Creech step aside as a state representative — yes or no?
- How can you justify continuing to co-sponsor child-protection legislation alongside a colleague who admitted to behavior a special prosecutor formally labeled ‘concerning and suspicious’?
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