{"id":21099,"date":"2026-10-15T16:38:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=21099"},"modified":"2026-10-15T16:38:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:38:41","slug":"michael-ashford-hosts-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/michael-ashford-hosts-fundraiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Ashford Hosts Fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ruth Ashford, Mike Ashford, Lucas County Commissioner Anita Lopez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Truth Staff<\/em><\/p>\n

Lucas County Recorder Michael Ashford held a fundraiser on Tuesday, October 6, at the Peacock Caf\u00e9, as friends, supporters and community leaders joined him on the first day of early voting in a push for the state\u2019s Democratic Party slate and a few local issues.<\/p>\n

Ashford, who is not on the ballot during this election cycle, spent a few minutes addressing the guests about matters of concern, such as the false advertising that is so pervasive on the television these days.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so sick and tired \u2026 and tired and sick \u2026 of these commercials \u2013 they are as rock bottom as you can get,\u201d he said to the accompanying groans of agreement from his listeners.<\/p>\n

He expressed his particular frustration with an ad accusing Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur of wanting men to play girls\u2019 sports and have access to girls\u2019 locker rooms. He also noted the ad featuring a woman who had undergone a sex change operation and blamed Sherrod Brown for allowing such things to happen when she was underaged. That particular woman is from Texas, Ashford observed, as many in attendance agreed.<\/p>\n

Issue # 9, the Toledo Public Schools\u2019 levy request, also grabbed Ashford\u2019s attention. \u201cIf nothing else, support Issue 9,\u201d he said, expressing his dismay that state legislators have voted over the years to move so much of taxpayers\u2019 funds into charter schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cHave you been in a charter school recently,\u201d he asked his listeners. \u201cThere are few amenities, the teachers don\u2019t have the same accreditation\u201d as those in public schools, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe teachers work hard, the children work hard,\u201d he said praising the efforts of those in public school classrooms.<\/p>\n

During his time on the podium, Ashford thanked the numerous guests in general and several in particular such as Lucas County Commissioner for her support and Theresa M. Gabriel, and her son Robert, for opening up their place of business, The Peacock Caf\u00e9, for the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Truth Staff Lucas County Recorder Michael Ashford held a fundraiser on Tuesday, October 6, at the Peacock Caf\u00e9, as friends, supporters and community leaders joined him on the first day of early voting in a push for the state\u2019s Democratic Party slate and a few local issues. Ashford, who is not on the ballot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[369],"class_list":["post-21099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21102,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21099\/revisions\/21102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21099"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=21099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}