Jonathan Hawgood

5 Days Ago

Response to Pardon Shows Lack of Remorse

This just makes me sick. Don’t ever forget P.G.’s words, caught on tape, to Chin. “But I mean the one thing I will say is like, you know I mean, you don’t want me to like be like, ‘Hey Chin like love you but can’t.’” (And P.G then solicits the “donation” of many thousands of dollars.) It wasn’t just that P.G. was for sale and wanted those with money and ambition to know it, it was that he was suggesting to people who wanted to develop in Cincinnati that they wouldn’t be able to if they didn’t fork over money to him. It is hilariously appropriate that P.G. would be pardoned by DJT. The two have only one thing in common: the willingness to betray the trust the public put in them in order to line their pockets.

I have known P.G. and his family for many years. We come from the same neighborhood and school community. I served on the board of the Library Foundation with his father. That P.G. would try to turn this situation into “I got screwed and I want to fight so that others don’t have to” is all the indication you need that he has no remorse, that he has not recognized the way he failed all of us in this town.

P.G., you should be shutting up right now and thanking your lucky stars that you got pardoned by a man you wouldn’t be willing to walk into a room with.

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