I recently read a letter to the editor explaining Corey Speweik’s lawsuit against the Wood County Board of Elections. I looked up his name to read the Complaint to confirm the assertion that he had altruistic intent and found the following:
1. An eviction complaint against him in 2005;
2. A motion for contempt against him on a different case in 2013;
3. A state tax lien filed against him in 2010, that appears to have been paid just before he ran for judge last time and lost in 2016;
4. Another complaint for failure to pay rent in 2016; and
5. A complaint for breach of contract against him in 2016.
This is a summary of the public record that I found with a quick search. It seems odd that an attorney his age aspiring to be judge would be involved in so much legal conflict and so recently. It also makes me question the claim that his lawsuit against the Wood County Board of Elections was filed altruistically. As an attorney myself, I think we should hold our judges to a higher standard and at a minimum, expect them to pay taxes (like all of us do) and not just when they decide to run for a political office.
Ali A. Nour
Perrysburg
