Posted by The Dean of Cincinnati

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When Kevin Franck sent a press statement to blogger Jeff Coryell, the Wulsin-loving moderator of Ohio Daily Blog, he said the medical complaint against Wulsin’s license was found by the Ohio Medical Board to have “no merit.” There just seems to be one itty-bitty problem with this seemingly simple statement:  it ain’t true!  Ironically, when Wulsin’s campaign released documents to The Enquirer, they dug a big scoop out of their own grave on this one—since the letter not once indicates that the complaint had “no merit.” It looks like Wulsin’s camp just got caught saying something that has, well, no merit!

Here’s the statement Franck sent to Ohio Daily Blog:

Dr. Wulsin voluntarily met with the State Medical Board of Ohio on April 24, 2008 to discuss an anonymous ethics complaint. The Board found that there was no merit whatsoever to the complaint and declined any further action on the issue. These false allegations represented the lowest form of sleazeball politics. Fortunately for the voters of the 2nd district, the truth prevailed.

Some of these words demand further investigation, like “voluntarily” in addition to “no merit.”

According to this letter advising Wulsin of her hearing, the board “requested” her attendance, and then went on to say this:

Please be advised that your failure to appear for your scheduled office conference may result in the issuance of a subpoena for your appearance at an investigatory deposition, and that failure to cooperate in an investigation conducted by the Board ... constitutes grounds for discipline…

It hardly sounds like she did anything “voluntarily”; instead, it looks like she did want they asked to avoid getting a subpoena to make her show up anyway!

But more significantly, the issue of the Board finding “no merit.” Read the whole letter for yourself.  Here are the Board’s findings:

So they determined that “no further action was required.” That is different than saying the complaint has “no merit.” So what gives?

Well, Kevin Franck at Wulsin’s campaign failed to respond to multiple requests for documentation substantiating the claim. 

It seems a rather convoluted strategy at play by Team Wulsin here. 

Now, I’m no fan of Schmidt, but she got full blast when she issued a letter saying Wulsin “participated” in the Heimlich Institute’s experiments.  (Remember, Wulsin’s own report states that she analyzed raw data from East Africa.) But the Wulsin-heads started freaking out how about Schmidt was lying, playing dirty politics, and how someone should file a complaint against her campaign for telling lies in campaign material.

But the premise—that Schimdt is lying—seems entirely based on this claim by Kevin Franck:  namely, that the Board found “no merit.” If that is true, however, why doesn’t the letter from the Medical Board say that? 

Methinks somebody’s nose is growing.

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