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Activist with criminal record spears weekly Bernie Moreno protests

Meryl Neiman spent 24 hours in prison after entering a former Republican senator office

Bernie Moreno (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

An advanced agitator, who is headed by a local chapter of the left group and was once arrested for entering the office of a Republican senator, is behind weekly protests against Senator Bernie Moreno (R., Ohio).

The coalition of the Ohio Progressive Action Leaders has organized a number of promotions since the beginning of February to disturb the Moreno district office in Cleveland, including weekly meetings outside of the office and the regular telephone banks to bomb “Bernie's telephone lines” with more than 1,600 a day until its voice boxing is full. At the same time, the local media provided the activists to have a favorable reporting and stories that concentrated for their complaints about a lack of “accessibility” of the first semester senator, partly because his office can no longer accept voiceemails.

“Moreno and his employees could not be reached by phone, and his office did not return calls,” said the coalition in its recent call for activists to convene outside of Moreno's office. “Biden won by 4+ percent in 2020, Trump won by 1.5 percent in 2024. And even fewer votes in 2016. This choice is not a mandate. We ask for and should be heard.”

The coalition's claim that Moreno and his employees are “impossible” is in contrast to the fact that one of his leaders, Meryl Neiman, has turned on Wednesday with a member of Moreno's employees of the Senator Cleveland's Cleveland, as she uploaded to her Facebook page.

In addition to her work with the coalition, Neiman is also a long -time leader of the Central Ohio Chapter of Indivisable, a dark group of money that has collected astonishing 82.7 million US dollars since its foundation in 2017, partly thanks to the contributions of the liberal billionaire George Soros' Philanthropic Network. In the center of the ongoing demonstrations against GOP legislators across the country during the second term of President Donald Trump, the center of the ongoing demonstrations. During the Wednesday meeting, Neiman informed the Moreno employee that neither you nor the activists who are involved in the continuing protests outside the office of the senator are paid for by dark money interests.

Neiman knows one or two things about the disturbance of the Republican legislators in Ohio, after he was arrested in 2018 for participating in a sit-in in the district office of the former Senator Rob Portman (R., Ohio) to demand that he issued measures against the family separation policy of the Trump government for illegal immigrants, a political Portman.

The progressive activist spent 24 hours in prison for 24 hours because he entered criminal in Portman's office. Later she owed herself guilty to behave in connection with the incident. Neiman later wrote an OP-ED in which she complained about the inhumane treatment, which she was exposed to during her stay in the Jackson Pike Correctional Facility, which she described as “the worst prisons in the country”.

However, Neiman's recent statements show that she is ready to leave the past. In February, she publicly praised Portman for determining a gold standard for the accessibility of the voter after she has his sights on Moreno.

“In the past, for example, Senator Portman was that people could go, the voters in the Chop and they would call them,” said Neiman to Spectrum News in February without mentioning 2018. “And if the employees were not in the meeting or are not available in any other way, they could simply go up and see their representative.”

The persistent disorders against Moreno's district office are indivisible to increase its efforts to disturb the town halls and the district operations of republican legislators across the country. At the beginning of March, activists and groups promised to pay up to 200 US dollars in order to protest the costs for current town halls for Republican legislators. The legitimate expenditure includes cardboard storage from congress members and “chicken suits” that Washington Free light fire reported.

The well -known donors of indivisible include Soros and his democratic colleague Megadonor Reid Hoffman. However, the full extent of the Dark Money Group's sources of financing is unclear. As a non -profit organization, the sources of financing do not have to disclose the public.

The spokeswoman for Moreno, Reagan McCarthy, described the left efforts in February to disturb the district offices of the Senator as “small political projects” of “Democrat-Dark Money groups”.

“The support of Ohioaners in need is the top priority of Senator Moreno,” said McCarthy. “While the Senate has to do with an exceptionally high call volume, our office is obliged to react to every single Ohioaner, need support and work through all inquiries as soon as possible.”

Neiman claimed that Moreno was “impossible to achieve” in an explanation on Thursday Free light fire But admitted that she was able to contact his employees. The activist also confirmed her role as a member of the coalition of the Ohio Progressive Action Leaders and as a volunteer at indivisible Central Ohio.

“We are all normal people, none of us paid for or financed dark money,” said Neiman. “The group in Cleveland, which protested there, consists of Cleveland voters who have had their own experiences.”