Area congressmen help probe Trump incident
Turner, Jordan will be part of hearing set for Monday.
The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability will hold a hearing on Monday on the attempted assassination of former President
Donald Trump.
Committee Chairman James Comer plans to subpoena Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to testify. The House’s second top Republican Majority Leader Steve Scalise called on Cheatle to resign on Monday.
U.S. Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, and Mike Turner, R-Dayton, serve on the panel.
During a podcast interview at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Jordan questioned why nearby buildings at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, were not secured.
“In my mind, there’s one fundamental question. There’s a finite number of buildings in that area where a bad guy could get on top of and do what happened.
It’s probably not one hundred buildings, it’s probably not 10, it may be three, four, five. And one of those buildings was occupied by the good guys, right?” Jordan said.
Jordan said he would like to hear from the local police officer who reportedly climbed up to the roof of the building with the sniper just before the deadly shooting and the Secret Service counter-sniper.
Turner, who also is chair of the House Intelligence Committee, praised the Secret Service agents on the stage with Trump and told CNN there are going to be lots of questions about the shooter and his motivations.
“You don’t have to be a security expert to see the failures here,” Turner said.
“The fact that the perimeter was not secure really is just astounding I think to anyone who looks at it. The fact that he was able to get off shots where he had already been identified, his position had been identified is really confusing and astounding.”
The hearing will be livestreamed at oversight.house. gov. at 10 a.m. Monday,
Wittenberg University President Michael Frandsen has been selected to serve as president of the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 academic years.
After two years as vice president, Frandsen takes over this position held by Denison University President Adam Weinberg, who will now serve a two-year term as the immediate past president on the NCAC Executive Committee.
A release from the college said: “Frandsen brings national experience to the NCAC presidency, having previously served on the NCAA Division III membership committee. He has since been appointed to an NCAA-sponsored working group examining emerging organizational structures resulting from new partnerships between institutions.”
Since joining Wittenberg in 2017, Frandsen has worked to make investments in new academic programs such as nursing, exercise science and engineering, expanded career services, hired success advisors, increased experiential learning opportunities, and opened a fully reimaging Health, Wellness, and Athletic Complex.
Under his leadership, the university also completed its historic $100-million “Having Light” Campaign, which generated record levels of giving and alumni participation, led campus-wide strategic planning and initiated several student success and retention efforts.
Before his higher education career, Frandsen worked in corporate finance for global companies in the telecommunication, chemical and electronics industries, all while coaching swimming part time. He coached swimmers at clubs in Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Colorado before pursuing his corporate career.