Tag Archives: Toledo

The Toledo Blade reports: The FBI has taken into custody multiple Toledo city council members accused of taking cash in exchange for votes during what is described in court records as a years-long, sweeping bribery scandal involving some of the city’s highest elected officials. City council members Tyrone Riley, Yvonne Harper, Larry Sykes, and Gary Johnson are all accused of …

Tongues-speaking political gadfly and self-proclaimed “prophetess” Opal Covey has run for mayor of Toledo, Ohio six times. And every time she loses she then declares that God will destroy the city because of voter fraud. Last night Covey, for reasons that remain unclear, made her pro wrestling debut against some overalls-clad bubba named Pain Train. As you’ll see in the …

The Toledo Blade reports: Opal Covey is ready to rumble. Toledo’s self-proclaimed prophetess will step into the world of professional wrestling when she makes an appearance Thursday night for Extreme Chaos Wrestling. The independent promotion is holding its third no-holds-barred event at the Ohio Theatre and Event Center on Lagrange Street, and Ms. Covey has a match. Advertising from the …

The Toledo Blade reports: The FBI on Monday announced the arrests of two people in terrorism-related cases, including a man who planned an attack on a synagogue in Toledo. Damon Joseph, 21, of Holland, was arrested on one charge of attempting to provide material support to ISIS after law enforcement said he planned to attack a synagogue. Officials said he …

Two weeks ago “prophetess” Opal Covey warned that God will do to Toledo what he just did to Houston if she doesn’t win the mayoral primary. “It’s overdue! The judgment has been upon Toledo for a long time. God sends a prophet like me, saying, ‘Let this city go! This city is mine!’ And I’ve told them what God wants …

The Toledo Blade reports: Self-described “Prophetess” Opal Covey, 76, filed signature petitions Friday to run for mayor in the Sept. 12 primary. Ms. Covey, a Republican and a church minister, claimed Friday with no evidence that she was a victim of voter fraud, for which she blamed Democrats, in her previous runs for mayor. She has run for mayor in …

A few years ago “prophetess” Opal Covey, Toledo’s tongues-speaking perennial mayoral candidate, warned that God would rain fire down on the city if she wasn’t elected. So this just happened: Opal Covey’s now famous campaign van caught fire on Navarre Avenue in east Toledo. She says the motor shut down as she was driving. When she tried to restart the …

The Toledo Blade reports: The Toledo City Council unanimously approved a ban on conversion therapy today while also making gender identity a protected class in the city. The proposal was lauded earlier in the day during a public hearing by supporters but also criticized by clergymen who asked if they would be prohibited from counseling people who are gay. Conversion …

Toledo talk radio station WSPD is running a promo featuring the rantings of famed prophetess and tongues-speaker Opal Covey. “If you do not order now, Opal will tell God to kill you and kill your pets!” Listen below.

“Oooh babba hasha taya!” JMG reader Brian points us to the below post-election interview with Toledo mayoral candidate Opel Covey, who says she’s just going to stand back and let the Lord Almighty Himself proceed with his promised destruction of her city for allowing all of her votes to be stolen from her for the fifth time. “God has already …

Last month perennial Toledo mayoral candidate Opal Covey promised that God will destroy her city if the election were to be stolen from her once again. “Bahalaa asha tiyah tololo!” warned Covey, in an interview with Toledo’s NBC affiliate. So get ready Ohio: Incumbent Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson, 64, who became mayor in February automatically as council president when Mayor D. …

Toledo mayoral candidate Opal Covey, who has warned that God will destroy her city if she isn’t elected, has been interviewed by Esquire. Ms. Covey, a Donald Trump fan and exorcist who can cure blindness with her Holy Touch, reveals that she was sent by the Lord Almighty Himself to stop the Democrats: “I perform miracles through the holy spirit,” …

We first met perennial Toledo, Ohio mayoral candidate Opal Covey last week when she began ranting in tongues against a local radio station host. Covey has followed up that deliriousness in an interview with Toledo’s NBC affiliate in which she warns that God will “visit destruction” upon the city if she isn’t elected. From their report: Covey is running for …

Self-proclaimed “prophetess” Opal Covey, 75, is running for mayor of Toledo, Ohio for the fifth time because God Himself personally told her in 2000 that she is destined to win. Yesterday she visited local talk radio station WSPD where she melted down in the lobby and began ranting in tongues to host Fred LeFebvre as cell phone cameras rolled. Ooh, …

The Toledo City Council has voted unanimously to expand its local hate crimes statute to include transgender protections. Via the Toledo Blade: The change to the city’s hate crime law follows the brutal beating and robbery last month of a transgender woman downtown. The victim, Candice Rose Milligan, struggled to speak Tuesday to council since she had her jaw wired …