On twitter, Ohio Republican State Rep. Andrew Brenner's wife are threatening to sue people who ask her questions about her company, BrennerBrief. Both Rep. Brenner and his wife insist that merely asking her questions about her company is "harassment" and so they will file a "lawsuit" against anyone who asks her or him about her company.
I think people are questioning Rep. Brenner's wife's business because last week, Rep. Andrew Brenner's wife published "Was Sandy Hook a Hoax Designed to Advance Gun Control Laws?" through BrennerBrief. The story promoted a psychotic, paranoid, delusional idea that mocked the murder of 5 year old & 6 year old children & teachers who were murdered as they tried desperately to protect the children ... it was a smack in the face to their loved ones.
Rep. Brenner and his wife, in defending the publication of that vile 'Sandy Hook Hoax' story, tweeted that BrennerBrief is solely owned and operated by Rep Brenner's wife, Sara Marie Brenner. They tweeted that they believe in Free Speech therefore, they do not edit stories for content.
A quick check to verify with the Secretary of State shows BrennerBrief is not registered to do business in Ohio. When asked, Rep. Brenner and his wife would only say BrennerBrief is registered through an LLC but they refused to name the alleged LLC.
Ohio state law states
"All businesses must register with the Secretary of State."
To verify the search results for this story, I phoned "Dee" at the Ohio Secretary of State's office. Dee ran a search on Rep. Andrew Brenner's wife's LLC (The Right Idea LLC) and she said
"There is no business name, other than The Right Idea, associated with [Rep. Brenner's wife's] LLC.
Dee went on to say
The name BrennerBrief is available for use and is not associated with any entity or individual
Dee then said
In order to tie the LLC with BrennerBrief, Form 534A must be filled out and in order to tie the two, the name of the LLC should be put in the place of the 'Registered Agent.' After that the Form must be approved by the Secretary of State. Once approved, the name BrennerBrief will show up in 'business search' on Ohio Secretary of State website.
She added
By law any company doing business in Ohio must be registered with the Ohio Secretary of State. BrennerBrief is no where in our [Ohio Secretary of State] website.
That's right, the TeaParty Rep. Brenner's wife seems to be operating her company illegally in Ohio and calls people "Commie Thug" and threatens to sue people who ask her about it.
Interesting... Rep. Andrew Brenner has no idea he is a Public Servant who
does, in fact, answer to the people.
Maybe they threatened people in a desperate attempt to shut people up?
It is very important that the media ask Rep. Andrew Brenner why his wife is operating a business, BrennerBrief, in Ohio illegally ... and ... why he does not think he has to answer to the People.
The media should also ask Rep. Brenner to show proof his wife has Worker's Compensation on her employees.
In Ohio, all employers with one or more employees must have workers'
compensation coverage. It's the law.
Why people started questioning her company:
On March 13, 2013, Ohio State Rep. Andrew Brenner's wife published "Was Sandy Hook a Hoax Designed to Advance Gun Control Laws?."
... those of children allegedly killed in the event, ... in memory of the young children allegedly slain at Sandy Hook ... cast a shadow over the truthfulness of said event ... If Sandy Hook was an artificially created and staged event to allow the government to use fear to gain the advantage over the 2nd Amendment, we can bet we will see more of these events over time ...
(emphasis added).
The next day, Rep. Andrew Brenner wrote his own delusional story saying America should take its cue from communist USSR and sell of all public schools.
We need to do something that was done about 25 years ago in the former Soviet Union and eastern bloc: sell off the existing buildings, equipment and real estate to those in the private sector. The private sector includes our existing teachers, superintendents, management and everyday taxpayers.
(emphasis added).
It should be noted here that Rep. Andrew Brenner calls himself a "real estate entrepreneur" -- so lord knows how much Brenner hopes to personally profit if he can legislate the selling off of the entire public school system.
In a desperate attempt to shut people up, Rep. Andrew Brenner and his wife started accusing people of "libel" and threatening them with lawsuits for stating that both Rep. Andrew Brenner & his wife are responsible for what they publish on their blog and that their BrennerBrief company could not be found on Ohio Secretary of State web search.
Rep. Brenner & his wife insisted the public has no right to know the name of the LLC she claims was used to register BrennerBrief with SoS and continued to threaten to sue those who asked.
It should also be noted here that Rep. Andrew Brenner promoted & advertised the vile "
Was Sandy Hook a Hoax Designed to Advance Gun Control Laws?" within his own article, yet, as expected, Rep. Brenner insisted he had "no idea" his wife published the story and, he claims, since he didn't "write" the story he is not responsible for it being published on his and/or his wife's BrennerBrief blog.
As for his wife, Sara Marie Eichenberger Brenner: she lists herself as "Editor-In-Chief" of the blog, BrennerBrief. The Editor-In-Chief is to be responsible for editing publication; the person who determines the final content of a text of a newspaper or magazine. But, even though there is evidence to the contrary, Sara Marie Brenner is denying she ever saw the story before or after she published it at BrennerBrief and before people began condemning her and Rep. Brenner for publishing it.
Rep. Brenner's wife pushed the vile 'Sandy Hook is a Hoax' story on twitter
Rep. Brenner's wife made an "oops" when she admitted the reason she only edits for "grammar" and not "content" is because of the 1st Amendment.
Rep. Brenner's wife tweeted again
she does edit stories ... just not for content.
In 2009, Sarah Brenner formed an LLC called "The Right Idea." Tim Simms at Peacock Panache
wrote
Nothing in the public documents connects this LLC to her news blog on paper (which means further investigation will be necessary to confirm she maintains all of her businesses under this umbrella). However, as a reader pointed out, Brenner does not appear to have filed a Trade Name/Fictitious Name form to change the nature of her business to include all of her current business ventures. The Secretary of State requires this form to approve material changes to existing LLC's and it does not appear to be on file for this LLC. At the moment, this LLC only appears to be connected to her other previously mentioned public venture.
Sara & Rep. Brenner continued to threaten lawsuits if people kept asking questions.
Trade Name/Fictitious Name is a form Ohio Secretary of State when the name of a company is different from the LLC.
This form should be used if you wish to (1) assign a name registration to a new registrant; (2) change the nature of business of an existing name registration
...
Ohio Revised Code Section 1329.06 permits a trade name or fictitious name to be assigned. In other words, the current registrant of a trade name or fictitious name may assign the trade name or fictitious name to another person or entity. If you assign your trade name or fictitious name, the assignment may be recorded with the secretary of state using this form.
Rep. Andrew Brenner's tweets can be found
here
Rep. Brenner's wife's tweets can be found here
BrennerBrief tweets can be found here