The Republican Governors Association would like very much for a Republican to replace term-limited Gov. John Kasich in Ohio.
The group’s new ad attacking the Democratic nominee, former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray, takes an angle you won’t see too often in political ads: He’s bad on cybersecurity.
Cordray headed the CFPB from 2012 to 2017. His tenure was marked by controversy, given that the agency he oversaw suffered an estimated 240 data breaches, compromising the private consumer information it had quietly collected. The fact that President Barack Obama unconstitutionally appointed him to the position while Congress was in recess didn’t help, either.
“After collecting personal financial data from millions of American consumers without their knowledge, Richard Cordray failed to safeguard their information, leaving it vulnerable to be hacked over 200 times,” RGA Communications Director Jon Thompson said in a statement.
The statement added, “When Americans needed Cordray to protect them, he failed. Cordray’s record of incompetence as a Washington D.C. bureaucrat shows that Ohioans can’t trust him to lead.”
Here’s the ad:
Cordray is currently polling ahead of his Republican opponent, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, according to a RealClearPolitics polling average.
