Ohio Arts Council board member Susan Allan Block resigned Friday after social media comments surfaced in which she referred to the vice president-elect Kamala Harris as a whore and called for no peace during the U.S. Capitol riots on Wednesday.
DeWine announced Block s resignation early Friday afternoon without further comment. On Thursday, his spokeswoman had denounced the comments.
Block, of Toledo, was first appointed to the unpaid council, which allocates state and federal money to Ohio artists and arts organizations, in 2016 by then-Gov. John Kasich. She was reappointed by DeWine in July 2019 for a term that expires in 2024. DeWine, a Republican, supported Trump s re-election.