DeWine distancing himself from appointee Susan Allan Block Susan Allan Block resigns from Ohio Arts Council after inflammatory social media remarks CLEVELAND, Ohio – Republican Gov. Mike DeWine announced Friday that Susan Allan Block, one of his appointees to the Ohio Arts Council, had resigned following remarks on social media supporting Republican President Donald Trump’s false narrative of widespread electoral fraud and calling Democratic Vice President-elect Kamala Harris a “whore.” “Today I accepted the resignation of Susan Allan Block from the Ohio Arts Council,” DeWine said in a statement after public pressure mounted following the posts from Block, a member of the Block family that owns Block Communications.