I think you are thinking about this way too much and wanting to see a political spin in something because you work with political stuff and you are determined it must be there. What I see from his statement today was him and a local sheriff having a pissing contest. What I see him saying is correcting what READER said and basically calling him out in public. In the beginning Dewine only knew what the local PD and county sheriff knew and Dewine only said that the Rhodens were targeted which was true 8 were and at the time they didn't know motive and that the Rhodens needed to be careful. He never once said the general public was in danger and he never told anyone to arm themselves to my knowledge. Reader however did and since then he's been shut up and hasn't said anymore. Reader is not used to 8 people murdered in a small community in one day nor dealing with that much press. I'm sure it was a shock to all and Reader said what he said because 8 people were killed and obviously the killer was still out there. It's also obvious that in the first few days they didn't know what motive was or what was going on. So it's not illogical to think that if 8 Rhodens are dead then then the other Rhodens should be worried because 8 of their family members were killed. Makes perfect since to me. Now if only one person was dead then yeah it wouldn't make sense to warn the rest of the family.
Dewine has said from the very beginning that he is not going to tell all the details and not going to let the killers know anything that he knows... So I'm not sure why everyone here is complaining that they haven't been told. First, the actual family might know more than us random people on a forum and second they are still investigating. Third, they don't want to come out and say something that isn't 100% because people like you are being critical of everything they say. They know better.
My last point on all of this is that I think some people on here have unreasonable expectations. If anyone can point me to a murder that's been solved and investigated and wrapped up in a week I'd love to see it. We are talking about 8 bodies and 4 crimes scenes. Even a single murder with a single crime scene takes some time. This is not CSI or Criminal Minds. Things don't happen that fast.
As far as all the LE presence at funeral homes... Couple of reasons. Surveillance, crowd control and traffic. Not to mention they were expecting hundreds of people. At any event with large crowds like that you can expect LE. They also might have been asked by the Rhoden family to be there just to make them feel better.
I think it's a shame that so many posts have been posted about the political side of things. Who cares. It has absolutely nothing to do with the case. Reader and Dewine weren't on the same page at first and Dewine has more experience in press conferences and has made it clear he's in control now. That is just a tangent to the real issue we should be sleuthing... 8 people dead.