there’s a lot of money missing…who got some of it?
http://www.cleveland.com/budgetscandal/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1117791231263120.xml&coll=2
Little stuff like this is the least of the GOP problems in Ohio. The Republicans have been running the show in that state for too long, kind of like the Democrats in MA. They have labored long and hard for the right to get thrown out of office.
Given how badly they have run that state for the last few years, I was very concerned that the state party would cost Bush reelection. They tried.
little stuff? $10 million from the state pension fund is unaccounted for and there is a very real possibility that one of the big gop folks there misappropriated the funds. if that is little, ohio is MESSED UP.
What the knaves will steal is insignificant compared to what bad policies will waste. Republicans in OH are acting like tax and spend Democrats. If people want that, they will eventually vote for the real thing.
Ohio is OK. It is the Republican party in that state that is very disappointing. I think they take after Senate Republicans.
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) – President Bush is returning $4,000 in campaign contributions from an Ohio coin dealer who is the subject of state and federal investigations, the White House said Friday.
Tom Noe, who is from suburban Toledo, is under investigation for his handling of $55 million the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation gave to him to invest in rare coins. Noe’s lawyer has reported that $10 million to $12 million is missing.
‘‘I think that there are some serious allegations that have been raised against this individual,’’ White House press secretary Scott McClellan said in Texas while Bush spent time at his ranch.
‘‘They have raised concerns with people in Ohio. They have raised concerns with the White House. And the president felt it was the right thing to return those contributions that came directly from him,’’ McClellan said.
Aaron McLear, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, said Thursday that the $2,000 donated by Noe to the RNC will be given to charity. McLear added that Bush has no immediate plans to return more than $100,000 Noe raised for the Bush-Cheney campaign last year.
‘‘Those are from other individuals,’’ McClellan said. ‘‘In the past, I think, the campaign – if you’ll go back and look – has returned contributions from individuals that maybe have been convicted of crimes, and so forth.’’
Ohio Gov. Bob Taft, three other statewide officeholders, several House lawmakers and Sen. Mike DeWine also said they were giving up campaign contributions from Noe totaling nearly $60,000. Many of the officials designated charities or a workers’ compensation fund to receive the money.
Meanwhile, a former governor’s aide has told federal authorities that he gave $2,000 to Bush’s re-election campaign at the urging of Noe and was later reimbursed by the coin dealer, a newspaper reported Friday.
H. Douglas Talbott appeared this week before a federal grand jury in Toledo that is looking into whether Noe, who headed the Bush-Cheney campaign in northwest Ohio, skirted campaign finance laws by giving others money to donate, according to a report published in The Plain Dealer in Cleveland.
the real question is whether that’s all the money that bush received that noe was a part of. in the story i linked, he told a guy to donate to bush and that he’d pay him back afterwards. i don’t think this reflects on bush, but there are a lot of campaign finance laws being implicated.
This is all the result of the asanine caampaign finance reform law that McCain/Feingold created. Its why people, on both sides, will do stupid things like the Ohio republicans to raise $$. McCain/Feingold is a dumb law.
you can argue that mccain/feingold is a dumb law, but to say it led to an individual embezzling $10 million is overdoing a bit.
Ohio - The New Florida
I catch so much shit from my friends up north because of crap like this. And among the reasons that the Republicans have been able to get themselves in this position is that all other parties are quite impotent outside of metropolitan areas (except Cincinnati. Where else would you find the Ronald Reagan Expressway?)