Saturday, February 18, 2006
Flying pigs coming to Ohio.
One of the Republican candidates for governor in Ohio,Attorney General Jim Petro, has a novel new way to prevent Republican corruption in the state.
Attorney General Jim Petro, under fire for his handling of the Tom Noe rare-coin scandal and state legal work, said yesterday that his first initiative as governor would be to "end political favoritism" by calling for a ban on awarding state contracts to political contributors.So much for petrodollars flowing in Ohio. This idea reminds me of a little story I remember from long ago. It involves a local election where the incumbent promised, among other things, to rebuild a road badly in need of work. The incumbent even had drainage pipe delivered to the prospective work site. Where it sat until the election and long afterwards. So long that someone finally chalked on the piping, "Take me home boys, elections over". I am willing to bet that Petro's high sounding proposal will eventually end up like the pipes, sitting in the weeds waiting to be taken back to the depot.
Under his proposal, Mr. Petro said no officeholder would be permitted to give a contract - bid or unbid - to anyone who has contributed to him or another candidate for the governor's office in the previous two years. The proposal would also ban contributions from holders of state contracts during the life of the contracts and for one year after they expire.
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