Sunday, December 17, 2006
The New Augean Stables
That wonderful Toledo Blade has two articles this weekend that point to large piles of ordure that need to be cleaned up in Ohio. The picture is clear, Governor-elect Strickland has his work cut out for him. With a diligent effort, Ohio should be blue for some time to comes.
Tom Noe gave about $50,000 to the wife of U.S. Sen. George Voinovich's longtime friend, personal accountant, and campaign treasurer, according to records from his criminal trial.And from the Bureau of Workmens Compensation comes this little bit.
In 1998, when Mr. Voinovich was governor, Noe received the first $25 million to invest in rare coins from the state. That same year, Laura and Vincent Panichi began donating to Mr. Voinovich's Senate campaign. They gave $12,000 to his campaigns through 2005, according to Federal Election Commission records.
The bureau — under fire for the past 20 months because of corruption in its investment department and accusations of waste in its managed care program — has a disturbing history of secrecy and a failure to police itself, said state Sen. Marc Dann, a Democrat who becomes Ohio’s attorney general next month.The Democrats should be able to keep the courts busy for a long time.
The problems are rooted in the administration of former Republican Gov. George Voinovich — who trashed the bureau in his 1990 gubernatorial campaign as the “silent killer of jobs” and then used it to pump money into the state GOP machine, Mr. Dann said.
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