Ohio's Rep. Chair:'I just noticed our 2004 criminal campaign cash'

[Algorem]

(notice that this is a Cleveland Plainly Deceptive story,so it's written to go as easy as possible on their Republican cronies)
thishttp://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/11317914284040.xml&coll=2

GOP chief says he alerted justices
Campaign reports raised red flags' Bennett checked campaign reports

Saturday, November 12, 2005
T.C. Brown
Plain Dealer Bureau
Columbus

-- Ohio GOP Chairman Bob Bennett revealed Friday that he tipped off three Supreme Court justices about potential legal problems with campaign contributions they received from H. Douglas Talbott.

Bennett said he had no inside information. But he began to look for anything "odd and weird" in campaign finance records after a federal grand jury indicted former Maumee coin dealer Tom Noe last month on charges of illegally using friends and associates, or "conduits," to give $45,400 to the 2003 Bush-Cheney re-election campaign.

Talbott, a former top aide to Govs. Bob Taft and George Voinovich, told a federal grand jury he was one of the conduits. State investigators are looking at a $39,000 interest-free loan Talbott took from Noe in 2002 to buy a house.

A July 25, 2004, fund-raiser Noe held for Supreme Court candidates at his Catawba Island home caught Bennett's eye. Talbott, whose contributions were usually in the $300 to $500 range, gave Chief Justice Thomas Moyer and Justices Terrence O'Donnell and Judith Lanzinger $1,000 each at that event, he said...

[JWS]

1. Hah.

Something big is still waiting to happen in Ohio.

I can smell it!

:popcorn:

[mod mom]

2. HOW DARE MOYERS! Here he has the audacity to raise ?s on impartiality

of Judge Dale Crawford. These GOP operatives are the ones who dismissed the contesting of the election and have direct ties to NOE and the money laundering to B/C 04. Head EXPLODING! WE NEED HELP IN OHIO, IT IS TOO CORRUPT FOR US SELF FUNDING ACTIVISTS TO CONTEND WITH!


Ohio-Judge removed from lawsuit over deadline to pick voting machines
http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/cleveland/index.ssf?...
11/11/2005, 11:25 a.m. ET
The Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court removed the judge from a lawsuit challenging the authority of the state's top election official to set deadlines that counties already met to select new electronic voting machines.

The actions of Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Dale Crawford, including biting language in a motion against Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell's attorneys, raise questions about his impartiality, Chief Justice Thomas Moyer said in a ruling on Tuesday.