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GOP candidate for Arizona governor has family ties to organized crime
https://beta.cironline.org/reports/gop-candidate-for-arizona-governor-has-family-ties-to-organized-crime/Doug Ducey, the Republican candidate for governor of Arizona in November’s election, hails from a family that for two generations was involved in organized crime in Toledo, Ohio, according to a report by The Center for Investigative Reporting and Phoenix New Times.
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The politician’s relatives ran after-hours gambling clubs and participated in bookmaking, numbers running, loan sharking and other lucrative and illegal activities in the northwest Ohio city from the 1930s through the 1980s, according to documents and interviews....
Ducey’s place in a family that was tied to organized crime in Toledo has never been publicized, and CIR and New Times discovered no evidence that he profited from or engaged in criminal activity. Ducey's campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Ducey’s great uncle Tony Paul Scott was a “one of Toledo’s most legendary racketeers” and one of the “elders of the loosely knit Toledo crime family,” as the Toledo Blade reported after his death in 1993.
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The politician’s relatives ran after-hours gambling clubs and participated in bookmaking, numbers running, loan sharking and other lucrative and illegal activities in the northwest Ohio city from the 1930s through the 1980s, according to documents and interviews....
Ducey’s place in a family that was tied to organized crime in Toledo has never been publicized, and CIR and New Times discovered no evidence that he profited from or engaged in criminal activity. Ducey's campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Ducey’s great uncle Tony Paul Scott was a “one of Toledo’s most legendary racketeers” and one of the “elders of the loosely knit Toledo crime family,” as the Toledo Blade reported after his death in 1993.
Tony Soprano for governor!
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I can't believe I'm saying this, but...I'd rather keep the Crypt Keeper. Not in love with Duval (D?), but I'm voting for him. Not confident in his chances. Too much money coming from Ducey's "friends" and "family", too many crazies in AZ, bleh.
My messages to the Castros have gone unanswered. I think they need to hand over one of them to Arizona. Tell me why Texas deserves them both. 
