Ohio probe targets had major campaign plan

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Nonprofit group would push business agenda

http://www.cleveland.com/budgetscandal/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/isbud/111917860320720.xml?isbud&coll=2

Sunday, June 19, 2005

Ted Wendling
Plain Dealer Bureau
Columbus

-- Aides to former House Speaker Larry Householder drafted a plan to sweep the 2006 elections with the as sistance of a pro-business think tank whose trustees included Toledo coin dealer Tom Noe.

Noe, the prodigious Republican fund-raiser at the center of the Bureau of Workers' Compensation scandal, was recruited in 2003 to sit on the board of a nonprofit issue-advocacy organization called YourOhio.org.

Noe's recruiters were Tom Whatman, former executive director of the Ohio Republican Party, and David Milenthal, a political chameleon who was instrumental in the election of Democratic Gov. Dick Celeste in 1982 but also worked to elect a 6-1 Republican majority on the Ohio Supreme Court.

While Milenthal claimed that he didn't know Noe and that Noe was "just a name to me," Whatman said Noe, former chairman of the Lucas County Republican Party, was highly regarded and viewed as a major player in GOP political circles...

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1. Somehow the words nonprofit and the name Thomas Noe makes me

sort of want to giggle. And then cry for the Joe/Josephine Sixpack citizens of Ohio.

Where else but the bush** administration could you find such total and absolute corruption except in Ohio?

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2. They wanted their "nonprofit" to be counterpart to MoveOn.HAHAHA!!!

but "it was dissolved amid revelations that federal agents were investigating Householder...investigation has now intersected with a separate federal inquiry into Noe's activities as a top fund-raiser for Bush's re-election campaign." A-HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!