Blade says "it's about enriching one's political friends and impoverishing

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one's enemies". The Toledo Blade has been doing about the best investigative reporting in the country in their pursuit of the the Republican scandals in Ohio. They do an excellent job summing up the thug agenda in this article.

Friday, June 10, 2005

Public blindsided again



Like Ms. Montgomery, Mr. Petro longs to be governor and is running hard for the job already. He needs to understand that the clients who should matter most to him are the citizens of Ohio. If that's a concept he struggles with, he should resign and become a full-time candidate.

Of course, his political prospects, along with Ms. Montgomery's, are problematic now. Ohioans surely have come to realize that when one party dominates and controls virtually all of state government for four terms, a sense of entitlement and keen disrespect of the people of Ohio are the result.

It's all about enriching one's political friends and impoverishing one's enemies.

That's why an attempt by legislative Republican leaders to stack their own newly created BWC investment review committee with four Republicans and just two Democrats is such a stupid idea. Unless the Democrats have equal representation, they will not participate, and the committee will have no credibility at all.

www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050610/OPINION02/506100332