Report: Bush fundraisers got $1.2 billion in public funds

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http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/cleveland/index.ssf?/base/news-20/1130700843224421.xml&storylist=cleveland

Report: Bush fundraisers got $1.2 billion in public funds

10/30/2005, 2:28 p.m. ET
The Associated Press

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Thirty Ohioans who raised a combined $4.1 million for President Bush's re-election campaign have received more than $1.2 billion in public funds for their companies and clients, a newspaper reported.

Since Bush took office in 2001, the federal government has given those companies more than $447 million in subsidies, contracts and other payments, according to records analyzed by The Blade. Ohio has awarded them about $800 million in the last six years, the paper reported Sunday.

Business leaders and lobbyists who raised money for Bush were called "Pioneers" if they raised at least $100,000 and "Rangers" if they raised $200,000; some also were given political appointments.

One of the fundraisers, coin dealer Tom Noe, was charged Thursday with illegally funneling $45,400 in contributions to Bush's re-election bid. Noe has denied wrongdoing in his fundraising and in his handling of a state investment fund, which prompted an investigation that led to Gov. Bob Taft's conviction on ethics charges

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[Botany]

1. Drip drip drip

Can't keep Ohio hidden forever.

The truth will come out. This is like hiding a dead horse in the basement sooner
or later the smell will get to every room in the house.

[acmavm]

3. Now all we gotta do is figure out how to get the escapist from reality

to finally pay attention.

[mtnester]

2. GIVE IT BACK! - only a dishonest person does not give back money

that does not belong to them, and they KNOW it!

Yes, I have signed the petition...that is my hard earned money through taxes damn it!

[zann725]

4. And Noe's "contributions" were from STOLEN Workers' Comp. money...

taken from injured workers' benefits. That makes it doubly criminal. Why Noe's not being sued in a Class Action by those "injured" Workers is curious indeed. If you were an injured, wheel-chair bound worker who needed physical therapy in order to possibly walk again one day. And that treatment was denied or seriously delayed due to stolen W.C. funds....I'd say a jury would be extremely empathetic to that. Particularly a jury of Ohio voters who stood in the cold rain 10 hours last Nov....only to find their votes didn't count, or "counted" for "Bush" by computer "glitch."

[gristy]

5. more here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1888501