Trial May Hurt Ohio GOP on Election Day

[cal04]

Just a month before the elections, a former Republican fundraising star is set to go on trial on charges that he stole millions of dollars from a state investment in rare coins.

The timing couldn't be worse for the GOP. Democrats, who haven't won a statewide executive office since 1990, are poised to take back the governor's office and are in position to win a majority of the five statewide races, according to recent polls.

National Democratic leaders also are watching closely because Ohio again is widely expected to play a key role in picking the next president. The party believes that if it can capture Ohio's governor's office, it will have a better shot at winning the state in 2008.

The trial of Tom Noe will shine a spotlight on Republican Party problems even though its leaders have worked to distance themselves from the former coin dealer who managed the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation's $50 million rare coin investment.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061007/ap_on_el_st_lo/investment_scandal_1

[napi21]

1. GOOD! I LOVE the timing!!! I just hope the voters of Ohio are

paying attention and decide their whole state needs cleaned up!

[Botany]

2. Attorney General, Betty Montgomery

That would be you.

And Deb Pryce
And Blackwell
And Padgett
And DeWine

sucks to be you repugs

[Doremus]

6. I dunno, but I think ole Betty's beating Marc Dann pretty bad in the polls

She's slicing and dicing Marc to bits.

Unless he performs some magic pretty quickly, it looks like Atty Gen. is the only statewide spot that's going to stay repig.

[WCGreen]

7. Yea she is ahead by 10-15 points now....

But remember, she was the Auditor during the Noe scandal and she never once questioned the viability of the coins as assets for the WC investments...

[OzarkDem]

10. She's very, very crooked

and the news media is giving her a "pass".

[movonne]

3. May???? if Ohio votes any repugs back in , then I will have to say

they like perverts running this country...

[movonne]

4. May???? if Ohio votes any repugs back in , then I will have to say

they like perverts running this country...

[flyarm]

5. the whole country should be watching this...

because these are the bastards who stole our presidential election in 2004!

or part of the rethuglicans nationwide ..who did!!

fly

[Vidar]

8. Good timing.

[OzarkDem]

9. Most will bury the stories in the business section

or the back pages of the Metro section. Voinovich's newspaper, the Cleveland Pee Dee, has been doing this already.