Taft does not have right to refuse to testify

[ck4829]

"According to The Columbus Disptach (subscription required) Governor Taft has refused to testify, and he has prohibited five other current and former members of his administration from testifying, in a Coingate lawsuit filed by State Sen. Marc Dann. Taft has cited “executive privilege” as the reason for refusing to testify. According to Sen. Dann, “executive privilege” is a concept foreign to Ohio law, and Taft has no legal right to refuse to testify. I did a little bit of legal research myself, and I was also unable to find a single Ohio case applying the concept of executive privilege."

http://www.blue88.com/node/547

[Oversea Visitor]

1. Haha

:rofl: is getting away with these. Freedom Liberty Democracy what utter nonsense.

[jimshoes]

2. Oh just go in there and plead the fifth

like all the other crooks and criminals do when they get caught Bob. I'll be watching this one closely.

[Gronk Groks]

3. Have the Republicans packed the courts enough...

...for him to get away with this???

Don't know enough about that section of the country to answer that...

:shrug:

[OzarkDem]

4. Is anyone else concerned

about how the R's are in control of the investigation into their own elected officials corruption?

Shouldn't we have a special prosecutor overseeing all these investigations instead of a bunch of small time county prosecutors and judges who are vulnerable to pressure and have small budgets?

Shouldn't we be concerned over the possibility of losses of evidence and screwed up investigations?

[mtnester]

5. As long as the Blade is on it, and the Dispatched is shamed into it and

smells blood in the water, it should stay forefront.

And for those of you who want Taft gone, we need to keep that asshat in there...who do you want a Dem to run against....a corrupt Taft (and the implications all the Repubs are corrupt) or someone like the Lt. Governor, untainted, or WORSE, the Repubs bypass her and appoint Blackwell or someone like him.

As much as we want him to resign, he needs to stay right where he is with his crappy 17% approval rating and the smell of corruption HANGING on his ass through 2006.

[BQueen]

6. Taft can't run again, but is a good albatross for the others

so keeping him around is a good thing. he'll be even less effective than a lame duck.

Anyone else think the blackeye from Coingate had something to do with an additional 2 Ohio military bases being slated for closure?