Hagan suit to stand; Republicans must open calendars, campaign data

[Algorem]

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1128160809325941.xml&coll=2&thispage=1

Saturday, October 01, 2005

Columbus-Democrat Tim Hagan lost the 2002 governor's race but won the right Friday to begin forcing top-ranking Republicans to open their calendars and campaign coffers to unprecedented scrutiny.

A county judge denied Republican efforts to dismiss Hagan's lawsuit accusing the GOP of trading unbid contracts for campaign cash...

"I believe discovery will show that these defendants have used no-bid contracts to loot the state of Ohio of hundreds of millions of dollars, making the Bureau of Workers' Compensation fiasco look like small change."...


Filed in August 2004, the lawsuit alleges that Ohio's GOP-controlled government awarded billions of dollars in unbid state contracts to vendors who artificially inflated their prices to cover contributions they kicked back to Republican political funds...

[barbaraann]

1. "alleges. ..billions in unbid state contracts"

Wow. I never realized Ohio was so corrupt.