Contractors donated heavily to Ohio GOP

[Algorem]

THE MISMANAGED MILLIONS

Bureau's financiers gave millions to GOP

Contributions flowed from companies managing money for Workers' Comp

Sunday, June 26, 2005

http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/111977847925780.xml?ncounty_cuyahoga&coll=2

Top Ohio Republican officials and political committees have received millions of dollars in campaign contributions from companies managing money for the Bureau of Workers' Compensation.

Almost two-thirds of the 212 companies hired by the bureau to invest its money gave a to tal of nearly $5 million to Re publicans and their causes while virtually ignoring Demo crats from Jan. 1, 1997, through 2004, a Plain Dealer analysis shows.

The bureau loosened its investment policies during this period, allowing more firms to seek contracts to manage the bureau's money. The number of money managers exploded from just five in early 1997 to 156 by 2005.

Gov. Bob Taft, whose relationship with at least one money manager, Toledo coin dealer Tom Noe, has come under fire, topped the list of politicians benefiting from the money managers' political largesse...

[DeepModem Mom]

1. The Ohio story continues -- thanks for posting, Algorem. nt

[Algorem]

6. No prob.

[Roland99]

2. It's become a formula for disaster w/these Repukes

So predictable.

[blm]

5. Republicans INVENTED Enron style accounting. STEAL from taxpayers

to pay for your luxury homes and your mistress' boob jobs...and don't forget to tip your dominatrix, Bill Bennett.

[mbperrin]

3. Gawl-lee! 'Magine that! Pubs taking money so that

the givers get their snouts in the trough! Who'da thunk?

(Really, some of these stories should be retitled as Latest Breaking Confirmations, since "news" intimates some element of surprise.)

Remember kids, when you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas!

(Heartfelt apologies to actual dogs and fleas everywhere.)

[dArKeR]

4. Thanks for keeping the world up-to-date on the corruption of the GOP

[Algorem]

7. No prob.