Gov. Taft sued over ‘Coingate' scandal

[Robbien]

COLUMBUS -- Governor Bob Taft has been sued over the “Coingate” scandal … he’s accused of covering it up.

Democratic State Senator Marc Dann is demanding Taft provide e-mails and memos from his staff. The senator is one of many clamoring for information about the state’s bad investments and about Taft’s relationship with coin dealer and republican fundraiser Tom Noe.

So far, the governor is withholding some records. He’s claiming “executive privilege.”

“This is not a matter of national security,” Dann said. “This is a matter of what did the governor’s staff tell him about the job we were paying the governor’s staff to do, what did the governor know about what we were paying him to oversee. Executive privilege is not a concept recognized in Ohio’s Public Records Law.”

http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=37541

[mbperrin]

1. I like it! I'm from Texas, don't know Dann, but

this direct approach seems great!

[converted_democrat]

2. Finally!!!!

[Sydnie]

3. Fire up the mills, there's going to be a run on orange fabric soon

And the irony that the fabric is orange is not lost on me. Ukranian, anyone?

[Botany]

6. My fav EDV!

Sydnie you have no idea how dirty Ohio is. And what is worse some
of the dems are in on it too.

Gov. Taft "Oh that 215 million $s" He knew this in Oct of '04 ......
would not have mattered the fix was in ..... big time ..... some of the money
from coingate & Noe went to pay for the fix and computers in Blackwell's office
that allowed remote access to the central tabulators i.e. Miami County 19,000
votes loaded after the pools closed and the machines were turned off.

[Sydnie]

9. Botany baby!

:loveya: -- Now check out this thread - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x382699 and tell me what you think, 'k?

[Botany]

11. Read it ....

..... Hmmmmm

Just when you think you have seen the limit to what these nazis will
do they just do more.

We need to keep gitmo and send the lot of 'em to there.

Stealing elections, lying to start wars, controlling the content of much
of the media, killing people (Ray Lemme), using the Florida and maybe
the Ohio Turnpike commissions to launder Saudi money, letting bin Laden
go free ( I think he is died in Dec '01 @ Tora Bora but "they" need a boogie
man), give billion to the rich, hoodwinking Christians about their faith,
voter suppression, and on and on ......

I have a feeling that it is all about to come down on them hard .....
too many balls in the air......

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

4. Executive Privilege?!

Taft is such an effing moron.

[Massacure]

13. Reminds me of Nixon.

[tsuki]

5. Coingate was reported on CNN last night, complete with Beanie

Babies.

[0rganism]

8. Millions will suffer because of this ridiculous mess

Who knew that when Ohio lost its pension fund, it would be in such a comedic manner?

"Son, the reason your mother and I are digging for food in these dumpsters is our corrupt governor decided to invest our pensions in beanie babies and not-so-rare coins."

[tsuki]

14. The only good thing about this I can report is here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4029182&mesg_id=4030790

I have found with Republicans, DMS, Plame, the War doesn't count, but Beanie Babies do.

[halsaxby]

7. Coingate...

So far, the governor is withholding some records. He’s claiming “executive privilege.”

Who does this clown think he is? Bush?

[mom cat]

10. Hope the whole election gate story bursts wide open with it.

Taft could use a good cell-mate like Blackwell.

[KeepItReal]

12. “This is not a matter of national security” - SWEET

Go get 'em!

[norml]

15. Jeb Bush...Shocking 'Coin Gate' Crimes and Murder

Jeb Bush...Shocking 'Coin Gate' Crimes and Murder
Published on 02 July 2005 | Source: TNC Staff Reporter FL

Florida Investigator Who Got Too Close to Florida "Coin Gate" Silenced by Jeb Bush's Gangsters

Story Unfolding

Room 132 at the Knight's Inn in Valdosta, Georgia. Florida Department of Transportation Investigator Ray Lemme had the goods on the Bushes. He paid with his life.

Lemme was anxious to meet his contact, driving a beeline direct route from Tallahassee using I-10, Rt. 221, and US 85, to Exit 16 intersection of I-75 and US 85 (Knights Inn, 2110 West Hill Ave., Valdosta, Georgia). The Knights Inn is fairly remote from I-75, surrounded by empty lots and woods with few potential witnesses in the vicinity.

Wayne Madsen

FLORIDA PANHANDLE, June 10, 2005 -- Experienced federal investigators, acting independently, have discovered a covert funding channel used by the 2000 and 2004 Bush-Cheney campaigns and the administrations of Jeb Bush in Florida and Bob Taft in Ohio to illegally funnel foreign and other questionable money into Republican coffers.

Ever since the brutal death of Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) investigator Ray Lemme in July 2003, the focus of investigators in Florida and Georgia has been on the political scandal Lemme was uncovering. After his official investigation of contract fraud, money laundering, illegal immigration, and election fraud was shut down on orders of Jeb Bush, Lemme continued to investigate the use of FDOT to launder cash for the Bush Brothers and their allies. Lemme's focus was on the use of the Florida turnpike system to launder cash for the Jeb and George W. Bush campaigns. It was an investigation that would ultimately lead to Lemme's body being discovered in a motel room bathtub in Valdosta, Georgia. A two-state police cover up of Lemme's death, threats directed at Florida and Georgia investigators, and a virtual media blackout indicates that the GOP administrations of Jeb Bush and Georgia's Sonny Perdue wanted the Lemme story to go away -- and fast.



snip



http://www.newcriminologist.co.uk/news.asp?id=1185989364

[Roland99]

16. Burn, baby! Burn!!

[WCGreen]

17. A person I know that is close to Taft

Told me the Gov has indeed, as reported in some media outlets in Ohio, hired a criminal attorney to see if there is any possibility that he might be charged with a crime...

The crimes he is worried about revolve around a few fund raisers that the Coin Man organized for Taft and other high placed republicans.....

These golf outings, were never, according to my source, officially reported to the Sec of State as required by law....

Stay tuned on this one.....

[anitar1]

18. yipee!! Seems as if there will be many trails pending over

this situation. What a corrupt state. They should get a special award for this.