(Ohio Coingate) More unreported golf trips by Taft surface

[Robbien]

COLUMBUS – Gov. Bob Taft has filed documents with the Ohio Ethics Commission listing 50 to 60 golf outings and other events he previously failed to disclose, sources told The Dispatch. Neither Taft’s office nor the Ethics Commission Tuesday would release the documents or even confirm the filing.

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If Taft knowingly filed a false financial-disclosure statement, he could face up to six months in jail, a $1,000 fine or both.

Taft’s admission on June 14 that he failed to file “a series of matters” that should have been disclosed automatically triggered an ethics investigation. The law does not allow for amended ethics filings.

“I stand ready to cooperate with any review the commission wishes to conduct and seek the commission’s guidance on how to make reimbursements and/or provide the appropriate disclosures,” Taft wrote at the time.

http://www.timesreporter.com/left.php?ID=43785&r=1



For reference, how Taft treated others in his administration for unreported golf trips:

http://www.dispatch.com/topstory.php?story=dispatch/2005/06/22/20050622-A1-00.html

• Randall A. Fischer resigned as director of the Ohio School Facilities Commission in July 2002. He pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors for accepting free rounds of golf, hockey tickets and meals from contractors to whom he awarded unbid contracts worth millions.

• Former Consumers’ Counsel Robert S. Tongren quit in November 2003 after an investigation found he accepted dozens of expensive golf outings and meals from utility lobbyists. He admitted to four misdemeanors.

• When a probe in September 2003 showed that Richard P. Frenette, manager of the state fair, and other employees improperly accepted golf passes and other favors from vendors doing business with the fair, Taft called on the Ohio Expositions Commission to "take prompt and appropriate action." Frenette quit two days later.

• Taft issued a quit-or-be-fired ultimatum in August 2002 to Gino Zomparelli, director of the Ohio Turnpike Commission, the day after a probe found he and 30 other turnpike officials were showered with golf outings, free meals and sports tickets by companies doing business with the agency. Zomparelli quit the next day.

[Botany]

1. So how many were with Tommy Noe?

60 Golf trips ....... work much Governor?

[enigmatic]

2. Is Taft's approval ratings in the single digits yet?

I know it was around 18 percent in the last poll I saw a few weeks ago..

[mod mom]

9. It now stands at 3% (He has a large family tree)

sarcasm!

[cmd]

3. "knowingly" cannot be an issue here

Taft obviously knew that these golf outing should be reported. Of course, he may have just been too busy on the links to get it done. He is the lamest, most stupid governer ever. He even make Bush look intelligent.

[Robbien]

4. He forced others to resign because they did not report golf outings

and now he wants us to believe he did not know he had to report them himself?

[0007]

5. "He even makes Bush look intelligent."

Dumb & dumber, 'eh? What a pair to draw too!


Who is this other clown?

[DeepModem Mom]

6. kick

[mod mom]

7. It's a good thing the pugs had all those prisons built, we need a place to

house all the corrupt politicians.

[Tweed]

8. Should help Walker's Congressional race