Ohio Gov. Charged Over Unreported Gifts (Ha Ha Focker)

[meisje]

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Gov. Bob Taft was charged with four ethics violations Wednesday for failing to report dozens of gifts that included dinners, golf games and professional hockey tickets, deepening a scandal that has rocked Ohio's Republican Party.

Taft, a Republican and member of a distinguished U.S. political family, becomes the first governor in Ohio history to be charged with a crime. The charges are also an embarrassment for a politician who has pushed for high ethical standards in his office.

Taft, could be fined $1,000 and sentenced to six months in jail on each count if convicted, though time behind bars was considered unlikely.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050817/ap_on_re_us/governor_charges

[mconvente]

1. nice!

Repubs in Ohio are going down down down - and all over the nation as well!

[Berry Cool]

2. I am delighted to see this.

It's high time politics got cleaned up in Ohio. If the Dems can't put up someone decent in the face of all this as a slate of candidates, they are truly hopeless. Right now the Republican party in Ohio is the party of filth and disgust.

[fshrink]

3. Any grease from Diebold?

[wanpete]

4. excellente!

[CrackpotAmerica]

5. Taft Charged In Ohio

4 charges....

Jail time?



Get it here:
http://www.wcpo.com/news/2005/local/08/17/taftcharged.html

[autorank]

6. And can you imagine, some people think the Repubs stole 2004 in OH

What a distinction, the first Gov indicted while in office...I mean this is the home of Warren G. "Party Animal" Harding.

Way to go Taft, you're helping us make our case for a stolen election wit collateral evidence...

Great post!

[forintegrity]

7. But he's not resigning?

Ohioans ought to throw his ass out!

How embarrassing!

[forintegrity]

8. Republicans: the party of hypocrites

Republicans motto: Do as I say, not as I do!

[meisje]

9. self kick