After Cinnamon's calls, Gov. Taft's top guard is toast (call girls and...)

[Algorem]

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1124962253227261.xml&coll=2&thispage=1

Highway Patrol demotes lieutenant, citing absences, antics with women
Thursday, August 25, 2005

Columbus- The head of Gov. Bob Taft's security detail has been demoted after an investigation found that he attended strip clubs in New York, tried to pick up a woman at a bar during Taft's trade mission to Asia and received phone calls at his office from a go-go dancer in Columbus.

A State Highway Patrol report issued Wednesday says the dancer even left her name when she called the governor's Executive Protection Unit in the Riffe Center: "Cinnamon, from Columbus Gold."...

The investigation did not substantiate allegations that Seitz was a member of the "Noe Supper Club," the bacchanal hosted by Republican fund-raiser and coin dealer Tom Noe, who is under criminal investigation.

It also found no wrongdoing in the award this year of a $250,000 janitorial contract from the Ohio Expositions Commission to Seitz's wife, Veronica.

[ok_cpu]

1. You just beat me to it

If I hadn't refreshed, we'd have had a dupe. What an embarrassment this governor's office has become.

[EST]

2. You deserve the runner-up prize. Good on both of you.

[Algorem]

5. this really makes Taft administration look silly,like a comedy movie

"...businessmen on the trade mission were laughing at Seitz on the last day of the trip . . . because Seitz kept losing track of the governor..." It's like Police Academy or something.Top Gun?

[maxrandb]

3. But the Republican Party

is the party of morales, values, and virtues.

Didn't Taft get the memo?

[Judi Lynn]

4. What a Republican!

From the article:

Asked by the investigator whether he'd ever given his state business card to a stripper, Seitz answered: "In the past, I probably have, somewhere down the line."
(snip)

A trooper and an Ohio Department of Development employee who accompanied Taft last fall on a trade mission to Japan and Taiwan said Seitz also embarrassed the governor's entourage by spending the last two days of Taft's visit to Taiwan "pursuing" a woman in a bar.

The report says Seitz bought the woman drinks and made inappropriate physical contact with her.

It quotes Trooper Derek Walker as saying that Seitz "made statements indicating he and the woman had sexual relations." Walker also quoted Seitz as saying, "What happens in Taiwan stays in Taiwan."
(snip)



NOT

[maxrandb]

6. I'm Sure the girls in Taiwan

"showed up at his hotel, demanding he have sex with them." - Neil Bush

[attaturk]

7. I think it's amazing

That this guy tried both the Neil Bush Sex Tour AND the Neil Young Sex Tour.

[blue northern]

18. ZING....nicely played n/t

[salin]

8. Until now - these series of scandals around Taft were missing one

component: sex.

Good ole Seitz, it appears, decided to add that angle.

[cmd]

13. I just forwarded that story to two friends

and used that same line.

[Botany]

9. You see your baby loves to dance

NEIL YOUNG - Cinnamon Girl Lyrics
I wanna live
with a cinnamon girl
I could be happy
the rest of my life
With a cinnamon girl.

A dreamer of pictures
I run in the night
You see us together,
chasing the moonlight,
My cinnamon girl.

Ten silver saxes,
a bass with a bow
The drummer relaxes
and waits between shows
For his cinnamon girl.

A dreamer of pictures
I run in the night
You see us together,
chasing the moonlight,
My cinnamon girl.

Pa sent me money now
I'm gonna make it somehow
I need another chance
You see your baby loves to dance
Yeah...yeah...yeah.

[maxrandb]

10. I Say; "Lap Dances in the Capitol for All"

might keep 'em busy enough so they can't "eff" up Ohio anymore.

[Botany]

11. My fav lines

It is Cinnamon from Columbus Gold

No connection to his wife getting a $250,000 contract

[Ellen Forradalom]

12. The old family-values shtick

shoots the Repubs in the foot yet again.

An active sex life is fine by me but keep it out of the office, OK?

[cmd]

14. This story is to good to miss

Here's a kick to the top.

[Supersedeas]

15. A little janitorial contract here, lil hush money there...so, its family

[Botany]

16. kick

:kick:

[OzarkDem]

17. One can only wonder

why they kept Seitz around so long when he was such a problem. Does he have the goods one someone?

As usual, these revelations are only skimming the surface of the real corruption in the Ohio GOP.

[bnr65432]

19. even more bad news for ohio republicans

these idiots just dont know how to be honest

[BQueen]

20. Taft pissed he couldn't ride in his big SUV....

>>>The investigator quotes Sgt. Janet Mulder-Yeagley as saying she once "pretty much got chewed out all the way to Cleveland" by Taft because he wanted to be driven in a Ford Expedition and the vehicle wasn't ready because Seitz had neglected to fill the tank. <<<

And, I know this isn't *exactly* how they meant it, but doesn't this paragraph sound like they were in the NY strip clubs "doing advance work?"

>>The report reserves much of its criticism for Seitz's antics with women. It discusses a visit he and two troopers made to a pair of strip clubs in New York while doing advance work this year for a visit by the governor. <<

If they turned them in as expenses....hmmmmm

:rofl: