Contributors get legal work, Petro foes say (Ohio scandalgate)

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Columbus - Four of every five dollars requested by Attorney General Jim Petro for special counsel contracts for this fiscal year will go to law firms that have given money to his political campaigns.

By a 4-to-2 vote along party lines, the State Controlling Board on Monday approved Petro's request for $19.1 million for 123 unbid contracts.

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But state Democratic leaders said 41 of the 57 law firms receiving contracts on Monday have given Republican Petro more than $800,000 since 1998. Those same firms yesterday were awarded $15.4 million in contracts.

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"We consider this a ridiculous partisan attack, this implication that we are doing something wrong," Petro spokesman Mark Anthony said.

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[Grillydad]

1. Accurate, but partisan n/t

[me b zola]

2. gop = multi million $$ contracts for those who get you into office

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It's a legalized kickback scheme," said Subodh Chandra, former Cleveland law director and a Democratic candidate for attorney general next year.

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"These special counsel contracts certainly seem to indicate a pay-to-play pattern," said Sen. Ray Miller, a Columbus Democrat and a member of the controlling board.

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Yeah, anytime you point out the illegal behavior of these gop thugs they accuse you of being partisan :puke: