Blackwell can't certify how HAVA funds were spent

[OzarkDem]

Some funds went to GOP campaign contributors. Just keepin it all in the family..

Of the $6,870,659.47 spent by Blackwell, there were substantial payments to firms like Smart Solutions, a Cleveland IT firm headed by Anand "Bill" Julka, a contributor to Republican candidates in Ohio. Gov. Taft named Julka to the Management Improvement Commission for the Ohio Lottery. The Ohio records also show a $10,869.75 disbursement to Professor Robert Destro, the Dean of Columbus School of Law at Catholic University of America and a board member of the anti-gay rights Marriage Law Foundation. An April 29, 2005 article by Columbus Free Press editor Bob Fitrakis states that Destro was not only a supporter of Blackwell but was present in his Columbus office election night. Destro described Blackwell as "panicky" over early indications that Bush had lost Ohio to Kerry. There were also significant payments by Blackwell to Excel Management of Columbus. Excel is headed by Curtis Jewell, also a donor to the Ohio Republicans.

In the GSA letter to Taft, the governor was informed that Blackwell requested that the Section 101 and 102 funds be deposited via Electronic Funds Transfer to an account specified by Blackwell. $5 million was transferred to Key Bank, 4910 Tiedeman Rd., Brooklyn, Ohio, account numer 311334820 on April 28, 2003. Another EFT deposit for $36,052,595.was made to the same account on June 16, 2003. Key Bank's CEO and Chairman is Henry L. Meyer III, a contributor to George W. Bush and Ohio GOP politicians. Meyer serves on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland under its chairman, Robert W. Mahoney, the retired CEO and Chairman of voting machine company Diebold, Inc. and another major contributor to Bush and Ohio Republicans. Mahoney serves on the board of the Timken Company, whose former chairman William Timken, a Bush "Pioneer" contributor, was recently named U.S. ambassador to Germany.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

[librechik]

1. drool

oh, if only the MSM would follow up on Wayne's allegations.

sigh...

[Mr Rabble]

2. *jaw hits table* n/t

[xchrom]

3. lol -- corporate and political playas

in bed to gether -- again.

florida redux -- that anybody with a brain in their head doesn't think something is fishy in columbus, is lying.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Why, I've never heard of such a thing!

:rofl:

Dang, it's enough to make me wanna get violent.

[progressoid]

5. Problem is, Wayne has cried wolf so many times that

no one listens to him. Even if he has this one right, his past goofs overshadow the possibility that he's on to something.

[OzarkDem]

8. It would be easy to verify

perhaps we should alert some intrepid reporters and encourage them to request copies of the records.

Its not at all beyond the realm of possibility, in fact its highly likely this kind of thing went on. Ohio government today is full of this kind of corruption. Those in office seem to no longer have any kind of ethical compass.

[Supersedeas]

6. and from the 'independent' network media--the sound of crickets

[starroute]

7. And William Timken was on the board of Diebold

(Until he resigned to become ambassador to Germany.)

They just can't help themselves, can they?