Betty and Noe: social friends or political acquaintances?

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Good Blade article. Here's an except.

" told childhood stories including one about getting in trouble with the nuns in school. ... She told a few other lighthearted family-type stories about Noe getting into bad-boy type scrapes - ironic considering the trouble he is in now and the fact that Montgomery acts as though she hardly knew Noe," Mr. Rothenberg wrote about what he saw on the tape as soon as he left the Sept. 27 meeting.
He provided his written account to The Blade, comparing the event to a Dean Martin roast.
"Montgomery talked about her sorority sister and friend, Noe's sister; and referred to stories about watching Tom grow up and his importance to Ohio, and northwest Ohio. There was clearly a genial banter between a seated Noe and Montgomery," Mr. Rothenberg wrote.
Jen Detwiler, Ms. Montgomery's spokesman, said in a written statement that Ms. Montgomery "told a few short stories she had learned from Bernadette about Tom's childhood."
Ms. Montgomery attended college with Tom Noe's sister, Beth, three decades ago, Ms. Detwiler said. According to Bowling Green State University yearbooks, Ms. Montgomery and Noe's sister were members of the Phi Mu sorority in the late 1960s.
"Betty has never been a social friend of Tom and Bernadette Noe, but they were political acquaintances and worked with them and other northwest Ohio Republican leaders to elect Republican candidates," Ms. Detwiler wrote.

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