Dimora led away in handcuffs

[GOTV]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/newsnet5/newsnet5_ts3621

I hope he goes to jail for a long time. He was a blight on the northeast Ohio political scene and I'm glad about the prospect of getting rid of him.

Unfortunately he may hurt Dem prospects in the only reliably blue part of Ohio.

[WCGreen]

1. I was his treasurer in the 90's up until 2001...

I never had a clue as to what was really going on.

I was really cut out of the loop.

He was so bent on keeping things on the up and up.

I was sure he hadn't done anything. But as the drip drip drip became a monsoon, I think that the position just went to his head and I guess he felt he was above the law.

[GOTV]

2. I know this woman ...

... who wanted to run for judge as a Democrat against an incumbent Democratic judge who was not well respected in the legal community. She went to Jimmy Dimora and was told she could not; that they needed the current judge to stay there (maybe because he needed her to occasionally rule in his favor, just guessing). So this woman went to the Republicans who were more than happy to help her out. She won and therefore the Democrats lost.

Then there was the Reform Ohio Now effort in 2005 which tried to do things such as reduce the maximum campaign donations from $10,000 back to $2500 and remove some control of the elections from the partisan secretary of state which was Ken Blackwell at the time. Jimmy Dimora created robo-calls against it.

The county is much better off without him but leave it to him to get removed in a way that most damages Democrats in this state. He knows what he did and he could have removed himself quietly. He just had to hand a corruption stick to the GOP to beat us with as he left.

[WCGreen]

3. Yea, that is true....

I'm glad I wasn't tainted with all of that crap...