Kenneth Blackwell Secretary of State Ohio owned stock in Diebold

[nascar55]

From the Columbus Dispatch http://www.dispatch.com/news/news.php?story=dispatch/2006/04/04/20060404-A1-01.html

[Neil Lisst]

1. but he didn't know!! He says.

can you believe his story?

blind trust situation sort of, didn't know, ignorance, yeah, that's the ticket

[C_U_L8R]

5. ignorance is no excuse

in the eyes of the law

[Neil Lisst]

6. My point was he's lying

[unblock]

14. i don't see the words "blind trust" anywhere

just telling your financial advisor, "go ahead and trade whatever you think best, no need to tell me" does not make it a "blind trust". a true blind trust is a trust created by legal documents which PROHIBIT the trust, or any other knowledgeable party, from informing the principal of the actual investments.

(i'm sure you knew that, just clarifying that it was not a real blind trust.)

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. boy that sure explains a lot..............

n/t

[jojo54]

3. The wheels of justice

will never crush these power hungry war mongers, I'm afraid.

[Dinger]

4. Washington Journal Said REPEATEDLY That blackwell Said It Was An "Accident

What a goddamned joke! What are the polls on the OH governor's race anyway?

[nascar55]

8. Blackwell leading Petro

However Dem. Strickland polls better than Blackwell and Petro

[itzamirakul]

9. Yeah, the same kind of "accident" that proclaimed Bush as winner.

Seems to me that half of the people in prison could claim "accident" for their crimes...

[Atman]

10. I accidentally buy stocks all the time.

I wish I had accidentally bought some Apple stock back in the early nineties, when they were selling shares at Macworld for a buck a share. Now THAT would have been one awesome accident!

[salin]

12. WJ also mentioned that while owning it - he placed BIG orders

for the company's voting machines. Didn't make Blackwell look good.

[Mr_Spock]

13. Yeah, let's ask MARTHA about these kind of "accidents"

ass hole - he's a RW pro-business & election fraud hack and everyone knows it - it's just a matter of getting enough evidence to put him in jail...

[goclark]

15. And they want to arrest someone for not wearing her little pin

Don't anyone tell me about justice in America.

This should be front page headlines.

[abluelady]

7. Surprise, Surprise. eom

[Benhurst]

11. The late Governor of Illinois Otto Kerner was sent to prison

for owning stock, of which he claimed no knowledge, in a blind trus

[melissinha]

16. ITS BS

Cause any new "incoming" portfolio manager should be pretty aware of the fact that he holds public office, particularly as Sec of State...

I am just so tired of this blaming the other guy stuff every single time these guys are found to eb guilty of conflict of interest, how much you want to bet those rival vendors who were already suspicious of impropriety are grinning now (of course how many of them are part of this voting scnadal too, I don't know.)

[oasis]

17. Picture Delay, Cunningham, Abramoff and Blackwell on a chain gang.

Throw Rove on there too. :grouphug: A pic of their smoke break.