Blackwell Hires Schiavo Figure

[Kolesar]

http://www.cleveland.com/weblogs/openers/index.ssf?/mtlogs/cleve_openers/archives/2006_03.html#117423

There's been a lot of back and forth between Attorney General Jim Petro and Secretary of State Ken Blackwell about lawyers hired as special counsel for state agencies. The vast majority are Ohio-based and not well known.

But that can't be said of Robert A. Destro.

A year ago this month, Destro, of Arlington, Va., was a major player in the nation's biggest court fight: he represented Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Terri Schiavo's parents in the battle to keep her alive.

Destro, an Akron native and law professor at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., got an unbid $75,000 state contract through Blackwell's office on Jan. 9. He is special counsel for the Ohio Secretary of State in legal issues with county board of elections about electronic voting machines.

Blackwell is active in the right-to-life movement, and Destro is a promiment lawyer in that cause.
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[BurgherHoldtheLies]

1. Good! Make sure the public associates OH Repubs with the Schiavo fiasco.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Can Ohio (I'm a native Buckeye) really be dumb enough to elect

Blackwell? What do the polls show? Who's running against him?

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

3. Diebold Factor

blackwell will win Ohio. It's already been decided, excepting for the counting of the votes, and they'll take care of that.

He is after all, the current Secretary Of State, so he's aware how to FIX things, like elections and such.

[Nutmegger]

4. Ugh, Blackwell make me want to

:puke:!!!!!!