Red Harvest
08-17-2005, 21:31
Ohio Governor to be Charged Link (http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/17/ohio.governor.ap/index.html)
Interesting. Seems he's been going on some expensive golf outings paid for by supporters but hasn't declared them. Sounds like a technicality...but one of these folks also is having trouble accounting for $13 million in state funds for investment in "rare coins", and is accused of having stolen $4 million at the moment Ouch!
Gov. Bob Taft is the great-grandson of President William Howard Taft (who was also the son of a Senator.) The governor's father and grandfather were senators. Note that Pres. Taft was a former friend who became the nemesis of Teddy Roosevelt. As a result the GOP split into a conservative wing (today's GOP) and a separate Progressive party under Roosevelt.
Aristocracy in action. Seems wrong to me that so much power should be in the hands of so few.
Interesting. Seems he's been going on some expensive golf outings paid for by supporters but hasn't declared them. Sounds like a technicality...but one of these folks also is having trouble accounting for $13 million in state funds for investment in "rare coins", and is accused of having stolen $4 million at the moment Ouch!
Gov. Bob Taft is the great-grandson of President William Howard Taft (who was also the son of a Senator.) The governor's father and grandfather were senators. Note that Pres. Taft was a former friend who became the nemesis of Teddy Roosevelt. As a result the GOP split into a conservative wing (today's GOP) and a separate Progressive party under Roosevelt.
Aristocracy in action. Seems wrong to me that so much power should be in the hands of so few.