Ah, bobtaft. Scion of once renowned and connected family. Friend of kings and Preznits. Generous to a fault to rare coin dealers everywhere or at least in Toledo.
Gov. Bob Taft was in Cincinnati yesterday on a bus tour across the state with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt to hold town hall-style meetings about a new Medicare prescription drug program. The drug program begins next year.
He spoke with a group of reporters about the rare-coin scandal after the meeting.
"Mr. Noe was obviously not what he appeared to be. ... He misled many, many people," he said. "I think everybody was misled. The Bureau [of Workers Compensation] was misled, the state was misled, the people of Ohio were misled, I was misled, many people were misled, about the nature of Tom Noe."
Mr. Taft also responded to questions about how Mr. Noe began contributing to his campaign only a week after he transferred $1.375 million from the state rare-coin fund to his own accounts after receiving his first $25 million from the bureau in 1998.
Let's see. Anyone who wants to invest virtually endless supplies of state cash in rare coins and other collectibles: probably just a better grade of grifter. When said person wines, dines, pays for rounds of golf, accomodates your staff in their mansion in JEBLand, and uses your political party like a swiss bank to funnel cash EVERYWHERE and you never audit the books, because well, they're campaign contributors, BIG campaign contributors, what does that make you?
"Mr. Noe was obviously not what he appeared to be." Oh, bobtaft, here's to hoping that you and your band of republican grifters can hang on for a little while longer; you're getting to the Delay Level of corrupt politicians, and we thank you for helping us march into 2006 with issues and your republican record for getting dirty money most politicians only dream of. What a shame it blew up at such an inconvenient time. So hang tough! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Oh, and how about dropping by the OH-2 race and lending some of your aura of electiblity to the republican candidate there. She's your kind of gal...a Delay Disciple through and through! She'd probably appreciate some tips on getting some good clean dirty cash, cause her opponent raised thousands of dollars from a couple of days of fundraising from Democrats on the internets. And that's not even a Trade Secret!
