Oh, Bob!

Our own Ohio Governor Bob Taft was just found guilty of 4 ethics violations which amounts to 4 misdemeanors in the state of Ohio. The governor did plead "no contest". Just so you understand, the judge found him guilty but the governor did not admit guilt. He only plead "no contest".

His sentence was to pay a fine of $1,000 per charge ($4,000) and to make a very public apology.

The ethics violations he was guilty of were mainly not reporting "gifts" over the value of $75.00. This is the purely innocent part of the whole mess. I just caught Bob in a lie in a press conference just now though. He said that as soon as he found out about the violations he committed, he turned himself in to the Ohio ethics committee. Untrue. This whole thing would have been kept hidden if his "friends" would not have messed up in the last several months. Some of the "gifts" received by our governor were golf outings with his good buddy Tom Noe. After going on golf outings with Tom Noe, Bob Taft then paid a visit to the Bureau of Workmens Compensation. The visit to the bureau consisted of our own Governor pushing Tom Noe's junk bonds that he wanted the state to invest in. The investment consisted of several hundred million dollars in rare coins and wine.

This is where the problem really starts.

Tom Noe bought the coins with his own money well before he ever pitched the idea to our Governor. When Tom had the coins in his personal possession he then started a "third party" business that revalued the coins. He then purposefully inflated the actual value of the coins, sometimes 30 times the actual value. Tom then went golfing with Bob and talked him into the investment. Governor Bob Taft took the investment "advice" from Tom Noe and forced the Bureau of Workmens Compensation into unknowingly buying the bonds that were already illegally inflated in value.

When the bureau was routinely audited of its investments, the treasury found the the loss of literally hundreds of millions of dollars. The largest loss I have heard was close to 500 million dollars. The bureau is being investigated in why they did not report the steep loss when it all began. Tom Noe is being busted for conning the state government. They have also found that after making the investment for the state, he began using the money he basically stole for his own personal use. This also includes using the stolen money to fund more golf outings with Governor Bob Taft. Meanwhile, Tom Noe's wine business partners in Colorado were also lining their pockets with scammed Ohio tax dollars.

This is the way I see it. Bob Taft tried to cover up the fact he knew Tom Noe when the coin scandal started. Therefore he broke the ethics laws of Ohio. Bob is obviously too stupid to make sure his business "friends" are not con artists. Because of Bob's stupidity the state lost millions of dollars that are supposed to be spent on the welfare of its own people. I personally believe that the leader of our state should be held responsible for that loss as well because he was used as the manipulated mule to create the scandal in the first place. Hence, the reason why he committed the crimes he was found guilty of today. He knew full well he was part of it as soon as the treasury found the worthless bonds. More to come.


Some facts you may enjoy.

---Bob Taft is the grandson of President William Howard Taft. The 27th President of the United States of America from 1909 to 1913. Both are Republican.

--- President W.H. Taft is the first president to play golf and helped make the sport popular in the United States.

---Governor Bob Taft is the first Ohio Governor to be found guilty of a crime, ironically enough, because of his golf outings.

---Governor Bob Taft's approval rating was last found at less than 15%.

---This is Governor Bob Taft's 2nd term. Somehow he got re-elected with a poor approval rating? We may have to investigate Ken Blackwell (another Taft pal) who is in the middle of a no-bid contract with sleazy DieBold Corporation in making computerized voting machines.