Trial May Hurt Ohio GOP On Election Day (Noe) - Seattle PI

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TOLEDO, Ohio -- Just a month before the elections, a former Republican fundraising star is set to go on trial on charges that he stole millions of dollars from a state investment in rare coins.

The timing couldn't be worse for the GOP. Democrats, who haven't won a statewide executive office since 1990, are poised to take back the governor's office and are in position to win a majority of the five statewide races, according to recent polls.

National Democratic leaders also are watching closely because Ohio again is widely expected to play a key role in picking the next president. The party believes that if it can capture Ohio's governor's office, it will have a better shot at winning the state in 2008.

The trial of Tom Noe will shine a spotlight on Republican Party problems even though its leaders have worked to distance themselves from the former coin dealer who managed the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation's $50 million rare coin investment.

"You couldn't think of much worse to happen to a state party during a critical election," said William Binning, a political scientist at Youngstown State University who has worked on past GOP campaigns.

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Link: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1135AP_Investment_Scandal.html

*Pretenders Sing* "Way to go... Ohio..."

:evilgrin:

Iraq, Foley, coin-gate - What did they expect would happen?

ticket with a chance to win in November, was the Auditor when all this shit came down...

Time to show that Betty was defiantly in the Noe....