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Federal Bureau of Investigation: Harvest Time for Ohio Democrats
September 16, 2013

Federal Bureau of Investigation: Harvest Time for Ohio Democrats

It’s almost autumn in Ohio, which means football, foliage, and harvest time. Ohio Democrats are ripe for the pickin’, and are being harvested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Ohio Democrats planted the seeds of corruption and scandal with former State Representatives Clayton Lucke and W. Carlton Weddington, who were gathered up by the FBI last year in a massive corruption probe. Luckie and Weddington were both convicted for corruption charges such as bribery, money laundering, and making false statements.

After Weddington went to prison, Ohio Democrats appointed former Democrat Ohio Treasurer Kevin Boyce to the Ohio House. Unfortunately, they seem to have replaced one scandal-plagued corrupt politician with another.

Boyce’s former Deputy Treasurer Amer Ahmad, who most recently served as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s comptroller, has been indicted by federal prosecutors for bribery, conspiracy, money laundering, and other charges of corruption.

Kevin Boyce said he was “shocked” at Ahmad’s indictment. That’s difficult to believe, as Boyce actually knew about the federal probe of his office as early as November of 2010.

Unfortunately, the embarrassment for Ohio’s Democrat circus doesn’t end with Boyce and Ahmad. Democrat Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald was recently caught breaking his own ethics laws. This is the same Ed FitzGerald who claims to have cleaned up after the massive Democrat corruption scandal that rocked Cuyahoga County just a few short years ago.

Even the liberal watchdog group Common Cause Ohio says that FitzGerald broke the law.

But FitzGerald’s ineptitude and hypocrisy doesn’t end there. Ohio Auditor of State Dave Yost recently audited local governments’ compliance with Ohio’s sunshine laws, which set clear standards for openness and transparency in government. The Columbus Dispatch reported on FitzGerald’s dismal performance in this audit, saying:

“Cuyahoga County, home to Cleveland, drew the harshest remarks in the public-records audit. Some departments did not save sent emails, and some officials could not prove they had attended state-mandated public-records training.

The county also lacked consistency in keeping public-records request logs, and the sheriff’s office failed to track when it provided records and did not keep copies of its responses to records requests, the audit found.” (Dispatch, 9/12/13)

The hypocrisy of Ohio Democrats seems to know no bounds. Unfortunately for them, their actions are catching up with them. The Columbus Dispatch recently reported on the FBI’s efforts to bring the Democrat cabal to justice for their misdeeds. Don’t miss this recent editorial: “FBI efforts are cleaning up Ohio.”