The Gov candidates on their money
Strickland Continues Record Fundraising Pace; Has Raised $15.4M Total, $1.7M In 18 Days
Columbus, Ohio – The Strickland for Governor campaign today announced it has raised a total of $15.45 million in 18 months. The campaign raised more than $1.7 million during the last 18-day filing period.
Strickland for Governor reported $9.3 million in expenditures and nearly $1.8 million in cash on hand as of the October 18th filing deadline. The campaign reported an average daily contribution rate of $94,791 for the period.
“The overwhelming support we’ve received is a testament to Ohioans’ hunger for new leadership,” Strickland said.
The campaign has received contributions from a total of 23,967 contributors.
Strickland continued to garner broad support from across the state. The counties with the largest amount of contributions during the latest period were Franklin County and Cuyahoga County, which together accounted for more than $928,000
Blackwell Raises $5.5 million Since June
COLUMBUS – Gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell today reported raising nearly $5.5 million and spending $6.4 million since June 3. Blackwell has received more than $12 million in contributions since the campaign began.
“Our supporters have responded positively to Ken Blackwell’s strong leadership and bold plans to improve education and health care, cut taxes and change the way government operates in Columbus,” said Blackwell campaign chair Lara Mastin. “Ken Blackwell offers a positive change of direction from Gov. Bob Taft’s economic policies while our opponent represents more of the same.”
“We head into the campaign’s final days with ample resources to communicate Ken Blackwell’s message of job creation and economic prosperity,” added Mastin. “Voters will respond by electing Ken Blackwell Ohio’s next governor.”
Blackwell has received 33,393 contributions from 20,737 individual contributors.
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Post a Comment*Why is the Enquirer not giving Blackwell's hypocrisy the ane treatment they gave Blackwell's nothing new here but I'm losing desperation?
FELON ON PAYROLL
Blackwell also had problem worker
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Joe Hallett
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
GOP gubernatorial nominee J. Kenneth Blackwell, who has questioned the judgment of Democrat Ted Strickland for employing an aide who committed a misdemeanor, once had a felon on his payroll.
As state treasurer, Blackwell unknowingly hired a man with a long record of arrests and kept him on the payroll even after his office discovered the man's record and brought it to Blackwell's attention. Under Blackwell, who was treasurer from March 1994 to January 1999, Michael A. Toomer received two pay increases before leaving the treasurer's office in 2002 and landing in prison for the next four years.
Records obtained from the treasurer's office show that Toomer was hired Nov. 17, 1997, as a $10.32-per-hour mail clerk/ messenger. On his application, Toomer indicated no felony offenses, and a State Highway Patrol record check at that time turned up none.
But when the treasurer's office sought clearance for Toomer to have access to the Ohio Computer Center, a second check turned up numerous arrests. On Jan. 26, 1998, the Department of Public Safety denied access to Toomer, alias Glenn K. Williams.
Hand-written notes in the report showed that Toomer had been arrested in Florida for armed robbery in 1981, cocaine possession twice in 1991, and again in 1993. Records from Broward County, Fla., authorities show that the charges for armed robbery and the first incident of cocaine possession were dropped.
Toomer completed a drugtreatment program for the second 1991 cocaine possession charge and was placed on probation. In 1993, he was charged again with cocaine possession and his probation was extended for six months.
On Feb. 3, 1998, a week after learning of Toomer's criminal record, Beth Gilger, then the treasurer's director of human resources, wrote on office stationery that "we have enough to terminate" Toomer. At the time, and for the following six weeks, Toomer could have been fired without cause because he wasn't yet a member of the state employees union.
Blackwell said he opted not to fire Toomer on the recommendation of Gilger and the treasurer's office legal counsel. Blackwell said Toomer was an admitted drug addict who, after completing a Florida treatment program and passing treasurer's office drug tests, showed no signs of drug usage.
"He had met the drug screening, he was willing to undergo a pattern of drugscreening tests and he had a local church community that vouched for his turning his life around," Blackwell said.
Although the second background check turned up numerous arrests, Blackwell said he saw no documentation showing that Toomer actually had been convicted.
In a check of Toomer's file at the treasurer's office, The Dispatch found two records indicating that Toomer's probation had been extended after his Jan. 14, 1993, arrest for possessing cocaine.
Blackwell's successor as treasurer, Joseph T. Deters, now the Hamilton County prosecutor, said he did not know Toomer and received no information about his criminal record while he was treasurer.
"If I had been aware of it, I would have terminated him because we handled so much cash, and if somebody had demonstrated a problem with drugs the chances of falling back into them were too high," Deters said.
In May 2002, about three months after leaving the treasurer's office, Toomer was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a girl, beginning in September 1994 when she was 7 and continuing until 2001.
Blackwell said he did not know Toomer was a child molester until yesterday. If he had had any indication that Toomer was abusing a child while an employee of the treasurer's office, Blackwell said, "He would have been history."
The revelation that Blackwell hired and kept a felon on the payroll comes as the GOP nominee intensifies his attack on Strickland. Blackwell has accused Strickland of using poor judgment by not investigating the record of a former top aide who had been convicted in 1994 of a fourthdegree misdemeanor publicindecency offense. Strickland denied the accusation, noting that the record of the offense had been expunged.
The Blackwell campaign this week is making "push poll" calls to Ohio voters, a deceptive method of using what appear to be legitimate surveys to spread a negative message about an opponent.
If recipients of such calls say they plan to vote for Strickland, a recorded voice is programmed to provide information about the former aide who "exposed himself" to children. A subsequent message details a vote Strickland cast in Congress on a resolution condemning sex between adults and children. Strickland, a psychologist, voted "present," saying he objected to a provision of the resolution that said sexually abused children could not have healthy relationships later in life.
jhallett@dispatch.com
Who cares about Blackwell?
He's history.
Pay attention to absentee ballot manipulation, though....
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