Investment mess leads to calls for Taft's recall

[pf99]

http://www.cleveland.com/budgetscandal/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/111822309248360.xml&coll=2

Columbus - A politically connected investment firm lost $215 million in Bureau of Workers' Compensation money, triggering an agency shake-up, a wide-ranging criminal investigation and calls by Democrats for Gov. Bob Taft's recall.

[Wickerman]

1. sounds fair n/t

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Taft is one of the more worthless Governors out there...

...kinda like his great-Greatfather as President:

[TheDebbieDee]

3. I'm sure Missouri's Baby Blunt could take the "worthless" title.....

without even working hard!

[Kolesar]

4. I don't think Ohio government has a gubernatorial recall provision

like Californeea.

[seriousstan]

5. Ohio has no recall provision in it's state constitution.

This is at best whistling in the wind and at worst an ignorance of the constitution that elected officials are supposed to operate under.

Taft can only be removed by impeachment. As with the model of presidential impeachments, a majority of the state House of Representatives is needed to impeach an Ohio governor, and then it will be up to two-thirds of the Senate to hold a trial.



"Let's start looking at how we recall Taft," said Senate Minority Leader C.J. Prentiss, a Cleveland Democrat. "The buck stops with him - and he's just lost $200 million."
MORON!

If this putz doesn't know the rules and laws that govern HIS JOB he could at least hire someone who does and is willing to inform him before he opens his mouth and looks like an ass.

[Kolesar]

8. She

C.J. Prentiss is a woman.
I rather cringe hearing this talk, too.

[cmd]

6. We have to do get rid of the Blackwell threat first.

He is building a gigantic backing while we sit and twiddle our thumbs.

[doc03]

7. Impeach the SOB

Read this, some of this money may have been funneled to the Bush/Chaney Campaign.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05159/517483.stm