Silence on the Right

**** The Ohio GOP's favorite former fundraiser, Tom Noe, is in the news again. Noe, as you recall, is the convicted coin dealer who is in prison. This time some justices on the Ohio Supreme Court will not participate in Noe's appeal. The court is made up of all Republicans.

Toledo Blade:

...Justices Maureen O'Connor and Judith Lanzinger, both on this year's ballot, have recused themselves. They offered no reasoning, but both were financially supported by Noe or his then-wife, Bernadette, in prior elections. The link is more direct for Justice Lanzinger of Toledo, for whom Noe served as campaign manager in 2004. It remains to be seen whether other justices will join them in stepping aside.....

..... At that time, Chief Justice Thomas Moyer and Justices Lanzinger, O'Connor, Evelyn Lundberg Stratton, and Terrence O'Donnell took themselves off the records case. All are Republicans who had received a combined $23,510 in campaign help from one or both of the Noes and are still on today's court that must decide whether to hear Noe's direct criminal appeal.

We'll see if anyone else removes himself/herself from the case. Right now it seems like everyone is keeping their mouths shut.

Valuable photos:

Lanzinger & Noe












**** Have you noticed that Republican candidate for governor, John "Lehman Brothers" Kasich, hardly ever talks about his planned repeal of the state income tax. After his idea was criticized by economists, city/county/local/education leaders, Kasich hasn't even made a peep about his dangerous proposal to eliminate the state income tax.

I think there are several reasons we haven't heard much from Kasich:

(1) Kasich's big ego does not like criticism,
(2) Kasich hasn't figured out his entire planned cuts,
(3) Kasich knows that if he tells everyone the details he'll lose by a landslide.
(4) Kasich still wants to run for President and so he'd leave Mary Taylor to take over when he announces his real intentions. Then she'll be left with the problems.