Friends, Campaign Workers, and Pals

*  Republican Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel is a classic Republican hypocrite.  Although he accused his opponent in his last election of cronyism, now the world knows that Josh Mandel is guilty of cronyism.  Mandel has hired his campaign workers, pals, friends, and their friends in his department and some of them are not remotely qualified.

Huffington Post:

...The new three-a-half-minute web ad, obtained exclusively by The Huffington Post and shown below, has fake Facebook postings between Mandel and several of the aides currently embroiled in the debate over how Mandel hired top staffers in the treasurer's office. The Ohio Democratic Party is behind the web ad....

....The ad follows Facebook postings from Mandel and several aides, including general counsel Seth Metcalf, a college friend of Mandel's; Joe Aquilino, a campaign aide who spent 2011 as his debt management director; and Scott Guthrie, who was public affairs director in the treasurer's office for five weeks before returning to his post raising funds for Mandel's political organization. The satirical postings include Mandel offering jobs and raises to the group, and references to Mandel's skipping 14 months of meetings of the state Board of Deposit, which he chairs.....