More Eyes on Josh Mandel's Work Habits

* Republican Josh Mandel, the practically absent Ohio Treasurer, continues in his campaign for Senate.  People are noticing Mandel's lack of dedication to his current job because he frequently pays hooky in order to do fundraising during work hours.

Plain Dealer editorial:

...The Daily News reported that Mandel did indeed put "qualified, experienced staff members in some top positions." But Ohio's supposedly reformist Republican state treasurer also "hired six campaign workers whose average age is 26 and assigned them duties ranging from debt management to policy-advising to community outreach."  

.....Mandel seems not to understand that when voters elect a statewide executive officer, they're looking for managers, not political operators. 

That's especially so at the treasury, where minding the store is a must. Periodically -- before the Civil War, before World War I, late in the 1920s, in 1970 and early in the 1980s -- something at Ohio's treasury goes very wrong. And even when the treasurer is personally blameless, that's whom voters blame. If, between anti-Brown campaign stunts, Mandel finds time to stop by the office he was elected to run, he might care to recall that fact. 

Josh Mandel has demonstrated his arrogant attitude and lack of respect for the Ohio taxpayers. We pay his salary! He has thumbed his nose at Ohioans.

* The News-Messenger, Josh Mandel gave a speech for his campaign.  I was struck by the fact that Mandel was speaking to Republicans at another country club.  This time it was the Fremont Country Club. Mandel will appear at a fundraiser with John McCain at the private Columbus Club today at Noon (see OCTA).  He spoke at the Shawnee Country Club in February (see 939kisslima.com).  I guess by going to speak at country clubs, Mandel avoids having to deal with real, hard-working Ohioans.

*  Now we know that Josh Mandel hired inexperienced, unqualified, pals/friends/campaign workers for his staff at the Ohio Treasurer's  office, there is something more to add to that information.  The Toledo Blade:

Josh Mandel, Ohio treasurer of state, has given his staff appointees large raises since he took office while awarding more modest raises to the employees he inherited when he became treasurer a year ago.....

....Six Mandel political appointees received raises ranging from $250 to $1,153 per two-week pay period since the time he took office.

In the same period, raises for the six highest-paid holdovers from former Democratic Treasurer Kevin Boyce ranged from $147 to $441 per pay period......

When I think of Josh Mandel, I think of these words:

Absenteeism.

Favoritism.  

Cronyism. 

Arrogance.