Comments on: GOP AG Candidate Crites’ Past Scandals: Part 1

By: Plunderbund - » GOP AG Candidate Crites’ Past Scandals: Part 1a

Plunderbund - » GOP AG Candidate Crites’ Past Scandals: Part 1a — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:02:06 +0000

[...] I posted about some potentially scandalous activities in the past of Don Michael Crites, the Ohio [...]

By: J-Dog

J-Dog — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:31:08 +0000

Okay, Joseph, so when do we get Part 2? Fat Matt’s response to Part 1 was rather underwhelming, so I can’t wait for the sequel!

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:37:52 +0000

Yes, Mr/Ms Start.

It’s the same women. The second women (that we know of) that Buck had an affair with while in office and the one he left his wife Carol for.

Did I forget to mention that Brenda was also married at the time?

Her marriage ended with some a messy and very public divorce from her husband after news of her affair of over 7 months with Rinehart was revealed.

I’m very glad they are still together. But it doesn’t change the facts.

By: Right From the Start

Right From the Start — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:25:42 +0000

Is Brenda Dodrill the same person as Brenda Rinehart — Buck’s wife now of 17 years?

By: Plunderbund & BSB Start off the Democrats Smear Campaign Against D. Michael Crites at Naugblog

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:39:53 +0000

[...] The first shot was fired by Joseph of Plunderbund (which was echoed by some young chubby kid over at BSB). But the wording and lack of sourcing of his post makes me believe that someone in Democrat circles is feeding him the information: [...]

By: J-Dog

J-Dog — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:21:36 +0000

Assistant US Attorney is NOT an entry-level attorney position. Regardless of who the freshly minted attorney is who gets a position, you really have to wonder who they’re sleeping with or who their daddy is.

This is the absolute LAST thing we need to have going on in the AG’s office, and I don’t give a damn who the AG is or what party the AG represents.

By the way, MM, the Pete Rose comment was gratuitous and designed to yank the chain of people like you. Just wanted to see who all was reading…

By: Ohio GOP: Worst Day May Have Been Today : Clips & Comment

Ohio GOP: Worst Day May Have Been Today : Clips & Comment — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:31:29 +0000

[...] That was his claim to fame until Plunderbund unearthed Crites’ own nepotism tinged with adultery scandal earlier this evening. You can read all about it here. [...]

By: Pelikan

Pelikan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:47:51 +0000

I thought today was the worst day thus far in Election ’08 for the Republicans. First, Governor Ted Strickland essentially won two Ohio House races today by appointing two Republicans to state jobs. Then they get an AG candidate nobody’s heard anything about since the 1980s. Tomorrow may be ‘worser’ when Crites withdraws. Cronyism tinged with adultery won’t be the winning combination this year …

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:11:47 +0000

I think my post was pretty clear.

* Brenda Dodrill was Buck Rinehart’s mistress

* Dodrill was an inexperienced lawyer with no trial experience

* Crites hired Dodrill as an assistant U.S. attorney

Here’s part of the original article, in case you are interested:

Crites raised the eyebrows of politicians throughout Columbus in May, when he hired Rinehart’s fiancee, Brenda L. Dodrill, then Columbus human services director, as an assistant U.S. attorney despite the fact that she had been licensed to practice law only since November 1988 and had no trial experience.

Crites’ hiring of Dodrill followed a withering spate of publicity that accompanied Rinehart’s denials, and subsequent admission, that he and Dodrill had been having an extramarital affair. News reports about the affair – the second sex scandal Rinehart has endured in public office – caused Rinehart to announce that he would not seek another term because “the only route to victory, if there was such a road, lay across a bloody battlefield.”

By: MM

MM — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:55:16 +0000

First, Pete Rose was a scumbag and deserved everything he got and second, unless your posting has incomplete information, there do not appear to have been allegations of sex between the hiring office-holder and the alledgedly “inexperienced” employee. I thought it was Mayor Buck who engaged in the hanky panky back then, but now somehow you seem to be saying that it was not Buck? Were all those Dispatch articles wrong back then and Buck really wasn’t doing that?