Plunderbund

Cincinnati’s NBC station is reporting that Willard Wilson, former head of a Cincinnati charter school, has been indicted on more charges. This time it’s theft by deception and two counts of forgery.
Wilson was previously indicted on charges of stealing tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars by “inflating the enrollment at the W. E .B. […]

The Dayton Daily News has the scoop on Marc Dann’s new job:
On his first day as former attorney general, Dann walked two miles from his home in Liberty Twp. to his new job, helping his wife, Alyssa Lenhoff, run Zesty Dishes.
He took orders, packed dishes and pitched in, according to Mike Harshman, Dann’s long-time friend.

I saw this video last night over at Tim’s blog. It got a LOT of comments- be sure to check it out.
In short: two long-time Democratic women from Central Ohio go on O’Reilly and threaten to leave the party and vote for John McCain if the Democrats don’t choose Hillary as their nominee.
We […]

I know I’m a little late in posting this- but it still seems worth mentioning that no one but George Bush - a guy with no tact and even less class - would make a speech in Irsael using a story about the Nazis to attack a political opponent.

As usual, California leads the way on issues of civil rights.
California’s top court has ruled that a state law banning marriage between same-sex couples is unconstitutional.
The state’s Supreme Court said the “right to form a family relationship” applied to all Californians regardless of sexuality.
Hey Ohio- you want the rest of the country/world […]

During “an emotional Academy Awards-style celebration” of the 60th birthday of Israel, George Bush is seen crying after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert praises him.
Dan Froomkin, in a piece on washingtonpost.com, has an interesting take on Bush’s latest moment of tears:
Bush has cried many times during his presidency — when he’s met with the […]

It looks like the Edwards endorsement is actually doing Obama some good.
Today he picked up the endorsement of the United Steelworkers of America…
When the presidential primary contests began last year, our Union felt strongly that because of Senator John Edwards’s deep commitment to working people and because of our shared beliefs, he deserved our […]

From the LA Times…
In a speech he’s about to give shortly at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Ohio, Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will for the first time talk about a specific date for when he envisions direct American military involvement to be over in Iraq.
It’s January, 2013. By then, he […]

The latest Gallup numbers show Americans still think the economy blows…

Thanks Mr. Bush!

Video of the Edwards endorsement…

A Clinton volunteer left this message on the answering machine of woman in WV…
Hi. Hello? This is crazy.
This person hung up.
Maybe they think it’s a bill collector.
I bet it is.
West Virginians are poor.
Talk about elitist…
watch the video

From MSNBC…
BREAKING NEWS: NBC News confirms that John Edwards will endorse Barack Obama
I predicted Obama would have some endorsement news today- but I figured it would be a bunch of smaller endorsements.

I hate to have to post this- but I figure I’ll beat the righty blogs to it…
As a lobbyist, Winters once represented coin dealer Thomas W. Noe, who has since been convicted of embezzling from the state’s Bureau of Workers’ Compensation. Dann was a dogged critic of Noe and his relationship with the bureau.

Governor Strickland just announced that Tom Winters will take over as Ohio’s Attorney General now that Marc Dann is gone.
I went hunting for some information about Tom and came up with this bio from Dann’s Transition Team documents…

Thomas R. Winters
Partner, Columbus Office, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP
J.D. Capital University Law School, Columbus, Ohio 1984
A.B. […]

Watch the rest live.
Update: It looks like Governor Strickland isn’t going to name a replacement yet.
Update: Tom Winters will take over as AG until Ted picks a replacement.
Update:
Here’s the video…