From the daily archives: Thursday, May 22, 2014
During one of his taxpayer-funded telephone town halls last night, State Treasurer Josh Mandel told listeners that that when he got elected, he put the salaries of all of his employees online. Like most of Mandel’s claims about transparency in his office, this one is absolutely not true.
A few months after taking office in 2011, Mandel launched his so-called “transparency” website using state salary employee data from the ultra-conservative Buckeye Institute. For some mysterious reason, information about the salaries of his closest advisers was left off of the site. As the AP reported, salary data for both Joel Ritter and Scott […]
Full Story... →Joe Vardon, the Columbus Dispatch’s politics and government writer, turned up at a news conference Wednesday following Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ed FitzGerald’s luncheon speech at the Quaker Square Inn. Actually, it wasn’t so much a news conference as we have come to know them. With notebook and pencil in hand, Vardon turned it into an inquisition of the candidate regarding questions raised by the other side of the Cuyahoga County inspector general who has been accused of doing campaign work on public time.
In fact, State GOP Chairman Matt Borges has called for the inspector’s resignation, which was a little odd inasmuch as […]
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