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A Taft too far: the Ohio GOP is in shambles--can Blackwell save it?(POLITICS)
OBSESSIVE concern for tennis schedules isn't usually regarded as one of Jimmy Carter's virtues, but a similar attention to detail might have saved the Ohio GOP a lot of grief: On August 18, Republican governor Bob Taft pleaded no contest to four misdemeanor counts of failing to report golf outings and a variety of other gifts on his financial-disclosure forms. He became Ohio's first sitting governor to be convicted of a criminal charge. There's now a chance he'll be stripped of his law license, just as Bill Clinton was following his admission of false testimony. Democrats in Columbus even began to mention that other word associated with Slick Willie--impeachment--but then ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, A Taft too far: the Ohio GOP is in shambles--can Blackwell save...