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Tom Noe, a well-connected Republican who was married to another well-connected Republican party bigwig, was not mentioned in the article.
Noe is best known now for the CoinGate scandal in which he talked the state through his statehouse cronies into sinking millions of Workmen's Comp money into rare coins. Noe sold and spent millions of the state dollars on himself and his Republican buddies. The governor got free golf trips, etc.
A significant chunk of the state's (OUR) money was donated to the Bush-Cheney campaign. $45,000 was funneled to the campaign via $2000 "gifts" to friends, family, etc, who knowingly broke campaign finance law to support Bush. BC04 gave back the $6000 directly contributed by Noe and his family, but has steadfastly refused to return the rest of the state's money.
Even worse, the rumor is that The Toledo Blade, the newspaper that broke this story in 2005, knew of it before the election and sat on it until after it was over. Since this scandal touches pretty much every Republican in the state, it's no surprise that this decision helped Bush win the state in 2004.
