Nepotism charged in gov’s transition
Here’s Bill Todd accusing Michael Coleman of nepotism via Right Angle Blog. It’s a longish 7 and a half minutes. (Get to the point faster, please.)
Buckeye State Blog reacts with venom- I notice that they take shots at Coleman personally over there:
Ohio’s Favorite Scum Bag
Bill Todd is pathetic. He promised not to get personal in the campaign for Mayor of Columbus. Yet that’s all he’s done for the entirety of his campaign… lob personal attacks at Mayor Mike Coleman and his wife, Frankie….
The truth, of course, is far from what Bill Todd claims. The Mayor did what every transition chair does – help pick the cabinet-level leadership, then move on. He never hired – or had the authority to hire – a single person. Ipso facto, no possibility of a felonious act. Claiming Coleman’s involvement and responsibility in low level staff hires is like asserting the pope’s responsible for the window cleaners a church hires in Bexley. It’s ridiculous.
In the video, Todd preemptively challenges that assertion, saying that the laws against nepotism also prohibit delegating such hiring, otherwise we’d have “every subordinate hiring the boss’s wife.”
Here’s the press release at Todd’s site.
