“This is not just about coins. It's about a pay-to-play system that has been going on in Ohio for years. Since I got here in 1999, it's been an open secret that if you contribute money, you get the state jobs you want and the state contracts you want.”
“How many millions of dollars worth of contracts are going to be bought and sold to the highest campaign contributor at the Statehouse before this Legislature takes action?”
“My great fear politically is the Republicans will push him out of office. Keeping him in office is better for the Democrats than allowing him to leave under the cover of darkness.”
“It is clear that Bob Taft and his friends throughout state government are so caught up in this scandal that they are no longer paying attention the very real challenges facing Ohioans.”
