Treasurer Boyce’s Campaign Manager Quits
Note: This post originally went up shortly after noon today and has been moved to the top.
From the inbox:
MEMORANDUM
Effective today, Treasurer Kevin Boyce’s Campaign Manager has quit the Boyce campaign. Marquez Brown’s departure comes in the wake of numerous news stories and editorials outlining growing cronyism, pay-to-play and ethics problems in Boyce’s office.
Brown follows in a long line of Boyce staffers who have left Boyce over the past year, including his Chief of Staff, Executive Assistant, Communications Director, Regional Outreach Director and Fundraising Director. Democratic operatives remain consistent in explaining that this mass exodus from Boyce’s operation is due to his poor management skills, inability to understand the office, arrogance and growing ethics problems.
As Boyce’s team continues to fall apart and he continues to be outraised and outworked by Team Mandel, I wanted to take a moment to update you on our campaign and share with you why Josh Mandel will be elected our next State Treasurer.
Further, it appears as if there is yet…
YET ANOTHER GROWING SCANDAL IN THE TREASURER’S OFFICE
Our opponent has already received continuous negative media coverage for his misuse of tax dollars on self-promotion, questionable and unqualified hires, abuse of his role in the Census effort and manipulation of bank contract deadlines for fundraising purposes.
Now, Ohio taxpayers, citizen action groups, and newspaper editorial boards are all questioning the latest ethically questionable practices in the Treasurer’s Office. The Dayton Daily News, The Plain Dealer, The Columbus Dispatch and the Warren Tribune Chronicle have all covered the Treasurer Kevin Boyce / Deputy Treasurer Amer Ahmad scandal of steering contracts to an out-of-state bank under investigation for fraud and hiring friends and politicos rather than qualified financial professionals to handle billions of taxpayer dollars.
Click below for the original articles and for other coverage of Boyce’s growing pattern of corruption…
Pension fund should trouble state officials
June 18, 2010, Warren Tribune ChronicleTreasurer candidates allege cronyism, corruption
June 17, 2010, The Columbus DispatchOhio Treasurer Boyce plays the old patronage game: editorial
June 12, 2010, The Plain DealerOhio Treasurer picks bank facing fraud allegations to hold billions in Ohio pension funds’ assets
June 6, 2010, The Plain DealerLobbyist’s wife works in office that gave $1M state contract to client
May 25, 2010, Dayton Daily NewsBank hired lobbyist with Boyce aide ties just days before landing state contract
May 23, 2010, Dayton Daily NewsChallenger in state treasurer’s race questions whether delay in awarding state contract will boost incumbent’s fundraising efforts
March 16, 2010, The Plain DealerOhio Treasurer gives bank contract, gets political fund-raiser
July 28, 2009, Dayton Daily NewsCritics: Ohio Treasurer shouldn’t be spending on self-promotion
June 13, 2009, Dayton Daily News
As Matt Naugle reported last week, Dem Chair Chris Redfern and the other cronies, namely those who benefited from these unethical moves, are crying “racism.”
Oh, go on…please! More and more people are onto the fact that the true nature and strategy of any given liberal is revealed in the accusations they spew at conservatives.
Christmas in July, baby, or should I say November in July, lol…
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UDDATE: Right Ohio’s related post on Marquez Brown’s departure is here.
UPDATE 2 (from Tom): The Columbus Dispatch’s Daily Briefing blog notes some interesting timing in an item that might as well be entitled, “Nobody Outworks Team Mandel, Part LXXXII” —
Mandel beats Boyce to his own announcement
It’s probably not a good omen when the opposition tells the world your old campaign manager has resigned before you can announce a new one has started.
That’s what happened to Ohio Treasurer Kevin L. Boyce this morning when he announced that Bryan Clark has been appointed as his campaign manager.
The thing is, his Republican opponent, state Rep. Josh Mandel of Lyndhurst, dashed out a statement about 45 minutes earlier pointing out that the old campaign manager, Marquez Brown, had resigned.
It’s refreshing to see a genuine conservative and Republican (in that order) working hard on his campaign marathon and attacking his opponent when he deserves it, while most of the rest of the ticket seems to be biding its time … to what end?
I know it’s getting tiresome, but I should note that the home page at ORPINO (the Ohio Republican Party In Name Only), with one minor exception that is annoying in its own right (what are Kasich/Taylor running for, guys?), is essentially the same as it was on the day after the May 4 primary, almost nine long weeks ago. Oh yeah, there’s also an anti-Lee Fisher post and video, but it begs the question: Who’s running against him?
So I guess the “Meet the FOKkers” (Friends Of Kevin) bunch is a continually rotating crowd.
Comment by TBlumer — July 12, 2010 @ 12:53 pm
If “mosque” is a racist and/or anti-religious code word, so are “synagogue,” “temple,” “cathedral,” and “chapel,” for starters.
A mosque merely happens to be where some of Boyce’s FOKkers (Friends of Kevin) were conducting their unethical business. Chris Redfern knows that, and he’s a sleazy jerk for playing the ethnic/religious card. But then, it’s to be expected, because he’s a Democrat who has to defend the indefensible: Barack Obama, Ted Strickland, and among others Kevin Boyce.
Comment by TBlumer — July 12, 2010 @ 1:04 pm
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Sure am glad I read your blog…I don’t believe I’ve seen any coverage of these items in our local paper.
Comment by Maggie — July 12, 2010 @ 10:04 pm