If you're not wondering what's going on within the Democratic Party of Ohio, you're not following the news.
A spectacular series of corruption scandals in the most heavily Democratic counties -- Cuyahoga, Athens, Scioto, and Pike -- has left the impression that the GOP-controlled newspapers are only warming up for the sprint toward November 2010. Collectively, though not necessarily in order, the scandals involve Democratic politicians and appointees performing various "favors" in exchange for hotel rooms, hookers, hoochie, ham, home improvements, hard currency and handouts to family members.
And no, I am not inventing the ham. Some revised Ohio bible must contain the Old Testament formula: "a ribeye for a ribeye" or "pork for pork," as unkosher as that may sound.
Now, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner -- the woman who has tried to clean up the elections mess that stole the White House from John Kerry -- has come out swinging at her own party, accusing the Democratic machine of rigging her primary race for U.S. Senate.
Me oh my oh, what the heck is happening in Ohio?
More below the dangnabbed fold.
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