gropinator tainted by ohio coingate scandal

"the people's governor" once again shows he has no understanding of ethics. the point here is not when the allegations against Noe were made public, or when (if) he gets indicted or convicted. it doesn't matter when it became known that Noe was a crook, the point is that the Schwarzenegger campaign took money from a crook. they benefited from his ill-gotten gains. that's wrong. even the dunce in the white house can understand this.

California governor will not return Noe's donations
Democratic Party chief Dean wants Bush to yield more funds

Saturday, June 4, 2005

BY BLADE STAFF WRITER

COLUMBUS - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger terminated any efforts to get him to return $10,000 that Toledo-area coin dealer Tom Noe contributed to his campaign.



On Thursday, President Bush joined a steadily growing band of Republicans opting to rid their campaign accounts of Mr. Noe's money, but the Republican governor of California is not planning to return the campaign cash he received from Mr. Noe, who is facing a flurry of state and federal investigations.

"The allegations about Mr. Noe became public a year after we accepted his contribution," said Martin Wilson, a spokesman for Mr. Schwarzenegger. "As he was an active Ohio Republican Party fund-raiser and donor, we had no reason at the time to question his contribution and have no intention of refunding the money."
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