Taft Flunks Math

From the Cheers and Jeers Column of the Clevland Plain Dealer's May 14, 2004 edition, page B8:

CHEERS . . . to the office of Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, which now shows donations made to county-based funds for statewide candidates or political parties. Blackwell has had to buck powerful members of his own party in the effort to cast some light on these heretofore shadowed coffers.

Notice that Blackwell helps out the little-guy Republican and on a state-wide basis.
Taft, however, seems to have no qualms about screwing the little guy.

JEERS . . . to the incredibly bad timing of Gov. Bob Taft and the owners of Lester Precision Die Casting in Bedford. Two days after the company laid off a bunch of workers, Taft showed up to proclaim that the company, with the help of a state loan, was "retaining" 168 jobs. That means "retaining" more than the 115 or so workers now at the plant. Better times may be ahead for the plant, but right now, this deal is flunking both math and English.

Apparently Taft's desire for self-promotion knows no bounds, including misleading statistics. It is actually quite funny.

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