I guess she still had all this free time on her hands after she used state of Ohio computer systems to operate Barack Obama’s smear campaign on Joe the Plumber.
Among the e-mails that Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services, sent to the Obama for President campaign in July from her official government computer were two regarding a campaign event at Stivers School for the Arts.
The department released the e-mails Friday, Nov. 7, in response to a Ohio Public Records Law request.
The Dayton Daily News received the e-mails following their release to the Columbus Dispatch, which asked for any Jones-Kelley e-mails connected to then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
The request followed reports that her department searched for internal records related to Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, “Joe the Plumber,” after he became a prominent character in the presidential campaign. Jones-Kelley’s Obama-related e-mails are now in the hands of the Ohio Inspector General.
According to federal law, government officials are barred from using government resources such as computers in connection with political campaigns.
So now that we have even more proof of Helen Jones-Kelley being a criminal, something’s gonna be done about it right? Wait, don’t answer that. It was a purely rhetorical question. And the last paragraph of the article is absolutely priceless.
Mark Owens, chairman of the Montgomery County Democratic Party, said, “Clearly, he (Strickland) is investigating it… You shouldn’t hang a person until you get all the facts. It’s an appropriate thing. There’s no need to politicize it.”
How damn funny is that?
Update:
Not surprisingly, the feckless Democratic governor of Ohio isn’t taking any of these illegalities terribly seriously.
Gov. Ted Strickland argued today that allegations involving a top official in his administration using her state e-mail account to help the presidential campaign of Democrat Barack Obama raise money are an isolated occurrence.
“I don’t want to minimize what may have happened here,” Strickland told reporters today. “But worst-case scenario, there is no evidence of any systematic, wide-spread abuse of government resources.”
Strickland placed Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the state Department of Job and Family Services, on paid leave Friday after e-mails requested by The Dispatch showed that she possibly used a state computer and e-mail account for political fundraising. Strickland has asked Inspector General Thomas P. Charles to investigate.
Other members of Strickland’s administration did work for the Obama campaign, but when asked whether he’s checking into any other possible misuse of state resources, the governor replied, “I have no reason to believe that that would be necessary or called for.”
Got that? There are the rules for them, and then there are the rules for everyone else.
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