Bill Todd donated to Mike Coleman's campaign.... Wait, what?

From the Columbus Dispatch's Daily Briefing "blog:"

It's a good bet Bill Todd won't be voting next Tuesday for the candidate who got $250 of his money back in 2005.

Todd, the Republican candidate who's challenging Mayor Michael B. Coleman, is among the thousands who've written checks supporting Coleman's re-election.

His law firm at the time -- Squire Sanders & Dempsey -- asked people to write checks for the mayor, Todd said today. And, he added, he's a bipartisan kinda guy.

"I've written checks for everyone from Charleta Tavares to you-name-it," he said, referring to the Democratic Columbus councilwoman who's running for re-election.

Todd donated $150 to Tavares when she ran in 1998 for Ohio secretary of state, according to campaign-finance reports on file with the state. Among the you-name-its who've received his financial support: GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, 2006 GOP gubernatorial candidates J. Kenneth Blackwell and Jim Petro, and former Ohio Attorney General Betty D. Montgomery.

Coleman's campaign said this morning that it found three other donations from Todd over the last decade: $250 in October 2003, right before the mayor won his second term; $100 in July 2002, as he was gearing up for that run; and $350 in November 1997, days before he won a new term on City Council.

"The mayor thanks Bill Todd for his decade of support," Coleman campaign spokesman Bryan Clark said.

The Ohio Democratic Party thanks Bill Todd's past support for Mike Coleman.

But what I really want to know is why Todd supported Charleta Tavares to be our Secretary of State over Ken Blackwell in 1998, but then supported Ken Blackwell for Governor in 2006.  Talk about your inconvenient timing.

And who will tell poor Naugle that his not even his dream mayoral candidate didn't want Blackwell to win in 1998 and financially supported Jim Petro and Betty Montgomery in their primary challenge to Blackwell last year?  Poor kid probably can't handle the shock of it all...