Bob Bennett loves to kick a politician's wife when she's down...

Even if it's for nothing more than to help a mayoral campaign where even the candidate acknowledges he has no chance of winning.  From the mouth and deep recesses of Bob Bennett's empty, tortured soul:

The Strickland administration is obviously making an attempt at damage control as this scandal continues to build.  The allegations of fraud and deception under Lee Fisher's watch cannot be swept under the rug with a convenient resignation, and Ohioans should expect more from an administration that campaigned on setting a higher ethical standard in state government.  Only months on the job the Strickland team has established a troubling pattern of cronyism and political patronage. 

“Unfortunately, the Ohio Democratic Party stands silent while its officeholders fill the state payroll with people of questionable character.  So much for hiring people with a "Peace Corps spirit." 

“I look forward to the Inspector General’s report and I hope the prosecutor takes a good, hard look at it.”

If the Strickland Administration was trying to sweep this under the rug and stay silent, then Bob-o, they've done a horrible job of it.  Especially given that the Governor publicly ordered the investigation by the Inspector General (so fast you didn't even have time to send out a press release blasting him for not doing it already), and the Administration has released countless public records.  Contrasting that to the stonewalling and whitewashing that went on regularly during Republican rule across multiple statewide offices and the assertion of the Taft Administration from releasing politically embarassing documents in public records requests by asserting specious claims of executive privilege, the Strickland Administration has shown a refreshing transparency to handle this matter properly instead of what had been the course of conduct under Republican rule (V Group, PIE malpractice insurance, Tom Noe, Coingate, Bob Ney, etc.)

Given that Bob Bennett is chair of historically one of the most corrupt state political parties in our nation in modern times, it's hysterical to listen to Bennett act like the good government morality police.  Unlike Congressmen Bob Ney and Mark Foley, Frankie Coleman was known to have an ongoing struggle with alcoholism beforehand (check out Naugle's posts sometimes, he obsesses over it almost as he does Bill Todd or Ken Blackwell).  She's not going into therapy with alterior motives; she has a drinking problem.  And having the GOP push the false story that Coleman was not qualified for the job she was hired is even more outrageous.

But then again, Bob, why should we expect any different from a man who had to resign in disgrace as chairman of the Cuyahoga Board of Elections, and then had the guts to issue a press release declaring "victory" over keeping your utter incompotence from being established on the record?