The Hypocrisy of Republican Party

After the culture of corruption created by 16 years of republican rule, the Bob Taft and Tom Noe coingate scandal destroyed the public trust.   I believed we started to hold our public officials to a higher standard, no matter what party they belong.  But as every headline I read hammers people like Matt Barrett and Marc Dann, who both exercised inappropriate behavior for an elected official, republicans continue to pour on without cleaning their own house.  At least Strickland and House Dems used swift action to discipline and disown their former party members.  In my own county there are numerous appearances of impropriety with Jan Antonoplos Delaware County Clerk of Courts.  As I was reading the Delaware County Political Reporter our own Clerk of Courts Jan Antonoplos and her lobbyist husband Bill Antonoplos have seemed to not pay federal income tax for some time now.  Both her and Bill Antonoplos have two federal tax liens against their properties.  Jan and Bill Antonoplos have raised money to fund republicans at every level starting with being Pioneers for the George W. Bush campaign.   It seems now that they are close to $700,000 dollars in debt to their own government.   How can you be Delaware County Clerk of Courts with a tax problem?  Also it seems that being in business with the Delaware County Clerk of Courts office has its privileges, Fifth Third Bank secured the depository contracting business with Jan Antonoplos’s  office.  And now Jan Antonoplos and her lobbyist husband Bill Antonoplos have received a bailout loan from the same bank to help pay off the debt owed to the IRS.  A loan that no other resident who is not an elected official or office gives county business to could have received from the same Fifth Third Bank.  When will the Republican Party clean up their own mess?  As a resident of this county I am outraged and appalled, enough is enough.

Blue Dog Jimmy