Petro Garners Front Page Headlines

Jan 29, 2006- Submitted By:   general

From the PD

“Columbus- Two prominent Republican lawyers said their law firms lost
virtually all of their state legal business after they refused to donate to Attorney General Jim Petro’s campaign.

One of the lawyers, Jack Morrison, said Petro personally explained that his firm would be pun ished for donating to Joe Deters, who briefly challenged Petro for the 2002 Republican nomination for attor ney general.

After Deters dropped out of the race and cleared the field for Petro, Morrison said, he did a fel low lawyer a favor by attending a fund-raiser he hosted in Petro’s honor. Morrison said he bought no ticket to the event but did bring one of his law partners to help boost the crowd size.

“I’ll never forget it,” Morrison told The Plain Dealer.

Probably not the coverage the Petro camp was hoping for.

7 Comments

  1. Johnny Q. Public said,

    Wrote on January 30, 2006 @ 10:07 am

    10 points down on Blackwell… a 3rd accusation of fundraising impropriety…

    Do you hear that? It’s Petro’s LG warming up her vocal chords.

  2. Anonymous said,

    Wrote on January 30, 2006 @ 1:25 pm

    This is so clearly a set-up. Why didn’t they mention this in 2002 when Petro was elected? Right, because it didn’t happen. Not until Alex Arshnikoff joined Blackwell’s campaign and decided it was time for some dirty campaigning - Betty probably wouldn’t agree to it, but Blackwell has no shame.

  3. Jeff said,

    Wrote on January 30, 2006 @ 1:47 pm

    I could have sworn the article was published by the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, not the Blackwell campaign. The Petro/Heimlich campaign, I mean the Petro/Padgett campaign, needs to take responsibility for their own ethics lapses.

  4. Anonymous said,

    Wrote on January 30, 2006 @ 2:05 pm

    Using the PD reporter as a pawn doesn’t mean it wasn’t initiated by the Blackwell/Arshinkoff team.

  5. NEOguy said,

    Wrote on January 30, 2006 @ 9:20 pm

    I am not sure how familiar Anonymous is with Sandy Theis, PD bureau chief, but calling her a “pawn” is sort of like saying that John Kerry had consistency in his opinions and actions. It seems to me that the Petro folks when confronted with more and more people talking about the pay to play environment that Petro and his fundraisers have fostered are trying to spin this as a politically motivated attack, regardless of the stature of the PD or Ms. Theis.

  6. Anon said,

    Wrote on January 31, 2006 @ 2:45 am

    Theis has been doing research for this for months. She’s found one group of witnesses, all from the Archinkoff tree. How is that not a little suspicious?

    Sandy Theis is a hard-core Dem, NEOguy, you’re exactly right. That’s why she’s going after Petro. She wants him to lose, so Blackwell will lose. It’s that simple. Read her reporting of Petro’s LG nominee today and tell me she doesn’t have an agenda.

  7. NEOguy said,

    Wrote on January 31, 2006 @ 3:45 am

    I didn’t realize that Kevin O’Brien in Columbus was part of the “Arshinkoff tree”. Second, last time I checked, nationally recognized trial and patent attorneys and bar association presidents generally aren’t the type of people who would put their reputations on the line to advance a political fued. Last, it seems that from the Petro camp’s perspective everyone’s lying. It sort of reminds me of people for whom everyone else is the problem. Those people generally need to look in the mirror to see the real problem. Maybe the same analogy applies to this case?

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