CLEVELAND - Sensing an opportunity to overturn 16 years of Republican dominance of Ohio government and deliver the state to the Democratic presidential nominee in 2008, Democrats yesterday launched coordinated attacks across Ohio.
From a stiflingly hot meeting room in the downtown City Club of Cleveland to the lobby of Government Center in Toledo, party leaders and Democratic elected officials joined to try to tar the leading lights of the state Republican party with the ooze of the unfolding scandal at the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation.
Democrats insisted the events, held before a multitude of reporters and news cameras, were prompted entirely by a desire to safeguard the bureau's $14 billion investment portfolio and uncover wrongdoers...
"It's just hogwash," Rep. Chris Redfern of Catawba Island, the House Democratic leader, said in Cleveland. Members of his party, he said, won't participate in a committee that does not include equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans. "Democrats won't participate in a cover-up."
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