Regarding Gov.-elect Kasich's ODOT director..... This is from an old article once posted at http://www.cleveland.com/ohio/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1167557618243720.xml&coll=2 but the entire article can still be found online at the link below...
Gas-tax increase fuels ODOT building boom
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Ted Wendling and T.C. Brown
Plain Dealer Bureau
...Bill Burgett, a former Contractors Association president, discusses his introduction to politics and campaign giving in an autobiographical sketch on Kokosing's Web site:
"In 1989, my attention was turned to the political arena when then-Mayor George Voinovich . . . asked our help to get the construction industry involved in his race for the governor of Ohio. . . . These efforts have paid off in helping to develop a consistent flow of funds here in Ohio for our highway system."
...(Gov. Taft's ODOT Director) Proctor has long denied that a pay-to- play culture exists at ODOT, insisting through his spokesman that there was nothing unseemly about his decision to co-host an invitation-only "transportation summit" in August with Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell and about 60 ODOT contractors.
....Roberts didn't realize it then, but the private-industry proponents were wired into the Taft administration and GOP politics.
Clark Street, president of the Contractors Association, had been an ODOT deputy director under fellow Republican Gov. James Rhodes. Jerry Wray, who had been Proctor's boss as ODOT director under Republican Gov. Voinovich, was a vice president at Flexible Pavements of Ohio, the asphalt industry association.
READ MORE AT:
http://www.thetransitcoalition.us/newspdf/ttc20061231a.pdf
Gas-tax increase fuels ODOT building boom
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Ted Wendling and T.C. Brown
Plain Dealer Bureau
...Bill Burgett, a former Contractors Association president, discusses his introduction to politics and campaign giving in an autobiographical sketch on Kokosing's Web site:
"In 1989, my attention was turned to the political arena when then-Mayor George Voinovich . . . asked our help to get the construction industry involved in his race for the governor of Ohio. . . . These efforts have paid off in helping to develop a consistent flow of funds here in Ohio for our highway system."
...(Gov. Taft's ODOT Director) Proctor has long denied that a pay-to- play culture exists at ODOT, insisting through his spokesman that there was nothing unseemly about his decision to co-host an invitation-only "transportation summit" in August with Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell and about 60 ODOT contractors.
....Roberts didn't realize it then, but the private-industry proponents were wired into the Taft administration and GOP politics.
Clark Street, president of the Contractors Association, had been an ODOT deputy director under fellow Republican Gov. James Rhodes. Jerry Wray, who had been Proctor's boss as ODOT director under Republican Gov. Voinovich, was a vice president at Flexible Pavements of Ohio, the asphalt industry association.
READ MORE AT:
http://www.thetransitcoalition.us/newspdf/ttc20061231a.pdf
Ken Prendergast
Executive Director
All Aboard Ohio
12029 Clifton Blvd., Suite 505
Cleveland, OH 44107
(216) 288-4883
kenprendergast@allaboardohio.org
www.allaboardohio.org
Executive Director
All Aboard Ohio
12029 Clifton Blvd., Suite 505
Cleveland, OH 44107
(216) 288-4883
kenprendergast@allaboardohio.org
www.allaboardohio.org
