A key figure in the (presumptively) illegal search of government records on Joe the Plumber and the ensuing cover-up has been suspended:
Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and former head of that department in Montgomery County, has been placed on paid administrative leave by Gov. Ted Strickland.
Strickland said on Friday, Nov. 7, that he took the action “due to the possibility, as yet unconfirmed, that a state computer or state e-mail account was used to assist in political fund raising.”
“I have asked Inspector General Tom Charles to include this matter in his current, ongoing investigation,” Strickland said in a press release. . . Charles already was investigating reports that a department computer was used to gather personal information about “Joe the Plumber” — Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher of suburban Toledo.
Note that Jones-Kelley was not suspended for her illegal snooping, but for other (apparently unrelated) misconduct: using state resources for fundraising. The article doesn’t say who the (alleged) fundraising was for, but it’s not hard to guess; Jones-Kelley contributed the maximum to Barack Obama.
(Via Hot Air.) (Previous post.)
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