YOU THINK SOMETHING STINKS IN DENMARK? YOU SHOULD TAKE A LOOK AT THE OHIO REPUBLICAN PARTY!

Next Saturday, our guest at Firedoglake's Blue America is not someone running for Congress. Instead, we have a state senator from Ohio. But a very special state senator. Mark Dann was one of the people who exposed the whole Ohio Republican Party Machine as a criminal enterprise. And now he's running for Attorney General of the state. And who is he running against? Betty Montgomery, the state Assessor who helped design the system that has bilked Ohio taxpayers out of a billion dollars a year. It should be a great blog session with Mark-- next Saturday at 2 PM (est)-- and I hope you'll join us.

Meanwhile... today's Toledo Blade, the paper that first broke the Tom Noe Republican coin scandal and the multimillion dollar rip off of the Ohio Workmen's Compensation Fund and introduced the outside word to Mark Dann, has a related scoop. There's a video-- one that Noe's crooked wife/moll/GOP County chairwoman Bernadette has, and one that "could launch 30-second TV attack ads against GOP candidates like so many shells from a cannon."

The video is of a little birthday party/GOP fundraiser for hubby Tom (already found guilty of illegally funneling tainted money into the BushCheney election campaign and currently on trial for another set of criminal offenses) and it stars a cast of some of the worst criminals in Ohio political history: Senator George Voinovich, Governor Bob Taft, Auditor Betty Montgomery, Attorney General Jim Petro, et al.

Bernadette is pissed-off. She's angry because all of her husband's co-conspirators, particularly Ms. Montgomery, a viciously homophobic closeted lesbian who's entire life is based around lies, self-loathing and denials, are acting as though they never knew him now that the plot they all hatched together is unraveling before the public. Could spell more bad news for Satan's team in Ohio.