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Local donor says she’s not a Wall Street insider
The Ohio Republican Party this week charged that Democrat Ted Strickland took $1.5 million in campaign contributions from the financial industry while slamming his opponent John Kasich and Wall Street values.
Buried on the 23-pages of contributions that GOP counted was $100 from Patricia Diven of Centerville who listed her occupation as ‘finance director.’
But Diven said she is no Wall Street insider. She said she works three days a week for a small non-profit agency with an annual budget of less than $500,000. She admitted that she did once visit Wall Street in the 1970s.
News that she had made the list gave her a chuckle.
“My husband was very amused. He wanted to know where I’m hiding my Wall Street money,” Diven said. “We had a great laugh out of this one.”
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By Chi
July 29, 2010 12:06 PM | Link to this
People in the Dayton area have enough money to donate? Now thats newsworthy!
By josephina
July 29, 2010 10:31 AM | Link to this
as Grace Slick said “when logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead”
By Modern Esquire
July 29, 2010 9:00 AM | Link to this
It’s not even CLOSE to $1.5 million because the ORP included any insurance agent or accountant in Ohio. They even included an apartment manager. The point of this story is to reveal just how laughable the ORP’s attack was. Sorry that you right wingers lost your sense of humor when McCain/Palin lost.
By dale1
July 29, 2010 8:21 AM | Link to this
First of all. Wall street has the right to contribute to any campaign. How do people think its fair to put down wallstreet when the federal government caused this recession. The new financial reform bill does not address the cause of the sub prime mortgage meltdown. Fannie and Freddie caused this recession and they are exempt from the new federal regulations. Wall street pays taxes and they have the right to contribute anything they want to any campaign period. Have liberals ever heard of taxation without reprenstation? And to Judi P - you forgot to mention the hughe contributions from the unions, telecom industry, cable, oil, banks to the liberals. The democrats get far more wall street contributions than the republicans rthis is a fact look it up on a non partisian website. Why are not the young people good at performing research?
By Judi P
July 29, 2010 8:08 AM | Link to this
The lopsided reporting of this DDN never ceases to amaze me. Take a stupid topic like this and twist it into a MAJOR headline is a typical right wing tactic. BOTH parties have hundreds of small donors. Why not reveal the BIG oil companies, NRA, big corporations, and the Saudi Prince that donate (lobby) for GOP causes. Oh, I know….you are unbiased, as usual.
By thegunn
July 29, 2010 6:55 AM | Link to this
+1 jake. the claim that the gop took 1.5 mil from the financial industry is accurate but the news is that some lady in centerville gave them a hundred. nice reporting.
By Philman
July 29, 2010 6:25 AM | Link to this
Good job Laura, your Commrads at the Democratic National Committee will be proud of you. NOW when you find the time maybe you will report on something WORTHWHILE…
By EthicsWatch
July 28, 2010 11:30 PM | Link to this
Many charities and individuals gave their money willingly to Bernie Madoff too. That didn’t make it a wise thing to do in retrospect. Just sayin’.
By Jake Nelson, III
July 28, 2010 9:20 PM | Link to this
OK, so it’s $1,499,900 not $1,500,000. How is this newsworthy???