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Strickland sends Spitzer donation to food pantry
Thanks, but a belated no thanks.
Gov. Ted Strickland’s campaign has sent $10,000 to the Tri-County Food Pantry, a donation equal to the contribution the campaign received in 2006 from Eliot Spitzer,
Spitzer resigned as New York governor, effective Monday, March 17 after revelations that he was a customer of a high-priced prostitution ring. Spitzer (pictured below) was New York attorney general when he made the contribution to Strickland’s campaign for Ohio governor.
According to Strickland’s campaign, sending the money to the food pantry was “the right thing to do.” The food pantry serves Washington, Noble and Monroe counties in southeast Ohio.
Meanwhile, there’s no record on Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner’s Web site that Attorney General Marc Dann’s campaign ever received a campaign contribution from Spitzer. The New York Times reported last May that Dann received “a small check from Mr. Spitzer,” which seemed to delight Dann.
“I almost framed it, and didn’t cash it,” the newspaper quoted Dann as saying.
Leo Jennings III, Dann’s spokesman, said that Spitzer never actually made a contribution although he told Dann that he was going to. The Spitzer donation was not supposed to be for $10,000, said Jennings.
If Spitzer had pledged such a large contribution and didn’t make it, “I would have gotten on a plane to New York and gone and got it,” said Jennings.
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