The editors note alone on this article is worth your time just to read. Maybe A.G. Dann should step into the bully pulpit and call for change…oh wait, we know what happens when he does that – a big ol’ bagel.

A loophole in a contested law designed to limit the monetary contributions of vendors seeking government contracts to individuals with collective bargaining authority may have allowed the Toledo Federation of Teachers (TFT) to funnel cash to the campaigns of two members of the Toledo Public Schools Board of Education, a practice one Ohio campaign finance expert labeled as “a clear-cut case of legal money laundering.”The political candidate funds of TPS board members Jack Ford and Lisa Sobecki received $1,700 and $8,884, respectively, in monetary or other contributions from several TFT-funded elected officials at the local and state levels or their political candidate funds or both.

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