BLACKWELL AND COINGATE: PRESENT AT THE CREATION?

After a long MTB hiatus, I managed to drag my butt to yesterday's Meet The Bloggers session with Democratic State Treasurer candidate Richard Cordray. The audio isn't posted yet, but Jill has a long description.

Here's my headline from the interview: Cordray said that the first state deposit to a private BWC investment account controlled personally by Tom Noe was issued by the State Treasurer's office in 1998. Cordray, who's now the treasurer of Franklin County, says this handling of state funds was self-evidently improper and should have been blocked automatically by Treasury officials.

And who was State Treasurer at the time this occurred?

Ken "Coingate is Petro's fault" Blackwell.