Here's the AP report on Vern's little troubles; he was just trying to help the school. http://centralohio.thesource.net/Files3/9607027.html
Then here's the url for the Riffe Center, for anyone who wants to know what we are talking about: http://www.state.oh.us/oba/riffe.htm
One thing to remember. Vern would have done anything to help the Steelworkers or the unions in Ohio.
Tom
JKSCHW at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated Fri, 5 May 2000 8:00:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Tom Lehman <uswa12 at Lorainccc.edu> writes:
>
> << Justin--There is at least one big building in Columbus named after Vern; the
> Riffe Center or something like that?
>
> I been in the Riffe center many times; there's a theater there, righta cross the Capitol Blg. Big bust of Vern, looks like it's made of chewing gum.
>
> > I'll ask John Boy about Vern's run in's
> with the law; I do know he had a close scrape or two with the law.
>
> My also-Ohioan co-clerk and I cannot agree on what Vern was convicted of. she thinks it was tax fraud; I of campaign contribution violations.
>
> > But, then
> what visionary leader of the people doesn't? :o). According to John Boy, Vern
> was as clean as a whistle. John Boy should know he started running errands for
> Vern in his early teens.
>
> I hope the statute of limitations has run for him.
>
> > I find it much more interesting talking about dead American politicians, than
> dead foreign politicians.
>
> Depends on who.
>
> --jks
>
> --kjks