Hillwilliam Humor or John Boy on China PNTR

[Tom Lehman]

He may have been our's and a good solid progressive democrat; I think "crook" characterization is a little harsh!  I'm not familiar with the particulars of
the questionable ethics violations that Riffe was charged with, but, at the time it sounded like some pretty trivial stuff and it still does as the AP report
indicates.

I've also read the reports that since Riffe's death, there has been commercial clear cut logging in the state forrests in Riffe's old district in southern
Ohio.  Sometimes the saying over my dead body does come true.

Tom

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote:


> He may have been a crook, but he was our crook. --jks
>
> In a message dated Fri, 5 May 2000 11:52:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Tom Lehman <uswa12 at Lorainccc.edu> writes:
>
> << Justin--John Boy tells me that Vern is up there looking down on us from a nice cemetery on a hill in Wheelersburg, Ohio.  John Boy says's he remembers
> Fay, too.
>
> 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
>
>  >>