Hackwell’s Millions Deserve Ethics Probe
How did J. Kenneth Hackwell become a “multimillionaire” while a public official?
In 1998, the Akron Beacon Journal reported that Hackwell, then state treasurer, was also listed as “manager, officer and director of Blue Chip Broadcasters Ltd.” This limited partnership owned and operated six radio stations in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.
According to legend – or better, spin – four black investors from Cincinnati, Ross Love, Penguin Painters owner Lovie Ross, Hackwell, and Cincinnati attorney Kalvin Buford, scraped together $500,000 to save WIZF-FM, a black-owned Cincinnati radio station that was facing bankruptcy in late 1992. Of more interest is how this group of four investors secured a $1.5 million investment from Blue Chip Venture Company as well as a $2.6 million loan from three Cincinnati banks – Fifth Third, Providence and Star. The reality is that the banks were more likely investing in the new Ohio state treasurer, Hackwell, not in four minority investors with no real experience in radio and telecommunications.
By 2001, right after now-Ohio Secretary of State Hackwell acted as George W. Bush’s secret weapon in the 2000 Florida coup, the four investors sold their company (now going by the name Blue Chip Broadcasting, Inc.) for $190 million to Radio One, Inc. Blue Chip owned 19 stations at the time of the sale, and sold 18 of them. A close examination of Hackwell’s actions as state treasurer as well as an ethics probe into his relationship with bank officials in Cincinnati may well shed some light as to how Bush’s point man in the Buckeye State became a multimillionaire.
At least now we know where he got the capital to buy the Diebold stock.
Man, the more you know about Hackwell, the less savory it gets. Not only is he an opportunist, but he also has the ethics of a someone you definitely do NOT want representing you.
I hope some of this bad stuff sticks in the public consciousness so he can be defeated!
Blackwell has been ethically-challenged for years and that has not stopped him. We are definitely going to need someone like Fraudbuster Bob to push this stuff into the public eye.
All the money that you got
send it back thanks a lot
all the money, all the money, all the money, money, money
That you got
http://www.usalone.com/cgi-bin/petition.cgi?pnum=253 Blackwell should be stopped from supervising Elections Considering the election problems which have come to light since the 2004 presidential election and Kenneth Blackwell’s affiliation with them, he should not in anyway continue to be in charge of elections in the State of Ohio, especially his own. He is unfit to fulfill this obligation and we DEMAND that he step down from election supervisory responsibilities. Please see http://fairnessbybeckerman.blogspot.com/ and also http://ohioelection2004.com/ the evidence is incontrovertible and the intend of this totalitarian religion masked cabal plain.