The Ohio GOP has been busted for illegally funneling almost $500,000 dollars into a fund for Ken Blackwell during his failed try to retain the Secretary of State office in 2006:

The letter says Ohio’s Republican party collected nearly half a million dollars from a federal GOP account in October 2006. They also took in $20,000 from a state GOP account the same month and another $25,000 in November 2007.

The letter doesn’t indicate which candidates received the party’s largesse. But according a state GOP spokesman, the money supported just one candidate — former Republican Secretary of State Ken Blackwell. Blackwell ran for governor in 2006, and lost.

Remember – this is the same GOP that supported Ohio’s former Governor Bob Taft who was convicted of receiving illegal contributions. The Ohio GOP is just as corrupt as the national GOP, if not more.