To: Road Walker who wrote (241794 ) 7/15/2005 5:44:46 PM From: tejek Respond to ** The Republican political establishment of Ohio is knee-deep in a "pay-to-profit" political scandal "in which millions of dollars were raised by trading unbid state contracts for campaign contributions," the Associated Press reports. As a last recourse, Ohio's Republican chief justice, Thomas Hoyer, recently dismissed all 34 judges on the Cuyahoga County court set to hear the corruption charges. Hoyer's problem: a majority of the court appointees are Democrats. In Hoyer's view, only Republicans are qualified to judge a case about Republican corruption. The law need not apply. ** And finally, a Orlando ministry ("Zion's Hope") devoted to converting Jews to Christianity has been granted a property tax exemption for its Christian theme park. In what can only be described as the set of Aladdin designed by Pat Robertson, the "Holy Land Experience" presents a "Bible-believing, Christ-centered ministry" in Orlando's own version of Judea. The $16 million, 15-acre park opened in 2001, was originally deemed a bizarre tourist attraction with only limited exemptions. Now tax-free Bible study is held in the "Temple of Kings," as true believers munch on "Goliath Burgers."
