Do you remember this incident?
Ohio Citizen Action: (2005)
COLUMBUS -- "When incoming House Speaker Jon Husted needed a way to get to San Antonio on Dec. 29 to represent Ohio at the Alamo Bowl, he asked Tim Day of Dayton-based NCR Corp., if he could help. Day, vice president for NCR government affairs, based in Washington, did. He arranged for Husted, R-Kettering, to travel on the company's Lear 55C, seven-seat corporate jet, to watch Ohio State play Oklahoma State, and to reimburse NCR...Catherine Turcer, legislative director for Ohio Citizen Action, a government watchdog group, said the arrangement should have raised this question for Husted: 'Would they be doing this for me if I were not speaker of the House?'...This is the second time in less than a week that Husted's relationship with lobbyists he also regards as friends has drawn attention," William Hershey, Dayton Daily News.
If Husted regarded the NCR people as friends, why didn't he know about their move out of state? Did it have something to do with the fact that Husted wasn't hanging out in Kettering as much as he once did? With Husted living the good life in Upper Arlington, his attention has turned away from Kettering and the employers of his constituents.
