COLUMBUS: Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel hasn't attended a single monthly meeting of the powerful but mundane state board that decides which banks will hold billions in state deposits.
Ohio Treasurer Is A No-Show At Deposit Board
It's common to send a designee to most meetings, but the total absence of Mandel, a first-term Republican, makes him unique among modern-era treasurers.
Meeting minutes, news clippings, and interviews by The Associated Press show every state treasurer since at least the early 1980s has some record of attending the Board of Deposit in person. The treasurer serves as chair.
One of these meetings was held on November 29th, 2011, and while our friends at American Bridge had a representative there, Mandel was, of course, nowhere to be seen.
So when we found out that he was actually attending a series of lobbyist fundraisers in Washington DC the next day, American Bridge decided to send someone to ask if he was neglecting his duties in Ohio while raising cash in DC. Mandel had nothing to say.
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