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Tom Noe conduit Maggie Thurber is now spewing pro-payday lending talking points.

When the anti-government group COAST, rolled into Toledo this morning, the former Lucas County Commissioner Thurber did the group's bidding by making the case for lenders' campaign to keep charging borrowers 391% interest.

The pro-consumer YES on Issue 5 campaign continues to vex the lenders.

The YES vote has support from high-profile  Democrats such as Gov. Strickland and high-profile conservatives such as Senate President Bill Harris and state rep. Bill Batchelder.

Add endorsements from anti-poverty groups such as those representing foodbanks and low-income citizens and traditional GOP-leaners such as the farm bureau and manufacturers' association, and where is a lender to turn?

Not much left out there -- but those Noe conduits need to find a way to be useful.

In case you forgot the details of Maggie's money madness, the May 31, 2006, Toledo Blade has the details:

Former GOP fund-raiser Tom Noe admitted today that he used politicians, former aides to Gov. Bob Taft, coworkers, and friends to illegally pour thousands of dollars into the effort to reelect President Bush….

The Noe probe identified several current and former politicians as "conduits," including Toledo City Councilman Betty Shultz, Lucas County Commissioner Maggie Thurber, former Toledo mayor Donna Owens, and former state representative Sally Perz.''

On hehalf of YES on 5, some questions for Maggie:

1. Was it wrong to help Noe launder money?
YES

2. Should the mess in Washington teach us the dangers of loosely regulated capital?
YES

3. Is greed one of the seven deadly sins?
YES

4. How should we vote on Issue 5?
YES

5. Are the payday lenders paying Maggie to blog in their favor?

Nothing would surprise me