Aaron Klein is pushing some pretty thin gruel in his July 18 WorldNetDaily attack on Richard Cordray, whom President Obama nominated to head what Klein sneeringly described as “a new agency purportedly charged with protecting consumers from financial fraud.”
Klein’s killer evidence? The AFL-CIO expressed support for Cordray’s nomination, and he followed the law while Ohio attorney general in providing state-paid legal support for three state employees accused of accessing personal information about Samuel Wurzelbacher, aka “Joe the Plumber.”
Klein insisted on calling the state employees’ actions “illegal” even though he also admits that the lawsuit Wurzelbacher filed against state officials was dismissed — meaning no illegality was found.
Klein portrayed the state-paid defense of the employees as a misuse of funds by Cordray by citing numerous critics, but Klein failed to identify the partisan nature of those critics. He identifies the right-wing Judicial Watch only as a “group,” he fails to identify Mike DeWine as a Republican who defeated Cordray in the 2010 attorney general race, and he failed to mention that David Yost is a Republican who was expected to run against Cordray in that same race until he decided to run for state auditor instead.