Remember how corruption scandals engulfed the Ohio Republican party in 2006? And it got so bad that John Kasich was lamenting, “Over the past year and a half, the list of political operatives and government officials (both elected and appointed) implicated in corruption scandals has grown exponentially, and yet the message hasn’t registered. In Buckeye politics, it’s business as usual.”

The new crew — run by that other party — may not be all that much better:

Tony Gutierrez, a former close friend and top aide to Democrat Marc Dann in the attorney general’s office, now faces six felony and four misdemeanor charges, alleging that he ran his private construction company on state time, filed fraudulent workers’ compensation paperwork, and illegally converted campaign money for personal use.