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An aide to Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland sent out the following message to state employees Wednesday:

We have a request from the AP for "all information requests that have been made to or within state government on Samual Joseph Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber." If you have had received such a request, could you please send me the basic information associated with the request (who, when, what information was being requested, what was the response)?  We'll compile the information into one format and provide it to the AP.

As if the culprits are going to 'fess up.

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M. Tobias| 10.30.08 @ 9:14AM

Robert,

Read the text of the memo again. The Gov doesn't want to know who ran checks on Wurzelbacher, he wants to know who is asking about possible checks and what information thise asking about checks received. There is no indication that he cares about checks run on state computer systems by state employees.

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