Stunning.  Ms. Buttinski will get one month without pay suspension for her snooping.  She should have been appointed to Homeland Security.  Busybody.

Gov. Ted Strickland suspended Director Helen Jones-Kelley of the Job and Family Services Department for one month without pay after a state Inspector General’s report found Jones-Kelley improperly authorized searches of state databases and used her state e-mail account for political fundraising.

Based on her annual salary of $141,980, the suspension will cost Jones-Kelley, 57, of Clayton, $11,831.

Without pay, yes. But she’s been suspended for a month with pay, a tax-payer paid one-month vacation, now her new, final sanction is one month suspension without pay.

Finally, someone says it.

Helen Jones-Kelley, the suspended director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, “had no legitimate agency function or purpose to support her decision” to check on the newly minted political figure, the report states.

So, when will we hear from the snoop herself?  What manners!  Didn’t her mama teach her proper etiquette?

“However, the circumstances surrounding the unauthorized searches are exacerbated in light of the director’s sending and receiving e-mail related to a political activity through state resources,” the report said.

The inspector general’s report found that the e-mails violated Strickland’s policy on political activity and constituted a “wrongful act” as an inappropriate use of state resources.

UPDATE  110708:

Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and former head of that department in Montgomery County, has been placed on paid administrative leave by Gov. Ted Strickland.

Strickland said on Friday, Nov. 7, that he took the action “due to the possibility, as yet unconfirmed, that a state computer or state e-mail account was used to assist in political fund raising.”

Look, Jones Kelley is now shy.  You can run, lady, but you can’t hide.

Jones-Kelley referred Fox to the Inspector General, who is conducting an investigation into her actions regarding the probe.

She can’t comment in the middle of the investigation, for the simple reason of self-preservation. Anything she says substantively about her actions can get used against her.

It is somewhat amusing, though, to see the journalistic ambush deployed so effectively against Jones-Kelley.

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