Critics slam inspector general’s probe into Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor’s office

Ohio Democratic Chairman David Pepper says an outsider needs to ask tough questions about how much politicking took place on state time in the office of Republican Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor. Catherine Turcer, a policy analyst for the good-government group Common Cause-Ohio, doesn’t disagree. Both also are alarmed that Inspector General Randall J. Meyer, as Pepper put it, “looked the other way” while investigating two former Taylor employees for falsifying timesheets and pocketing pa