Is A Pagan Spell Behind Tom Noes Scandal?
Author: Aaron Marshall Source: The Other Paper (OH) Title: BEWITCHED Dan Trevas thought he had seen it all in politics. A former reporter who had become the spokesman for the Ohio Democratic Party, Trevas was hanging around outside a George W. Bush fundraiser on Oct. 30, 2003, helping to organize a small demonstration. As about 650 well-heeled GOP donorsincluding an obscure rare-coin dealer from Toledo named Tom Noestreamed into the Hyatt Regency to eat lunch with the president and contribute $1.4 million to his re-election campaign, Trevas noticed a young woman in the group of 100 protesters. While most onlookers were milling about aimlessly, the young woman was holding a large Earth flag and “walking methodically over and over again, following the same little path in the crosswalks,” Trevas recalled. “She was on a very focused walk.” The woman’s name was Brandy Zink, and she had a good explanation for her carefully traced path: She was casting a spell.
