Trust me, we’ll be hearing more and more stories like this of Obama Campaign thuggery now that the election is over.

“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.”

“I have asked Inspector General Tom Charles to include this matter in his current, ongoing investigation,” Strickland said in a press release.

Strickland said he has asked Jan Allen, his cabinet secretary, to serve as acting director of the agency.

Charles already was investigating reports that a department computer was used to gather personal information about “Joe the Plumber” — Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher of suburban Toledo — after Wurzelbacher emerged as a key figure in the presidential race in Ohio. The information included whether he owed child support, which he said he didn’t.

He criticized Democrat Barack Obama’s tax plan and endorsed Republican John McCain.

Charles is investigating whether such use of a state computer is legal. Jones-Kelley said there was nothing wrong with the check and suggested it was common practice for her department to do research on Ohioans in the news.

An Ohio Highway Patrol trooper was stationed at the end of Jones-Kelley’s driveway in Clayton on Friday night. He declined to allow a reporter to approach Jones-Kelley’s home.”

Of course they wouldn’t want her commenting to the press. If she loses her job over this she may do just that. But as we found out during the campaign Obama supporters – working I believe on orders from above – not only snooped but threatened those who dared to speak truth to power against Obama, but coerced those less able to resist to vote for him.