SCHOOL-BUILDING FLAP--Sen. Mike Shoemaker, D-Bourneville, holds a copy of a Columbus Dispatch story about school-building contracts which a judge ruled as unlawful, during a news conference, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, June 4, 2002. Sen. Shoemaker called on Gov. Bob Taft to fire Randall Fischer, executive director of the Ohio School Facilities Commission. (Jack Kustron/Photoj.com)

INTERESTED SPECTATOR--William Phillis, left, Executive Director of the Ohio Coalition of Equity & Adequacy of School Funding attends a news conference by Sen. Mike Shoemaker, right, D-Bourneville, concerning problems with the Ohio School Facilities Commission, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, June 4, 2002. Judge Jennifer Brunner of Franklin County Common Pleas Court ruled that Randall Fischer had acted unlawfully in awarding 1,800 contracts for school construction. (Jack Kustron/Photoj.com)