Keep in mind that Scaife’s paper didn’t even attempt to mask the fact that this accusation came from the House GOP press shop. So just how “serious” these allegations are is up to you. We report, you decide, and all that.

For most of the primary campaign, Gov. Ed Rendell acted as a “super staffer” for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, raising serious questions about his use of state resources for political purposes, a state House GOP spokesman says.

“He became the chief fundraiser, the chief strategist, the chief scheduler, the chief political director, the chief surrogate,” said Stephen Miskin, press secretary for House Minority Leader Sam Smith and a former staffer for GOP Gov. Tom Ridge. “It raises very strong ethical questions.”

Rendell, widely credited in the political world for helping Clinton carry Pennsylvania by a 9 percentage point margin Tuesday, says he did a lot of the campaigning on his own time and tended to state business during the seven-week primary battle between Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama.