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What started as an owner’s obsession to create the perfect pastrami sandwich has turned into a brick-and-mortar deli opening soon in Washington Twp.

Josh Mandel left politics to help his ailing wife. While gone, he got divorced, landed high paying posts and planned his return to politics.

Its an exclusive group. Some members have seen entire sections of state law rewritten to their benefit. Others have managed to head off proposed legislative or executive-branch changes that would have cost them money or brought more regulation. And each of them invested at least $440,000 during the past decade. What is this special bloc? It has no formal name, but it includes the 16 biggest individual contributors to campaigns for statewide and legislative office in Ohio during the past dec...