Smack! Take that Ken Blackwell

Ohio governor

Petro's steady hand and sober approach to government would be far preferable to Blackwell's bluster and gimmickry
Sunday, April 16, 2006
Rarely have this state's Re publican voters been con fronted with a more stark choice than the one they will make in the May 2 primary for governor.

Attorney General Jim Petro and Secretary of State Ken Blackwell are both popular officeholders well known to Ohio voters. But of the two, Petro has the superior body of public work. He would make the better governor.

If the goal of this race were to produce provocative ideas, creative rhetoric and celebrity endorsements, Blackwell, 58, would be invincible. He is the superior politician. He mines the veins of populism as adroitly as any Ohio politician in memory, while simultaneously collecting national GOP endorsements the way a toll collector gathers change.

But what Blackwell wants for Ohio would be disastrous for Ohio. His economic vision is premised on a flawed budgeting proposal that would damage the state and its thousands of political subdivisions. Blackwell's brand of leadership and past public positions strongly hint of sweeping degrees of intolerance and inflexibility.

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When the records and platforms of Ken Blackwell and Jim Petro are closely examined, there isn't the slightest doubt about which of the two deserves the Republican nomination for governor.

Blackwell is the better politician. Petro would be the better governor.


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