A front page story in Today’s Cincinnati Enquirer shows how desperate Ken Blackwell is to win:
With Republican Ken Blackwell trailing by double digits in almost every poll, Blackwell’s campaign Tuesday tried to link his Democratic opponent to child sex predators – and the state Republican spokesman even raised questions about Ted Strickland’s sexuality.
Blackwell and the state GOP say they are only questioning Strickland’s integrity and judgment.
The Strickland campaign said the GOP ought to be “ashamed.”
At Monday night’s final televised debate, and again in a press release Tuesday, Blackwell charged that Strickland should have known that a man arrested for exposing himself to children was on his congressional payroll. He also suggested Strickland backed a U.S. House resolution supported by a group supporting pedophilia.
This who “Strickland is gay” issue started during the summer when the Ohio GOP hired a “social conservative coordinator” who circulated an email with the same claims. The claims were proven false and the author of the emails was finally fired. This new issue however could lead Blackwell into court:
A Cincinnati attorney who represents the former aide said he may take legal action against Blackwell and anyone else who releases information that was sealed by a judge.
Although details of the man’s 1994 arrest and conviction were expunged in a confidential court order in 2002, the Blackwell campaign circulated an Internet column Tuesday that names the former congressional employee.
The item from the Web site World Net Daily was written by Jerome R. Corsi, co-author of Blackwell’s book, “Rebuilding America.” Corsi also co-authored “Unfit for Command,” the best-selling attack on former presidential candidate John Kerry’s record as swift boat commander in Vietnam.
Marc Mezibov, a Cincinnati attorney, said he plans to take legal action as early as today against anyone who causes harm to his client.
So is Blackwell using his power in office to obtain sealed information? He will blame it on a mistake, like he blamed a list of Ohio voters social security numbers being released as an “accident”. This shows the kind of slime Ken Blackwell really is. If people think Bob Taft, our current convicted Governor, is bad, just wait. If Blackwell somehow manages to pull of this election (highly unlikely but he is known to hate democracy), we may very well have a future felon in the Governor’s mansion. Ohio can not let that happen.