Prediction: Unless Strickland says or does something REALLY stupid, Blackwell will hand him the governor’s office with overwhelming popularity.
Why??? Because a bunch of suburban moms in the reddest of red suburbs would never vote for Blackwell.
I live in conservative Westerville, Ohio. We are a tree city; we have good schools, great parks and a nationally ranked public library. We have more churches than barber shops and the barbershops are welcoming places with names like John’s Barbershop and Dave’s. I have been in neither, then again the only times I have been in the churches have been for weddings and funerals.
Westerville votes red no matter what the election. Red yard signs outnumber blue yard signs, and W is my President decals rival My Child is an Honor Student at whatever school bumper stickers on resident’s cars.
We are an open door pull yourself up by your bootstraps kind of community.We are the kind of community whose PTAs start meeting in the summer. I hung around after our first meeting of the year last night. I figure that a group of PTA moms talking after a summer meeting is a pretty good barometer…
And guess what… these republican moms are voting for the democrat! Why? Blackwell’s talk of transparency and yet reluctance to share tax returns, lack of support for our schools and general holier than thou attitude through his reign as Secretary of State will lose this election in the suburbs. In discussing his brainchild “The Ohio Center for Civic Character.,” the secretary of state’s website says,
The (sic) project provides simple, epiphany-creating resources to help diverse Ohio government, faith, business, education and service leaders commonly articulate and practice the trust-building essentials of personal good character and collaborative enterprise, together..
So glad that Blackwell and the current dragged through their own mud administration feels it their charge to promote “Civic Character.”
On the site, the Secretary of State asks every office holder and candidate to affirm:
Therefore, as a leading citizen and model to others, I will continue to voluntarily and intentionally strive to practice and communicate character ethics (as defined by Character First, Character Counts, UncommonSense and similar non-partisan guides) and encourage my fellow citizens within my community to strive likewise.
I suppose that this does not include disclosing tax returns. It’s ok Kenny… we’ll just trust ya.
