COLUMBUS - 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.
Tuesday, Blackwell's gubernatorial campaign released three Athens, Ohio, police reports, with identifying information blacked out, to claim that Strickland had "covered up'' an aide's 1994 arrest, failing to fire him when he worked for Strickland from 1997 to 1999.
"It is fair turf because it does call into question Ted Strickland's management ability and his decision-making,'' said John McClelland, spokesman for the Ohio Republican Party. "If he can't manage his own congressional staff, how do we expect him to oversee a government of 50,000 people? ... He's never answered this, he's never answered anything specifically in four debates.
"Ted Strickland has not answered the tough questions," McClelland said.
Included, McClelland said, is why Strickland went on a post-1998 campaign vacation with the once-convicted aide to Italy.
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