Blackwell campaign links Strickland to predators, hints he's gay!

[truthpusher]

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061018/NEWS01/610180374

Governor's race turns ugly

Blackwell campaign links Strickland to predators, hints he's gay
BY JON CRAIG | ENQUIRER COLUMBUS BUREAU

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.

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Strickland campaign spokesman Keith Dailey reacted: "I think it's telling just how low the Republican Party has sunk. These are the same ridiculous innuendos that the same party apologized for'' after firing a GOP committee employee for smearing the Stricklands in an e-mail in late July, he said.

"They should be ashamed of themselves,'' Dailey said. "It's most disgusting, it really is."

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[OhioChick]

1. So damn desperate........

[KingFlorez]

2. Blackwell is making himself look like such a clown

[Justice Is Comin]

3. Back water Blackhead.

[Rick Myers]

4. I first heard that whisper campaign last March

I live in Minneapolis, but am a lifetime Ohioan (Youngstown-Cleveland)and I still have a strong political connection to the area. This rumour got around several smaller political massage boards last March. Placed by Repug 'operatives.' I know one of them, a 20 year old kid who is a rabid Bushist!!!

[rodeodance]

5. whow.

[sutz12]

6. There's the hook in their "reasoning"

By demonizing gays and declaring homosexuality a "voluntary sin," by their definition any gay person is of "questionable character." It's a sorry state of affairs that their base will accept such faulty logic.

[Hav]

7. .

"I think it's telling just how low the Republican Party has sunk."

Indeed. The Repubs are sinking to new lows that it's almost unbelievable.
"Vote for me, my opponent is a faggot!!11" is all they can run? No glorious political successes while they were in charge? Desperate losers.