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Ronald Reagan’s Unlikely Heir (Ken Blackwell)
The City Journal ^ | Winter/2006 | By Steven Malanga

Posted on 01/17/2006 2:38:26 PM PST by oxcart

Ohio’s Republican gubernatorial front-runner Ken Blackwell is “Jesse Jackson’s worst nightmare.”

Ken Blackwell has just finished regaling a group of Ohio retailers with his vision of how to turn around the state’s struggling economy with a heavy dose of fiscal restraint and tax cuts. The crowd, accustomed to Republicans who tax and spend as furiously as Democrats, is rapt. But as Blackwell works the room afterward, on a warm fall afternoon in Columbus, one well-dressed woman stops him to outline her concerns. “I like your ideas on taxes,” she tells the former college football star, who at 6 foot 5 towers over her imposingly, “but I don’t like your other ideas so much”—meaning Blackwell’s strong pro-life positions and support of a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman. “I am not just an economic being,” Blackwell unapologetically replies. “I have a wider set of beliefs that I follow.” And then, before the woman moves away, Blackwell adds: “With me, you’ll always know what you are getting. You’ll always know where I stand.”

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: kenblackwell; ohio; reaganlegacy; ronaldreagan
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To: oxcart
The only conservative of the state office holders,a man who runs as a conservative instead of running away from being a conservative ,Blackwell proves that you can win on moral and economic principles that work every time they are tried.Too bad Crying George,Club 14 Losers Mike Dewhine and Taft the Shaft haven't figured out we already have a liberal tax & spend party we don't need another one.
He takes a stand sticks to it like a man. I hope he is mentoring some younger people as well to take part in the politcal process!
41 posted on 01/17/2006 5:17:55 PM PST by bonehead4freedom (Borders like fences make for good neighbors!)
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To: Molly Pitcher
Starting to work on the campaign in my county, Molly.

This man is worth fighting for. Ohio NEEDS him!

42 posted on 01/18/2006 9:05:05 AM PST by ohioWfan (PROUD Mom of an Iraq War VET! THANKS, son!!!!)
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