Posted on 01/17/2006 2:38:26 PM PST by oxcart
Ohios Republican gubernatorial front-runner Ken Blackwell is Jesse Jacksons worst nightmare.
Ken Blackwell has just finished regaling a group of Ohio retailers with his vision of how to turn around the states 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 dont like your other ideas so muchmeaning Blackwells 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, youll always know what you are getting. Youll always know where I stand.
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This man is worth fighting for. Ohio NEEDS him!
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