[Cicero]

I don't know him except for his family name, but I gather that Bob Taft is not exactly a winner either.

Bush managed to win Ohio, but this junk doesn't help.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Bush won Ohio without any help from Taft. In fact, Bush was not seen with Taft during his 50 - 75 trips to Ohio.

Taft might be a good guy, but he is no leader.

I melted the phone line when the fund raisers called asking for money after the Voinovich and DeWine fiascoes.

[eraser2005]

Taft is pretty far from a winner... His budget that he pushed through (with the help of a majority of Republicans in the legislature) is a disaster waiting to happen. The school district I'm in is going to lose 30% of its funding because of the new budget, and some poor districts are losing up to 50%.

So I'm getting a 21% cut in state income tax, and state sales taxes are dropping from 6% to 5.5% (though it was scheduled to change to 5% previously). But then the Corporate Activities Tax will result in that sales tax change being nullified (as the corporations will just pass on the cost). So while my income taxes drop about $600, I'm being told my property taxes could increase a bare minimum of $1200 per year, up to about $3200 per year. At $3200 per year increase, you've just doubled my property taxes all so that the school district (which has been doing an excellent job budget-wise and performance-wise) can just maintain the status quo.

We'll just ignore the fact that the budget is a clear violation of Ohio Supreme Court rulings on school funding.

Yeah, he's a winner, alright...