[Columbus Dawg]

Unfortunately, she did vote for all the tax increases while in the State House. She was closely associated with certain people (Larry Householder and others) who appear to be in deep trouble for past activities. I don't blame Hackett one bit for doing that.
Nonetheless, Schmidt has plenty of stuff to go against Hackett (the Bush comment).

[GoBucks2002]

Hackett voted to raise taxes when he was on Milford City Council, the promptly moved to posh Indian Hill. He also has a record of being disciplined for using poor language in the courtroom.

I find the "Bob Taft and Jean Schmidt" line nauseating in Hackett's ads. Somehow, I don't think conservatives outside of Cincinnati spent the last six years saying "D*mn that liberal Taft and that state rep from Clermont County, too ... uh, Jean Schmidt. Yeah, that's it."