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Actually I'd like to see all of that happen - Ken Blackwell for Governor, Paul Hackett defeated no matter what he runs for, and for a conservative to defeat tax-hiker Jean Schmidt in the 2nd CD.

Brinkman and McEwen won't square off against each other again. One will run, one won't, and it looks like it'll be McEwen. I'm not a big McEwen fan, but I'd rather we nominate a conservative who can hold the seat over a tax-hiking RINO who could easily lose it and nearly did the last time around.

McEwen will go down again if he tries, and make no friends in the effort. Jean is no RINO, and this tax hiking BS just is lame as it gets. Is just the same as the Dems discovering that they were against the war all along despite their votes and what they said. If you want the Legislature not to hike taxes each time we have a recession, then amend the Ohio Constitution to allow us to run a Deficit when the economy has had X number of negative quarters or something like that. Otherwise, Ohio will raise stupidly raise taxes every time there is a recession and then the only question is how this will be done.

Taft proposed a raft of tax hikes on services that would be impossible to roll back, and that is his shame and the reason thinking folks can never forgive him. Jean did the responsible thing, as well as many others in the Ohio Legislature in the situation, put the tax where it can be easily removed when the economy improves. This tax has already been partly rolled back already. Ultimately this is the only way until a better formula is found.

You are just knee jerk upset that folks can and have to act responsibly once in a while and thats just too sad. It would be a whole lot more productive if you used your energy to do something like help change the Ohio Supreme Court composition so that we don't have the court driving education costs up in bizarre ways. Make a positive difference and let go of hating Jean, its just a waste of time.

If she up and does something that helps the other side.. well then her hold on the 2nd will dissappear like the morning dew, but this isn't the case. She is definitely on the side of the angels right now and not one of the squishy RINOs in the house. SO GET OVER IT!