Governor's race turns ugly
Blackwell campaign links Strickland to predators, hints he's gay
BY JON CRAIG | ENQUIRER COLUMBUS BUREAU
COLUMBUS - With Republican Ken Blackwell trailing by double digits in almost every poll, Blackwell's campaign Tuesday tried to link his Democratic opponent to child sex predators - and the state Republican spokesman even raised questions about Ted Strickland's sexuality.
Blackwell and the state GOP say they are only questioning Strickland's integrity and judgment.
The Strickland campaign said the GOP ought to be "ashamed."
At Monday night's final televised debate, and again in a press release Tuesday, Blackwell charged that Strickland should have known that a man arrested for exposing himself to children was on his congressional payroll. He also suggested Strickland backed a U.S. House resolution supported by a group supporting pedophilia.
Tuesday, Blackwell's gubernatorial campaign released three Athens, Ohio, police reports, with identifying information blacked out, to claim that Strickland had "covered up'' an aide's 1994 arrest, failing to fire him when he worked for Strickland from 1997 to 1999.
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