It's finally set. Ken Blackwell will humiliate -- excuse me, debate, Ted Strickland Youngstown, Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland.

I can't wait.

From the Toledo Blade:

The governor has too much power over the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, states a report that the state inspector general released yesterday.

Then, if you go down through the article you get this:

Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, the GOP candidate for governor, last year called for the resignation of all voting commission members, saying they were “asleep at the switch” as the bureau in 1998 invested in the Noe rare-coin funds and lost $216 million two years ago in a Bermuda-based hedge-fund managed by Mark D. Lay of MDL Capital Management.

If Ted Strickland wants to rail against all things Taft, he's a little late. Ken Blackwell has been criticizing Taft and the inept state government for years while Strickland was defending the governor from Coleman's calls to resign.

But what else is new?

Ken Blackwell wants to change the government. Ted Strickland wants to change the drapes.

From the PD

Though the candidates for Ohio governor have boasted about their willingness to debate each other any time, any place - they refuse to participate in a debate sponsored by three of the state's largest newspapers, The Plain Dealer, the Columbus Dispatch and the Dayton Daily News.

Republican Ken Blackwell and Democrat Ted Strickland had earlier agreed tentatively to participate. But through their respective negotiators, they recently requested four changes to the papers' original proposal, sent to them in June.

The papers agreed to three changes, involving the date, location and topic. But the papers did not agree to the candidates' last-minute request - first broached by Blackwell - that the Call and Post be made a sponsor.

Interesting.

The Other Paper makes fun of Strickland's MySpace.com website

Click the image to read it

We all know the REAL reason why Teddy likes MySpace.com.

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