EFFORT TO REPEAL OHIO TAX HIKE

(Columbus, OH) According to a report by Julie Carr Smyth of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio Secretary of State:

. . . Ken Blackwell officially launched his effort yesterday to repeal this summer's sales-tax hike, taking aim at his own party for sending Ohio into an "economic death spiral" akin to California's.

Blackwell, an underdog Republican gubernatorial hopeful in 2006, said Ohioans are "voting with their feet" and leaving the GOP-led state because spending and taxes just keep rising.

"People gave us working majorities (in both legislative chambers) and control of state government," Blackwell said. "We have blurred the lines of distinction and Democrats, with some legitimacy, can call us tax-and-spend Republicans."

This will surely put him in good stead with some voters. Read the rest here.