Division I regional track finals
Fenwick graduation 2012
Ponitz graduation 2012
Home > Blogs > Ohio politics > Archives > 2008 > August > 12
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Strickland to speak on economy at Dem convention
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland said he’ll discuss the economy when he speaks to the Democratic National Convention in Denver on Tuesday, Aug. 26.
Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has asked him to speak but Strickland said on Tuesday, Aug. 12, that he doubted that his speech would be in prime time. Sen. Hillary Clinton, whom Strickland supported in the Democratic primaries, is scheduled to give the main speech on that Tuesday.
Strickland and Obama campaign staffers participated in a conference call to outline Obama’s grassroots strategy in Ohio, including staffing 43 field offices. Some of the offices will be in Republican strongholds such as Troy in Miami County and Middletown in Butler County. Even if Democrats don’t win those counties, they can do better than John Kerry and other past Democratic candidates did, said Strickland.
“I have never seen a presidential campaign in Ohio come anywhere close to where this campaign is organizationally and in terms of having actual man and woman power in the field…,” Strickland said.
Republican John McCain’s campaign, however, isn’t impressed.
“Barack Obama’s uphill battle among rural voters started with his 83 county loss during the primary, and it has only grown steeper with his support for higher taxes and his failure to provide solutions to our energy crisis,” McCain campaign spokesman Paul Lindsay said in an e-mail.
“John McCain knows how important Ohio is in this election, which is why he will continue traveling throughout the state to discuss his plans to create jobs and provide relief at the pump.”
