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Monday, January 18, 2010
Kevin DeWine: Strickland Lt. Gov. choice “uninspiring”
Ohio Republican Chairman Kevin DeWine doesn’t think much of Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland’s expected choice for his lieutenant governor running mate.
Strickland is expected to name Yvette McGee Brown, a former Columbus judge and currently president of the Center for Child and Family Advocacy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus.
“He’s had nearly a year to make this selection, and the best he could come up with in the face of an unprecedented fiscal emergency is a social worker with no experience in public finance or state government,” DeWine said in an e-mail.
Chris Redfern, Ohio Democratic chairman, was equally critical last week when Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich named Auditor Mary Taylor as his running mate. Among other things, Redfern questioned Taylor’s work ethic.
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Former Columbus judge expected to be Strickland Lt. Gov. choice
Gov. Ted Strickland on Tuesday, Jan. 19, is expected to name Yvette McGee Brown, a former Columbus judge, as his lieutenant governor running mate.
“It’s done,” a Democratic Party insider with close ties to the Strickland campaign said on Monday of the choice.
The choice is to be named at 2:30 p.m. at Ohio Democratic Party headquarters in Columbus, Strickland’s campaign announced on Monday.
The event will kick off Strickland’s re-election efforts, the campaign said.
Strickland offered the job to his choice on Saturday and the person accepted, said Lis Smith, Strickland’s campaign spokeswoman. Smith declined to say who the choice was.
Strickland last week promised to announce his choice first to his supporters by e-mail. That e-mail is expected to go out before the 2:30 p.m. event.
McGee Brown is president of The Center for Child and Family Advocacy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, an advocacy group. She is a former Franklin County domestic relations and juvenile judge.
The choice is seen as helping Strickland in three ways - with women voters, with black voters (McGee Brown is black) and in Franklin County, the home base for Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich, a former Columbus-area U.S. House member.
It would leave the ticket, however, without a representative from populous and strongly Democratic northeastern Ohio. Strickland is from Duck Run in Scioto County in southern Ohio.
Kasich last week introduced Auditor Mary Taylor, from the Akron suburb of Green, as his running mate.
Strickland’s current lieutenant governor, Lee Fisher, is running for the U.S. Senate.
