Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Strickland

While Republican candidates for governor, Kenneth Blackwell and Jim Petro, throw mud at each other, the Democratic candidate is hard at work getting ready to lead Ohio. Ted Strickland, Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, has a proposal to end the digital divide Ohio. Here is an excerpt from the article in The Plain Dealer:

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ted Strickland proposed Monday to connect Ohio's poorest communities to the Internet by increasing use of existing high-speed fiber-optic lines that crisscross the state but remain largely "dark," or unused.

His proposal, dubbed the "Ohio NextGen Network," would increase access to the high-speed Internet network owned by Ohio's research universities, which use only a small fraction of the network's capacity to transmit information....

Ted Strickland supports steelworkers.

Ohioans have to ask themselves-- Isn't it time for change? Isn't time to get rid of the Republican culture of corruption in Ohio?