.....Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy, a Franklin County commissioner who narrowly lost to incumbent U.S. Rep. Deborah Pryce in 2006, will report $356,400 in new contributions this quarter, for a total of $828,361 this election cycle, her campaign said.
Republican state Rep. Steve Stivers has raised $404,703 in just seven weeks since he formalized his candidacy, his campaign said.....
It looks like it will be an expensive election.
* Looks like there will be some cuts coming to the state government.
Canton Repository:
Three positions here, 815 positions there. Gov. Ted Strickland wants to cut 2,700 state jobs as a way to trim $733 million from the two-year budget as national economic conditions saddle Ohio with a financial disaster.....
.....J. Pari Sabety, Strickland's budget director, said a significant amount of the savings will come from cuts and changes in central office operations in state agencies......
Of course, Republican Jon Husted had to chime in------
.....Earlier in the week, House Speaker Jon Husted, R-Kettering, told reporters if cuts could be made to state government, he wondered why they weren't made before Strickland proposed and the Legislature approved his two year budget last spring.....
Hmmmmm. I wonder how much money the state of Ohio would have saved if that unnecessary highway interchange in Husted's home district had not been constructed with the help of Husted's political campaign contributor. I bet you wonder too.