Thursday night, Keith Dailey, Strickland's campaign spokesman, reacted to Blackwell's Blue Ash speech by saying Blackwell was making "the same outrageous attacks that have long been discredited."
"Each day that goes by, Mr. Blackwell grows more and more desperate and becomes less and less worthy of the office of governor," Dailey said.
At Blue Ash, Blackwell had at his side two conservative talk show hosts - Sean Hannity of Fox News and Bill Cunningham of 700 WLW. In their speeches to the crowd Thursday, neither one mentioned the sex charges Blackwell has leveled against Strickland.
But the two talked about it on national television Wednesday night when Cunningham appeared on Fox News' "Hannity & Colmes" talk show.
Thursday, Blackwell's campaign distributed harsh comments by Cunningham related to Strickland's sexuality and about a former Strickland campaign aide arrested in 1994 for public indecency. The Blackwell campaign reprinted a transcript from Wednesday night's Fox News show and sent it to Ohio reporters.
During the TV broadcast, Cunningham, who hosts an afternoon talk show on WLW, questioned the Democratic congressman's sexuality. At one point during the Fox News interview, Cunningham said, "After the (1998) election, Ted Strickland flies off to the shores of Naples, Italy, in order to enjoy a little fun with this 26-year-old boy toy."
UPDATE: Wow, even the republicans hate this guy:
"We’re desperate to say something nice about the Republican candidate for governor in Ohio. Please please PLEASE give us something to work with. Really, we want to tell people to go vote Republican in Ohio. We’ll never say to vote for Strickland, but if that ballot was in front of us at this moment, we’d be writing in a respectable Republican instead.
Blackwell is worse than an embarassment, he’s reckless and deserves to be out of the public spotlight as soon as possible. Unfortunately we now have to wait four years to try to get a centrist, level-headed, liberty-loving, non-”the sky is falling and it’s the homosexuals’ fault” Republican in the executive mansion in Ohio."
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