Husted is known to be a cocky, arrogant little man who yells and screams until he gets what he wants (like road work in his home district and changes in the way STRS invests), so I've been told. However, he isn't tough enough to attack Strickland in Columbus. Husted, and his sidekick, Kevin DeWine are quite willing to talk tough but they have refused to work to get the school funding fixed in the state of Ohio.
Here is an excerpt from the Dayton Daily News:
....The speaker also tried to dim the glow coming from Strickland's lofty approval rating from Ohio voters, attributing the governor's success to the Republican-controlled legislature. An Ohio Poll released this month found 69 percent of registered voters approve the job Strickland's doing while 16 percent disapprove.
"The governor has got a 68 percent approval rating right now largely because we've gotten along with him," Husted said in the Findlay paper, reducing Strickland's rating by a point....
Husted and his Ohio Republicans can take some credit for Strickland's high approval rating but it is not for Husted's reasons. Ohioans appreciate the honesty and clean government that Strickland and his administration have brought to the state. For far too long, Ohio Republicans like Bob Taft, Bob Ney, Tom Noe, and others have demonstrated that too many in the Ohio Republican Party are interested in taking care of their cronies and campaign contributors instead of the regular people in Ohio.
If Husted thinks he can talk tough in a small town in Ohio and no one else will hear about it, he must be living in the Dark Ages. Mr. Husted better realize that his behavior and outward disrespect of the governor will not go unnoticed by the good people of Ohio.
