Governor of Ohio
November 7, 2006 · general election · 4 candidates with a page
The candidates
Listed alphabetically by surname. Ohio rotates the order candidates appear in by precinct, so no order on this page is the order on a ballot.
- Taught at Xavier University, 1974-1991.
- U.S. Undersecretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1989-1990.
- U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, 1992-1993, appointed by President George H.W. Bush.
9 of 11 sections researched · 17 sources
- Professor of Political Science at Columbus State Community College and editor of the Columbus Free Press since 1993
- J.D., Ohio State University Moritz College of Law (2002); Ph.D. in Political Science, Wayne State University
4 of 11 sections researched · 5 sources
- Professor emeritus at Case Western Reserve University; chaired its Economics Department for six years
4 of 11 sections researched · 2 sources
- Counseling psychologist at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.
- Professor of psychology at Shawnee State University.
- Administrator at a Methodist children's home before his 1992 election to Congress.
10 of 11 sections researched · 44 sources
Ken Blackwell
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
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| polling | researched |
| elections | researched |
| endorsements | not researched |
| sources | researched |
Bob Fitrakis
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Section | State |
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| profile | researched |
| ballot | researched |
| positions | not researched |
| claims | not researched |
| record | not researched |
| money | not researched |
| interests | not researched |
| polling | not researched |
| elections | researched |
| endorsements | not researched |
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Bill Peirce
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
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| ballot | researched |
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| record | not researched |
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| interests | not researched |
| polling | not researched |
| elections | researched |
| endorsements | not researched |
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Ted Strickland
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Section | State |
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| profile | researched |
| ballot | researched |
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| claims | researched |
| record | researched |
| money | researched |
| interests | researched |
| polling | researched |
| elections | researched |
| endorsements | not researched |
| sources | researched |
The race in pictures
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Field date | Candidate | Share | Poll |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 2006 | Ken Blackwell | 32 | Rasmussen Reports, likely voters |
| Aug 22, 2006 | Ted Strickland | 57 | Rasmussen Reports, likely voters |
A note on our coverage
Read before the columns: where one candidate has more entries than another, this says which of the two reasons it is.
Where they stand: Ted Strickland has 8 entries, Ken Blackwell has 5 entries, Bill Peirce has 0 entries and Bob Fitrakis has 0 entries. The difference reflects the length of each public record and the depth of our research; it is not a judgment.
Ken Blackwell's record in office has 8 entries, Ted Strickland's has 8, Bill Peirce's has 0 and Bob Fitrakis's has 0. The difference reflects the length of each public record and the depth of our research; it is not a judgment.
Sources: Ted Strickland has 27 entries, Ken Blackwell has 16 entries, Bill Peirce has 2 entries and Bob Fitrakis has 1 entry. The difference reflects the length of each public record and the depth of our research; it is not a judgment.
Jump to a candidate
- Ken Blackwell: Where they stand · What they have said, checked · Record in office · Money
- Bob Fitrakis: Where they stand · What they have said, checked · Record in office · Money
- Bill Peirce: Where they stand · What they have said, checked · Record in office · Money
- Ted Strickland: Where they stand · What they have said, checked · Record in office · Money
Where they stand
Their own words, by issue, with the date, the venue and the link. A paraphrase is marked as one.
Campaign finance
Ken Blackwell
None found in the records checked
Bob Fitrakis
Not yet researched
Bill Peirce
Not yet researched
Ted Strickland
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
A May 14, 2016 fundraising email from his campaign, sent by his campaign manager, said: "we don’t have a super PAC, and quite frankly, we don’t want one that spends millions to spew out lies and distortions"
Source: politifact.com
Economy
Ken Blackwell
None found in the records checked
Bob Fitrakis
Not yet researched
Bill Peirce
Not yet researched
Ted Strickland
I'm running for the United States Senate in 2016 because I am determined to restore the American Dream for working people in this country
Source: governing.com
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Argued the 2007-2010 job losses stemmed primarily from the national financial crisis and Great Recession rather than his own policies, and that Ohio's economy was beginning to recover by 2010.
Source: Ted Strickland
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Proposed the 'Turnaround Ohio' plan linking economic growth to educational achievement: expanded health screenings and preschool access, workforce retraining, state-funded children's college savings accounts, and a roughly $250 million alternative-energy initiative aimed at manufacturing jobs.
Source: policymattersohio.org
Election administration
Ken Blackwell
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Re-election message centered on administrative efficiency: faster campaign-finance report processing, an electronic network linking county boards of elections, and a reduction in routine business-filing turnaround from about 18 weeks to about 2 days.
Source: citybeat.com
Bob Fitrakis
Not yet researched
Bill Peirce
Not yet researched
Ted Strickland
None found in the records checked
Government ethics
Ken Blackwell
None found in the records checked
Bob Fitrakis
Not yet researched
Bill Peirce
Not yet researched
Ted Strickland
Taft-Blackwell way of governing
Source: wosu.org
Health care
Ken Blackwell
None found in the records checked
Bob Fitrakis
Not yet researched
Bill Peirce
Not yet researched
Ted Strickland
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Supported the Obama administration's health care overhaul, drawing a contrast with Kasich, who opposed it, and defended his record on education reform.
Source: 2010 Ohio gubernatorial election
Religion in public life
Ken Blackwell
The public square should not be stripped of religion or faith
Source: pbs.org
Bob Fitrakis
Not yet researched
Bill Peirce
Not yet researched
Ted Strickland
None found in the records checked
Same-sex marriage
Ken Blackwell
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
As Secretary of State, publicly supported Ohio's Issue 1 (2004), the constitutional amendment defining marriage as only between one man and one woman, arguing the marriage issue would help determine where Ohio's electoral votes would go.
Source: ballotpedia.org
Bob Fitrakis
Not yet researched
Bill Peirce
Not yet researched
Ted Strickland
None found in the records checked
Tax policy (outside the office's authority)
Ken Blackwell
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Carried into the 1998 race a public record, built as sitting Treasurer, of advocacy for a flat tax to replace Ohio's graduated income tax, a constitutional limit on state spending growth, and school vouchers -- none within the Secretary of State's actual statutory authority over business filings, elections administration and campaign-finance disclosure.
Source: scholarship.shu.edu
Bob Fitrakis
Not yet researched
Bill Peirce
Not yet researched
Ted Strickland
None found in the records checked
Taxes
Ken Blackwell
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Championed a statewide Tax and Expenditure Limitation (nicknamed 'TABOR') capping annual government-spending growth at the greater of inflation-plus-population-growth or 3.5%, applied to state and local governments and special taxing districts alike.
Source: wosu.org
Bob Fitrakis
Not yet researched
Bill Peirce
Not yet researched
Ted Strickland
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Opposed Blackwell's proposed flat 3.25% state income tax, arguing it favored high earners, while supporting middle-class tax cuts and marriage-tax relief; an outside analysis found 61% of Ohio taxpayers would pay more under Blackwell's plan.
Source: policymattersohio.org
Trade
Ken Blackwell
None found in the records checked
Bob Fitrakis
Not yet researched
Bill Peirce
Not yet researched
Ted Strickland
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Made opposition to trade deals a centerpiece of the campaign, attacking Portman's support for NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership and accusing him of failing to stop Chinese steel dumping.
Source: wksu.org
What they have said, checked
Newest first. Each check is shown in the checker's own rating word, with their name, the date and the link.
Ken Blackwell
Not yet researched
Bob Fitrakis
Not yet researched
Bill Peirce
Not yet researched
Ted Strickland
None found in the records checked
Record in office
Dated actions. Any evaluation of an action is printed with the name of whoever made it and the link.
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Person | Date | Kind | Entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackwell (R) | 1979 | office | Mayor of Cincinnati |
| Blackwell (R) | 1994-03 | office | Treasurer of Ohio |
| Blackwell (R) | 1999-01 | office | Secretary of State of Ohio |
| Blackwell (R) | 1994 | action | 1994 (action): As Ohio Treasurer, the state's use of Black-owned businesses in its financial and investment dealings rose from 2.8% in 1994 to 30.4% by 199 |
| Blackwell (R) | 2001 | action | 2001 (action): His 2002 re-election committee, 'Ohioans for Ken Blackwell,' raised roughly $1.36 million across the 2001-2002 cycle per Ohio Secretary of S |
| Blackwell (R) | 2002-10 | action | 2002-10 (action): As Secretary of State, continued to certify and administer punch-card and central-count optical-scan voting equipment used by roughly 69 of |
| Blackwell (R) | 2004-09 | order | 2004-09 (order): As Secretary of State, issued a directive instructing county boards to reject voter-registration forms not printed on at least 80-pound-weig |
| Blackwell (R) | 2004-09 | order | 2004-09 (order): Issued Directive 2004-33 instructing poll workers to withhold provisional ballots from voters whose precinct residency could not be confirme |
| Blackwell (R) | 2006-03 | statement | 2006-03 (statement): Full Social Security numbers of roughly 1.2 million Ohioans were inadvertently posted alongside business filings on the Secretary of State's |
| Blackwell (R) | 2006-04 | statement | 2006-04 (statement): The Columbus Dispatch reported Blackwell had come to own 83 shares of Diebold Inc. stock -- the company that manufactured voting equipment h |
| Blackwell (R) | 2006-04 | statement | 2006-04 (statement): Computer disks containing the Social Security numbers of roughly 5.7 million registered Ohio voters were mistakenly mailed out by his office |
| Strickland (D) | 1993-01 | office | U.S. Representative, Ohio's 6th District |
| Strickland (D) | 1997-01 | office | U.S. Representative, Ohio's 6th District |
| Strickland (D) | 2007-01 | office | Governor of Ohio |
| Strickland (D) | 2007 | action | 2007 (action): Created the University System of Ohio to expand access to in-state higher education; Ohio's K-12 system rose from 27th to 5th in the nation |
| Strickland (D) | 2007 | action | 2007 (action): Ohio public schools rose in national rankings, from 27th to 5th per Education Week, during his education-reform push, and manufacturing empl |
| Strickland (D) | 2007 | action | 2007 (action): Ohio lost a net of roughly 367,800 to 400,000 nonfarm jobs during his term and unemployment rose from 5.6% to a peak of 10.7%, though Politi |
| Strickland (D) | 2008 | bill | 2008 (bill): Signed Ohio's renewable-portfolio standard, mandating that 25% of the state's electricity come from renewable/advanced sources by 2025. |
| Strickland (D) | 2008-07 | bill | 2008-07 (bill): Signed a 2008 renewable portfolio standard requiring 25% of Ohio's electricity to come from renewable and advanced-energy sources by 2025. |
| Strickland (D) | 2009 | action | 2009 (action): Drew down Ohio's Budget Stabilization ('rainy day') Fund from roughly $1 billion to $0.89 by the time he left office, using it to help balan |
| Strickland (D) | 2010-09-17 | statement | 2010-09-17 (statement): His administration's public accounting said about $4.89 billion in one-time money was used to balance the state budget; PolitiFact found the |
| Strickland (D) | 2011 | action | 2011 (action): After leaving office, helped lead the 2011 citizen-referendum campaign against Senate Bill 5, which would have sharply limited public-employ |
Ken Blackwell
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April 2006 · statement
The Columbus Dispatch reported Blackwell had come to own 83 shares of Diebold Inc. stock -- the company that manufactured voting equipment his own office purchased for the state; Blackwell said the purchase was a financial manager's error and that he sold the shares once he learned of them. His gubernatorial campaign separately accepted a $10,000 contribution from a registered Diebold lobbyist.
Source: brennancenter.org
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April 2006 · statement
Computer disks containing the Social Security numbers of roughly 5.7 million registered Ohio voters were mistakenly mailed out by his office.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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March 2006 · statement
Full Social Security numbers of roughly 1.2 million Ohioans were inadvertently posted alongside business filings on the Secretary of State's website; the data remained reachable for months even after a related lawsuit settled.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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September 2004 · order
Issued Directive 2004-33 instructing poll workers to withhold provisional ballots from voters whose precinct residency could not be confirmed on the spot; a federal district court and then the Sixth Circuit ruled the directive violated the Help America Vote Act.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, October 26, 2004:
Poll workers could not deny provisional ballots based on an on-the-spot precinct-residency determination.
· the sourceSources: courtlistener.com · brennancenter.org
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September 2004 · order
As Secretary of State, issued a directive instructing county boards to reject voter-registration forms not printed on at least 80-pound-weight paper stock; rescinded nearly three weeks later, five days before the registration deadline, after backlash from voting-rights advocates.
Source: brennancenter.org
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October 2002 · action
As Secretary of State, continued to certify and administer punch-card and central-count optical-scan voting equipment used by roughly 69 of Ohio's 88 counties; the ACLU of Ohio filed Stewart v. Blackwell in October 2002, during this re-election campaign's general-election stretch, alleging the equipment's higher ballot-rejection rates violated the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses. The Sixth Circuit ruled for the plaintiffs in April 2006, after Blackwell had left office.
ACLU of Ohio, October 2002 federal lawsuit (Stewart v. Blackwell):
the technology had a racially disparate impact under the Voting Rights Act
· the sourceSources: aclu.org · law.justia.com
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2001 · action
His 2002 re-election committee, 'Ohioans for Ken Blackwell,' raised roughly $1.36 million across the 2001-2002 cycle per Ohio Secretary of State filings, against Democratic opponent Bryan Flannery's roughly $310,000 over the same span -- a better than 4-to-1 advantage built up well before an uncontested primary.
Source: www6.ohiosos.gov
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1994 · action
As Ohio Treasurer, the state's use of Black-owned businesses in its financial and investment dealings rose from 2.8% in 1994 to 30.4% by 1999 under his push to broaden the pool of firms the office did business with.
Source: encyclopedia.com
Bob Fitrakis
Not yet researched
Bill Peirce
Not yet researched
Ted Strickland
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2011 · action
After leaving office, helped lead the 2011 citizen-referendum campaign against Senate Bill 5, which would have sharply limited public-employee collective bargaining; Ohio voters repealed SB 5 with more than 60% support.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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September 17, 2010 · statement
His administration's public accounting said about $4.89 billion in one-time money was used to balance the state budget; PolitiFact found the real total was closer to $6.51 billion once later budget actions were included.
PolitiFact, September 17, 2010:
False
· the sourceSource: Strickland administration figures for one-time money used in state budget don't measure up
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2009 · action
Drew down Ohio's Budget Stabilization ('rainy day') Fund from roughly $1 billion to $0.89 by the time he left office, using it to help balance the state budget during the 2008-09 recession.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in a 2016 ad:
As governor, Ted Strickland left only 89 cents in Ohio's rainy day fund.
· the sourceSource: politifact.com
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July 2008 · bill
Signed a 2008 renewable portfolio standard requiring 25% of Ohio's electricity to come from renewable and advanced-energy sources by 2025.
Source: Ted Strickland
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2008 · bill
Signed Ohio's renewable-portfolio standard, mandating that 25% of the state's electricity come from renewable/advanced sources by 2025.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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2007 · action
Ohio public schools rose in national rankings, from 27th to 5th per Education Week, during his education-reform push, and manufacturing employment grew by roughly 9,300 jobs between January and December 2010.
Source: Quality Counts
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2007 · action
Ohio lost a net of roughly 367,800 to 400,000 nonfarm jobs during his term and unemployment rose from 5.6% to a peak of 10.7%, though PolitiFact found attack ads placing full blame on Strickland lacked context since the losses were driven substantially by the national recession.
PolitiFact, October 19, 2010:
False
· the sourceSource: Kasich ad puts all the state's budget woes, job losses on Strickland
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2007 · action
Created the University System of Ohio to expand access to in-state higher education; Ohio's K-12 system rose from 27th to 5th in the nation (grade B-) in Education Week's 'Quality Counts' rankings during his term.
Sources: thinkbeyond.osu.edu · edweek.org
Money
Totals and donors exactly as filed with the FEC or the Ohio Secretary of State, each figure with its filing link.
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Status |
|---|
| None found in the records checked |
Ken Blackwell
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| From | To | Dollars | Share of total | Note |
|---|
Totals as filed
OhioSOS, as of September 9, 2006: raised $10,000,000.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Top donors, as filed
None found in the records checked
Outside spending
None found in the records checked
In-state share
Not yet researched
Bob Fitrakis
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Status |
|---|
| None found in the records checked |
Totals as filed
Not yet researched
Top donors, as filed
Not yet researched
Outside spending
Not yet researched
In-state share
Not yet researched
Bill Peirce
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Status |
|---|
| None found in the records checked |
Totals as filed
Not yet researched
Top donors, as filed
Not yet researched
Outside spending
Not yet researched
In-state share
Not yet researched
Ted Strickland
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| From | To | Dollars | Share of total | Note |
|---|
Totals as filed
OhioSOS, as of 2006: raised $16,700,000.
Source: followthemoney.org
Top donors, as filed
None found in the records checked
Outside spending
None found in the records checked
In-state share
Not yet researched
The result
Ted Strickland · certified 2006-11-07 · turnout 53.25
| Candidate | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ted Strickland | 2,435,505 | 60.5% |
| Ken Blackwell | 1,474,331 | 36.6% |
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Quick answers
When was the 2006 Governor of Ohio election?
The election for Governor of Ohio was held on November 7, 2006.
Who ran for Governor of Ohio in 2006?
On the ballot for Governor of Ohio, in surname order: Ken Blackwell (Republican), Bob Fitrakis (Green), Bill Peirce (Libertarian), Ted Strickland (Democratic).
Who won the 2006 Governor of Ohio election?
Ted Strickland won the election for Governor of Ohio. Results as certified: Ken Blackwell 36.6%, Ted Strickland 60.5%.
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