Interesting guy.
WASHINGTON - Ohio Democratic Rep. Ted Strickland formally announced Monday he is running for governor in 2006, declaring that after 14 years of Republican governors the state is "in desperate need of change."
Strickland, 63, listed what he said has been a series of bad news for the state under Republican governors: thousands of manufacturing jobs have been lost, college tuition costs are rising and many young people are leaving Ohio in search of jobs.
"They have governed as if they are trying to get through the next week, the next month or the next year. They have had no vision," Strickland said in a conference call with Ohio reporters.
For a legislator, his resume is pretty unusual:
Career experience: Associate minister at Trinity Methodist Church; director of social services at Kentucky Methodist Home; consulting psychologist at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility and professor at Shawnee State University. First elected to Congress to serve from 1992 to 1994. Defeated in 1994 re-election bid. Re-elected in 1996 and every two years since then.