Welcome to the Thursday edition of your open thread. It’s my last day in Canada! w00t! See you in Delaware tonight!
The first line of Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland’s campaign biography boasts the Democratic governor is “the son of a steelworker” who “never imagined he’d be able to go to college.”
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Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols said in a statement Tuesday Strickland is a poor manager of Ohio’s cities because the Democrat was raised “in a chicken shack on Duck Run.”
Nichols’ statement came after Strickland’s running mate, Yvette Brown, said in a recent speech, “Ted didn’t grow up in city, but he fights for our cities every day.”
“Not until Ted Strickland feared needing their votes did he give urban Ohioans a second thought. Having grown up in a chicken shack on Duck Run, he has all but ignored our cities’ economies and their workers,” Nichols said in the statement responding to Brown’s speech.
OMFG. Kasich’s spokesman has now apologized.
I had a bit of excitement yesterday:
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake hit central Canada Wednesday afternoon, rattling buildings from Sudbury to Quebec City, and as far south as New York City.
The epicentre of the quake was in Quebec, about 38 kilometres north of Cumberland, Ont., which is on the Ottawa River, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, and struck at 1:41 p.m. EDT at a depth of 18 kilometres.
I was in a meeting and the table started shaking. People started asking “Is this an earthquake?” It was! Canada is dangerous!