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  Ohio Auditor Mary Taylor won't seek re-election, instead will run for lieutenant governor
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Last EditedMonsieur  Jan 13, 2010 08:05pm
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AuthorReginald Fields and Aaron Marshall
News DateWednesday, January 13, 2010 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionCOLUMBUS, Ohio - State Auditor Mary Taylor will not seek re-election and instead will be introduced Thursday as the running mate for Republican gubernatorial hopeful John Kasich, a GOP source told The Plain Dealer.

Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols would not confirm or deny that Taylor would be introduced this week as Kasich's lieutenant governor candidate.

But a Republican source said Kasich made the offer, Taylor accepted and a formal announcement will come on Thursday afternoon.

For Kasich, Taylor offers diversity for his ticket, a bright, young, female politician from Northeast Ohio where Republican support is more scarce than in Central Ohio where Kasich lives.

But she has limitations, too. She is not a strong fund-raiser, which was apparent by her noticeably slow start to her re-election campaign last summer against challenger Democrat David Pepper, a Hamilton County commissioner.

And despite holding a statewide office, she is not widely known. Democrats also question her work ethic, saying she is too rarely heard from as auditor unless she is criticizing Strickland.
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