The Toledo Blade reports that Retread Ted Strickland will campaign with Hillary Clinton in Columbus today.
The campaign stop with Clinton comes days after Retread Ted’s failed apology tour through Appalachia that was launched after Strickland lost the endorsement of the United Mine Workers of America to Rob Portman. The tour didn’t go as planned, yielding editorials from the Wheeling Intelligencer and Belmont County’s Times Leader that skewered Strickland calling him "coal’s foe," and “not [a] friend.” New reports also indicate that Strickland is trailing by double digits in a recent poll in his former congressional district.
After a week like that – what better way to pretend to be a friend of coal than to campaign with Hillary Clinton?
In March, Clinton attacked coal workers saying, “we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” While Rob Portman quickly condemned the remarks, Retread Ted was silent. Now, more than 3 months later, Strickland still hasn’t condemned Clinton’s anti-coal rhetoric.
With today’s Clinton campaign appearance, the Times Leader’s editorial rings truer than ever:
Ohioans were fooled once by Strickland. They trusted him to govern the state for four years. Now, he wants to move on to Washington – where he may be able to do even more damage.
No thanks, Mr. Strickland. Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice – shame on us.