MONTGOMERY, DRIPPING IN CORRUPTON, TO BACK OUT OF OHIO GOVERNOR RACE-- AND RUN FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL INSTEAD!

Ohio's corrupt governor, Bob Taft, who presided over two of the biggest scandals in American political history (the systematic looting of the State Workmen's Compensation Fund by Republican politicians and the not unrelated stealing of the 2004 presidential election for George W. Bush) is the least popular governor in the history of any state... ever. Three thoroughly horrible Republican pols-- each as implicated in the scandals as Taft-- are vying to replace him in the governor's mansion: Kenneth Blackwell, the current Secretary of State who was the Katherine Harris of 2004, but even more corrupt-- if you can imagine such a thing-- and further to the Right; Jim Petro, the current Attorney General, who has done everything he could to impede any meaningful investigations into GOP corruption and impropriety in Ohio; and Betty Montgomery, the crooked Auditor General, who seems to have missed the outrageous thefts of public money by the Republican political establishment.

Last week Ohio journalist Bertram de Souza wrote that "there are whispers emanating from Columbus that some Republican insiders are wondering whether Petro and Montgomery should both get out of the governor’s race and run for state auditor and attorney general, respectively, and let Blackwell face the Democratic nominee in the fall. The thinking is that the Republican Party would have least have a chance of retaining two important statewide offices — auditor and attorney general." Today Montgomery told friends she would withdraw from the governor's race and seems to be leaning towards taking on popular crusading Democrat Marc Dann, the State Senator who cracked open the Workmen's Compensation Fund case while Petro, Taft, Blackwell, and Montgomery dug in their heals and hysterically claimed nothing was wrong for months and months. Recent polls consistently show Montgomery lagging Blackwell and Petro and being beaten by any Democrat in November. Expect an official announcement Friday.