Reply #20: Commercial aims to get your goat;Reformers push 4 election proposals

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Friday, September 30, 2005
Sandy Theis
Plain Dealer Bureau Chief
Columbus

-- With money from MoveOn.org and humor from a talking billy goat, a group that advocates sweeping changes in Ohio's elections debuted a TV ad Thursday designed to convince voters that Ohio needs a good housecleaning.

The commercial notes that America's least-popular governor, Bob Taft, has said -- despite a recent ethics conviction -- that the reforms are not needed because he does not think there is a problem in Ohio.

A billy goat responds to Taft's assertion by bleating "Really."

Even opponents of the reforms concede that Taft is among supporters' greatest weapons...