I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.

Congressional career
In 1994 the Republican wave swamped Strickland who narrowly lost his seat to Republican Frank Cremeans. Between December 2009 and August 2010 however employment grew in the state by 57000 positions. A 1959 graduate of Northwest High School Strickland went on to be the first member of his family to attend college.

Theodore "Ted" Strickland (born August 4 1941) was the 68th Governor of Ohio serving from 2007 to 2011. However he was narrowly defeated (with less than 47% of the vote) for re-election in the 2010 gubernatorial election by former U.