Former president says the election of Brown and Strickland would improve our lives

Dayton Daily News

Bill Clinton had a victory-hungry crowd of Democrats clapping and jumping to their feet Monday as he denounced the Republican-controlled federal government and urged the election of Sherrod Brown, Ted Strickland and other Ohio Democrats.

There's a reason the federal government has blundered in Iraq, on the economy, health care and other areas, the former president said.

Bill Clinton had a victory-hungry crowd of Democrats clapping and jumping to their feet Monday as he denounced the Republican-controlled federal government and urged the election of Sherrod Brown, Ted Strickland and other Ohio Democrats.

There's a reason the federal government has blundered in Iraq, on the economy, health care and other areas, the former president said.

"If all you care about is the concentration of wealth and power and you are an ideologue who already knows all the answers ... you're going to get bad decisions," Clinton told a standing-room-only crowd of more than 600.

The occasion was a fundraiser in the Governor's Ballroom at the Hyatt On Capitol Square Hotel.

He said that he and Brown, a U.S. House member from Avon who is running for the U.S. Senate against Republican incumbent Mike DeWine, had serious arguments when both served in Washington. In fact, Brown opposed a number of Clinton programs, including the North American Free Trade Agreement. Unlike ideologues, Clinton said, both were willing to admit when they were wrong.

In their discussions, Brown always asked how policies would "improve the lives of average people," Clinton said.

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