Views
While Montgomery is known as more moderate on some social issues, she has challenged many liberal positions, most notably in her bid to end what she termed "inexcusable" legal delays in Ohio's system of capital punishment. However, Montgomery's positions were less of an issue in the 2006 campaign than was her slow action as auditor in investigating the BWC Coingate scandal of Tom Noe, one of her campaign contributors. Marc Dann hit this note repeatedly in the 2006 campaign ads, and won a narrow victory over the relatively popular Montgomery.
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“I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
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