Business First of Columbus
Hamilton County Commissioner David Pepper said Tuesday he will run against Republican incumbent Mary Taylor for state auditor in 2010.
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland told those attending the announcement that he recruited Pepper for the job. The son of former Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE:PG) CEO John Pepper, David Pepper defeated Republican incumbent Phil Heimlich in 2006 to restore a Democratic majority on the Hamilton County Commission for the first time in 40 years.
He is a fifth-generation Cincinnatian who graduated from Yale Law School and has campaigned as a fiscal conservative who is friendly to economic-development initiatives.
Pepper will face incumbent Taylor, the only Republican in elected statewide office, who recently has criticized the Strickland administration for relying on one-time infusions of federal dollars to solve the state’s budget crisis.
Taylor may throw her hat into the ring to vie for the U.S. Senate seat Republican George Voinovich will vacate next year, but hasn’t made a run official.
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