Fitzgerald explores gubernatorial ideas in BG

Cuyahoga County Executive Ed Fitzgerald speaking at Grounds for Thought. (Photo: Shane Hughes/Sentinel-Tribune)

With 18 months to go until the next gubernatorial election, Cuyahoga County Executive Ed Fitzgerald hasn’t formally announced his intentions to run for governor of Ohio. Still he’s making the rounds, including a stop Saturday at Ground for Thought in Bowling Green.
What he found was a crowd of about 80 interested in hearing what he has to say, and a few willing to start knocking on doors to get him elected. He told them a more official announcement about his intentions is in the offing.
Tom Lingeman and his wife, Karen Roderick-Lingeman, drove in from Perrysburg to hear Fitzgerald.
“We put other stuff off to come here,” Lingeman said. “We’ll work for his campaign.”
Roderick-Lingeman said she was impressed that “he’s thought things through.” When Fitzgerald talked about charter schools, she said, he distinguished between those run by for-profit companies and those run by public school districts.