Hackett launches new blog

Move over Congressman Sherrod Brown, a new blogger is in town.

Democrat Paul Hackett, an Indian Hill lawyer and Iraq war veteran who is running against Brown, also a Democrat, for the party's nomination to challenge Republican Sen. Mike DeWine this fall, launched his campaign's own blog this month.

Hackett's new blog can be found here.

Brown, a seven-term congressman from Lorain in northern Ohio, has been operating GrowOhio.org for nearly a year now where he pays three bloggers to post items.

Hackett's blog will be moderated by his Internet communications director but will allow readers to create personal diaries, similar to the popular Daily Kos blog site.

Meanwhile, DeWine finally has a campaign Web site, but visitors can only contact the campaign or donate money. No blogging there!