Sherrod Brown and Hackett make nice

A fairly improbable love fest will take place Monday afternoon on the banks of the Ohio.

Sherrod Brown, the Lorain Democrat who is taking on Mike DeWine in the U.S. Senate, will have peace rally Monday afternoon with Paul Hackett, who, a few months, ago, was Brown's rival for the Democratic Senate nomination.

Hackett dropped out of the race, saying Brown had lied to him last summer when he said he wasn't running and accusing Brown of a number of nefarious acts to sabotage the Hackett campaign. Brown, as you might imagine, denied it all.

Privately, the pair has been spitting nails at each other ever since.

But today, they kiss and make up, in front of a crowd of supporters. The group hug starts at 3 p.m. at an appropriate locale - the Theodore M. Berry International Friendship Park on Eastern Avenue in the East End.

World peace can not be far behind.