Norquist hates the jail tax, but can't sign the petition

Grover Norquist, Republican activist and head of Americans for Tax Reform, is in town Friday to make a speech at an Ohio Republican Senate Campaign Committee fundraiser, but while he is in the neighborhood, he's touting the petition drive to place the sales tax inrease for jail construction on the November ballot.

He's showing up on a 50,000-watt radio station in Cincinnati Friday morning to chat with a conservative talk show host and making himself available for interviews about the sales tax petition drive.

Norquist, by the way, lives in Washington, D.C., where the sales tax rate is 5.75 percent.