Democratic Ohio justice Bill O'Neill launches governor run

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The lone Democrat holding statewide office in Ohio joined the governor's race Sunday on a liberal platform of tax incentives for solar power, expanded mental health care and legalized marijuana.

Supreme Court Justice William O'Neill pitched his candidacy as a response to what he sees as an over-managed Democratic political organization that has lost touch with its roots.

"The Democratic Party has always been the party of ideas, but we have somehow lately become the party of careful consultants who advise, 'Don't do anything that is going to annoy anyone,'" he said at an event in Chagrin Falls. "So today I am going to do something that will surely annoy some people: I'm going to talk about ideas.