The content of Gov. Ted Strickland’s State of the State speech has quickly become fodder for the upcoming election fight.

Republican John Kasich, challenging Strickland’s fall re-election bid, after hours Tuesday recorded and distributed a video message that criticized the Democratic governor for doing too little and taking credit for too much.

“While he tried to paint Ohio in the best possible light, laptop battery a large part of public service is not what you promise for the future, it’s what you did when your hands were on the wheel,” Kasich said.

Strickland, in the last State of the State address of his four-year term, gushed affection and respect for his ailing state and pledged to “move heaven and earth to create jobs” with a modest  Latitude D505 battery of new initiatives that cost little money.

Acknowledging that “yes, we have been knocked down,” Strickland said “the state of the state is unyielding” amid the economic downturn, which has led to a 10.9 percent unemployment rate and shown little sign of recovery.

“Ohio will rise again,” he vowed Tuesday before the packed House chamber. “Because there isn’t a single thing wrong with Ohio that can’t be fixed by what’s right with Ohio.”

Strickland, who’s dealing with falling approval ratings as he fights for re-election in November, promised things would improve thanks to the state’s history of invention and innovation.

“I believe in Ohio because we will invest in the things we do exceptionally well,” Strickland said. “And we will create jobs.”

New spending programs are typically a hallmark of a governor’s annual address to lawmakers, but Strickland has been hobbled by lagging state revenues and a promise not to raise taxes. The best he could do was a $40 million investment in green energy technologies funded largely with federal dollars.

He wants the state to pursue a biorefinery that converts food grown in Ohio into biopolymers used in products Inspiron 6400 battery , Inspiron E1505 battery  such as toothbrushes and cell phones.

“There will come a day when Ohio will be the undisputed home of advanced energy,” Strickland said. “A day when we cast off those two tired words that have been used to put us down: Rust Belt. Because that’s not who we are.”

Other efforts he advanced require few additional resources. They include creating a business lending gateway to link businesses seeking working capital with bankers willing to lend, reducing taxes on new solar and wind energy generation, designating Ohio’s eight largest urban areas as hub cities in their strongest industries and reducing red tape for companies doing business in the state.

The governor also announced a new partnership between Ohio’s public universities and consumer products manufacturer Procter & Gamble Co. to help university researchers bring products to market faster. And he proposed a plan to improve access to state-grown food to boost rural jobs and make more healthy food available.

Republican lawmakers said many of the positive developments Strickland claimed in his speech began with their ideas. That included the Third Frontier high-tech initiative, started under his Republican predecessor, Bob Taft, and tougher standards for public education.

“It sounds like what the governor has done is rename programs and rehash them,” said state Rep. Lou Blessing, R-Cincinnati.

Democratic House Speaker Armond Budish said he thought Strickland’s speech helped the governor’s re-election effort.

“I believe the more the governor communicates about what he has done, and the more we communicate about what we have done, the public will respond,” Budish said. “The governor has a lot of great accomplishments to talk about.”

Brian Rothenberg, executive director of the liberal group ProgressOhio.com, suggested the upcoming election had an impact on reaction to Tuesday’s speech.

“Three years ago, the very same speech would have been met with bipartisan applause,” he said. “But it’s election year, Inspiron 1525 battery , Inspiron 1526 battery and the toxic quest for power has changed Ohio’s Statehouse.”