The biggest drag on Republican John Kasich, the former Ohio Congressman who's now in a dead heat race against incumbent Governor Ted Strickland, is the eight years he spent working for the now defunct investment bank Lehman Brothers.

Strickland has been pounding Kasich for his relationship with the Wall Street firm and for his unwillingness to release his tax returns disclosing how much money he made during his eight year tenure. Kasich responded on Friday by releasing his 2008 tax returns showing that he made a $182,692 salary from Lehman and a $432,000 bonus in 2008.  The Columbus Dispatch has the rest of the deets on Kasich's returns.

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