COLUMBUS — Democrat Tim Hagan on Tuesday unveiled a new Internet ad featuring Gov. Bob Taft as a duck while Mr. Hagan's attorneys urged a Cleveland judge to keep the quacking character online.

Tim Hagan

        The commercial, which can be seen only at Mr. Hagan's Web site, is intended to rebut claims the governor makes in an ad being aired on television stations across Ohio.

        Mr. Taft says in his ad that the state has made good progress educating children, that seniors will soon receive discounts on prescription drugs and that he's working to bring more jobs to Ohio.

        “There's more to do, and I'll work as hard as I know how to keep Ohio strong,” Mr. Taft promises.

        Mr. Hagan reruns Mr. Taft's commercial and responds himself to every point the governor makes. Mr. Hagan notes Ohio ranks 48th among states in developing new businesses, that Ohio's unemployment rate is higher now than when Mr. Taft first took office, and that he cut funding for state universities.

        Orest Holubec, Mr. Taft's spokesman, had little to say about the Hagan ad, except, “We're pleased that they are showing our entire ad.”

        Like two other commercials before it, Mr. Hagan's newest ad, at www.taftquack.com, features an animated duck topped with Mr. Taft's head sporting a duck bill over his nose and mouth.

        That duck, which shouts “Taft Quack” five times during the commercial, is the focus of a trademark lawsuit filed by AFLAC, the American Family Life Assurance Co.

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