By "friendly" he means "stupid".

Today, Ted Strickland said he is a “business-friendly governor”.

Then he said both the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and National Federation of Independent Business are “a tool of the Republican Party”.

All together, the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and the Ohio chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business have over 28,000 businesses that are members of their respective organizations.

I don’t think calling them “tools” qualifies as “business-friendly.”