* Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (OH-15) has announced a mobile office location on January 28th from 10am-1pm at 946 Parson Avenue.
Dispatch: Constituents of Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Columbus, can get congressional help with everything from Social Security benefits to veterans issues.....
* The Times Bulletin has more on Republican candidate for governor, John Kasich's, planned cuts if elected:
....Kasich favors eliminating the state income tax over 10 years, which estimates say will require government spending reductions of $12 billion by 2020 if current economic projections hold.....
Kasich also seems to be accusing his fellow Republicans of not cutting enough in previous legislative years. I'm sure that was not received well by Kasich's fellow Ohio GOPers.
****When John Kasich was in Congress, he created a budget plan that included $100 billion in cuts to federal programs. Kasich's plan was reviewed by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities on May 19, 1998. Here are some highlights from the analysis done by the CBPP in 1998:
....Among the most striking features of the Kasich budget plan are its disproportionate cuts in programs for low-income families and its focus on reducing support for low-income working families and individuals and those seeking to leave public assistance for work....
.....The Kasich budget also would eliminate the funding for food stamp workfare slots included in last year's budget agreement. The 1996 welfare law contained a provision, co-authored by Rep. Kasich himself, that limits the provision of food stamps to non-disabled individuals aged 18 to 50 who are neither employed nor raising minor children to just three months out of every three years, except for months in which they are performing workfare.....
....The Kasich budget reduces funding for child care for low- and moderate-income working families. It cuts the Social Services Block Grant by $3.1 billion over five years....
...The budget also cuts job training programs designed to help low-income and disadvantaged individuals improve skill levels and be better able to find and retain jobs that can lift a family out of poverty....
.....The Kasich budget would raise taxes on one of the poorest groups of workers in America...
There is a more extensive analysis at the CBPP website. Kasich's past proposals might be the basis for similar cuts he plans if elected governor. So far, journalists do not seem to have the ability to ask Kasich for specifics on what programs, departments, and agencies he'd eliminate if elected Ohio governor. Kasich's plan to do away with the state income tax means that major cuts would have to be made. We are all waiting for Kasich to provide some specifics.
>>>> Here is more on Kasich from Recharge Ohio:
....Kasich is an honorary chairman for Recharge Ohio, an organization created in the summer of 2008 and aimed to promote the rebirth of Ohio....
And this----
....Kasich is an investment banker on Wall Street where he maintains responsibilities in groups including retail, power and utilities, technology, media and communications, industrial and financial institutions.....
There it is again----> "...Kasich is an investment banker on Wall Street..."
Do Ohioans want a former investment banker running our state?