Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Kasich Should Stick to Facts

I read the article over at Cincinnati.com about John Kasich and Jeb Bush visiting Mason, Ohio. Two parts of the article caught my eye:

Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich came to a robotics factory Tuesday to make the argument that Ohio government is killing jobs through red tape, high taxes and an unfriendly environment for entrepreneurs....

And this.....

...An hour before Kasich and Bush appeared at FANUC Robotics, Betty Davis, a former Republican mayor of Mason, held a press conference organized by the Ohio Democratic Party about two miles away at the business she owns, a firm that provides group home and home care to the developmentally disabled. Davis was a member of the Republicans for Strickland Committee during the 2006 election, when Strickland was first elected governor.
Davis, who served as mayor in the 1990s, said that she is a Republican who supports Strickland’s re-election, crediting the Democratic governor for “creating a good climate for small businesses.”...

She is correct and Kasich is wrong. Ohio's ranking on the Small Business Survival Index has changed dramatically:

In 2005, when Republican Bob Taft was Governor, Ohio was ranked #40 on the Small Business Survival Index.

In 2009, with Democrat Ted Strickland as Governor, Ohio was ranked (see page 2) #11 on the Small Business Survival Index.

If it weren't for the financial policies of the Bush administration and the greed of Wall Street firms, our state would not be in the mess we see today. The financial collapse happened during the Bush administration and we're left with this disaster. Kasich is still sucking up to the Bush family. Haven't we had enough???