Citybeat:
An organizer of Greater Cincinnati's Tea Party movement is telling its members the Ohio Republican Party chairman is trying to manipulate potential candidates in the race for Ohio auditor to pit two Teabggers against each other and split the vote, clearing the path for the chairman's cousin to be the GOP's nominee in the general election.
Mike Wilson, leader of the region's Tea Party, wrote a mass e-mail Friday to followers urging them to tell Party Chairman Kevin DeWine to stop wooing Dave Yost to enter the auditor's race. Wilson says both Yost and current candidate Seth Morgan are true conservatives that the Tea Party supports, while the third candidate -- former U.S. Senator Mike DeWine -- is a "RINO," or "Republican in Name Only."
and this.....
...Wilson added, "I think both Morgan and Yost are good candidates and I think it is terrible that the ORP is attempting to manipulate the outcome in these races to pit good conservatives against each other to allow a RINO like Mike DeWine to run uncontested. Ohio Republican Chairman Kevin DeWine does not understand things and needs to get the message. He even lied in a Politico article last week where he claimed that he had reached out to Tea Party leaders."
Is the love affair between the Ohio Republican Party and the Teabaggers hitting a rocky patch?
How wonderful! More Republican civil wars!!!
--- Can John Kasich, former Lehman Brothers investment banker and current Republican candidate, make money appear out of the air? Would Kasich phase out one tax only to replace it with another?
WFMJ:
National data don't back Ohio GOP gubernatorial candidate John Kasich's assertion that phasing out the state's income tax will return money to residents' pockets.
Of the nine states without a broad-based tax on personal income like Ohio's, four - Alaska, Wyoming, Nevada and Washington - still collect more taxes per resident than Ohio.
That's because they tend to charge more in other taxes to make of the difference...
If Kasich wins and cuts out the state income tax, the revenue would have to be made up with new taxes, higher city sales tax rates, extra fees, or special assessments. License plate fees could double or triple. Property taxes might double. City income taxes could increase to make up for the lack of funding from the state. In the end, the Ohio taxpayer would end up ponying up more money in one form or another. More and more people are questioning the sanity of the Kasich phase out of the state income tax.