* Last week I wrote about Republican State Sen. Jon Husted's job with the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce. He apparently must still "work" there because he has this on his campaign website:
...Husted resides in Kettering where he represents the 6th Ohio Senate district. After serving as Speaker of the House, Husted returned to work at the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce and serves as the Director of Workforce Education and Employer Services.....
Is there anyone else that would like to see his time card for the salary he receives from the Dayton Chamber? In his biography, he says he "resides" in Kettering. I'm sure that his neighbors in Kettering are rolling on the floor laughing hysterically at that.
* Here is a little tidbit from epluribusmedia (2/22/08) that has Gov. Strickland accusing Husted of delaying legislation which caused the loss of jobs:
OhioNews Bureau ONB COLUMBUS: With the announcement that a potentially job-rich steel plant decided to pull the plug on locating in Ohio because of electric rate uncertainty, Gov. Ted Strickland, who had called for his energy plan to be passed by the legislature last year, laid the blame of the job losses on Ohio House Speaker Jon Husted for delaying the passage of the bill. The company considering Ohio was Steel Development LLC, a scrap-based still mill owned by a group of American and European steel executives. The group was exploring Ohio for its $1 billion facility that would have employed 500 people, according to a report in the Mansfield News Journal (MNJ). A steel plant official said the uncertainty of knowing what the cost of electricity would be over a multi-year period was reason enough to look elsewhere....
It looks like Husted wanted to keep his friends at First Energy happy.
* Mahoning County Democratic Party Chair Dave Betras has some interesting comments about Republican candidate John Kasich. Ohioans should make note of what he said about Kasich. Mahoningcountydems.org:
"One year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers set off the Great Recession, Mahoning County residents continue to lose their jobs and their homes as a result of Wall Street greed," Chairman Betras said. "Not only was John Kasich Managing Director of Lehman Brothers, as a member of Congress he consistently and actively opposed reasonable regulations that would have reined in Wall Street and protected Ohio families. Instead, he went out of his way to make it easier for predatory lenders and speculators to lay waste to our economy and threaten the standard of living of millions of American workers...."
“...At a time when Mahoning County and the state of Ohio are struggling to recover from the economic catastrophe Kasich helped cause, we need a leader who knows how to create jobs and prosperity here in Ohio, rather than in Mexico and China. We need a governor who puts Main Street ahead of Wall Street. And that, as he has proven time and time again, is clearly not John Kasich.”
True. True. True. Kasich put the needs of Wall Street before the needs of regular, working Americans families. Both John Kasich and Rob Portman are just clones of George W. Bush. If Ohioans want a repeat of those economic policies, they are your men. As our state suffers through the mess left by the likes of Bush, Kasich, and Portman, do people want the mess to continue?