* Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (OH-15-Democrat) is in the news.
Dispatch:
A bill that the House overwhelmingly passed Thursday aiming to improve cybersecurity includes an amendment by Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Columbus.
Her amendment would make federal grants available to high schools and community colleges for use in encouraging students to enter academic and professional careers in information technology and cybersecurity.
Kilroy said in a statement that her amendment would help "ensure that students, teachers and professionals are best prepared to lead the world in cybersecurity and protect us against new threats to our national security."
If we want to keep our country secure, we've got to encourage our young people to get educated in information technology.* This is from Republican John Kasich's blog:
....Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich said creating jobs would be one of his priorities, harkening back to the days of former Republican Gov. Jim Rhodes.
Kasich said he would be the economic development director for the state and, like Rhodes, would go anywhere to get companies to locate in Ohio....
....Kasich said he would create an atmosphere that would foster more jobs and growth.....
This is just more Kasich "Blah. Blah. Blah."
Does anyone else think Kasich is just offering a bunch of rhetoric and that he is short on real plans? How do you "create an atmosphere" for more jobs? Would he try to drop the minimum wage? Eliminate the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation? Cut pension funds? This sounds like a bunch of baloney.
For those young people that don't remember the days of Gov. Jim Rhodes, I have a few words to describe those years: Republican favoritism, one party rule, and the Kent State killings in May 1970.
Here is another tidbit from PDfoundation about Rhodes:
1970Claiming that he fears the song " Ohio " will incite further violence on college campuses following the killing of four students at Kent State University, Governor James Rhodes attempts to order Ohio radio stations to ban the song....
From Ohiohistorycentral:
...In 1970, Rhodes ordered the Ohio National Guard to Kent State University to quell protests against the Vietnam War. The guardsmen killed four people. Before the shootings, Rhodes referred to the protestors as being "worse than the brownshirts and the communist element and also the nightriders and the vigilantes. They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America. I think that we're up against the strongest, well-trained, militant, revolutionary group that has ever assembled in America." Two days after the Kent State shootings, Rhodes lost the Republican primary election to the United States Senate....I was a student at the Ohio State University when the students were killed at Kent by the National Guard that Rhodes sent. I remember how Rhodes sent the National Guard with guns to the Ohio State campus. This is how I remember Jim Rhodes.
Until Kasich starts answering real questions from real people and not his sheeple, he will continue to talk in generalities and full blown spiels of nothingness.