* Do you remember when Republican Steve Stivers voted against lowering the payday interest rate lending legislation? Stivers did not want the interest rates lowered. Here is what the Dispatch had at the time:
Sen. Steve Stivers, R-Columbus -- Doesn't favor a 36-percent rate cap. "You can't take away people's ability to screw up their own financial situation by taking away the legal loan products, because they'll move to the illegal loans."
*** When John Kasich's Lehman Brothers went belly up, it took a real bite out of the Ohio pension funds. Cincinnati bizjournals:
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that Ohio public pension funds lost $480 million in the wake of the collapse of banking giant Lehman Brothers.
The figures were released by U.S. Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy of Columbus in advance of Tuesday hearings on Lehman's failure. Ohio's Public Employees Retirement System took the biggest hit, losing about $368 million in market value between December 2007 and December 2008, according to the report.
State Teachers Retirement System's Lehman holdings lost $80 million in value, while the School Employees Retirement System lost $18.5 million. The Plain Dealer also reported that the Ohio Police & Fire Pension Fund saw its value decline by $11.2 million, and the Highway Patrol Retirement System lost $2.4 million in value during the same period.
OMG!
* Did you know that there is a Facebook page for Kasich for President 2012? Is there something Kasich isn't telling us?