> Does anyone know if Kasich is still using a private jet to get around the state?
> The Swing State Project's Research 2000 has some info on potential problems for Republican candidate for Congress, Steve Stivers, a former bank lobbyist, and other Ohio GOPers:
....Dems are looking at five competitive retentions in Ohio (including OH-13, where wealthy auto dealer Tom Ganley completed his switch for the Senate race, and OH-18, where state Sen. Bob Gibbs deciced to pull the trigger. Potential problems lurk for the GOP in OH-15, where David Ryon filed as the Constitution Party candidate (meaning Steve Stivers might get screwed from the right a second time), and in OH-16, where NRCC fave Jim Renacci faces a competitive primary against more conservative (and presumably less electable) Matt Miller, who almost won the open seat GOP primary in 2008. The GOP’s big disappointment is probably OH-06, where their best bet seems to be former Belmont Co. Sheriff Richard Stobbs (who lost by a wide margin in 2008)....
Oh goody!
* People often wonder what type of legislation John Kasich wrote when he was in Congress. As an example, a 1993 bill written by John Kasich and Tim Penny tried to cut $90 billion from the federal budget. This bill was defeated because it would have made drastic cuts in Medicare, the Commerce Department, as well as cuts in military programs, and other agencies.
LA Times:
....Congressional leaders warned that Penny-Kasich had been poorly crafted and represented a dangerous effort to speed massive spending cuts through Congress without thinking about the long-term consequences.
Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, noted that the bill would eliminate the Interstate Commerce Commission, despite the revenue it generates for the government, "because the people who wrote this bill didn't know what they were doing."
More recently, it has been suggested that Kasich doesn't know what he is doing when he proposed cutting the state income tax. Those economists and other financial experts who've criticized Kasich's reckless proposals are right.
Kasich has always been accused of pushing for cuts without caring about the consequences. This example shows that Kasich's penchant for budget cutting was done many times without any thought to the repercussions. (Case in point--- The Kasich plan to eliminate the state income tax would result in severe cuts in schools, state agencies, libraries, police, road maintenance, funding to townships/cities/counties, as well as the likelihood of eliminating the state prisons.)
>>>>> The battle goes on between Republican candidates for Ohio Secretary of State, Jon Husted (of Kettering, but mostly Upper Arlington) and Sandra O'Brien (Tea Party darling). The Dayton Daily News has the mudslinging.