....Kilroy, a freshman congresswoman from Columbus, Ohio, is making financial legislation a mainstay of her 2010 reelection bid in one of the country’s most competitive races.
The race is rematch of the 2008 nail-biter between Kilroy, the former Franklin County commissioner, and Steve Stivers, a seven-year bank lobbyist and six-year state senator. Stivers lost by just 2,300 votes last time.
“They have a choice here between somebody who is going to have the outlook of the banking community and someone who is going to stand up for homeowners, small business, merchants,” Kilroy said in an interview in her Washington office on the eve of the House passing the bill. Stivers, she said, “is part of a culture” that pushed deregulation before the financial crisis and hurt Main Street to the benefit of Wall Street.....
Stivers has been getting boatloads of campaign money from his constituents ----- bankers, bank PACs, financial services PACs, insurance PACs, etc.
By the way, some people have actually removed their Stivers campaign signs from their yards because of his mixed message on abortion. It is possible that some people who are anti-abortion will not vote or vote for someone else other than Stivers because he still supports the right to an abortion under certain circumstances.
****** Gov. Ted Strickland gave a campaign speech today that provided information on how Republican candidate, John Kasich, voted to protect the wealthy when he was in Congress.
He is part of what Gov. Ted Strickland talked about today.
Cleveland.com:
In a campaign speech, the Democratic leader continued to paint his challenger as a rich outsider whose view of the world was shaped by Wall Street greed.
"Congressman Kasich voted to let really rich people turn their backs on our country and renounce their American citizenship just so that they could avoid paying taxes like the rest of us," Strickland said during a speech at Democratic party headquarters.
"Then he voted a second time to allow the billionaires' loophole to continue," Strickland said. "Then a third time. Then a fourth time. It's not like he didn't have a chance to think about this."
Wow! The article notes that this legislation that Kasich voted for 4 times "...cost taxpayers an estimated $3.6 billion between 1996 and 2005...."
Kasich won't tell you this stuff because he has been very much uninvolved in the entire political process. He still has not revealed which parts of the state government and how many state employees will be cut to be able to let the state survive under his plan to repeal the the state income tax.
(pic from Swamppolitics.com)