Kilroy's Republican't opponent, has aligned himself with the tea party extremists, bankers, lobbyists, oil companies, Grover Norquist, and insurance companies. A former bank lobbyist, Stivers has even voiced his opposition to Wall Street reform and an agency to protect consumers! I still can't figure out why Stivers voted against a scholarship for disabled students when he was in the state senate.
* Yesterday, Republican candidate for Ohio governor, John Kasich, participated in a farce. Kasich, using a pile of books that had nothing to do with the state's regulations of business, tried to sell voters on streamlining business regulations. Unfortunately, for the Kasich campaign, they are too late. Gov. Ted Strickland has already fixed the same regulations.
The Kasich campaign seems a little unorganized, and uninformed. If the Kasich campaign had used the search engine Google, they would have found that many of their proposals for cutting business regulations have occurred during the Strickland term.
**** Speaking of Kasich: In 1995, Kasich tried to eliminate an agency that conducts research on work hazards, and tracks worker safety and health. Kasich targeted NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health), as part of his plan to cut the budget of unnecessary programs.
SFgate.com:
...The Heritage Foundation contends NIOSH offers nothing to the American worker that private companies or other agencies could not do as well.
Based on its arguments, House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich, R-Ohio, last month recommended that NIOSH be eliminated by 2000, with any vital research given to OSHA. His plan would save $339 million over five years....
Luckily for everyone, Kasich was not successful.
Here is NIOSH's mission statement:
The mission of NIOSH is to generate new knowledge in the field of occupational safety and health and to transfer that knowledge into practice for the betterment of workers. To accomplish this mission, NIOSH conducts scientific research, develops guidance and authoritative recommendations, disseminates information, and responds to requests for workplace health hazard evaluations.
NIOSH provides national and world leadership to prevent work-related illness, injury, disability, and death by gathering information, conducting scientific research, and translating the knowledge gained into products and services, including scientific information products, training videos, and recommendations for improving safety and health in the workplace....
Kasich thought this agency was a waste of tax payers' dollars???? This is an example of how Kasich tried to cut worker safety in the 90's, and how he'd work in the future. Kasich has always tried to sacrifice worker safety and domestic programs in order to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy and greedy profit-hungry corporations.
Kasich has a long history of going after cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, the college student loan program, and safety programs to fund tax cuts for the rich. If Kasich's roll back of the state income tax would become a reality, which income group do you think would benefit the most? Hint: It would not be the middle class.