After encouraging support for local and state-level Democratic candidates, Governor Ted Strickland enumerated his administration's accomplishments and drew a stark contrast between his values and those of his opponent, Republican John Kasich during his campaign stop at the UAW 402 picnic grounds Thursday in Springfield.
Pointing to Kasich's previous relationship with Lehman Brothers, Strickland portrayed his opponent as a man who was not only out of touch with middle class America but as one who conducts himself in an elitist way.
Strickland's speech gained momentum as he accused Kasich of hiding his tax records, which Strickland said shows Kasich earned approximately $1,000 an hour as a fellow at Ohio State University. He then criticized Kasich's proposed plan to privatize the Department of Development, which Strickland said would allow for runaway salaries that would be shielded from public scrutiny.....
If Kasich has nothing to fear, why hasn't he released his past income tax returns?
***** If you see a Republican, you might want to remind them of these fact from CBS News:
With no fanfare and little notice, the national debt has grown by more than $4 trillion during George W. Bush's presidency.....
....On the day President Bush took office, the national debt stood at $5.727 trillion. The latest number from the Treasury Department shows the national debt now stands at more than $9.849 trillion. That's a 71.9 percent increase on Mr. Bush's watch.
The bailout plan now pending in Congress could add hundreds of billions of dollars to the national debt – though President Bush said this morning he expects that over time, "much if not all" of the bailout money "will be paid back."
The CBS article also notes that this jump in the national debt is the largest "...under any president in U.S history...." Wow!!! Yet the Republicans blame President Obama. It is hard to believe that the Republicans didn't notice the national debt until President Obama was sworn in as President.
*** Here is an interesting story found at Daylife:
XENIA, Ohio -- Governor Ted Strickland's wife, Frances Strickland, blamed the coutnry's 8 million jobs lost in the last three years on her husband's Republican opponent for governor--John Kasich--and those working on Wall Street during a Democratic picnic rally in Xenia yesterday. "What (John Kasich and the Republicans) want you to think about are the jobs lost in Ohio, but what they don't want us to know is the 8 million jobs lost across the United States ... All the economists say that that job loss started as a result of the problems on Wall Street, which is where Ted's opponent has spent the last nine years." Kasich was a managing director for Lehman Brothers, a financial services firm that declared bankruptcy.
Full Article at NewsTalkRadioWHIO.com
* Pat Toomey, Republican candidate from Pennsylvania, thinks that corporations shouldn't pay any taxes. Incredible. Check out the story from Politifact.
* Sen. Tom Coburn Said That Extending The Bush Tax Cuts “Isn’t A Cost.” Sen. Tom Coburn: “Continuing the [Bush] tax cuts isn’t a cost, if you added new taxes, new tax cuts, I would agree that’s a cost. It’s not a cost. That’s where we are today. That’s the baseline. It doesn’t score anything to continue them. It costs money if we increase, which I would be willing to do. I think we ought to cut corporate taxes.” [C-SPAN, 7/14/10]
* It is my personal opinion that Republican Carly Fiorina needs to consult a makeup artist. However, considering how much of a bizarre person she appears to be, her red blush stripes on her face look fine.