Ohio voters have some tough decisions to make about our future. Do we want elected officials who understand our goals and needs, or do we want people to represent us who view us as an annoyance?
Gov. Ted Strickland came up from a tough beginning in southern Ohio. He knows the value of hard work, an education, and honesty. Even though Ohio has faced a Wall Street caused recession, we are on our way back. Ohioans have retrained with Strickland's job training programs, gone to college to get additional education, and learned what is important in life---- family, integrity, trust, and never giving up our goals. We've had some set backs, but economists agree, that Ohio is poised to gain jobs and industries because of Ted Strickland's leadership.
On the other hand, we have John Kasich, who over exaggerates his role in the budget fix in the 90's (President Clinton give Kasich only 10% credit), his business experience (at a bankrupt Wall Street firm, Lehman Brothers), and promises to use his business contacts (how many from Lehman) to get things done (behind closed doors?). What regulations is Kasich willing to sacrifice--- your child's right to a good quality education by certified teachers, worker safety, environmental laws, wage agreements, college student loan programs, worker re-training programs, help for the poor and elderly????? He won't say anything but he'll get some people to remove "their snouts from the trough." ( Has anyone else noticed Kasich always talking about himself?)
Kasich used his contacts with Ohio to get Ohio pension funds to invest with Lehman Brothers. He pushed for Ohio's pension funds to work with Lehman Brothers, and the results are clear. Ohio's pension funds were sold toxic assets with Lehman and lost over $400 million----- but Kasich still got his bonus! With a friend like Kasich, ......
Do Ohioans really want someone like Kasich with Wall Street values to run our state? How would he view programs that help citizens, as numbers on a spread sheet or human beings????
Look at the collection of Republican candidates being offered this election season----
> Kasich- Wall Street investment banker, a Lehman Brothers millionaire, right wing TV pundit, free trader (Ohio has lost thousands of jobs because of outsourcing, but Kasich isn't man enough to admit it.)
> Portman- George W. Bush's budget director, doubled the debt, in charge of trade, was for privatizing Social Security, friend of lobbyists, right wing political beliefs. Portman's jobs plan is nothing more than the same old Republican tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy!!!
> Steve Stivers- former bank lobbyist, continued to work to promote and protect banks and payday lenders even when he served as a state senator----
You can take the man out of the role of bank lobbyist, but you can't take the bank lobbyist out of the man. There are more than 12,000 lobbyist in Washington, DC. Do we really need one more? How many amendments to the U.S. Constitution does Stivers want to repeal today????? 3? 4? 5?
> Jon Husted- 'bestest' friend of the NCR bunch (golfed with them, flew on their private jets) but was blindsided when they announced they were leaving Dayton because he was living in Upper Arlington!!!!!!!! Don't get him angry; wants to revise voting laws to make it more difficult for people to vote. (Hint: Husted = Blackwell's voting problems)
> Pat Tiberi- What the hell has he done for Ohio's 12th district???? Tiberi is in lockstep with his puppetmaster, Boehner. He even repeats the Republican mantra.
> Bob Latta- Would someone get this man off his Blackberry so that he can do some real legislative work? Latta has been going around trying to incite people at Republican County meetings with lies about the Obama administration.
> Schmidt, LaTourette, Boehner, Turner, and the rest of the GOP dinosaurs continue to milk the lobbyist money train and vote for their issues instead of them. And Chabot???? Chabot?? Chabot was Bush's other poodle. Are the people in that district crazy? Our country is moving forward and they want to move backward with Chabot????? Are you kidding me?????????????????????????
{OMG! I just saw a report on TV and they just rolled out Deborah Pryce. I guess her financial lobbyist buddies want Kasich, Portman, and the rest of the business lap dogs in office.}
Do Republicans just memorize the same lines:
"Cut regulations" " Cut red tape" "Reduce taxes" ???????? Even local do-nothing Republican, Kevin Bacon is repeating the mantra!
Ohio is recovering and rebuilding from the Wall Street/Bush-enabled recession. We cannot give our votes to the right wing Wall Street lovers who got us into this mess!