* Have you seen the video at YouTube called Wall Street: Outsourcing Never Stops -
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Why did John Boehner contribute campaign money to Richard Iott, the Republican who dresses up like an SS (schutzstaffel), the elite private army of Adolf Hitler? (see Wikipedia's description.) Is Boehner trying to send us a message?
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* Gail Collins, a columnist at the New York Times, recently wrote about various states and some of the interesting candidate and issues in the elections. Besides the article, Collins received many comments from readers who wanted to have their candidates be acknowledged as "awful." Following the article, other readers submitted their comments which are available online. Here are a few of the comments that relate to Ohio:...John Kasich, a former Republican congressman from Ohio, went to work for Lehman Brothers when he left the House of Representatives. He proceeded to pitch investments in Lehman Brothers Holdings to the Ohio employees’ pension fund. Thereafter, the pension fund lost $480 million when Lehman Brothers went belly up.
Under the circumstances, most securities salesmen would consider fleeing the state -- perhaps under cover of darkness. Not John Kasich. He is the Republican candidate for governor, running against the incumbent, Ted Strickland.
How many other states can say that they have a candidate for governor who recently cost the state employees nearly a half billion dollars in a single deal?
> > > Also at the NYTimes: Readers' comments about the political ads followed news that Republican candidates had used actors in their ads. Here are some particularly interesting comments that follows The Caucus article, "Folksy Ad Not So Folksy After All":
Finally the mask slips, this is what the GOP deep down really think about rural white working class folks, utter contempt. Can you imagine if a Democrat said something like this, oh well, we know the grief Pres Obama took for the "bitter" comments in Pennsylvania, they hang those words around his neck, it was a daily theme on Fox news and cost him dearly. Lehman Kasich in Ohio is running a fake steelworker complaining about shipped jobs and closed factories because of Strickland. The GOP has some nerve, with Portman, Bush's trade representative that negotiated the unfair trade deals is now running for senate in Ohio complaining about closed factories and is up in the polls. May be this ad is a final wake up call for working class folks, the GOP is not that into you.
Here is another comment worth reading -
And here in Ohio, the Republican candidate for governor, John Kasich, produced an ad starring a steelworker who turned out to be an actor too. Guess he couldn't find a real steelworker who thought he was worth supporting.
Really.
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I was driving on the northwest side of Columbus the other day and I saw a large white van parked on the corner with signs that announced:
NOT KASICH
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It was attracting a lot of attention!