*** The Journal News has some rather weird quotes from Republican John Kasich. Why did I say weird? What is so wrong with Ohio that he wants to "....remake the state." Are you listening, Ohioans????
The Journal News:
...As governor, Kasich would probably be the most fiscally conservative governor in recent Ohio history. With a GOP-loaded General Assembly and Republican dominated Ohio Supreme Court, he will be well positioned to put his ideology to work.
Kasich said he aims to “really remake the state.”
“Now I can get my hands on the wheel and be an executive,” he said. “...this is a chance to and also to take a team of people who have been around for a very long time and get them to, you know, go through theory, the theory that we’ve studied and thought about all these years to executing. This is really, when I look back on all the experiences that I’ve had, it kind of all adds up to this is definitely the right thing to do.”
Whoa! Hold on, folks. Did Kasich just say he wants to "...you know, go through theory..."? Theory? Doesn't he have something written up on proposals and comparisons of what is being done in other states? He is ready to "....go through theory..."? What theory? Trickle down economics??? I'm a little worried that somehow Kasich thinks that the people of Ohio are lab mice on which he can test his theories? These are people's lives that he is dealing with, not lab mice. I think that Kasich has just revealed that he does not have one written strategy or plan prepared, if he is elected. What the #*@%??????????????
Are you getting the felling that Kasich is a snake oil salesman offering to "remake the state" but doesn't offer details? Was this part of his "pitch" when he sold toxic investments to state funds all over the country? Kasich squealing about being "...an executive..." sounds like a child excited to be the line leader for the day.
The Ohio economy ran into the recession that was caused by Wall Street greed, unethical business practices, and the bank failures. There is nothing wrong with Ohio that it has to be remade by Kasich.
>>>>> Governor Ted Strickland received an endorsement today from the Dayton Daily News:
Gov. Ted Strickland has presided over the state in the worst possible times. Yet, he has pulled the state through a certified crisis as well as anyone could.....
....John Kasich, the Republican challenger, is running on promises he can’t possibly keep, relying on rhetoric from a generic Republican playbook. He sees little good happening in Ohio, and his prescription for making things better is to cut taxes and loosen regulations on businesses....
...In other important areas, Mr. Kasich is proceeding as if he doesn’t know a lot about state government, as if its nuts and bolts are beneath him. Pressed for details about one of his proposals in a meeting with the Dayton Daily News editorial board, he said he doesn’t “trip over ant hills on the way to the pyramids.”
The DDN also points out that Kasich has been highly critical of various agencies within Ohio's government, but has not offered real solutions-- only promises that he can't keep.
***WARNING: Lobbyist on board! When NJ Gov. Chris Christie flew to Ohio on a private plane provided by the Kasich campaign, a very powerful lobbyist was on board that plane to meet with Kasich.
NJ.com:
....the folks who may well have benefited the most from Christie’s most recent sojourn — to Ohio — could be Hess, Harrah’s, Pfizer, PSE&G and the many other companies represented by Trenton power lobbyist Roger Bodman, who last week accompanied the governor on his 20-hour trip to the Republican bastion of Cincinnati.
A senior partner with Public Strategies Impact who describes himself on the firm’s website as an "icon" of New Jersey lobbying, Bodman was a ranking official in Gov. Tom Kean’s administration and a key adviser to Kean. Bodman explained that his travel with Christie was the result of nothing more than Bodman’s own long-standing friendship with the man Christie was stumping for, Ohio gubernatorial candidate John Kasich. Bodman said he was subbing for former congressman Bob Franks, one of Kasich’s closest friends, who died of cancer earlier this year....
According to the Ohio Secretary of State's Campaign Finance page, Roger Bodman, of Trenton, New Jersey, contributed $5,000 on 8/13/09 to the Kasich Taylor for Ohio Committee.