# The Columbus Dispatch, which can claim their outright support of everything Republican, is doing its part to try to smear every Democrat in the state. (Soon the Dispatch will create a list of Democrats who failed to floss after eating lunch.) I personally think that some people at the Dispatch have a crush on Kasich. Why? I can't figure that out because there is nothing attractive or charismatic about a guy who continues to attack public school teachers.
I don't think that Kasich has the guts to work in some of the schools that Ohio public school teachers work in every single day. Kasich does not believe that public school teachers and hardworking union workers have value. Face it- - Kasich doesn't respect people who teach, build homes, repair roofs, fix electrical systems, and make products we need. He only respects people who create wealth.
Kasich talks about giving secret bonuses to his special CEO's that bring jobs to Ohio, after he abolishes the Ohio Dept. of Development. When I taught school, I never got a financial bonus. The only bonuses I got were thank you notes from parents and students. Years later, some students would return and tell me they appreciated my teaching and my encouragement. Those were the kinds of bonuses I got.
Kasich has a long record of going after people who can't fight back. When he was in Congress, he tried to cut services to veterans who needed medical treatment. He also tried to cut services to the working poor and low income families.
(See Votesmart on Kasich:
1999-2000 Kasich supported the interests of the Home School Legal Defense Association 60 percent in 1999-2000.
1999 Kasich supported the interests of the National Education Association 20 percent in 1999....
1997-1998 Kasich supported the interests of the Vietnam Veterans of America 33 percent in 1997-1998.)
Some Republicans think that Kasich will bring them wealth. That won't happen. Only Kasich's "buddies" and members of his Lehman posse will gain wealth.Kasich is in it for the money for his friends.
Gov. Ted Strickland has made some tough choices in this economic collapse that was triggered by the unscrupulous actions of Lehman Brothers. (When Lehman Brothers collapsed, 800,000 lost their jobs immediately.) Strickland has been fair, even in the toughest cuts he has had to make. With Ted Strickland, we know that he has all of our best interests in mind when he makes decisions. With Kasich, we know he only cares about wealth.
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Blue America:
Mary Jo Kilroy has been speaking out early and often about the greatest banking fraud scandal in American history. Unlike virtually every national Republican, she and other fighting Democrats came out swinging against these fraud merchants from the moment it became clear that banks and mortgage companies were so corrupt and inept that they were foreclosing on homes they didn't even own. (That's also known as stealing.)
Kilroy's opponent Steve Stivers will never stand up to these interests. Helping average people fight against powerful corporations goes against everything he believes in. After all, he belongs to a party that has been struck dumb in the face of this massive foreclosure fraud, so compromised by their ties to big business and Wall Street that they can't even speak up for average Americans whose homes are literally being stolen out from under them....
....If you want someone who isn't afraid to take on the big corporate interests, someone who isn't afraid to take on entrenched political power, who isn't afraid ... period, you'll vote for Mary Jo Kilroy. She's got your back. Won't you get hers?
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