Kasich: Not A Nice Guy (I'm being polite.)

Both Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland and Republican John Kasich met with some people associated with the state school board association, school administrators, and those in charge of the business side of running schools.  The group met with the candidates separately.  The meeting with Gov. Ted Strickland was good.  However, the meeting with John Kasich was strained (and that is putting it nicely).
I saw this over at Buckeye State Blog and I thought it is worth sharing the post from The Pullins Report.

Here is the title of the post from The Pullins Report (this is from an email he received):

John Kasich Is Simply a Nasty, Nasty Little Man

....John Kasich refused to meet with a large group of people from the Ohio School Boards Association (OSBA), Buckeye Association of School Administrators (BASA), and the Ohio Association of School Business Officials (OASBO).  He finally agreed to meet with the executive directors, officers and lobbyists of the organizations.  He also refused to come to the OSBA office to meet.  We had to go to his campaign headquarters in downtown Columbus .  The room was hot and crowded.  The first gentleman from OASBO introduced himself, his school district and said that he was also from OASBO.  John asked what OASBO was, so he was told the full name.  John told him it was a dumb or stupid name and they should think about changing it. 

Rick Lewis , OSBA's executive director, started with a brief intro which John interrupted telling him that we didn't have time for that and that we just needed to get on with it.  He did tell us up front that he supported vouchers.  While one of the treasurers was explaining some of the difficulties we have with vouchers, John was checking email messages on his phone.  He ordered the fan to be turned off because he couldn't hear, ordered one of his campaign staff to bring him water and on a couple of occasions ordered the people in the adjoining room to leave the door open.  He was rude.


Mr. Kasich mentioned stastics from the Brookings Institute report that came out in February.  The report lists Ohio as 47th in classroom expenditures.  We have the unpublished study that was commissioned by them that resulted in that statistic.  We have a group looking at the research to see how that was determined since US Census Data lists us as 26th or 27th.  He also kept talking about Youngstown that spends $13,000 to educate a child and only $7,000 goes into classroom instruction.  He was unable to tell us what was included in classroom instruction. ie - Did it include library services, reading specialists, speech & hearing?  He wants to get rid of textbooks and do more online.  He wants to cut administrators.....


There is plenty more on this meeting with Kasich where he talks about the state income tax, cutting police in Genoa Township, Kasich's rudeness, and how negotiated agreements might be able to be eliminated (according to Kasich).  PLEASE   READ the entire article at.....

http://pullinsreport.com/2010/10/31/john-kasich-is-simply-a-nasty-nasty-little-man.aspx 


You might want to send a link to teachers, state workers, and anyone you know who has yet to make up his/her mind about how to cast their vote for Ohio governor.

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On MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show, the host, Rachel Maddow, listed some of the accomplishments of President Obama and the Democrats:


The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Tobacco Regulation (tobacco industry to be regulated by FDA)
Hate Crime Bill
Children's Health Insurance
College Loan Reform (no more subsidies to banks)
Expansion of Americorps
Cash for Clunkers (it save the American auto industry)
The American Recovery Act (the largest tax cut - ever)
Health Reform Law (in the end, 95% of Americans would have health insurance)
Financial Reform Bill
Expansion of Veterans Access (help for veterans and their families)
The Creation of a Consumer Protection Agency

As Rachel Maddow said, President Obama and the Democrats have worked on policy instead of politics in an effort to make things better for all Americans.

 Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (OH-15th) was helpful in getting these bills passed. HOWEVER, Republican candidate, Steve Stivers, a former bank lobbyist, dislikes most of this legislation, and claims he would have voted against most of this.