Governor-elect John Kasich continues to roll out the ho-hum, boring, expected appointments. Now Kasich has picked his good buddy and Lehman alum, Jai Chabria, to help with the transition in the Department of Development.
Plunderbund:
....Jai isn’t just a friend of John Kasich. Jai is John Kasich’s sidekick. Jai is John Kasich’s water boy. Jai owes his entire career to our incoming Governor and if John Kasich asks Jai to meet with everyone at the Department of Development and to pretend that he isn’t going to fire them all once Kasich takes office, Jai will do just that – with a big smile on his face
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From the day he left college Jai has worked for and/or with John. After graduating Ohio Wesleyan in 1999, Jai started work with the New Century Project, the so-called “Issues Forum” that John Kasich used to keep his former staffers employed and paid. From there he followed Kasich to Lehman Brothers in 2001 – working as the other member of the “two man office” in Columbus....
I guess Kasich had to find a way to reward another one of his lapdogs.
* Big moves are going on in Ohio government. There is one exit that people didn't expect. A well-known member of a family with Republican ties resigned recently from his big salaried, state job. Why would someone leave his job when the Republicans would be taking over the state government? Was he forced to resign? Will his alleged wrongdoing change the way people in his suburban hometown view him? More later......