...We are going to help Ohio get back on track and we are going to do it by working together. As I said in my inaugural speech, which is attached, I believe very strongly that our only shot at success is to combine our gifts and to work together as a team....
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Gov.-elect John Kasich promised Ohio a "new day" and even named the group organizing this weekend's inauguration celebration the Kasich-Taylor New Day Committee Inc.
Yet, 13 of the his first 15 cabinet nominees are hardly new to the "public trough," as Kasich often likes to dub it.
They are holdovers or rehires from the administrations of Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democrat, and ex-Republican Govs. George Voinovich and Bob Taft....
I guess Kasich's definition of "new" is different than those definitions found in prominent, scholarly dictionaries.