Ohio Republican and former Vice President at Lehman Brothers, Gov. John Kasich, hasn't been in office a full month, but he has done so much to anger and insult many Ohioans. Kasich called union workers "thugs," mentioned he wanted to "break the back of organized labor in schools," signed a proclamation declaring March 17th as Dr. Martin Luther King Day, hired all white members as department heads in his cabinet, and now removed employment protections for transgender state employees.
TheOtherPaper:
Gov. John Kasich doesn’t appear to be backing off of a strange decision to exclude transgender Ohioans from an anti-discrimination executive order issued last week.
Activists in the LGBT community were angered when Kasich temporarily allowed a 2007 executive order by former Gov. Ted Strickland to expire, despite a campaign promise to the contrary. The 2007 order declared that no state employee could be fired from or denied a state job on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Kasich’s revised order, issued last week, however, did not appease activists. He inexplicably failed to include any protections for the transgender population.....
The article goes on and lists the names of well-known Ohio companies that offer protections for transgender individuals, including ".....AEP, Battelle, Huntington, Donatos, Limited Brands, Worthington Industries and Nationwide....." and "....conservative companies like Bob Evans Farms, Inc....."
In only a few weeks, Gov. Kasich has managed to disappoint, offend, and outrage a large majority of Ohioans. According to a recent Quinnipiac Poll, Kasich has a 30% approval rating (see NewsRecord). With his proposed budget cuts, Kasich's approval rating might not see 50% for a very long time, if ever.