This morning on the TV news, Governor Kasich said he wanted us all "....to be a family...." (See Dispatch for text article.)
After his attacks on public school teachers, unionized state workers, unionized first responders (firefighters, police, and EMS), are we to believe that he wants us ".....to be a family....."??????? Is his plan for us to be a family, but exclude those teachers, state workers, first responders, and those who've been stripped of protection under former Gov. Strickland's anti-discrimination order?
---->>>>> The Republican controlled Ohio House of Representatives has been working hard to help get Kasich's agenda moving. When Strickland was governor, these same people could barely work more that two days/week. Today, a list of 18 bills are listed on the website for the Ohio House.
--H.B. 11 seems to be trying to stop the implementation of the new federal health care law- - -
To enact section 3901.711 of the Revised Code to prohibit state departments and agencies from implementing or enforcing a provision of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act without meeting certain conditions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 3901.711 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:
Sec. 3901.711. (A) A department or agency of this state shall not implement or enforce a provision of the federal "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (2010) unless both of the following conditions are satisfied:
(1) The department or agency submits a report to the general assembly containing the information described in division (B) of this section.
(2) The Revised Code specifically authorizes the department or agency to implement or enforce the provision or, if such authorization does not exist, the general assembly enacts such authorization.
(B) The report submitted by a department or agency under division (A)(1) of this section shall include all of the following:
(1) The section of the federal "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (2010) that requires the department or agency to implement or enforce the provision;
(2) The waivers or options, if any, that are available to the state under the provision;
(3) The steps that the department or agency would be required to take to implement or enforce the provision;
(4) The individuals in the state who would be impacted if the department or agency implemented or enforced, or did not implement or enforce, the provision;
(5) The cost to the state or to the citizens of the state of implementing or enforcing the provision;
(6) The consequences to the state if the department or agency does not implement or enforce the provision.
There are names for these Republican members who will do anything to prevent health care for people. Not everyone is as rich as they are. These Republican just don't care about average, hardworking Ohioans. They just want to satisfy their campaign contributors from insurance companies and right wing PACs.
*** Don't fall off your chair when you read this next news from Real Clear Politics:
Before being sworn in as Ohio's new treasurer Monday, Republican Josh Mandel traveled to Washington last week to celebrate Sen. Rob Portman's swearing in and Ohio Republican John Boehner's ascension to the speakership of the House.
A handful of sources with backgrounds in Buckeye State Republican politics said Mandel was actively working the circuit of influential Ohioans who were in the Beltway for Boehner's and Portman's events. Now, he's getting talked up as a potential challenger to Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in 2012....
....In addition to Mandel and Taylor, there's also Secretary of State Jon Husted, 43, who also was sworn into his new post after serving a decade in the state legislature. His tenure included a stint as speaker of the Ohio House.
They've just been sworn into office yesterday, and yet, the greedy, power hungry, ambitious Ohio Republicans are anxious to control everything. They haven't proven that they're competent at their new position, but the GOPers want to run for office again.
* By doing nothing, Gov. John Kasich has let some protections expire.
Gaypeopleschronicle.com:
LGBT state employees are no longer protected from discrimination by sexual orientation or gender identity.
Governor John Kasich, who took office on January 10, allowed his predecessor’s executive order barring such discrimination to expire....
....an order signed four years ago by former governor Ted Strickland prohibited such discrimination against all 60,000 state employees in hiring, layoff, termination, transfer, promotion, demotion, rate of compensation and eligibility for training programs....
Is this just the beginning of Kasich's plan to turn back the clock?