Republican Rep. Steve Stivers (OH-15) had this to say in the Delware News:
....During his campaign, Stivers said his goal would be to focus on jobs as well as cutting spending. After a month on the job, that remains the agenda.
"I'm still hearing about jobs, and spending," Stivers said.
"One out of 10 people who want a job, can't get one in this district," he said.
What has Steve Stivers done to create jobs in Ohio's 15th congressional district?
(1) Here are the job creation bills that Stivers has sponsored in the House of Representatives, according to Thomas, the Library of Congress: 0
(2) These are the job creation bills co-sponsored by Stivers from the Library of Congress: 0
Stivers said he is "...still hearing about jobs..." Stivers can say that job creation is important, but he has done nothing to spur the development for jobs. Stivers has gone along with the Republicans and their cultural wars.
* Yesterday was the first hearing on the bill to end collective bargaining in the state. The hearing room for SB 5 was packed by those supporting the bill State Senator Jones and opponents of the bill. Gov. Kasich and the Republicans continue their assault on teachers, firefighters, police officers, and all public employees.
A letter to the editor published in the Toledo Blade sums up the agenda pushed by Kasich and the elected Republicans in the General Assembly.
Toledo Blade:
(Kasich) ....He comes from a world where working people are regarded as a necessary evil whose unreasonable demands for a say in their working conditions, a fair wage, and access to affordable health care are to be resisted at all costs, lest they interfere with huge bonuses and extravagant perks bestowed upon those captains of Wall Street who devastated the U.S. economy.
Ohio's collective bargaining law, in effect since 1984, is not the reason for the state's financial woes.....
...Governor Kasich maintains that cutbacks and hardship must be shared by Ohio's union workers. But sharing the pain does not extend to the friends and supporters to whom he has given jobs....
How true! While Kasich wants to punish teachers and public employees, he has overpaid his cronies and mostly white male department heads.
> The maneuvering continues on the Ohio School Board. Gov. Kasich appears to be trying to exert more pressure and influence on the makeup and agenda of the board. (Dispatch)
Kasich's plans in education will receive immediate attention with his stacked board appointees.
* Make your plans for tomorrow (Thursday, February 17, 2011): SB 5 hearings will continue tomorrow in the Ohio Senate at 10am in the South Hearing Room on the second floor.
Continue to contact members of the Ohio Senate @ toll-free legislative hotline at 1-800-282-0253 (466-8842 in Columbus) and http://www.ohiosenate.gov/directory.html for individual Ohio Senators. Let them know that you oppose SB 5 and the attacks on the public employees.
With all the emphasis on attacks on public employees and continuing right wing culture war, Republicans in Ohio and Congress haven't created one job to help our unemployed. While they waste time and effort on workers in our community, nothing is being accomplished.