Tuesday, March 15, 2011

The Kasich Budget

Dayton Daily News:  Secretary of State Jon Husted said Monday that while his heart remains in Dayton, his legal residence soon will be in Franklin County, where he lives with his wife and children in a Columbus suburb.....

.....The all-Republican Ohio Supreme Court ruled unanimously in 2009 that Husted was a Montgomery County resident for voting purposes, reversing a decision by then Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner.

Before Brunner’s tie-breaking decision, the Montgomery County Board of Elections had deadlocked 2-2 along partisan lines on Husted’s residency....

Husted can't question your residence when there were still doubts about his own residency.
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>>>  Gov. Kasich will answer questions via Twitter at the scheduled town meeting tomorrow, according to the Clevelandleader:

...He will be taking questions from the public, from both those in attendance and those questions submitted on Twitter.


The event is sold out, and organizers say that the 820 tickets went fairly quickly. So if you aren't already planning to be there, you can submit your questions through Twitter by using the hashtag #FixOhio....

Do you really think he'll answer your questions?

* * * The Dispatch has an interesting story about how Kasich and his cronies have been planning for three years on this budget plan:

Three years ago, John Kasich and his team of advisers began planning to rid Ohio of its income tax....

.....Kasich, who talked repeatedly on the campaign trail about eventually eliminating the income tax, succeeded at the ballot box and on Tuesday is to unveil his budget: 800 pages of spending cuts and government revamps....

.....Kasich, his budget director, Tim Keen, and other advisers first met with him to discuss gubernatorial budget policies in January 2008, when Strickland had been in office barely a year. In interviews, it's clear that most of what they crafted back then will be a part of the governor's budget today.......

Even though he didn't officially announce his candidacy until June 2009, Kasich and his friends have been planning how to ruin our lives since January 2008.  I guess this is a real example of hubris.