**** As Gov. John Kasich brags about all the money he has spent this year, more evidence in pouring in about how his administration is wasting our tax dollars.
WLWT:
Ohio Gov. John Kasich doesn't live at the state's official governor's residence, though taxpayers paid to fix the mansion's roof and to keep cable running at the home this year.
The Columbus Dispatch reports that $438,720 was spent in 2011 to staff, maintain and repair the mansion in Bexley, just outside of Columbus....
There must be a cheaper way to maintain the home while no one lives there.
*** Republican Rep. Steve Stivers (OH-15th) is a lot more conservative than some voters thought he'd be in Congress. That's My Congress shows his leanings:
...Rep. Stivers's Conservative Action Score: 55
The Conservative Action Score is calculated by compiling a series of observably conservative roll call votes and bill cosponsorships in the 112th Congress and comparing Steve Stivers's behavior against that conservative standard:
- Disregard for constitutional protections of American civil liberty
- Secrecy and exclusion of citizens from government
- Support for discriminatory policy
- The symbolic denigration and practical undermining of science and education in America
- Active harm to the environment or passive allowance for environmental destruction
- Pursuit of further advantage for those in America who are already its richest
- Dismissal of peaceful possibilities and obeiscance to the military-industrial complex
A score of 55 means that Representative Stivers has taken 55% of the possible conservative actions identified on the That's My Congress scorecard....
Why are some Republican lawmakers working to protect bankers, corporations and polluters? Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.
>>> Progress Ohio has the latest tall tale from Republican House Speaker William Batchelder and it is filed in the "Liar Wire" category. Does Batchelder think people are so stupid that no one will check his false claims? We have a few relatives in Canada and not one has said anything negative about the Canadian health care system.
* * Best bumpersticker I've seen recently:
I love Ohio
Too bad our governor is a douchebag