This year, we've learned a lot about everything. We've learned that---
--= Gov. John Kasich, William Batchelder, Shannon Jones, and other Ohio Republicans are not interested in helping Ohio's middle class. They would, however, give as much state money as they could to corporations and CEO's.
--- A huge group of Ohio's middle class workers organized and fought back against the Ohio GOP, Kasich, and SB 5. The Republicans and their anti-collective bargaining legislation were defeated by the citizens of Ohio.
--- Josh Mandel, current Ohio Treasurer, decided very early after he was sworn into office (in January 2011) that he didn't like his new job. Now Republican Mandel, supported by far right Tea Party supporters like Sen. Jim DeMint, and other conservatives, is a candidate for U.S. Senate. Mandel has yet to reveal his goals and views because he is more interested in attacking the defender of the middle class in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Sherrod Brown. (Mandel did support SB 5: see YouTube and JournalNews.)
--- Kasich did his best to ignore and tear apart all legislation supported by former Gov. Ted Strickland. As a result of Kasich allowing Strickland's ban on exotic animals to expire, 56 exotic animals from a Zanesville farm were released and later killed to protect the public (see the Dispatch). Kasich had to backpedal his anti-regulation mantra after the public and the media demanded action to restrict the ownership of exotic animals.
--- People in Ohio's 15th congressional district learned how far to the right Republican Rep. Steve Stivers was willing to go when he voted to do whatever he could to help his banker friends by repealing piece by piece of the banking regulations put into law falling the Wall Street disaster of 2008. We still have not seen any job creation legislation coming from Stivers.
--- How can we forget the total failure of Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner? Boehner continues to cave into the demands of his far right Tea Party Republicans and the 1%. Face it. Republicans might be able to get elected, but they are uninterested in helping a majority of Americans.
--- Donald Trump is concerned about Donald Trump.
--- John Kasich like to use state planes to fly as often as possible.
--- Rules and laws are for others- not Republicans.
More later-----